Some weeks you lose the battle. This was one of them.

The context was already uncomfortable going in. A market running hot, volatility biting harder than usual on anything with real amplitude in its daily range, and a growing sense that the setups worth taking were getting harder to find at these levels.

We had pulled back. Deliberately.

And on Friday, while we were away from the screens for work, the Nasdaq dropped over four percent in a single session. Its worst single day since April 2025.

The S&P 500 shed 2.6%, snapping a nine-week winning streak, the longest the index had strung together in years. The trigger was not a geopolitical shock or an earnings disaster. A stronger-than-expected jobs report pushed bond yields sharply higher and rekindled fears that the Federal Reserve will be forced to raise interest rates before the year is out.

Markets priced it fast and with no mercy.

We came back to the portfolio and found what we expected: almost everything gone. The stops we run when we are away from the desk did exactly what they were supposed to do, which is a sentence that sounds straightforward until you actually live through the session that triggers them.

One position had a stop in profit and closed the day significantly lower than where it was taken out. Others were clean losses. None of this felt good. But the math told a different story: relative to the index, we lost less.

Against a Nasdaq down over four percent on the day, that gap in performance matters more than the absolute number.

Here is the thing about momentum and growth portfolios that does not get said enough. The sell-off on Friday was not uniform. Healthcare and Staples held up while tech was being dismantled. Colgate-Palmolive (CL) added four percent. Coca-Cola gained three (KO). Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) was up two.

An aggressive growth portfolio with concentrated tech exposure could have lost fifteen, eighteen, or twenty percent in a single session without anyone exaggerating. That kind of day does not feel theoretical when you are watching it happen in real time.

The weeks before Friday, when we were slowing down and second-guessing ourselves, when our style felt slightly out of sync with a market that kept locking up and grinding higher in ways that made our entries awkward, it turns out that discomfort was doing work. The discipline to reduce exposure when things do not feel right is easy to undervalue in a bull market.

It pays in moments like this one.

There is one thing that prevents this from being a completely dark read.

Not everything went down together on Friday. We have identified at least two or three industries that spent the session consolidating rather than collapsing. A handful of names on the watchlist closed the day positive or flat while tech was being sold aggressively. Whether that resilience reflects genuine capital rotation or simply a delay before the same selling pressure arrives, we do not know yet. The next few sessions will answer that question.

Our single surviving position is holding its ground. We are watching it closely.

Fasten your seatbelts. This is where things get interesting

Here’s a look at this week’s market health, with a breakdown of index and sector performance.

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GTLB: GitLab Inc 📊

What they do: A software platform that manages the entire development lifecycle

Why watch? GitLab operates in a space that sounds mundane until you understand what is actually happening inside it. DevOps platforms are the infrastructure layer through which every line of enterprise software gets written, reviewed, tested, and shipped. When that layer starts absorbing AI and agentic workflows, usage data accelerates in ways that simple seat-count metrics miss entirely.

Q1 revenue grew 23% year over year to $264 million, beating expectations by four percentage points and holding exactly flat with the prior quarter’s growth pace. For a company that had previously signaled macro headwinds, maintaining that rate rather than decelerating was the move no one expected. The CEO’s commentary on the call was more interesting than the headline. Code pushes across the paid SaaS customer base are up 49% year over year. CI pipeline growth, which measures how frequently customers are running automated build and test processes, accelerated from the mid-twenties in late 2025 to 38% in April. One of GitLab’s most advanced agentic customers grew the total volume of code in their repositories by two and a half times in six months, and the growth is still accelerating. These metrics measure actual usage intensity, and they are going up fast.

The company also introduced GitLab Flex, a program allowing customers to purchase both traditional seats and usage credits in combination. Consumption-based models tend to expand revenue naturally as usage grows, without requiring a separate sales conversation every time a customer does more. It removes friction from the monetization path at exactly the moment when usage is accelerating.

Technical Outlook: The price action on Friday was the detail worth noting. With the Nasdaq collapsing over four percent, GitLab closed flat. That kind of relative strength in a session like that one is not accidental. The stock tested the 10-day EMA for the second time this week and held both times, closing the day green after recovering early losses. The consolidation is young, only a couple of sessions deep, so ideally we see more before committing. But this goes on the must-watch list, and Friday’s behavior is exactly the kind of signal we pay attention to when the broader market is doing its worst.

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This week was a rough one. Volatility is running hot across the board, and it runs even hotter when your watchlist is packed with names that move three percent before most people finish their morning coffee.

That’s the game we chose to play.

Everyone was talking about rotation this week. Honestly, the data was pointing in that direction, and for most of the week, we were inclined to agree. Then Friday’s close happened, and now we’d rather wait and see what the market actually hands us next week before committing to a view.

The S&P 500 has been on a historic winning streak, and yet the undercurrents are anything but calm. The VIX closed below the 17 level in late May, which looks deceptively placid given how much is simmering beneath the surface. Tech pulled the market higher again this week, which is precisely what makes us cautious.

If rotation is real, tech shouldn’t still be doing the heavy lifting.

There are some names worth watching in the nuclear energy theme.

The thesis isn't complicated: as data centers strain traditional power grids, nuclear companies (particularly those developing small modular reactors) are positioned to provide the kind of 24/7 baseload power that intermittent renewables simply can't. At least one name sits on our watchlist right now. There are others across the spectrum, some more speculative than others.

The week cost us two positions that had been moved to break-even.

Getting stopped at break-even isn’t a disaster, but two in the same week is not exactly what you’d call an encouraging signal. The market was sending a message, and we were listening.

