To The Moon

Yes, I have cut my losers, deployed the proceeds to Gold and IBIT to protect myself from debasement of fiat currency. have also consistently DCA to a well diversified global ETF. more rebalencing to be done for the year

Bitcoin’s latest cycle has rewritten the old playbook. What looked like a classic post-halving hangover has instead delivered the shallowest major drawdown in the asset’s history, a truncated timeline, and a recovery that is already underway. The next boom is not a future event waiting for a new catalyst. It is unfolding in real time. Performance Snapshot Bitcoin peaked near $126,200 in early October 2025. By June–July 2026 it had bottomed in the $57,800–$60,000 zone, a peak-to-trough decline of roughly 50–55%. That is painful in absolute terms yet strikingly mild compared with prior cycles: the 2021–2022 collapse exceeded 75%, and the 2018 wipeout ran past 80%. The current recovery has carried the price back to the mid-$84,000s, a gain of approximately 40–45% from the lows and a market ca

The classic AI hardware battle has centered on GPUs, accelerators, interconnects, and manufacturing scale—Nvidia’s CUDA moat, AMD’s MI-series push, custom ASICs from hyperscalers, and supply-chain fights. But as models evolve from large language models into multimodal, reasoning, agentic, and especially physical/spatial systems, pure chip performance is no longer sufficient.World models demand different compute profiles: heavy simulation, 3D understanding, real-time interaction, and tight coupling between model architecture and underlying hardware/software stacks. AMD explicitly frames the deal as giving it deeper insight into emerging workloads so it can design better hardware, software, and systems around them—and strengthen an open AI ecosystem spanning models, platforms, and compute.

Near-Term Market EffectsBonds: Existing bond prices fall as yields rise (inverse relationship). Long-duration bonds suffer most. Heavy supply from deficits and AI-related corporate issuance sustains upward pressure. Equities: Higher yields compress valuations, especially for growth/tech stocks whose cash flows are distant. They also raise corporate borrowing costs and can pull capital toward safer Treasuries. The equity risk premium narrows. Sharp or rapid yield spikes have historically coincided with equity volatility or corrections, though outcomes depend on the driver (growth vs. pure inflation shock). Goldman and others have noted markets become more vulnerable when equities rally alongside rising yields. Rising yields act as a “tax” on asset valuations. Growth-oriented and long-dura

The AI Fortress Cracks — 30Y Yields at 5.44% Drag the Mag 7 into the Same Fire That Torched Everything Else One thing has held this market up for months and the legs are getting wobbly. Mega-cap Tech and AI absorbed the capital while everything rate-sensitive got crushed. NVDA, MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, AMZN, META, AVGO — the Mag 7 and the AI complex (SMCI, ARM, TSM) vacuumed up every free dollar. The rest of the tape? Rate-sensitive cyclicals, regional banks, REITs, homebuilders, small caps — all left for dead. That worked as long as AI stayed insulated from the macro. The 30Y just hit 5.44%, its highest since 2004. Nasdaq futures are down close to a point. That is not a minor tick. When the long end of the curve is screaming like this, duration gets repriced and the high-multiple growth names f

Smart investors often prefer selling put options over buying them because selling aligns better with probability, time decay, income generation, and disciplined capital allocation. Higher probability of profitMost options expire worthless or lose value. Statistically, the majority of puts finish out-of-the-money.  Put seller: Collects the premium and wins if the stock stays flat, rises, or falls only modestly (above the strike). Win rate is often 60–80%+ depending on strike and tenor.  Time decay works in the seller’s favorOptions lose value as expiration approaches (theta decay), all else equal.  Sellers harvest this decay every day.  Buyers pay for it continuously. Implied volatility (what options price in) tends to exceed subsequent realized volatility on averag

You buy an index like the S&P 500 to spread out your risk. Here’s what you are actually holding. The five largest companies now account for a record share of expected S&P 500 earnings over the next twelve months (around the mid-to-high 20s percent range in recent analyses, with market-cap weights for the top names even higher). Top holdings by weight typically include NVIDIA (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Alphabet (GOOGL/GOOG), with Broadcom (AVGO), Meta (META), Micron (MU), and AMD frequently close behind. The top 10 often represent roughly 37–40% of the index’s market capitalization—levels not seen in decades. It goes further. Information Technology (especially semiconductors) continues to dominate earnings growth. In 2026, the IT sector has been forec

Higher crude prices trigger a rapid reallocation of cash flows and valuations across equity markets. Oil functions simultaneously as a direct revenue driver for producers and a major cost input for the rest of the economy. When prices move higher and remain elevated, the impact is rarely uniform: upstream energy captures the bulk of the upside while fuel-intensive and inflation-sensitive sectors absorb the pressure. The magnitude depends on the speed of the move, absolute price levels relative to corporate cost structures, and whether the rise stems from supply constraints or genuine demand strength. Sectors and Companies Positioned to Benefit Upstream exploration and production companies experience the most direct earnings leverage. Higher realized prices expand operating margins and free

Michael Burry’s current ledger is a sea of red, but he’s still drawing a crowd. The man who earned immortality by shorting the American housing market is currently taking a beating on two fronts: a agonizing, falling-knife long bet on Lululemon and an aggressive crusade against the AI complex. The burning question across Wall Street isn't just whether Burry is wrong—it’s whether he’s finally realized that running a paid newsletter is vastly superior to wrestling a market that refuses to bend to reality. Late last year, Burry pulled the plug on Scion Asset Management, returning outside capital and citing a fundamental disconnect with market pricing, alongside the stifling straightjacket of SEC disclosures. In its place, he launched Cassandra Unchained on Substack. Charging hundreds of dolla

A. MBS already holds the clear majority of Singapore gaming revenue and EBITDA, far outpacing Genting’s Resorts World Sentosa. LVS offers more direct exposure to this premium, expanding asset plus Macau upside.Genting Singapore (or parent Genting) also expands but trails in market share and profitability. Both benefit from Singapore’s tourism growth, yet LVS is the stronger pure-play compounder on the superior property.