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$ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ Q3 Earnings: Triple Beat, Sky-High Demand, but will the Supply Bottlenecks cap their 2027-28 growth? ASML just dropped its Q3 2026 earnings, and the numbers were definitively on the upper side: • Total Net Sales: €11.7 billion (near the very top of guidance) • Gross Margin: A monster 57.5% (beating expectations due to a massive €3.3B in high-margin Installed Base Management upgrades) • Net Income: €5.0 billion (€12.95 basic EPS) The Twist: Supply Constraints for 2027–2028 While the beat was clean across the board, the potential issue to watch out closely, is management's commentary on visibility. Customer demand for AI-related infrastructure is so intense that ASML explicitly warned their planned supply for 2027
TOPbouncee: The 2027-28 bottleneck reads more like moat than problem to me. When customers are already looking out to 2029-30, the demand visibility is kind of absurd
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The Five Stages of Learning Options: Which One Are You At?
When people first get into options, the question they often ask is: “I’m bullish on this stock. Which Call should I buy?” After a while, the questions change: Why can I lose money even when I get the direction right? Are strategies for sellers safer? Spreads seem like they can manage risk, but what should I watch out for when using them? Many people go through these five stages as they learn about options. They aren’t a fixed progression: you might skip a stage or move back and forth between them. Read through to the end for a new‑trader surprise 🎁—then see which stage sounds most like you. Stage 1: The eager beginner — “This contract is cheap. Why not give it a try?” When you’re new to options, low-priced, deep out-of-the-money contracts can be tempting. You watch the underlying stock mov
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Anthropic Is Warning About AI Risks — While Preparing for a Mega IPO
Anthropic faces an unusual challenge ahead of its planned IPO: convince investors that AI offers enormous commercial potential while warning them that the technology could create serious risks. That tension could make its public debut one of the most closely watched events in the AI market. 💰 1. The growth story is compelling Anthropic’s annualised revenue run rate reportedly reached US$65 billion at the end of July, according to reporting cited by Bloomberg and Barron’s. But revenue run rate is not the same as actual annual revenue or profit. Investors will want to see the full financial picture, including margins, operating losses and the cost of computing. ⚠️ 2. AI safety is becoming an investment issue Anthropic researchers have warned that increasingly capable AI models could potentia
TOPRun rate alone won’t carry the IPO. No quarterly sequential growth or gross margin is a bigger hole than the 65B headline, though tighter rules could still help the safety pitch longer term
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BAC, a Buy amidst Selloff, Q3 & Fines ?
BRK.B’s Continued BAC Exit Under new $Berkshire Hathaway(BRK.B)$ CEO Greg Abel, the continued reduction of $Bank of America(BAC)$ is the most conspicuous portfolio decision heading into BAC’s Q3 2026 earnings report. BRK.B’s Q2 2026 13F showed a sale of about 30.2 million BAC shares, equivalent to a -5.9% reduction and roughly $1.7 billion at quarter-end prices. It was BRK.B’s largest dollar reduction during the quarter. The sale continued the disciplined approach set by Warren Buffett. BRK.B owned just over 1.03 billion BAC shares in mid-2024 and has reduced its stake every quarter since. By the end of June 2026, it held 483.4 million shares, less than half of its earlier position. The Q2 filing marked t
TOPNice Sharing 😁 @koolgal @Barcode @Aqa @DiAngel @Shyon @Shernice軒嬣 2000
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"Infinite Demand" vs. "Trillions Destroyed": Wall Street's Smartest Minds Just Split on AI
October 14, 2026 — Investor Education: The AI Debate, Mapped For the past two years, the AI trade had one voice. This week, it has two — and they're shouting past each other. On one side: Jensen Huang, who just repeated that global AI infrastructure capex will hit $3–4 trillion annually by 2030, insisting demand is "nowhere near" supply-constrained growth. On the other: Michael Burry, the man who called the housing bubble, arguing that AI will consume and destroy trillions in capital — and that markets may need to fall just to stop AI IPOs from vacuuming up the money. Between them sits the most important disagreement in markets right now: Is the AI supercycle a real productivity revolution — or a capex bubble priced for perfection? Here's the full map of who's saying what, so you can decid