The trade that genuinely got under our skin was a near-perfect setup that went completely sideways. Entry at the break of a key resistance level, not once but twice, we were in positive territory, green on the day, the setup working exactly as drawn.

Then the whole move collapsed and took us out with a loss, the same session!

The next day, the level held, the stock launched, and it never looked back. Are you listening, AppLovin (APP)?

Sometimes the market decides you don’t deserve the position, even when you read it correctly.

It just reminds you that execution and timing are as important as the idea itself. We had the right stock, the right level. Just not the right day.

That’s trading. The market has a remarkable talent for making you feel stupid precisely when your analysis is sound. We followed the plan, respected the stop, and we’re at peace with that.

What stings is not trying the following morning again.

We are still riding the final portion of our Arm Holdings (ARM) position, now sitting at an extraordinary return of 130%. The stock has been up over 200% year to date, with data center royalty revenue more than doubling year over year and committed demand for its AGI CPU already exceeding $2 billion over the next two fiscal years. Shares pushed to an all-time high earlier this month, and the move is starting to look less like a rally and more like conviction hardening into something structural.

We're letting it run.

Here’s a look at this week’s market health, with a breakdown of index and sector performance.

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MXL: MaxLinear Inc ⚠️

What they do: A semiconductor company designing high-speed connectivity chips

Why watch? Twelve months ago, MaxLinear was a broadband recovery story. A decent one, but nothing more. That framing is now outdated, and the market is only beginning to adjust for it.

The Q1 2026 numbers told the story clearly. Revenue grew 43% year over year to $137 million. Infrastructure revenue, which covers the data center connectivity products, grew 136% year over year and crossed over to become the company’s largest revenue category. That is not a gradual mix shift playing out over several quarters. That is a business changing what it fundamentally is, and the numbers confirming it in real time.

To understand why the data center exposure matters as much as it does, it helps to think about what an AI cluster actually requires beyond the GPUs that receive all the attention. Every rack of AI compute needs high-speed optical links to move data between chips across the fabric, copper interconnects for scale-up traffic within the rack itself, fast storage pathways to keep the compute fed, and efficient control-plane connectivity to manage the whole system. MaxLinear designs chips that sit at each of those bottlenecks: 1.6T optical interconnects, copper retimers for scale-up architecture, storage accelerators, and hyperscale PON designs. The company is not adjacent to the AI infrastructure buildout. It is embedded in it.

Management guided Q2 revenue to a midpoint of $165 million and raised the full-year optical data center revenue outlook to $150 to $170 million on the back of stronger customer orders and better forward visibility. The float is not large, which cuts both ways: when this name moves, it moves fast.

Technical Outlook: Since the post-earnings surge, the price has been consolidating inside a tight range, a Darvas box formation where the stock establishes a defined ceiling and floor and compresses between them. We entered once before and were stopped out too early. The setup is developing into something cleaner now. Two or three more sessions of tight price action with the 10-day EMA holding as a floor below the range is the ideal condition before the breakout. The float size amplifies everything, which is exactly why patience on the entry is not optional.

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This week gave us the first meaningful pullback to the 10 EMA, followed almost immediately by a bounce that pushed the price back toward the highs. It happened fast. Arguably too fast.

If we take a step back, history is fairly clear on this. After a move of this magnitude across the indices, a healthy bull trend typically needs time to digest gains. Four to six weeks of consolidation would be a normal reset. What we’ve seen so far barely qualifies. Three days of hesitation is not the same thing.

At the same time, we’re paying close attention to secondary breadth indicators to understand whether the market is preparing for rotation. There are early signs that capital might start flowing into areas that have been largely ignored during the latest leg higher.

The RRG rotation graph attached paints a constructive picture. Technology appears to be taking a breather, while healthcare and energy are stepping into leadership. More importantly, a broad set of sectors is shifting from lagging to improving. That kind of participation is a positive development. It suggests underlying strength is expanding, not contracting. Still, it’s early. Encouraging, but not definitive.

Our watchlist reflects this shift as well. We’re seeing an increasing number of actionable names coming out of the healthcare space, which aligns with what the rotation data is signaling.

Overall, the week was positive, but not without frustration. We were stopped out of MaxLinear (MXL) during what turned out to be a very aggressive shakeout. The entry was well timed on the pullback, risk was managed by moving the stop to breakeven, but Friday’s session forced us out after a sharp intraday drop of roughly ten percent. What followed was a full recovery into the close, with the price finishing near the highs of the day.

In hindsight, dealing with a name that volatile, we probably should have reduced exposure rather than holding a full position. At one point, it represented around fifteen percent of the portfolio. Situations like this are never pleasant, but they come with the territory.

Protecting capital will always take priority over trying to capture every move.

On a more positive note, the final portion of our Arm Holdings (ARM) position has brought us close to a total return of one hundred percent. That makes it the second trade this year to reach that level after Planet Labs (PL).

Alongside this, we continue to work on improving execution. The development of the app is progressing well, and over the coming months, there will be meaningful updates. In parallel, we are building additional studies aimed at systematizing entries and exits as much as possible, intending to maximize returns within our swing trading framework.

It’s an ambitious process, but one that should add significant value over time

Here’s a look at this week’s market health, with a breakdown of index and sector performance.

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BLZE: Backblaze Inc ⚠️

What they do: A cloud storage and data protection company

Why watch? Backblaze is undergoing a quiet but meaningful transformation. The company built its reputation as a straightforward, affordable backup storage solution, but the business is now being re-rated by the market as something more strategically valuable: a supplier to neocloud companies, which are the newer generation of cloud providers competing with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google by offering more flexible and cost-effective infrastructure.

