TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
stock NYSE ADR

Busy day! Market moved up and I took many (for me) off early. Closed 8 that were well over 50% profit and added 2 trades.
|TQQQ|5 Oct 23 32d 68 Put BTC|1.60 db|
|:-|:-|:-|
|NVDA|2 Oct 23 32d 210 Put BTC|2.49 db|
|TSM|2 Oct 23 32d 400 Put BTC|3.30 db|
|TSM|2 Oct 23 32d 400 Put BTC|3.30 db|
|DRAM|\-4 Oct 30 39d 52 Put STO|1.22 cr|
|AMD|2 Oct 23 32d 450 Put BTC|1.97 db|
|DRAM|\-1 Oct 30 39d 52 Put STO|1.22 cr|
|DRAM|2 Oct 16 25d 52 Put BTC|0.71 db|
|TQQQ|5 Oct 16 25d 76 Put BTC|3.50 db|
|SOXX|2 Oct 16 25d 560 Call BTC|6.40 cr|
||\-2 Oct 30 39d 560 Call STO||
|SPCX|1 Oct 16 25d 160 Put BTC|10.75 db|

Buy GRAB and TSM instead. ADBE will be a buy below $200 bucks. 🤔

If one doesn't wish to invest in the main producers of semiconductors or SSD's ($NVDA, $AVGO, $TSM, $SNDK, etc.), nor the hyperscalers ($AMZN, $GOOGL, $META, $MSFT, $ORCL, etc.), then
investments into power suppliers and/or construction companies--- that are well-established and will be needed for data center buildouts--- could offer opportunities that aren't (yet) attracting much attention.
I am liking $VST and $MTZ, just to name a couple....
$FIX was in the stratosphere ('nosebleed seats'), but has now gotten back down to a much more reasonable level, as well.
GLTA

Buy GRAB and TSM instead. 💰😎Nike is gone….. 📉

Buy GRAB and TSM instead. 

I prefer SMH over SOXX because there is more weighting towards NVDA and TSM. SOXX carries too much weight in AMD and MU for my liking. Not anything against those companies, but AMD has very high price premium and they haven't quite found that NVDA like anchor in the AI space just yet. MU still carries that cyclical worry. But NVDA and TSM are more or less the bedrock of semi space AI buildout.
I don't really see any issue with holding some weight of all of QQQM, NVDA and either SOXX or SMH. I'd probably suggest you add VOO in there as well.
Disclosure: Own QQQM, NVDA, SMH, VOO

Nobody in this group is ignoring any risk. Everyone is well aware and have chose their own risk appetite. Market always has risk. There are value plays in this market at the moment. GRAB and TSM being one of them. Grab is at an all time low and TSM is still undervalued by about 35%.

AMD \~1T vs GEV & CAT & BE & GLW \~840B
You can buy the fabless chip designer (only moat is willingness to use warrants to secure TSM wafer capacity) or the bulk of the power and connectivity needed for the DC buildout for 15% less. Market is dumb

After 250 years of US independence, all are not intelligent enough, need to spend $5-10 Trillion to become super intelligent
Even 60 % population can’t afford $2000 for emergency, can’t afford gas, groceries & housing &neglecting basic human needs.
$AMD $MU $AVGO $NVdA $TSM see the market cap pump

Awesome point buddy. Even though TSM is the most weighted part of the IEMG or AVEM, its valuation is reasonable. I am more worried about the exposure to Korean companies like sk hyinx and Samsung electronics

Omg I was just doing my screening hehe would love to share!
Sectors to the upside: crypto ($BLOK), cyber security ($CIBR) and semis ($SOXX) in the order of strength
Sectors I'm looking for turnaround: Space ($NASA) and Photonics ($FOTO)
Then I'm just looking at the top names from these sectors, but still tryna buy at 21d EMA or 50d SMA support.
As for the stocks:
Semis: SMTC, UMC, AMD the strongest but overextended. MU, MRVL, AEHR, TSM are more actionable but not the direct leaders yet.
Blockchain: PURE, MSTR, HOOD are the strongest but again overextended. Honestly here I would just trade the leaders when they pull back to 21d EMA.
Cyber security: OKTA, CRWD, FTNT, NET are prolly the leaders. I would trade them if they fall down to 21d or other stocks like ANET
other notable mentions I'm tracking: MSFT, MAGS/FNGS (this I think is gonna be a leader! I already have position on this), DRAM

VT or VTI/VXUS split. If you want to be riskier watch the leaders of those funds and do a tilt towards those tickers (NDVA, TSM, AAPL)

SMH is more top-heavy than SOXX. By allowing its winning positions to run larger before rebalancing, it has consistently outperformed SOXX over the past five years.
SOXX has outperformed SMH this year, because all the smaller companies have made more gains than the large ones (NVDA,TSM, AVGO).
I think over long term SMH will continue to outperform SOXX.

|Company|Ticker|TTM net margin|Dividend yield|2026 YTD|Market cap|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|**NVIDIA**|NVDA|63.66%|0.47%|\+11.71%|$5.14T|
|**CME Group**|CME|63.12%|1.89% regular|\+4.00%|$99.79B|
|**Texas Pacific Land**|TPL|60.32%|0.65%|\+22.59%|$25.85B|
|**Visa**|V|50.35%|0.71%|\+8.31%|$710.91B|
|**Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing**|TSM|49.92%|≈1.1%|\+30.79%|$1.94T|
|**VeriSign**|VRSN|49.77%|1.09%|\+24.14%|$27.19B|
|**Brookfield Asset Management**|BAM|48.89%|4.38%|−12.76%|$74.76B|
|**Royal Gold**|RGLD|48.05%|0.76%|\+12.31%|$21.10B|
|**Mastercard**|MA|46.34%|0.61%|\+2.00%|$504.75B|
|**Futu Holdings**|FUTU|46.20%|2.39% irregular|−37.74%|$15.58B|

It is not Memory vs GPU. MU is a good choice, but so is NVDA, and so is TSM, if you believe in AI. SNDK can be a good trade, but more speculative.

These companies are trading at pretty reasonable valuations, a lot of them like TSM and the memory stocks are actually quite cheap relative to their growth. It's only a bubble if you think AI adoption slows down and the models stop getting better. I mean that's absolutely a possibility, but I don't see that as a foregone conclusion at all.

I mean order flow is low key a fortune cookie sometimes. Gave me that shrek on TSM at close yesterday.