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$QQQ is getting crushed and below its 200D avg. What we found is that 79% of the historical QQQ dips regained it within roughly 3 months. That sounds reassuring when you’re staring at a selloff. But there’s an important distinction. The 200-day average tracks the average closing price over 200 trading days. Getting back to that line doesn’t mean getting back to your old high, or that the bottom has passed. Across 43 occurrences from late 1999 through today, the median wait for 5 consecutive closes at or above it was 22 trading days. Failed bounces counted toward that wait. And the path could still hurt. After its initial break in 2022, QQQ fell another 28% before reaching its lowest daily close. These numbers help set expectations for how long regaining the line can take. They don’t settle whether today is a good entry, though. You can miss the exact bottom and still participate in a recovery. Plan accordingly.
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In light of Hyperliquid's banger of a news today, I'll share a sneak peek of what I've been working on. AI may take away our jobs and steal our sanity in trying to keep up with it, but that's exactly why learning about investing and money will be critical for the future. Your future. Money, will never go away. It's what creates power. And power, will never go away. But you don't have to play the power game. Too tiring. Yet it is increasingly clear that you have to be proficient at the money game to survive whatever the hell comes next.
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Chips lost $600B today. Feels like fear. Is it? The broader market shows: • VIX fear gauge: still under 20 • Money moved into bonds, pushing yields down • More S&P stocks hit new highs than new lows • Consumer staples went up Real panic looks different. In Aug 2024 and Apr 2025, the VIX hit 38 to 52 and almost everything fell together. Today the selling stayed in AI, as the market weighs how big the AI bill is and when it pays off. So zoom out, and notice how you're feeling. If this was stressful, imagine a real panic day. That's worth sitting with and assessing to plan your next portfolio moves.
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Verify, don't blindly trust. VIX history (Cboe): cboe.com/tradable_products/v… VIX daily data (Cboe CSV): cdn.cboe.com/api/global/us_i… Treasury yield data (U.S. Treasury): home.treasury.gov/resource-c…
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JPMorgan just put a number on bitcoin for the first time. 10% a year, compounded over the next 10–15 years. US large caps get 7.5%. Gold, 5.5%. "So they're saying BTC will outperform? Sweet!" Not exactly. The catch: they call it a "speculative asset." Its bear case is worse than anything else in their table, and they expect it to swing about 3x as much as stocks. Higher expected return, but much wider range of outcomes.
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Verify, don't blindly trust. JPMorgan's 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions: am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-…
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China just ordered 2x more Nvidia chips than it can make. 6M+ ordered, but $NVDA can only make 3M in 2027. Some buyers may get only 5–10% of their order. That means Nvidia names the price and buyers pay it. If you own AI stocks, the question is which part of it you own.
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The hottest retail version of the data centers are ex-bitcoin miners turned AI landlords. $WULF borrowed ~$5.2B in about three months to build. While Nvidia gets paid up front, these landlords get paid only if the build lands on time and tenants keep paying. My point is that you don't know what will happen next for AI. But what you should know is what you're investing in, and if you're comfortable holding it through ups and downs.
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Verify, don't blindly trust. China Nvidia orders (Reuters): investing.com/news/stock-mar… Elice IPO (Yonhap): yna.co.kr/view TeraWulf debt (SEC 8-K): investors.terawulf.com/sec-f… And I'll leave you with this: "History tells us that leverage all too often produces zeroes, even when it is employed by very smart people." Warren Buffett, 2010 letter
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Last week hedge funds cut tech at the fastest pace in at least a decade, per Goldman. The same week, dip buyers put a record $7B+ into $SOXL, a 3x leveraged chip fund. It lost about a third of its value that week. When you invest, you have to know how these leveraged funds work. Leveraged funds reset every day. If chips drop 10% and bounce back to flat, a 3x fund is still down ~7%. Even its issuer says not to expect 3x over any period longer than a day. Where are we in the market when "smart money" sold, and the crowd bought with 3x leverage? When you use leverage, you can be right, but still lose. Patience compounds. Leverage punishes it.
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Companies now spend 5.05% of the entire US economy on computers and software. That's the highest on record, back to 1947. At the 2000 dot-com peak it was 4.46%. We passed that last year. The rest of the economy is softer. Wage growth is the weakest since 2021, wages have trailed inflation 6 months straight, and get this: Small caps fell 8 of the last 9 weeks. Howard Marks once said: "We may never know where we're going, but we'd better have a good idea where we are." This is where we are.
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Bitcoin is 94.5% of $MSTR's assets. For Metaplanet it's 98%. MSCI's new rule drops companies whose real businesses are tiny next to what they hold. If cut, index funds must sell, about $2.8B of MSTR, per JPMorgan. Less demand for the stock means less cash to buy BTC. Cut 'em.
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My pops has been stacking $TSM for as long as I can remember. The last 2.5 years made him look like a genius. The stock is down this week. Yet it just posted its sixth straight record-profit quarter. Wealth comes from patience and knowing what you own.
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INFLATION JUST CAME IN HOT AT 3.7% Markets predicting the Fed might HIKE rates this month. And that's why AI stocks are getting wrecked. AI is built on borrowed money. → Higher rates = more expensive money → More expensive money = less profit per data center Even Broadcom's CEO is warned that capital "might be the biggest constraint" on AI, bigger than chips or power" AI has been carrying the entire market. So naturally, when AI bleeds, everything bleeds. In short, the cost of funding AI is rising
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HEADLINES ARE SCREAMING A SELLOFF S&P 500 -1.3% Nasdaq -1.9% Worst day since June!! The trigger: inflation hit 3.7%, odds of a rate hike jumped, bond yields rose. Loud headlines get attention, and admittedly, they do work. But they're also not useful to you as an investor One day of red didn't change a single company's earnings, customers, or balance sheet. If you bought a good business to hold for 5 years, today is noise. Sell when the business changes, not when the price does.
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Everyone says AI is a bubble because the money goes in a circle. As an investor, you gotta cut the noise and follow the trail. I drew a line instead: $NVDA designs the chips $TSM makes them $ASML makes the only machines that can print them And ASML just said: → Customers are asking about orders for 2029 and 2030 → Planned ~30% capacity increases in 2027 and 2028 still won't cover demand Nobody plans machines four years out for a bubble they think pops next quarter. Follow the demand line.
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The CEO of $AVGO, a chipmaker feeding the AI buildout, just said a lot of AI investors have NO CLUE what they're buying. Called them (you) casino gamblers. Then said companies burn AI tokens like kids at an arcade: $10 gone in 10 minutes, nothing learned. Can't say I disagree!
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