TOPThe AI Boom: Real Revolution, Dangerous Valuations The biggest mistake investors make is assuming revolutionary technology automatically makes every related stock a good investment. Jensen Huang may be right about AI transforming the economy, while Michael Burry may also be right that investors are overpaying. Both can be correct. The real issue is capital efficiency. Billions are flowing into chips, data centers and energy, but spending is not profitability. If AI revenues fail to justify investments, depreciation, debt costs and shrinking margins could expose weaknesses hidden by today's growth figures. My view:Don't bet against AI; question the price you pay.The next phase will reward companies that convert computing power into sustainable cash flow, not those selling the most exciting AI narrative. @Capital_Insights [暗中观察]
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Korea's Memory Stocks Fell 8% Today. Western Digital Doesn't Make Memory
$Western Digital(WDC)$ Mathematical Money | October 13, 2026 The KOSPI broke below 6,000 today, down more than 7% intraday and triggering a sell-side trading curb for the first time in two months. SK Hynix fell over 9%. Samsung Electronics over 8%. $WDC$ is down about 6% as I write, at roughly $362 against Monday's close of $387. I own the shares, I own long-dated calls, and I wrote about this sector eight days ago. So I went and read what actually happened rather than assuming the move told me something about my position. It mostly doesn't, but the part that does is uncomfortable, and I would rather set out both than pick the half that suits the position. What actually happened in Korea The trigger was CXMT, a Chinese memory maker, whi
TOPThe HDD moat still looks intact to me. If those customer agreements really run into 2029, this feels more like sentiment spillover than thesis damage
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I would choose B, but the real question is whether AI can turn massive investment into sustainable profits. Revenue growth alone cannot justify every valuation. Investors must examine cash flow, margins, and whether AI spending generates sufficient returns. Strong demand means little if companies cannot monetize it effectively. Rising Treasury yields also pressure valuations. Even great companies can see their stocks fall when expectations become excessive. My view: AI remains a powerful growth engine, but earnings must catch up with expectations. Otherwise, today's winners could become tomorrow's valuation risks. The next earnings season will reveal which companies have real pricing power and which are simply riding market enthusiasm. @
TOPCapEx efficiency matters more than hype here. If recurring revenue stays thin, margins can look good for a quarter and still not hold up
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I think option ④ is the most reasonable for now. AI memory demand remains strong, and $Cxmt Corporation(688825)$ CXMT’s technological progress does not automatically mean it can achieve mass production at competitive costs or quickly challenge established players. I believe the memory supercycle is still intact for now, but today’s selloff reminds me that no growth story moves in a straight line. I will be watching DRAM pricing, production capacity and customer demand to see whether the supply-demand balance is genuinely changing. For $Micron Technology(MU)$ , I prefer to stay patient rather than panic over short-term volatility. Competition is worth monitoring, but I would not assume the memory upcycle
TOPContract pricing matters more here than spot. HBM can stay tight while commodity DRAM gets noisy, so I would wait for earnings and capacity data first
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🌟🌟🌟I believe that $Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSM)$ is likely to close Green, 5% to 10% post earnings. Why? TSMC has officially posted a record shattering Q3 revenue of NTD 1.49 trillion (USD 46.71 billion) on October 8. This represents a mind boggling 50% year on year increase. It also completely cleared the upper ceiling of TSMC's own Q3 guidance bracket of USD 44.6 billion to USD 45.8 billion. Net profit is projected to expand by 65%. This sheer financial dominance provides a rock solid floor that prevents the stock from turning flat or red. Morgan Stanley is predicting that TSMC's management will lift its full year 2026 revenue guidance up to the low to mid 40% range. This sends a clear message that
TOPGreat quarter, but earnings beats do not automatically mean plus 5 to 10. Capex is still massive and free cash flow matters more to me here.
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My conviction is lower, but not broken. CXMT changes the long-term risk premium for memory. If it can turn 4F² into competitive, high-yield mass production, Chinese supply could eventually pressure conventional DRAM pricing and challenge the industry's current structure. But announcing an architecture is very different from producing server-grade DRAM economically at scale. Yield, reliability, customer qualification and volume are the real tests. Until CXMT demonstrates those, I see the sell-off as the market pricing in a credible new risk rather than proof that the memory cycle has fundamentally changed. Hock Tan's warning matters too. If capital becomes the constraint on AI build-outs, demand expectations could cool even before new Chinese supply arrives. So I would still hold quality me
TOPCapex pressure is the part people still underprice. Even before CXMT scales, tighter financing can slow the whole memory buildout and reset demand assumptions fast.
