TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
stock NYSE ADR

These novices have been waiting 8 months for a 10% move in this extended stock LOL. In the meantime TSM, WDC, SNDK, AMD… even TEVA!!! Up multiple baggers. And before anyone accuses me of being a jealous hater, it is a great company but I am not buying it here. Too little risk/reward for the capital. Here’s my cost basis… 29 cents.
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QCOM uses TSM, they don't like the idiot promising decreased armed sales to Taiwan I think. Everything TSM adjacent ate shit.

Sold TSM bought MY just in the dip

MU,RKLB,NFLX, TSM, GOOGL

VOO is S&P500 US top 500 large caps
VTI is US total market
They are both broad market but VOO covers 500 stocks while VTI covers 3,500 stocks.
I like the USA focus. VOO is a great core etf. It adds a lot of utility to keep your portfolio robust.
SMH is a very impressive high volatility etf which is good if you have the iron stomach for it. It's a great for international stocks like TSM.
ARKX/UFO are a very large chunk and I'm not seeing their future performance really justify their large position in your portfolio. You would be better off just buying a few shares of rocketlab.
It would be nice to see some of the SMH fund going to QQQM or SPMO so you have layers to your AI sector exposure. Maybe even FLKR for south korea's samsung and sk hynix would be a nice compliment.
It would be nice to see some of the ARKX/UFO go to AVUV because there are a lot of great small US companies you don't carry.
Overall I like how ambitious your portfolio is. I don't have the stomach for such large plays of SMH, ARKX, and UFO but it's great to see you are branching out your portfolio to pickup some stocks not held in VOO.

It's funny you brought this up today of all days. I'm very active on a site called GJopen dot com (Good Judgement Open). It predates prediction market sites and you don't bet money you just assign confidence points to obscure questions as far in advance as you can without making any adjustments to get your Brier Score (mine is 0.06 over 800 predictions). Because of that I have very very unorthodox methods and I always - always - second guess myself despite having a very good Brier Score.
So when it came to my stock picks? Holy crap, whenever anything pulled back 5-8% in a day I panicked and liquidated everything to wait it out - only to see it rebound +10-15 within two weeks.
At the moment I'm tech heavy. So what I did this time around to quell my fears was made a loss table. I took the closing price of all my positions for the last three years (when I took back control from our advisors) and calculated the gain/loss for each day, and each week for a condensed view. I put them all in a table and used conditional formatting to make all losses red. When you do that it honestly looks like a crime scene. I then made a table at the top that shows the 1st, 2nd and 3rd worst losses, the average daily/weekly gain, and the top three biggest gaining days.
The results are eye popping. One particular stock dropped -35% in two trading sessions (based off of the opening prices). I would have dumped that stock in a heart beat... But guess which one it was... SNDK. April 3rd and 4th, 2025, just weeks after it's debut. We all know how that stock is doing.
But others in tech sector have similar MIN/MAX deltas between daily opening prices too.
\-MU was -18% on 12/20/24
\-KLAC -13% twice on 8/5/24 and 10/17/24
\-AMD -15% on 2/5/26
The list goes on for -13% or more for INTC, TSM, AMAT, AVGO...
But now that I can go back in time and watch how all of these continued to grow, I'm better prepared and calmer when these stocks have a bad day or week.

TSM,AMAT, SOUN, RKLB, NVIDIA

>Don’t put more than 5% in any one stock
It's taken me years to finally beat that in to my own head. At one point 50% in ETFs and the other 50% in 2 or 3 stocks. I got lucky since they were TSM and AMD, but I've been slowly harvesting the gains and whittling them down. I have a fetish for round numbers so I usually buy 100 shares (to a max of $70,000) now. I do that solely for quicker calculations in my head and not needing to remember random numbers.

DRAM, EOSE, DVLT, TSM and BX

INTC, AMD, MRVL, TSEM, GFS, TSM 😉

Two things. US signalled it doesn’t like Iran’s position on Hormuz, and is saber rattlijg they are going to end ceasefire and actively bomb again. Korea which is not at all energy independent and gets much if its fuel shipped via Hormuz gets shocked by energy shocks or even hints of energy shocks.
Second, US, the idiot, and his party even backing him up on this, are signalling they want to cave to China demand thry stop sending Taiwan weapons. Since TSM fabs half of the worlds chips and all rhe companies like nvda and qcom etc outsource this fab, lots of stocks reacted negatively intraday over the uncertainty towards this vital industry. Fab is largely done in S korean and by TSM so…these stonks don’t like the stupid geopolitics.
The straight of Hormuz situation is the biggest threat to the DRAM position as half its position is S Korea. Fuel reserves are slipping towards critical levels and if not straightened by late Summer may go into “collapse” levels of inventory. This kills DRAM no matter how many years of orders they have.