The AI connection is direct and growing. Large language models require enormous quantities of data to function, and that data is increasingly multimodal, meaning it spans text, images, audio, and video rather than just structured files. Backblaze provides the storage layer for that data, and the demand signal is becoming impossible to ignore. The company also benefits from the growing need to offer storage alongside compute, with high-performance flash storage emerging as the preferred solution for the most demanding workloads.

The most recent quarterly results made the AI demand story concrete rather than theoretical. Revenue grew 12% year over year to $38.7 million, beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $37.8 million by a three-point margin. More importantly, growth accelerated four percentage points compared to the prior quarter’s 8% pace. Revenue acceleration is one of the clearest signals that a business is gaining genuine momentum, and in this case, the acceleration aligns directly with the company’s increasing exposure to AI-driven storage demand. Even after the post-earnings rally, the valuation remains modest relative to the narrative the company is now able to tell.

Technical Outlook: The earnings gap produced the highest weekly trading volume since the company’s IPO, and the highest single-day volume in over a year. Volume at that scale is not noise. It reflects institutional conviction, and it changes the character of the stock. The stock has now matured 3 weeks of consolidation, staying over the 7.00 key level, and surfing the 10ema with low volume. We just need a clear break over the 8.00 level to start the second leg up.

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This week, the market finally started to ease off.

Nothing dramatic, but the signs had been building for at least the past ten days. The shift was already visible beneath the surface. As we pointed out last week, the rally had become increasingly narrow, with tech acting as the only real engine of upside while most other sectors were moving sideways, lacking any meaningful bullish momentum.

That kind of imbalance rarely sustains itself for long.

Our breadth indicators had been warning about this for a while. Since early May, we have started to see the first lower high forming, followed by a sharp deterioration over the past two weeks. In particular, the McClellan Summation Index has been cut in half over that period, a clear sign that participation was fading even as prices continued to push higher.

We are currently working on integrating this metric into our dashboard as an additional layer of analysis. It is an extremely powerful tool, but one that needs to be handled with care. It tends to be very effective at identifying potential tops and bottoms, but it loses reliability in choppy environments. For that reason, we treat it strictly as a secondary indicator, something that supports the broader read rather than drives it.

On the trading side, the week was relatively uneventful.

We initiated a hedge position through SOXS to partially offset the drawdown across our open positions. The idea was simple: create a bit of breathing room, allowing our remaining trades to develop without being forced into premature exits.

Then on Friday, we opened a new position showing exceptional relative strength. It closed firmly in the green, despite a market that finished deeply in the red. That kind of divergence is always worth paying attention to.

Overall, the portfolio stayed broadly in line with the market in terms of performance.

Not much deviation, which, given the conditions, is a result we are comfortable with.

Here’s a look at this week’s market health, with a breakdown of index and sector performance.

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INOD: Innodata Isogen Inc ⚠️

What they do: A data engineering company

Why watch? Innodata sits at a genuinely interesting intersection of old-school data services and the new AI economy. The company has spent decades building expertise in structuring and processing information, and that foundation has become surprisingly valuable as Big Tech races to train increasingly sophisticated AI models. Put simply, AI systems need enormous quantities of high-quality, carefully labeled data to learn from, and Innodata is one of the companies doing that work behind the scenes.

The financial results speak for themselves. The most recent quarter was described by management as “a record quarter for Innodata, and it was record-setting by a wide margin.” Earnings per share came in 430% above analyst expectations, revenue beat by 18%, and the company raised its full-year 2026 growth guidance to above 40%, up from the 35% target issued just ten weeks earlier. Revenue, which hovered in a range for years, has now entered a completely new trajectory. Analysts project growth from $170 million to $454 million by fiscal year 2027, implying annualized revenue growth of roughly 39% over the next three years. For context, the company has already averaged over 35% annual revenue growth across the past years, so this isn’t a projection built on wishful thinking.

What makes Innodata particularly interesting is its positioning in agentic AI development. Agentic AI refers to systems capable of taking autonomous actions and making decisions, rather than simply responding to prompts. Building these systems requires rigorous stress-testing and red-teaming, a process where humans deliberately try to break or manipulate the AI to identify weaknesses. Innodata’s experience in this area creates a meaningful competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate quickly.

The balance sheet is solid, and with a float of approximately 30 million shares, relatively modest buying pressure can translate into outsized price moves.

Technical Outlook: On earnings day, the stock printed what traders call a Power Earnings Gap on volume roughly multiple times the daily average, the highest trading volume in five years. Since then, the stock has pulled back modestly, but the pullback has been notably shallow given the magnitude of the move, suggesting strong underlying demand. In a session where the Nasdaq closed deeply in the red, INOD finished up 5%, a clear signal of exceptional relative strength. Near-term support sits in the $93 to $94 range, with resistance at $97 to $98. The 10-day exponential moving average is catching up to the price. A couple more days of consolidation on declining volume would set up a lower-risk entry point ahead of what could be a meaningful second leg higher.

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Now and then, life steps in and pulls attention away from the screens.

The past couple of weeks have been one of those stretches for us. Inevitably, that showed up in performance. We’ve lagged the indices while they kept grinding higher, steadily closing the gap on the alpha we had built earlier in 2026.

There’s no point in repeating how frustrating and, at the same time, impressive this rally has been. What matters now is staying in the game long enough to take advantage of what comes next. If and when a pullback starts to take shape, our priority is simple: be positioned to navigate it, not chase what has already happened.