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$SGX(S68.SI)$ SGX - TA wise, bearish mode. She may go down to test 20.55. If unable to hold we may see further weakness ahead. Next, She may test 20 than 18.70. Pls dyodd. 2nd October 2026: SGX - It looks like the market doesn't like the latest development, price tank this morning to touch 21.50, looks like more weakness ahead! She had broken down below 20,50,100 Days Moving Average likely to go down to revisit 21.00 , 200 days Moving Average. If unable to reclaim 21.00, she may go further downward to 20.00 and below. Yield is low about 2%. Must well get something else better like SSB or other dividend counter like SingTel, Sembcorp Ind, Venture etc. Not a call to buy or sell. Pls dyodd.
TOP2% yield is the bigger problem here. SGX was never really a yield play, so once the chart rolls over it gets hard to defend
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🌟Will $Microsoft(MSFT)$ latest move to cut Azure costs by 20% unleash profits or confirm AI bubble? There are 2 sides of the coin: The Bull Case: The Efficiency Unleased Play Azure is shifting focus toward infrastructure economics. By deploying internal custom chips like the new Maia 300 next year, Microsoft is trying to break free from NVIDIA's margin crushing monopoly. By cutting back 20% of its costs, it allows Microsoft to use the money saved on this new transition. When these huge hardware investments finally begin to scale & monetise through enterprise Copilot, it will unleash a tidal wave of pure operating profit. The Bear Case: The ROI Nightmare The truth could be that the return on AI investment fail to matc
TOPThat 20% cut barely dents a USD115B capex bill. I care more about when AI ROI actually turns positive
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I think option ① matters most: whether EUV orders remain strong. $ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ supplies essential equipment for advanced logic and memory chips, so strong bookings would suggest chipmakers remain confident in long-term AI demand despite concerns about memory oversupply. For me, the key is not just whether ASML beats Q3 estimates, but whether management maintains its 2027 expansion plans and provides a confident outlook. Strong bookings would support the AI growth story, while weaker orders or delayed deliveries would raise concerns about future spending. I remain bullish on AI infrastructure long term, but I do not expect every semiconductor stock to rise together. I will focus on sustainable demand, competitive advantages and valuati
TOPEUV orders are not a clean AI readthrough though. Some of that can just be legacy server and memory capex getting pulled forward, and 2027 optimism can still be management selling the dream lol
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Big Banks Just Reported. The Numbers Were Better Than the Stock Reactions. My Pick Is JPM, But Not at Any Price.
The first major bank results are in, and the market reaction is surprisingly useful. JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo collectively showed that high rates are still producing substantial earnings power. Net interest income remains strong, loan growth has not collapsed, and broad credit deterioration is not yet evident. Yet bank stocks sold off after the results. That tells me the market is no longer asking whether banks can make money at high rates. It is asking: How much of today's profitability is sustainable if rates stay high long enough to hurt borrowers, dealmaking and credit quality? That distinction determines what I would buy. NIM Is Strong, But Credit Is the Real Test Higher rates initially help banks because assets reprice and lending yields rise. JPMorgan gener
TOPCRE is still the real stress test here. NII looks great, but 22.91% ROE won't save the multiple if charge-offs start creeping.
