TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
stock NYSE ADR

I'm sorry you're just now learning this . That's why so many have been investing in stocks like APLD, VRT, TSM, and the like.

Just bought some TSM 355 calls 🤞

It's difficult given they're either tied to commodity prices or rising demand. I trimmed CCO because it seems priced for absolute perfection and the Westinghouse reactors. I suppose TSM and ASML are tied to how long can the customer boom last for chips. Whereas KAP is heavily tied to uranium price.
I do like the fundamentals but KAP for example is up 75% in 5 months and I worry how sustainable it is.
MDA I'll hold a bit longer until it's around 48 but will then have similar concerns.
Being up is obviously a good problem to have but I'm torn. Which annoys me because I'm generally quite decisive on picking stocks just less so on when to trim or cash in.

I sold most of it the last week of 2025. But I moved the money to Silver, EMBJ and LMT (when it dipped) to diversify away from tech after GOOGL, TSM and MU ran up too much last year. As of now it looks more like a lateral move for me.

ASML + TSM + NVDA + AMD + MU + AVGO = **Infinity Stones of Semis**

Memory has always been cyclical. What always ends up happening is the 3 majors expand production satiate demand shock, prices come down followed by a glut in supply
Obviously this time is a supercycle driven by AI data centres, chips etc, who knows how long this will last but at some point they will all come right back down
The ones which won't will be the likes of LRCX, like ASML and TSM in the chips sector, they are more in the supply chain so have more control over pricing and margins
I've chosen LRCX in this sector

I mean yeah could’ve gone either way, just a gamble really. I really like TSM but can’t buy in an ISA in the UK so never bought it.

ASML is one of those companies where they look at numbers a year in advance so 2026 isn't as important as 2027. On top of that, the forward growth is going to be very, very strong with unprecedented RAM shortages and TSM greatly increasing capex. I made this my number 2 position in the portfolio last July. I was so excited that I got the opportunity to buy this *AI monopoly*. I haven't trimmed yet and the after hours confirmed that was a good move.

MU, applied materials, TSM, NVDA, Apple, AMD, goog, Qualcomm l...etc with AI semis

I’m in AMPX and TSM for this very reason.

You're really good at this. I am trading alot of rare earth, green metals, and nuclear stocks lately - not up as high as you but up 31.22% this month, or YTD I guess.
Quantum - do you trade (sorry hold) $qbts, $ionq, $rgti,$qubt?
Semiconductors - list is endless but Nvidia, TSM$, broadcom, arm holdings, and affiliated ASML?
Space - $asts, $rklb, $lunr ? (I hace planet labs from $5) (I own spacex in a private investment through SoFI - at least I think I do ; )
Photonics -$coherent (Even subscription companies have been pushing this one like IBD for a long time) , Marvel technology?$ipgp?
Good stuff my friend. I probably won't chase your stocks but fun to check them out on a list.

He sold $TSM in the 70’s. His best years are behind him

So you own zero big tech stocks either directly or through ETFs? They’ve all been running through the WH and cozying up to this administration. Many contributed directly to and say front row at his inauguration. Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, AMD, TSM, Broadcom, etc. They’re all playing the game.
If you have any morals then you have zero exposure to big tech.

ASML very overvalued with forward PE of 45. Semi's like NVDA, MU, TSM all have forward PE's of 10-25

out of TSM at 340.36

I began with Schwab about 6 years ago by opening a Roth IRA with SWPPX ($4000), SCHB ($700), SCHD ($860), SCHH ($200), and SCHY ($500). Recently, I opened an Individual Brokerage Account with SWPPX ($800), GDX ($200), IGM ($130), QQQM($1000), SCHB ($900), SCHF ($500), SGDM ($250), and SMH ($400).

I am currently looking to add primarily to the individual account and have about $5000. I have been interested in VTI, more QQQM, VIG, VTIP, GLD, TSM, and CEG. I want to balance between setting up a solid, well protected foundation and capitalizing on AI.

Advice on these efts or ones similar would be greatly appreciated.

Well, i dont know about that but what I do know is that the USA chip industry depends alot of TSM so I dont see the USA letting that happen.
For the stop loss, there is a price range you are willing to sell if the alert is triggered, just make sure you have enough spread and dont set the prices too close to each other in case it falls suddenly

Edit: the formatting is fucked below, but I can't get the line breaks to actually work. Sorry.
Buddy, this is a terrible portfolio. Not meant as an insult, but in order to understand your goals and beliefs, we need to know what you were thinking when you made it.
People have already pointed out that you've got a lot of overlap, but I think we really need to reinforce just how much all of your eggs are in the tech bucket.
QQQ is over 50% tech by market cap. VOO is over 34%. VGT is obviously 100% tech. Then the semiconductor ETF is 100% tied to tech as well. That's over 60% into tech when you include VXUS (where one of the largest holdings is TSM).
And that's just a sector concentration - a sector that is basically priced for perfection. Add to it that NVIDIA is a huge individual position represented in QQQ, VOO, VGT, SMH, and TQQQ.
You're betting so heavily on a few companies and a single sector.
SMH, QQQ, and TQQQ are all bad funds too. Investing in one listing company over the other makes no sense (QQQ), themed-ETFs strongly tend to underperform (SMH), and leveraged ETFs are a gamble which are designed to be short-term positions (TQQQ).
If you have an exit strategy in mind for TQQQ, then so be it. If you don't, you should sell it on market open tomorrow.
Leveraged ETFs have a risks and issues that the underlying index doesn't have.
Issues:
• expense ratio - TQQQ as an example is a .8% expense ratio, which is very high.

• interest-related fees - This is somewhat included in the above expense ratio, but it's important to specifically indicate that leveraged funds are influenced by market interest rates, which means that if we have another high inflation period of time, the leveraged fund becomes more expensive. This monitoring of shifting expense ratios isn't normal in the underlying index.
• TQQQ specifically is a 3x leveraged fund. Backtesting shows that for a buy-and-hold strategy, 2x leveraged funds outperform 3x leveraged funds.
Risks:
• in a market with high volatility, the leveraged fund returns less than it would in a low volatility environment.
• In a market ripe for valuation compression, you're picking a leveraged fund that is comprised of companies most at risk for said compression. That leverage cuts both ways.
Personally, I wouldn't buy anymore tech exposure in the current environment other than what comes natural through market exposure (VOO, VTI, VT), but if you're a true believer in tech, VGT is a good fund for that exposure.
There's no reason for anyone to own QQQ but reddit loves it because they love performance chasing. Ask ChatGPT about it.
You have nothing that protects you from compressed valuations. No funds with a value or quality screen. You've also got zero exposure to small caps and minimal exposure to mid-caps (via SMH, VGT, and only ever-so-slightly from QQQ), though it's hardly a diverse subset of midcap companies.

Amzn and Meta are both popular picks for rock solid companies that are relatively on sale.
Personally I'm also in EME a company that builds data centers.
You can also invest in the chips companies or the ram companies or drive companies or networking companies or power companies. NVDA, AVGO, MU, MRVL, SMCI.
You can invest in the companies that print the chips, TSM or INTC
You can buy the company that makes the machines that make the chips, ASML.
Also not available in the US directly but by buying South Korea ETFs you can get pretty heavy exposure to Samsung and Sk Hynix (they make up about 50% of the Korean stock market thus 50% of the ETF).

Long TSM 33.76