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Continue reading →: Credit Says the Capital-Goods Recession Story Doesn’t Hold UpEvery market shock produces a story fast enough to explain it, and the story that formed around July’s selloff was a good one: oil broke out on fears the Strait of Hormuz would close, term premium rose, and the longest-duration, most externally financed corners of the market, semiconductor equipment, AI-infrastructure…
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Continue reading →: Lam Research: My Watch List Resolved Bullish And The Stock Fell 7% AnywayBriefing On July 23 I published five specific, falsifiable things to watch on Lam’s July 29 print, and I published them because Lam reads the AI memory cycle about four steps upstream of the neoclouds that report a month later. Four of the five resolved, all bullish, including the one…
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Continue reading →: Things are getting interesting in Macro Kingdom
The Tape Today is a risk-off session with an oil-supply-shock overlay, not a clean trend day. Oil spiking: Brent +6.5%, WTI +5.5%, heating oil +4.3%, gasoline up. This is a supply shock (transit chokepoint), not demand-led. Fear on: Nasdaq 100 down 1.5%, S&P down 1.0%, Russell 2000 down 3.5%, VIX…
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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: What it does lead: the structural, multi-quarter demand backdrop and…
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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 Cycle
How 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…
Hi Fren,
Pepe Maltese
I used to trade inside the machine. Now I just raid it.
I publish two high-conviction setups daily — one momentum, one turnaround — filtered through tape structure, volume shifts, and misaligned narratives.
Some of these turn into full trades. A few evolve into deeper stories. The rest get cut.
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