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Microsoft - Why Morgan Stanley Sees $600
What if $Microsoft(MSFT)$ doesn’t need to win the AI model race to win the AI business? Morgan Stanley has reiterated its Overweight rating on Microsoft, maintaining a $600 price target. The investment thesis goes beyond Azure’s cloud growth or Copilot’s popularity. It centres on Microsoft’s ability to orchestrate different AI models, data and applications within one enterprise ecosystem. Here’s why that matters. 🔹 1. AI Models Are Becoming More Interchangeable Businesses don’t necessarily want to depend on a single AI provider. They want to choose models based on cost, performance, security and the task involved. As open-weight models improve and competition intensifies, the companies building AI models could face pricing pressure. Mic
TOPThe moat is still platform integration, not the model alone. Azure plus Office plus Teams is what makes enterprise budgets sticky, and 544 premarket barely changes that
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HSTECH Rebounds +1.6% with 7x Long DLC up +11%; Xiaomi, Meituan, Alibaba Lead Gains
The Hang Seng TECH Index (HSTECH) edged higher in early trading on Wednesday (14 Oct), rising around 1.6% as of the lunch close. This lifted the HSTECH 7x Long DLC (XQ4W) by more than 11%, while the HSTECH 7x Short DLC(9B2W) declined by a similar magnitude. $HSTECH(HSTECH)$ has declined around 25% year-to-date and recently touched 4,065, returning close to levels last seen before Beijing’s September 2024 stimulus-driven rally. In the past three weeks, HSTECH has fallen 6.8%. Over the same period, the HSTECH 7x Short DLC(9B2W) gained around 48%, while the HSTECH 7x Long DLC (XQ4W) fell around 45%. Among the today's top gainers were $XIAOMI-W(01810)$ , $MEITUAN-W(0
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[Earnings Recap] Goldman Beats, JPMorgan Misses— What’s Going On?
Wall Street earnings season opened with a surprisingly wide gap between the big banks.Goldman Sachs delivered a blowout quarter as volatile markets drove a surge in equity trading. JPMorgan posted a rare earnings miss, while Wells Fargo topped profit expectations but fell short on revenue and net interest income. Citi beat on both the top and bottom lines, yet its shares still sold off sharply. $Goldman Sachs(GS)$ -0.23% Goldman Sachs is a leading Wall Street investment bank focused on trading, dealmaking and asset management. Third-quarter net revenue rose 23% to $18.68 billion, while EPS came in at $17.01, far above the $13.02 analysts expected. Equities trading was the standout. Revenue from the business jumped 72% to $6.44 billion as clients rep
TOPI think consumers are becoming more selective rather than stopping spending altogether. Everyday essentials still get priority, but higher prices and borrowing costs are making people think twice about discretionary purchases. The key question is whether consumer resilience can continue into Q4.
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$Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ is back in the spotlight after launching two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. Shares rose more than 3% following the announcement as investors gained fresh evidence that Meta’s huge AI investment may be starting to deliver results.  🧠 What’s different this time? Meta says its new models can compete with leading offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The standout features are: 🔹 Active Memory — remembers important details across conversations, reducing the need for users to repeat themselves. 🔹 Active Focus — works through complex tasks, tries alternative approaches and recovers from errors. 🔹 Real-world applications — from coding and analysing documents to handling more complicated professional tas
TOPThe real payoff is ad pricing, not just model bragging rights. Active Memory plus Meta's distribution can monetize way faster than the capex narrative implies
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Option Movers | SpaceX Drops 4%, Oracle Gains 4%; $13.77M SpaceX Synthetic Short and Bearish Oracle Options Flow in Focus
Market Overview The Nasdaq ended lower on Tuesday (Oct 13 ) as chip stocks added to recent losses and investors parsed mixed quarterly results from Citigroup and other big US banks. Regarding the options market, a total volume of 54,455,358 contracts was traded, of which 57% were call options. Top 10 Option Volumes Top 10: $NVDA(NVDA)$, $AAPL(AAPL)$, $MU(MU)$, $SPCX(SPCX)$, $TSLA(TSLA)$, $INTC(INTC)$, $AMZN(AMZN)$, $GME(GME)$,
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Progressive— Can Insurance Deliver When Markets Get Volatile?
When investors focus on inflation, interest rates and technology valuations, one industry deserves attention for a different reason: insurance. What does $Progressive(PGR)$ do? Progressive is one of America’s largest auto insurers. It sells personal and commercial auto insurance, along with property insurance, and earns revenue primarily from premiums and investment income. 🔍 Why watch PGR? 🚗 1. A business built around everyday needs Drivers need insurance regardless of whether the stock market is rising or falling. That gives Progressive exposure to an essential service rather than relying on discretionary consumer spending. 💰 2. Underwriting is the key Insurance companies don’t automatically profit from collecting premiums. Claims, rep
TOPCombined ratio is the whole story here. If PGR keeps printing sub-100 for a few quarters, underwriting can matter more than the investment lift.