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Continue reading →: Things are getting interesting in Macro KingdomThe Tape Today is a risk-off session with an oil-supply-shock overlay, not a clean trend day. The collateral-liquidity matters here. While oil ripped, gold, silver, copper and bitcoin all fell together. That is the classic pattern of an oil move blowing through margin, forcing the sale of the most liquid…
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Continue reading →: LRCX 07-29 Earnings as a leading indicator for IREN’s August printWhy LRCX leads IREN – and the limit LRCX sells wafer-fab equipment (etch, deposition, HBM through-silicon-via and advanced-packaging tools). It sits 3–4 steps upstream of IREN renting an energized GPU: equipment order, chip/HBM production, accelerator assembly, datacenter deployment, rental. That distance cuts both ways: Net: LRCX is a leading indicator…
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Continue reading →: The Steepener Was Built on a Barrel of Oil
The index did nothing for two weeks. Underneath it, money fired every long-duration haven and bought small banks and energy. The bond curve and the commodity tape say it was a supply shock wearing a reflation costume. Here’s the tell, and why the difference is the whole trade. Druckenmiller has…
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Continue reading →: IREN Wasn’t Waiting for Another Whale
The $2.8 billion announcement suggests the silence was strategy, not weakness. And the 45% prepayment footnote may matter more than the headline. For the last few weeks, the market seemed to be asking one question about IREN: where is the next big deal? Microsoft had already signed a $9.7 billion…
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Continue reading →: Penguin Solutions: 74% Of Revenue Is “AI,” But 89% Of The Profit Is A Memory CycleHow I found it, and why it’s timely I’ll admit my starting bias up front, because it’s the whole reason I wrote this. I have a reflex to like anything with “AI factory” and “NVIDIA partner” stamped on it, and Penguin has both. The Q3 print on July 7 lit…
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Continue reading →: Macro note: the tech unwind grew a second leg, and it’s healthcareQuick one before the weekend. I want this on the record while it’s still early, because I think the rotation just told us where it’s going and by the time it’s obvious we’ll be paying up for it. The read, up top so you can argue with it: the “sell…
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Continue reading →: Six Names Just Started Moving Together, And Cybersecurity Is An Interesting Basket
I found this one backwards. I wasn’t screening for a sector story, I was pulling research on TENB for a piece, and when I went to check its technical setup I noticed it wasn’t alone. Six names show up top decile relative strength, trend confirmed, all within about 2 to…
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Continue reading →: Astera Labs: The AI Connectivity Toll Booth Is Real. So Is The Price You’re Paying For It.I didn’t come to Astera off a momentum screen, I went looking directly at the connectivity layer of the AI buildout, because it’s the part of the story that’s easiest to get backwards. Everyone can recite the GPU capex numbers; fewer people have looked at the plumbing that has to…
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Continue reading →: The Week the AI Trade Broke, and Why the Data Says “Rotation,” Not “Recession”
Everyone saw the crash and reached for the scariest word. The tape was more specific, and more useful. Here’s what actually happened, and the fork we’re now standing at. For two days the market did the thing that makes people panic. The entire semiconductor complex, the group that had led…
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Continue reading →: Ligand Pharmaceuticals: The Bull Case Is A Biotech ARM, The Bear Case Is Just Another Royalty TrustWhat The Chart Is Saying: At The Highs, On Financing Fuel The tape and the filings tell the same story, and it isn’t a fresh breakout. Source: TradingView Over the past twelve months LGND has run from a 52-week low of $112 to a 52-week high of $306, close to…
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Pepe Maltese
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