Truth is, not much has changed since two weeks ago. The market structure remains largely the same, and so does our approach. Exposure has been scaled back to a minimum, and cash levels have increased accordingly.

The watchlist reflects that environment.

It’s not particularly rich in actionable setups right now, which is consistent with a market that hasn’t offered meaningful retracements. For our style of trading, a pullback is not just helpful, it’s necessary. That said, there are still a few names worth paying attention to, even if the broader opportunity set remains limited.

In the background, work on TradeDeck continues to move forward.

We’re genuinely excited about how it’s evolving. The launch has been pushed back slightly, mainly because we decided to spend more time refining the visual layer and, more importantly, developing two features that we believe can make a real difference.

The first revolves around thematic baskets and how they develop.

The goal is to better understand where a theme stands within its natural cycle of supply and demand, and to quantify its level of maturity within that process.

The second is an algorithmic engine designed to identify emerging trends and themes before they become widely recognized. It’s an ambitious undertaking, and far from simple to execute, but we believe it can add a level of depth that goes well beyond our initial vision for the platform.

There’s still a lot of work ahead, no question about that. But the direction feels right, and confidence in what we’re building continues to grow.

Here’s a look at this week’s market health, with a breakdown of index and sector performance.

We’re currently building the beta version of our app, and it’s already live.

It is not a generic solution for every market participant, but a platform built specifically for swing trading, momentum strategies, and short to medium-term investing.

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KLAR: Klarna Group plc 📊

What they do: A licensed digital banking and payments platform

Why watch? Klarna has quietly evolved well beyond the BNPL label that most investors still associate with it. The company is now deeply embedded in the broader payments ecosystem, integrated with Stripe and embedded within Apple Pay, meaning that any consumer with a standard bank card can access Klarna’s checkout experience at any Klarna-enabled merchant. That distribution reach creates a formidable competitive moat that newer entrants simply cannot replicate overnight.

The financial results back up the narrative. Fiscal year 2025 delivered $120+ billion in gross merchandise volume, a 22% increase year over year, alongside revenue of $3+ billion, up 25%. Both figures represent records for the company. What makes these numbers particularly interesting is the efficiency story running underneath them. Klarna reduced its headcount from roughly 6,000 employees in 2022 to approximately 3,000 by the time it went public, largely by replacing customer service and marketing functions with AI. It is a fundamental reshaping of the business model, and the margin implications are still working their way through the income statement.

The market, however, appears to be fixating on near-term accounting headwinds related to credit provisioning rather than the longer-term earnings power the business is building. Credit provisioning is essentially the amount a lender sets aside to cover potential loan losses. Klarna’s provisioning has drawn scrutiny, but analysts who have looked closely argue it is being misread. Combine that with strong loan growth and the AI-driven efficiency gains, and the valuation case becomes more interesting than the current price suggests.

The most compelling signal came in March 2026, when Board Chairman Michael Moritz, a partner who has backed some of the most successful technology companies, purchased shares on the open market for a total cost basis exceeding $50 million. Insiders buy for many reasons, but rarely do they deploy that kind of personal capital without genuine conviction. Earnings are due this week.

Technical Outlook: The chart is about as compressed as it gets. The stock has been trading in a range of roughly $0.50 over the past week on declining volume, which is the kind of coiling action that often precedes a sharp directional move. There is a sense that the stock has been overlooked and underappreciated by the broader market, and the upcoming earnings report could be the catalyst that finally forces a rerating. The setup is tight, the risk is defined, and the potential for a meaningful move in either direction is real. Given the insider buying and the fundamental backdrop, the asymmetry appears to favor the upside.

Why We Don’t Wait for Sunday

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For those expecting a pullback, it was another relentlessly bullish week.

Instead of the pause many were waiting for, the market continued to push higher with very little friction. What we’re seeing increasingly resembles a classic lockout rally, the kind that leaves participants underexposed and struggling to find rational entry points.

These phases are rare, but not unprecedented.

Historically, similar environments have occurred during periods of extreme momentum, particularly in tech-heavy indices like the Nasdaq. There have been instances where the Nasdaq advanced close to 20% in the span of a single month, with only minimal retracements along the way. During those stretches, dips were shallow, short-lived, and often bought immediately, effectively locking out anyone waiting for cleaner setups.

That’s what makes this type of market so challenging.

When price moves in a near-linear fashion, without building structure or offering consolidation, it disrupts the natural rhythm most systematic approaches rely on. There’s no real opportunity to size properly without accepting elevated risk.

From a portfolio management standpoint, it becomes a difficult trade-off.

The trading week has been fairly intense by our standards.

Three positions were closed, two new ones were initiated, and we significantly reduced what ended up being the main contributor to this week’s performance: Arm Holdings plc (ARM).

We are currently holding roughly 25% of the original position. We scaled out in three tranches, each representing 25% of the initial size, capturing gains of 11%, 17%, and 47% over just 11 trading days.

An exceptional outcome.

Probably one of the cleanest executions we’ve had in recent months. The position sizing was right from the start, the risk was well defined, and the broader market provided the tailwind. The theme was aligned with current narratives around CPU constraints, and the sector, semiconductors, was clearly in a position of strength.

When all those elements come together, the result can be powerful.

That said, we’re now leaning more defensive.

Not because we have a strong directional view, but because the market is showing signs of needing a pause. Extensions across the semiconductor space, in particular, are becoming difficult to justify from a sustainability standpoint.

Our system is currently flagging what we define as a maximum overextension signal across the sector. Historically, when this condition appears, a pullback tends to follow within three to five trading sessions.

It’s not guaranteed, but it’s consistent enough to demand respect.

