TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
stock NYSE ADR

TSM really wants to sink
source: i have puts

MAGs, SPGI, TSM, BN

Good thing I have them.. and NVDA, TSM, and AMD. I like getting fucked in every hole possible

MAIN ACCOUNT: ($33K - Stock Value & Cash Holdings ($4-6K))
1. AMZN - Amazon - 16%
2. AVGO - Broadcom - 12%
3. TSM - Taiwan Semiconductor - 10%
4. META - Meta Platforms - 8% ($590-600 avg very happy)
5. SPGI - S&P Global - 7%
6. CAT - Caterpillar - 7%
7. GE - GE Aerospace - 7%
8. NOC - Northrop Grumman - 7%
9. GOOGL - Google - 6%
10. GS - Goldman Sachs - 6%
11. NVDA - NVIDIA - 5%
12. BN - Brookfield Corps - 5%
13. MSFT - Microsoft - 2% (JUST ADDED - $383 avg - will avg until $2.1-.5K)

Some of my holdings I would not buy at current prices. I started around May 2025, I had a few success stories like ASML ($690), GOOGL ($160), AMD ($130 - sold out at $263), TSMC ($230), MRVL ($60 - sold $105). My main account will ONLY consist of wide moat and high quality business. My 2025 performance was 30-33%.
JUNIOR ACCOUNT: ($6K)
My goal with this account is to have a more volatile smaller portfolio that focus on aggressive growth and short term strength, but also maintain higher quality. For instance, this account would not hold high quality compounder like JPM, that would go to main account.
With this experimental account, let just say we want 5 positions with $1K each. Hopefully you guys can give me some investment ideas that create a "diversified" risky quality portfolio. I am okay with losing a bit of money just to learn. Minimize overlap with the main portfolio. So far, I have two proposals would be CrowdStrike and Robinhood.

CrowdStrike - upgraded moat, somewhat volatile, outstanding growth story with great upside.
Robinhood - interesting moat (Gen Z), quick to change and expand (love the boldness of new credit card offering, love the private fund for private companies exposure). Whether these ventures are successful or not, I like their positioning going from brokerage to banking is a lot easier than reverse opening room for new business ventures.
Some ideas in mind: Lumentum (LITE), Coherent (COH), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Albemarle (ALB), Texas Pacific Land Corporation (TPL), Eaton Corporation (ETN), PNC (PNC Financials), TJX Companies (TJX), Quanta (PWR).

Please share your ideas about my main portfolio and junior portfolio. I would love to hear criticism, but please don't tell me to buy index fund (it great but not for me). Every bit of money in here is from my tech internship and work study.
Thank you!

ATOM Final FAB result due any day for game changing semiconductor manufacturing. NVDA INTC ATML TSM MU SNDK BRCM TXN SOXL. Previous all time high 47.

Nvdas risk is what happens after the cycle. Will they be able to make 1T in revenue from inference chips?
I'm currently a hold. I own a lot of NVDA. I'm buying TSM and MU.

Some thoughts and love to hear your feedback.
$TSM I don't doubt their moat but I generally avoid the semi industry due to its cyclicality. Very hard to project future cash flows. If we're near the peak of the cycle, the multiples don't look cheap.
$NOW I do worry somewhat about AI disruption. W/ AI siginificantly reducing the cost to code, a possible scenario might emerge where existing enterprise SaaS companies go horizontal. Maybe Salesforce or Microsoft will get into ITSM and compete w/ ServiceNow there. These SaaS companies dominate a specific stage/scenario of the workflow, and now w/ AI I think it's easier for them to leverage the stickiness of their services and cross-sell. This might put pressure on a high multiple stock like ServiceNow.
$CSU The VMS model is very, very sticky, but the downside is that organic growth is very slow. If you invest in CSU I think you're betting on two things: 1. the underlying niche industries that uses these legacy VMS will not become obsolete in the face of new technology and 2. CSU's acquisition pools will not run dry and they will continue to be able to deploy a majority of their cash flow and generate high returns.

LOL, What? You do not trust the Iranians? Sometimes, we get to a place where having 5-10 years or so of fairly passable relationships are good enough. Who knows it could be 20 years. I am not sure anyone will step up and identify themselves as the "leader" as that is a high risk role to say the least.
Do get you some TSM and MU. MU tagged their 50DMA today at 402, so they are coming down some, with 392 being their mean for the past year and 365 being the current daily lower Bollinger Band. Just nibbling a few shares here and there makes sense. It coud easily have a 50% upside from these levels today. I do not own TSM but looking at the daily charts, it is below its 50DMA and 365 day mean right now and could easily move higher from here if the market moves. They are not at a loss for customers for the foreseeable future.

AVGO and SPGI have more diversified revenue streams.
I would increase exposure to them and reduce exposure to TSM (geo risk) and LLY (supply chain risk)

I want some MU and TSM. I bought some MSFT leaps on Friday. Something is broken there. I am very suspicious of the president's tweet and comments, and am historically a disbeliever in Iranian spin. Who are we talking to... the revolutionary guard? It reminds me of the Praetorian guard putting Claudius in place to control the emperor. I'm sure the Ayatollah's son is a puppet if he's even alive.

I personally do not understand why you'd have a large holding in TSM, but no holding at all in ASML. If i'd want to hold TSM and believe in them i'd always split my position between the two. TSM entire production capability comes from AMSL and this will not change. If you hold both you hedge against the taiwan risk, with the cost just being a bit of upside in TSM in the periods where ASML's production is a big constraint.

$TSM DCA

TSM - have you considered geopolitical risk? namely China invading Taiwan as they said the would

"Investing.com-- NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) may redesign its next-generation Feynman artificial intelligence chip platform due to limited production capacity at contract chipmaker TSMC (NYSE:TSM), a report from Taiwan’s Economic Daily News showed on Monday."

TSM getting sodomized

TSM is a great one. I own the stock. However, if you’re looking to diversify SMH holds TSM, it’s a bit more diversified and you can sock money and leave it there. 20% of my portfolio is in SMH for your reference.

Bet: Trump individually pockets billions, giving up Taiwan to China at the Summit.
$TSM will still sell to America—maybe even at a discount—but mark my words, Trump has it in for Taiwan.
Even if he demands bribes from Taiwan Semi.
Just follow the money for DJT.

i took profit on my TSM 300 P exp 4/10. made about 80 percent, but i can't shake the feeling that this was a blunder. i have a spy put going for tomorrow, but i should have reloaded TSM puts on the late rally.

I've bought more MU and TSM over the past week. Admittedly, I'm also holding a 3x Short ETF (SQQQ) and bought UCO (oil).
I'm playing both sides so that I will always come out on top.

$TSM