TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
stock NYSE ADR

Alright degenerates, gather round. While you’re all jerking it to Nvidia calls, BioNTech is quietly about to drop the most loaded ASCO presentation in years starting May 29th and the risk/reward here is genuinely retarded in our favor.
THE SETUP:
These guys took their COVID vaccine money (€16.8B cash on hand, yes BILLION) and went full mad scientist building a cancer drug empire. Now the bill comes due. Multiple late-stage readouts hitting in 2026 and ASCO is the opening act.
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE:
Pumitamig vs Keytruda (ROSETTA Lung-02 Phase 2) — They are literally bringing a knife to a Merck gunfight. Their PD-L1 + VEGF-A bispecific goes head-to-head against the $25B/year king of oncology in first-line lung cancer. If the Phase 2 data shows comparable or better efficacy, Phase 3 is already enrolling and the market is going to price in a Keytruda killer. TSM of the oncology world moment.
Gotistobart (PRESERVE-003 pivotal data) — Next-gen CTLA-4 that doesn’t wreck your immune system like Yervoy. Squamous NSCLC second line, already showed OS benefit at ELCC in March. Pivotal stage interim could land AT or RIGHT AFTER ASCO. FDA fast track + orphan drug designation already in pocket.
HER2 ADC BLA filing this year — Trastuzumab pamirtecan targeting HER2-low breast cancer. A whole new patient population. BLA drop in 2026. This one’s basically the bonus content.
THE BULL CASE IN ONE SENTENCE:
One positive pumitamig readout and suddenly BioNTech isn’t “the COVID vaccine company that got lucky” — they’re a legitimate multi-product oncology empire with 15 Phase 3 trials running and €16.8B to fund all of it.
POSITION June 18th 100$ calls - $60,000

Right, VGT is only USA tech and doesn't hold exUSA stocks like TSM, ASML, SK Hynix, Samsung, and some other holdings.
I agree, holding too many sector etfs has complexity and time commitment issues that may not be worth saving in an expense ratio.
Once you're at a +$1M portfolio position for tech, the difference between a 0.75% expense and 0.09% could be the difference between -$7,500 and -$900 respectively for just one year. VGT is an efficient etf for the stocks it holds and it can sometimes be worth long term not holding international stocks.

S&P500 to zero, TSM and NVDA to 100T

Wait for a green day to sell CC on my COIN, ASTS, TSM, CCJ bags.
Considering opening positions on RDDT, USO likely.

Strong lineup overall, but I’d personally focus less on trying to find the next big thing and more on owning the companies most likely to dominate their industries for the next decade. For me, the core would probably be NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, and TSM basically the backbone of AI/cloud infrastructure. Then I’d add a couple higher-upside names like PLTR or AMD, plus one speculative play for asymmetrical returns. I think the biggest advantage with an 8-stock portfolio is concentration, but the challenge is surviving the volatility without panic selling. A lot of people underestimate how hard it is to hold through 30–40% drawdowns even in great companies.

I have a lot my money in FSELX, a semiconductor mutual fund. This YTD is up 59%, annual performance 154%. I started buying tranches in 10/24. My assumption then and now is the demand for semiconductors will only increase for a long time. In the same arena, I hold short puts against TSM, AVGO, SOXX, SMH, and NVDA.

As someone who has all his shares in $TSM since last Sept (I thought I bought the top, HA)
Everyday I read "Semi's getting KILLED!!!" --- Then I check my portfolio and TSM is down 0.5%. Then proceeds to keep breaking ATH's with ease.