Which brings us back to the same principle.

We don’t predict. We position.

And right now, patience remains the most rational trade.

Here’s a look at this week’s market health, with a breakdown of index and sector performance.

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CRCL: Circle Internet Group Inc ⚠️

What they do: A financial technology company that issues and manages USDC

Why watch? Circle’s business model is refreshingly straightforward in an industry often characterized by complexity. The company takes real U.S. dollars, converts them into digital tokens called stablecoins (USDC being their flagship product), and parks the underlying cash in Treasury Bills. The interest earned on those T-bills is Circle’s primary revenue stream. Think of it as a money market fund with a digital wrapper: simple, transparent, and highly dependent on interest rates.

The distribution side of the equation matters too. Circle relies on crypto exchanges and other platforms to put USDC in front of users, and those distributors receive a share of the interest income as compensation. Profitability, therefore, comes down to whether the interest earned exceeds both distribution costs and operating overhead.

The elephant in the room is Tether, the global leader in dollar-pegged stablecoins. The key distinction between the two competitors is philosophical: Circle has built its entire brand around regulatory compliance and transparency, while Tether only recently announced plans to have its reserves independently audited. For years, questions have lingered about whether Tether actually holds the Treasury Bills it claims to back its tokens. Circle’s USDC carries a meaningfully lower risk of losing its dollar peg precisely because of this commitment to verifiable reserves, a distinction that matters enormously to institutional investors and regulators.

Two structural growth catalysts deserve attention. The first is asset tokenization: the process of representing real-world assets like real estate, bonds, or equities as digital tokens on a blockchain. Industry estimates put the eventual size of this market in the trillions of dollars, and stablecoins would serve as the settlement currency for these transactions, dramatically expanding demand for USDC. The second catalyst is the rise of agentic AI. Autonomous AI systems that execute financial transactions on behalf of users would naturally gravitate toward smart contracts, which settle instantly and programmatically. Stablecoins are the native currency of that ecosystem, and Circle sits at the center of it.

Technical Outlook: The stock has given back most of its gains from the earnings-driven surge earlier this year, but has found consistent support at the $85.00 level on multiple occasions, a clear line in the sand that also coincides with the 50-day simple moving average. For a stock with an 8% average daily range, the most recent session’s move of just 0.38% is remarkable compression. That kind of stillness in a volatile name typically precedes a meaningful directional move. The risk-reward in this handle formation is attractive, and the setup becomes actionable on a convincing break above the $100 to $102 range on elevated volume. If the broader market stabilizes and the stablecoin narrative continues to develop favorably, this could be one of the more important themes of the next several months.

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It’s also something we had to spend time researching ourselves, as it’s not an area where we have deep expertise. Like other topics we’ve covered in recent months, such as the space economy (Research #26) or the growing strain on electrical infrastructure from the rise of data centers (Research #27), it starts as a broad idea but can uncover new investable themes.

These themes can help identify publicly traded players positioned to benefit from the trend. In fact, in the second part of the analysis, which we’re aiming to release as early as next week, we’ll highlight at least one listed company that could be a strong opportunity if you believe this theme will play a meaningful role in the future of AI.

First part below, Equity X-Ray: In-Depth Research #30a.

THE MEGATREND, THE CONNECTIONS, AND THE MONEY GAME

Now that you understand what glass substrates are, let’s talk about why this matters as an investment theme, and why the second and third-order effects of this transition are far larger than most people realize.

The Fog of Direction

Before we get excited, let’s be honest about something. Unlike the transition from copper to optical interconnects, where the direction was clear and the only question was timing, the substrate battlefield is genuinely uncertain.

Multiple futures are competing simultaneously.

This is not a story about a guaranteed winner. It’s a story about a massive structural shift where the spoils will go to whoever can navigate the fog.

Three camps are fighting for the future of chip packaging.

The glass camp believes glass substrates will replace organic substrates as the foundation of AI chips. Intel has invested over a billion dollars and holds nearly half of all patents in this space. Samsung has assembled the most ambitious vertical integration of any player, with its SEMCO subsidiary handling glass-core substrates, Samsung Display contributing large-area glass-processing expertise, and Samsung Foundry covering packaging integration. Absolics, a subsidiary of SKC, built a $600 million factory in Georgia and secured $175 million in US government support through the CHIPS Act.

The organic camp argues that the old physics isn’t dead yet. Ajinomoto’s ABF film commands over 95% of the global market for organic substrate insulation material. Current mainstream products sit at a line/space of around 10 micrometers, but leading-edge processes are already hitting 5 to 7 micrometers. The industry has officially entered the sub-5-micrometer race, with 3/3-micrometer demonstrations already on the table. There’s still meaningful headroom before any physical wall.

And then there’s TSMC, which sits above both camps and plays all sides simultaneously!

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There are phases in the market where doing the right thing doesn’t just feel uncomfortable; it actively makes you look like you’re getting it wrong, and this is exactly one of those moments.

When a portfolio manager is focused on protecting profits, staying on the defensive side, and doing everything possible to minimize drawdowns, the perception of that approach becomes entirely dependent on what the market decides to do next. When things break down and indices roll over, that discipline looks sharp, almost visionary, but when the market turns around and starts pushing higher aggressively, especially without structure, the same approach suddenly looks slow, hesitant, even incompetent.

Over the past two weeks, we’ve clearly been on that side of the trade.

