TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
stock NYSE ADR

Please go back up TSM

The general consensus is that a total exUSA market like in VXUS will still likely underperform the S&P500 long term which is why a 60-100% investment in the USA is commonly recommended. Anywhere around 0-40% VXUS is a reasonable balance with a higher international portion allows you to hedge more of your bet on the US and ideally reduce volatility in your portfolio.
You're basically taking a concentration of 500 stocks in VOO and dramatically increasing its diversity with 8,800 more stocks by adding VXUS and this broadly reduces the volatility and potential gains of the portfolio long term. In basic math, it's much less likely 8,800 broadly selected companies around the world outperform a concentration of 500 of the best companies.
Key thing to keep in mind is that technology is the main driver behind VXUS recent gains. TSM, Samsung, ASML, SKHynix and similar international tech giants are the main engine. By buying VOO you are gaining access to their parallels in the USA like NVDA, AMD, Intel, MU, AVGO, etc. So if there is ever a semiconductor crisis, everyone goes down together. Cool thing about being diversified around 8,800 stocks is that they can better spread the loss than 500 stocks and hypothetically while VXUS might grow less than VOO long term, it will also possibly not crash as much as VOO.
Everything is dependent on your risk tolerance. I highly recommend if you have the time to read into the holdings of VOO and VXUS. If you're feeling conservative, VTI can be a great substitute for VOO to increase diversity and reduce volatility and potential gains. If you're feeling ambitious because of your young age, adding a little QQQM or SMH can be a great way to capture some of the ongoing tech wave.

TSM

Yes, they have an extremely high moat, hence their high PEG ratio, people are willing to pay extra for that safety.
My post isn't "everyone panic ASML is going bankrupt" it's: "will these headwinds cause ASML to underperform other high quality semi stocks like TSM, SK Hynix, etc.".

Check since 2012 their revenue and especially growth:
[https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSM/taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing/revenue](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSM/taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing/revenue)
So it's cyclical, for sure. Now if you convinced that till the end of time TSMC or even the next 10-20 years will never see a revenue drop, it's a belief you can have.
Thing is demand will not grow for ever at the same rate and production capacity will catch up and the premium for the scarity will disappear eventually.

3.4% of mine is in AMD. It's up 284%. Wish I would have leaned in harder, but was not willing to go on tilt on a single stock. Also put some in ARM not long after though and it's now 4.2% of the port and up 132%. Also added a small position in TSMC ($TSM) which is just .88% of port and up 141%. Have continued to also slow build a position in SOXX ETF and it's 4.37 of port and up 142%. My thesis at the time (over about 10 months) was that the semiconductor stocks were likely poised for huge upside moves, but that there was too much risk in picking just one, mainly due to all the wackiness of the US trade policy, geopolitical stuff and potential the administration might start picking their own winners and losers... which they did to an extent with Intel (the one I chose not to invest in, and it too had explosive gains), but the rest did just fine in my book. haha. There still appears to be a very strong runway for revenue growth for them through 2028 or so.

TSM!!!!!

This is why I hate when people use the blanket term "AI stocks" when referring to NVDA, TSM, AVGO....

Listen, clown. Some percentage of your portfolio should be buying OTM calls and rolling them up higher regularly, all the way thru 2027. Like- allocate 25% of your portfolio to this strategy, the rest inelastic goods like $weat, copper, uranium, BTC, hedge with deep OTM puts on NVDA/TSM (5%) to counter supply chain/war risk in sk hynix/Taiwan/China/Malaysia

Solid start naman, especially for someone aiming long-term. Heavy ka sa tech/AI-semi exposure with names tied to NVDA, TSM, and Nasdaq ETFs, so aligned ka sa current growth narrative. My only concern is medyo concentrated ka sa same sector. Kapag nag-cool off tech or AI hype, sabay-sabay din possible tama niyan. Good thing meron kang S&P 500 ETF for some balance, pero personally I’d slowly increase broad ETFs over time para less dependent sa iisang narrative.

If I were you I'd full port google they are about to surpass nvda as most valuable company and they can mesh their chips far better for ai use but this is my holdings it may look pretty spread out as well, but that's because im working with 9x the capital
: Roth Contributory IRA
Equities & ETFs
• AMD: 26 Shares
• MRNA: 5 Shares
• SPY: 1 Share
• NLR: 25 Shares
Options
• VRDN 7/17/26 18 C: 14 Contracts
Individual Account
Equities
• AAPL: 20.1537 Shares
• AMZN: 17 Shares
• ASML: 3 Shares
• BAC: 7.4313 Shares
• GOOG: 10 Shares
• GOOGL: 8.0696 Shares
• IMSR: 100 Shares
• INTC: 104.0635 Shares
• LAC: 25 Shares
• MU: 20 Shares
• NVDA: 33.0641 Shares
• PM: 1 Share
• POWL: 3 Shares
• SMR: 10 Shares
• WDC: 5 Shares
Options
• AAPL 12/18/26 370 C: 2 Contracts
• GOOG 12/18/26 520 C: 1 Contract
• GOOGL 6/18/26 420 C: 5 Contracts
• PM 6/18/26 175 C: 4 Contracts
• TSM 1/15/27 200 P: 1 Contract

I agree. We need to tread this one carefully - OP seems to be heavily exposed to ai. Pero if Micron and TSM naman sila, regardless of the cost of ai, tataas din talaga demand nila eh?

Thanks to GOOG, AMD, NBIS, HOOD, TSM, RDDT, FTAI, MU, CNC, UBER, and more. Sold some of the option gains and converted to stocks.
Currently, hedging with longer duration covered calls given that the market is on euphoria atm. Expecting a pull down sometime, but holding the positions strong 💪

Investing in tech suppliers is the smart play here (e.g., MU, SNDK, TSM, NVDA) because no matter how the AI wars shake out, they’re still going to spend a lot of money on hardware to get there.

I'm shorting semis out of spite, because some regards here convinced me out of going full chub on TSM when it was trading in the 50-60s a couple years ago. Something about China. Still bitter about it.

QQQ in my IRA and then VTI, VGT, TSM in brokerage

Intel is in a prime position to grow. It is reinforced by both the US Government and NVIDIA which are 2 of some of the strongest and richest players in AI in the entire world. I get that the P/E numbers may look dire but P/E isn't everything. A bet against Intel is essentially a bet against the US Government and I don't want to be on the wrong side of that. As another person said in this thread, Intel has the potential to become our TSM.

226% lol according to chatgpt I trade long options contracts (ideally 6 months) following a correction on a trend continuation on names like TSLA TSM MU INTC ETC... basically pull a chart up and find the trend channel and wait for a day the stock is down and buy in on a long call or if its a bearish stock vice versa and take profits when it hits the Chanel top. Im self taught and this is what I personally do. This is my first year trading options and im sure as I gain more knowledge and confidence I can shorten the time frame up a bit but as of now I dont see any reason to change it up
https://preview.redd.it/7inp2o99zkzg1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f4a234bb88d1129d62dfd0e212f6c827a313688

any reason TSM's price action is not doing what MU and SNDK ? I thought they're pretty good, if not better

Top 5 holdings in my portfolio NVDA, MU, APLD, TSM, QQQ let’s fucking go!