Leopolds Q1 2026 13F filings released today.
For those who don’t know, he made 100%+/yearly returns with billions of dollars under the management of his own hedge fund going bullish on AI. Before starting his hedgefund „Situational Awareness LP“ he worked for OpenAIs super-alignment-team.
Now, the wall street prodigy has now gone full bear on semis, with today’s filing showing a total of 6.2B$ (45% of portfolio) of short positions against Semis and NVDA.
Could he be wrong, yes. But definitely noteworthy. What do y’all think. For me personally, as a bear, this is music in my ears 🕺.
Full Filings:
1. VanEck Semiconductor ETF $SMH \[Put\] — $2.04B
2. Nvidia $NVDA \[Put\] — $1.57B
3. Oracle SORCL \[Put\] — $1.07B
4. Broadcom $AVGO \[Put\] — $1.01B
5. Advanced Micro Devices $AMD \[Put\] — $969M
6. Bloom Energy $BE — $879M
7. SanDisk $SNDK — $724M
8. Micron $MU \[Put\] — $584M
9. CoreWeave $CRWV - $556M
10. Taiwan Semiconductor $TSM \[Put\] — $535M
New positions:
• $SMH, $NVDA, SORCL, SAVGO, SAMD, SMU, $TSM,
SASML, SINTC, $GLW — all puts
• $MU \[Call\] — $422M
• $TSM \[Call\] — $355M
• $SNDK \[Call\] — $389M
Biggest adds:
• CleanSpark SCLSK: +648% shares
• Riot Platforms $RIOT: +87% shares
Biggest trims:
• CoreWeave $CRWV \[Call\]: -83% shares
• Bloom Energy $BE: -36% shares
Full exits:
• Intel $INTC \[Call\] — was $747M
• Lumentum $LITE — was $479M
• EQT Corp SEQT — was $133M
• Tower Semiconductor $TSEM — was $85M

Yeah, that’s exactly the situation I’ve been struggling with too. Lately I’ve been looking more into space-related stocks and recently bought SIDU. I’m already up over 30% on it so far.
Now I’m wondering if space stocks could end up having a similar kind of run that tech stocks had back when I was buying AMD and TSM early on.

Pretty much all tech stocks have done insanely well. I bought AMD at around $78 back in 2021, TSM around $106, and of course VTI at about $178, which I used to buy regularly.
The problem is I was younger back then and didn’t have much money to invest. Now I’ve finally saved up a decent amount and want to keep investing, but outside of VTI I honestly don’t know what to buy anymore.
Even though VTI still has strong fundamentals and I believe in it long term, the current price feels crazy compared to when I first started buying it a few years ago. Same with a lot of the big tech names.
Should I just keep dollar-cost averaging and put more money into the stocks I already believe in whenever the market pulls back? Or should I start looking for smaller companies that haven’t already gone up so much?
I honestly don’t know what the right move is in this market.

TSM

GOOGL, MU, LEU, TSM, NVDA, HSBC, XOM, and WMT are the top eight leading growth in my account each year for the past two years. I have other stocks and a few ETFs. If you count ETFs, SMH is number 4 on the list and SPMO is number 8 on the list.

I personally have AMD, TSM, ASML, AMD, GOOGL and amazon. Just go big on chips/data centres the coming 15-20 years.

I own both. There's good stocks to be had all over. I am around 20-30% international at any given time depending on what performs well.
For internationals I'm in TSM, ASML, MUFG, SIEGY, BMO, AMX, BTI, ENB, IMO, and E.

Gonna sell TSM after Nvidia earnings. This whole Taiwan shit with trump being a megalomaniac is too risky

I have been doing the same with JEPQ for the past 2-3 years and before that with REITS; all in a Roth IRA. I use the payouts to buy other more long term holdings e.g. SCHG, VTI, SCHD and sometimes a fun stock like PLTR, TSM, NVDA.
I'll take a percentage of the earnings from those fun stocks and throw them back into my big 3. I don't recommend doing that; it's a small percentage of my overall investments.

TSM , GOOGL , MXL , AMAT , JNJ , LMT , MU , MTZ. 100% what I would use but we all have different research and opinions.

IVES. Dan Ives Wedbush AI Revolution ETF focuses on foundational AI and software companies. The top holdings include AMD, AVGO, GOOGL, AMZN, TSM, NVDA, AAPL, MU, MSFT, GEV, TSLA.

Xi meeting Putin on May 19 - 4 days after
Trump left????  He’s serious abt Taiwan - and TSM went down less than 1%. Anyone think it will hit Jan low?

TSM bout to go to 0 after 🥭 stopped caring about Taiwan