We moved from a market environment that looked extremely fragile, with a very real risk of a deeper correction driven by negative headlines and ongoing geopolitical tensions, into a rally that very few could have anticipated in both speed and magnitude, with the Nasdaq gaining roughly 16% in the span of just two weeks, which is the kind of move that doesn’t just catch you off guard, it forces you to constantly question whether you’re reading the market correctly at all.

And when you’re positioned defensively during a move like this, the outcome is almost inevitable.

Over the last 30 days, we’ve underperformed the indices by more than 6%, and while there’s no point in trying to sugarcoat it, because we feel that gap and we’re fully aware of it, there’s also a level of acceptance that comes with understanding that our framework simply wouldn’t allow us to behave differently in a context like this.

How do you build meaningful positions when the market is moving this fast, with this level of volatility, without any real pause, without consolidation, without those moments where price tightens, and risk can actually be defined? From our perspective, you don’t, or at the very least, you don’t do it with any meaningful size, because stepping in aggressively in these conditions isn’t a calculated decision; it’s a bet.

And that’s not what we do.

Capital protection remains the priority, even when it comes at the cost of underperformance, because while lagging the indices is frustrating and, at times, uncomfortable, exposing the portfolio to uncontrolled downside is something we’re simply not willing to accept.

At the same time, when we zoom out slightly, this type of move doesn’t feel particularly sustainable, especially considering how quickly it developed and how little structure has been built along the way, which makes it reasonable to expect some form of reset, whether that comes in the form of a gap down or a broader pullback over the next couple of weeks.

Paradoxically, that would be exactly what we need.

A period of consolidation would allow leaders to cool off, build proper bases, and create those cleaner, more defined setups where risk is contained and positioning can be scaled with more conviction, which is where our approach tends to perform at its best.

Despite the overall environment, we did open two new positions this week, and so far they are behaving well, which at the very least confirms that our selection process is still aligned with what the market is rewarding, even if our overall exposure remains limited for now.

As always, every phase of the market, regardless of how frustrating or uncomfortable it might feel in real time, carries something valuable in terms of feedback, and the process remains the same: observe, adapt, refine, and make sure that when conditions finally align, we are ready to act with clarity and size.

Here’s a look at this week’s market health, with a breakdown of index and sector performance.

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📈 Free Setup: Make It Count

CRDO: Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd ⚠️

What they do: A semiconductor company specializing in high-speed connectivity solutions

Why watch? Credo has been one of the standout performers in the semiconductor space over the past several weeks, and the reasons go well beyond simple momentum. The company sits at the intersection of two powerful forces: relentless AI infrastructure spending and the increasingly complex networking demands of next-generation data centers.

A common misconception about Credo is that it operates in a narrow niche. In reality, the company has been quietly building a comprehensive optical networking portfolio. It never fully exited the optical market, continuing to sell digital signal processors (DSPs, the chips that manage how data is encoded and transmitted over optical fiber) to other component manufacturers. Its recently launched Bluebird and Cardinal DSPs are designed for upcoming 1.6 terabit-per-second optical transceivers, which represent the next frontier in data center bandwidth.

But Credo didn’t stop at selling components to other companies. It made the strategic decision to design and sell its own complete transceivers, launching its first product in March using its proprietary Robin DSP at 800G transmission speeds. A 1.6T version is widely expected to follow. For context, higher transmission speeds mean more data can move through a single connection, which is critical as AI workloads generate enormous volumes of data that must travel between servers at extraordinary speeds.

The acquisition of DustPhotonics for approximately $750 million in cash, $550 million in stock, and contingent milestones adds another dimension to this story. DustPhotonics specializes in silicon photonics: a technology that integrates optical components directly onto silicon chips, enabling faster and more energy-efficient data transmission. This acquisition positions Credo for the transition to co-packaged optics (CPO), a next-generation architecture where optical components are integrated directly alongside processors rather than connected through cables. Getting ahead of this shift could prove enormously valuable as data centers evolve.

Technical Outlook: The stock has delivered a near-100% gain in roughly two weeks, an extraordinary move that now requires patience. The consolidation is still in its early stages, just two days in, and the stock needs more time to digest those gains before the next leg can develop sustainably. The 10-day exponential moving average has been the stock’s preferred support level throughout this run, and a pullback to that level ( or to the 20-day EMA) would create a far more attractive entry point than chasing the current price. The $165.00 level represents the key threshold for the next advance. This is a stock worth monitoring closely, but the best opportunity will likely come on a controlled pullback rather than at current levels.

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Another week, another reminder that volatility cuts both ways, and lately, we’ve been on the less pleasant side of it.

We’re still feeling the pressure.

When risk management is your top priority, it naturally limits how aggressive you can be.

That means passing on those violent gap-ups that feel impossible to chase, and it often means trimming or avoiding positions when the broader market still looks fragile, like it did through the end of March, when a deeper correction seemed not just possible, but likely.

The reality is, this approach can make you look… not great in the short term.

There’s a reason seasoned traders often say that good risk management can feel like stupidity in real time. You cut exposure, stay cautious, and then watch stocks rip without you.

It’s frustrating, and yes—right now, we do feel a bit like idiots.

But zoom out, and the logic still holds. The same discipline that keeps you out of extended moves is also what protects you when things truly break down.

It’s not designed to maximize every opportunity, but it’s designed to keep you in the game.

Right now, the market feels like it’s trying to find its footing again. What we’d really like to see is some proper consolidation: leaders cooling off, setting up clean structures, building those textbook flags that give you a defined, lower-risk entry.

Because that’s our moment.

When things tighten up, and the noise fades, that’s when we need to be fully locked in: ready to step in with more size, more conviction, and a clear plan.

Until then, patience isn’t just a virtue; it’s our strategy.