I like higher returns and have been in VUG, VGT and MU, TSM, AVGO, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Visa. But also have QQQI, SPYI and 6 different dividend ETFs.

This is my biggest concern as a holder of TSM/ASML/SK, but I think we have at least 1.5-2 years before we see those companies no longer being able to get funding/cap ex getting cut as long as the models keep progressing and we see mild to moderate progress for AI ROI.
Hypersclaers are trying to sign 5 year deals for memory with SK Hynix right now, that's not a sign of lack of confidence and wilingness to fund Open AI/Anthropic.

The new MAG7 is MU, AMD, NVDA, AVGO, SNDK, TSM

I feel as though there has been a lot of conflicting inputs as to what constitutes "value" vs "growth" investing and which approach is more profitable. I want to share my approach that helped me build a 7 figure portfolio, averaging 60% return in the past 7 years.
I employ both value and growth approach. I find that during bulls market, growth gives me far higher yield. Majority of the time, the market is in bull (2/3 or more ) > Bear(1/3 or lesS). I simply follow the momentum. In the past 3 years, I mostly invested in tech and AI for those reasons. These include Google, Amazon, NVDA, MU, and TSM. Headlines, industry investment trends, and company directions helped me shape these investment choices.

"Growth" approach is more steady and is a solid backbone of long-term investing. It will provide less yield during bulls market, but it is more stable. In this approach, I do not hand-pick my own companies for growth. As an example, I would not invest in what is a "cheap" stock right now based on fundamentals, because anything could happen. More often than not, hand picked growth stocks cannot perform index funds-- it may even lead to loss of money. For me these were duolingo and uber. For my growth approach, I simply buy index funds. Period.

Far too many people try to find some unknown or decaying stocks and put their faiths in it, which 80% of the time will lead to disappointments. Invest in the broader market or go with the momentum of the global market. That is the best way to win. For those people investing in stocks like microsoft TODAY, I suggest you instead put that money into index funds or AI bottlenecks. Just my 2 cents

Only 3 setups today after yesterday's chaos. Quality over quantity.

🟢 PSTG $87.34 → CB breakout (option contract pending)

🔴 TROW $102.73 → P $100 · Mid $2.33 (TR put)
🔴 TSM $397.68 → P $395 · Mid $19.65 (TR put)

TSM flagging bearish while semis are supposedly recovering is
interesting timing. Worth watching.

Not advice. Do your own DD.

You’re probably not overlooking much. A lot of the AI infra trade is people paying huge premiums for names everyone already agrees are winners. I’d focus more on who can still earn solid returns on capital and free cash flow after the cycle normalizes. That’s part of why TSM still stands out to me.

Final adjustment. Im now holding only hold MSFT, PLTR, NVDA, VOO, VTV, SCHD, SCHY, QQQM, RKLB, MLPI, TSM. I think this aligns with my goal to be growth and Dividend focused.
Planning on primary increaseing the ETF's, reinvesting any dividends, and growing the single stocks over time. As I invest more
Thanks everyone for the advice. Any other or additional advice is welcome as well.

Memory is not cooked. The brains of our leaders who keep threatening the global supply of oil and sovereignty of Taiwan, where literally all our countries corporations fab 90% of their chips, are. Korea is critically dependent on foreign oil for power generation. Koreas markets get shocked badly by oil supply disruptions and crashed heavily with the closing of Hormuz (started to recover back to Jan levels last month). TSM isn’t going to do well if we allow China to bully Thailand and we stop selling them arms to keep rhe bully at bay.
All the drops today are around oil and geopolitics, not demand for dram. We need less drama and uncertainty and adults to be in charge so we’re kinda fucked for the foreseeable future.

It might stabilize, but the reality of the memory market says otherwise. 90% of memory production is controlled by three companies: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. Not even TSM or INTC can quickly come in despite their manufacturing capability since DRAM and NAND processes have long been ignored since it was a low-margin product for so many years. Will other companies including Chinese ones eventually come in? Yeah. But until that happens, if you need memory for an AI datacenter, you only have three options and you’re not going to wait.