A quick update on TradeDeck

We’ve recently uploaded all trades from 2025 and 2026 into the platform. This gives us a much broader dataset to work with and will allow us to better personalize and improve the experience going forward.

One important note: the difference compared to last week’s performance is simply due to two trades opened in 2025 and closed at the beginning of 2026, which impacted the reported data.

If we exclude those two trades, our actual performance for 2026 is currently around 3%.

We apologize for any confusion this may have caused, but we’re actively working on the app and making significant improvements behind the scenes.

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📈 Free Setup: Make It Count

FUTU: Futu Holdings Limited ADR 🛡️

What they do: A digital financial services company

Why watch? Futu is one of those businesses that looks almost too good on paper, which is precisely why it has attracted skepticism alongside admiration. The company’s gross profit margin came in at 88.7% in the most recent quarter, a figure that reflects both the inherent scalability of a digital brokerage model and the pricing power that comes with a platform that clients find genuinely useful.

The most recent earnings cycle told a compelling story. Management exceeded its own guidance by 19% in 2025, funded accounts grew 40% year over year, and the company has set a target of adding 800,000 new funded accounts in 2026. These are not the metrics of a business struggling to find its footing. The balance sheet is equally impressive, with $130.5 billion in client assets and no long-term debt, giving the company significant financial flexibility.

Analyst sentiment has been shifting positively. Citigroup upgraded the stock to Buy, and Barclays initiated with an Overweight rating, while Allspring Global Investments increased its institutional stake. When multiple independent research teams and institutional allocators are moving in the same direction simultaneously, it tends to be worth paying attention.

The broader context matters here as well. Trying to add exposure to China-linked assets has been a contrarian but increasingly interesting trade to think about, and FUTU, with its international footprint and digital-first model, is among the higher-quality ways to express that view.

Technical Outlook: After losing roughly 30% of its value and trading sideways since August 2025, the stock found consistent support at the $153.00 level last week. The level was tested multiple times in the last weeks, both as resistance and now as support. A couple of additional sessions of sideways consolidation would be ideal before committing to a position, allowing the pattern to tighten further and improving the risk-reward on entry.

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Unfortunately, the current market volatility just doesn’t suit our swing trading style, which is all about finding low-risk opportunities: that’s how we trade and manage the portfolio.

It’s wild to think that on March 17th, we were at our peak, up around +11% for 2026, and then a string of consecutive losses brought us down to about +2.5% today, even while the indices are negative YTD. All things considered, given what’s happening out there, we’re still fortunate to be in the green.

The funny part? Our most recent losses all came from stocks that ended up ripping over the past two days: DOCN, AAOI, LUNR.

But that’s fine.

The selection has been solid, our market view and themes are on point, we just need to be more defensive during downtrends. Paradoxically, during this 2–3 day push higher, we barely moved the portfolio, aside from a small starter position earlier in the week. Nothing else.

From now on, we’ll start adding a short intro to the watchlist, focusing more on how our trading week actually went (our thoughts, what’s happening behind the scenes), dialing back the “writer” tone a bit.

Hopefully, this gives you more insight into how we think and operate.

Happy Easter, everyone!

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📈 Free Setup: Make It Count

PLUG: Plug Power Inc ⚠️

What they do: A provider of comprehensive hydrogen solutions

Why watch? For much of its history, Plug Power has been the ultimate “story stock”, full of immense secular potential but hindered by chronic operational losses and a high rate of cash consumption. However, the narrative is shifting from theoretical promise to tangible industrial adoption. The prevailing anxieties surrounding the colossal energy requirements of the artificial intelligence buildout have forced a re-examination of every available power source. As the limitations of the current grid become apparent, hydrogen is re-emerging as a viable tool for decentralized, carbon-neutral energy, particularly for the power-hungry data centers that underpin the AI expansion.

March’s earnings report provided the fundamental fuel for this shift in sentiment. The company posted a full-year revenue increase of nearly 13% year-over-year, reaching approximately $710 million. This growth was underpinned by a record $187 million contribution from its GenEco electrolyzers, which now boast a global sales funnel valued at a staggering $8 billion. With over 300 megawatts of these systems already deployed across six continents, Plug is proving it can move beyond pilot programs into large-scale commercial reality.

Technical Outlook: The stock has rallied roughly 40% from its recent lows, but the most compelling evidence for a turnaround is the price action around the $2.45 level. Since late 2025, this specific price point has acted as a ceiling that the stock is now aggressively testing. What makes this setup particularly high-conviction is the alignment across multiple timeframes: the $2.45 barrier is a prominent horizontal resistance level on the daily, weekly, and monthly charts simultaneously. When a stock breaks out from such a universally recognized technical level, the resulting move can be powerful. With a stop-loss positioned just beneath the recent daily lows, the setup offers a disciplined risk-reward profile for a stock that appears to be transitioning from a speculative laggard to a leader in the renewable energy thematic.

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Markets don’t move on your schedule. The best low-risk entries don’t announce themselves politely and wait for the weekend newsletter.

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There is a particular kind of silence that only exists in the hour before something breaks.

Not peace. Not calm. Something tighter than that. The silence of a man who has made his decision and is now simply waiting for the world to catch up to it.

I have been in trading rooms when the tape starts going sideways. I have watched grown men, smart men, men with Ivy League degrees and Bloomberg terminals and twenty years of experience, completely come apart at the seams because the number on the screen was moving in the wrong direction. The instinct is primal, and it is almost impossible to fight.

Do something. Anything. Move. Reposition. Hedge. Call someone.

The anxiety of stillness in a volatile market feels physically indistinguishable from cowardice, and most people cannot tell the difference.

Sun Tzu could.

He wrote it down twenty-five centuries ago, in a chapter that most people skim because it doesn’t have the quotable aggression of the rest of the book.

“Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.”

Five words. No footnotes. No framework. No three-step process. He trusted that anyone who had ever stood on a real battlefield, with real consequences, would understand exactly what he meant without needing it explained.

The general he was describing wasn’t sitting still because he was afraid. He was sitting still because he understood something that the anxious men around him did not: that the battlefield punishes revelation. Every move you make before you are ready is information you hand to the enemy for free. Every repositioning born from panic rather than clarity is a resource burned, a position exposed, a card shown. The general who moves first out of anxiety doesn’t gain an advantage.

He just loses slower.

And then, in the same chapter, almost like he’s daring you to miss the point, Sun Tzu writes the other half of it: “When you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

The two sentences are inseparable. The stillness is not the strategy. The stillness is what makes the strategy possible.

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Right now, the market is doing what markets do when the world gets genuinely complicated. It is punishing everyone. The careful and the reckless, the hedged and the naked long, the guy who did his homework, and the guy who bought because his brother-in-law told him to. QQQ is down roughly five percent year to date. SPY is not far behind. There is a war unfolding in Iran, fear is moving through the tape like smoke through a building with no exits, and the financial media is doing what it always does in moments like this, which is to take the worst possible interpretation of every data point and present it as the only reasonable conclusion.

The noise is loud. It is designed, whether by intention or by the simple mechanics of how attention gets monetized, to make you feel like the worst possible outcome is the only possible outcome.

Our portfolio is up around six percent over the same period.

I am not telling you that to brag. Bragging is for people who need the validation. I am telling you that because it is the only honest way to explain what we actually do here, and what we are actually doing right now, which is nothing.

Deliberately, consciously, strategically nothing.

We are risk managers first. Portfolio managers second. In an environment like this one, the job is not to find the next great trade. The job is to keep the body count low. To play defense so well, so quietly, so without drama, that when the smoke eventually clears, we are still standing with enough capital to act. Most people get this backwards. They think the money is made in the buying. The money is protected in the waiting. Sure, we tried a couple of positions here and there, but nothing big.

There is a version of this story that gets told a lot in the financial world, usually by people who have never actually lived it. The version where discipline is clean and elegant and looks good in a presentation deck. Where you calmly identify the risk, rationally adjust your exposure, and move on with your day.

That is not what it feels like.

What it actually feels like is watching a position you believe in get hit for no reason other than macro fear, and sitting on your hands anyway. It feels like reading the headlines and feeling the pull, that old familiar pull, to do something, to prove you’re paying attention, to justify your existence as someone who manages money by making a move. It feels like the guy next to you at the terminal is repositioning and you’re not, and for a moment, just a moment, you wonder if you’re the idiot.

You’re not. But you have to be willing to sit with that feeling long enough to find out.

The market right now is a test of exactly that. Not intelligence. Not analysis. Not even conviction, really. It is a test of whether you can hold the shape of your thinking when everything around you is trying to deform it. Whether you can stay dark and impenetrable while the noise does its work. Whether you trust the preparation enough to wait for the moment rather than manufacturing one out of anxiety.

Most people fail this test. Not because they’re stupid. Because they’re human, and the human nervous system was not built for this particular kind of patience.

It was built for action. For response.

For the relief of doing something when something feels wrong.

Sun Tzu was writing for the rare ones who could override that. The generals who understood that the battlefield is not won by the man who moves first.

It is won by the man who moves right!

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IREN: IREN Limited ⚠️

What they do: A hybrid digital infrastructure company

Why watch? IREN’s second-quarter FY2026 earnings report, released in February, initially rattled investors. Revenue came in at approximately $184.7 million, missing Wall Street estimates by nearly 18%, and diluted earnings per share landed at -$0.52, also below expectations. On the surface, the numbers looked ugly. Yet within days, the stock had not only recovered but climbed back above pre-earnings levels: a telling sign that the market is looking past near-term results and pricing in a longer-term story.

The underlying business metrics were more encouraging than the headline numbers suggested. Adjusted EBITDA reached $75.3 million, up 20% year over year, reflecting genuine operational progress even as the company invests heavily in expanding its infrastructure footprint. The narrative around IREN has shifted meaningfully over the past year. What was once viewed primarily as a Bitcoin miner is increasingly being recognized as a data center infrastructure play with contractual AI revenue on the horizon. This reframing commands a very different valuation multiple.

A structural catalyst arrived on February 27, 2026, when IREN was added to the MSCI USA Index. For investors unfamiliar with the mechanics, this matters more than it might initially appear. A large universe of institutional and passive index funds is contractually required to mirror the composition of the MSCI USA Index. When a stock is added, those funds must purchase shares regardless of their own views on valuation or fundamentals: it’s a mandatory, price-insensitive buying event. This kind of forced institutional demand can provide meaningful support to a stock’s price and introduce a new, stable shareholder base.

Perhaps the most compelling data point from last week came on Friday, when IREN closed in positive territory while the major indices finished deeply in the red. In a market environment where investors are aggressively selling risk assets, a stock that holds its ground—let alone gains—is demonstrating genuine relative strength. The data center and AI infrastructure theme appears to be providing a durable floor under the stock.

Technical Outlook: The stock has already tested and bounced off the 200-day simple moving average once, a level that has historically attracted buyers in quality names. IREN is now trading near its anchored VWAP from the April 2025 lows, a reference point many institutional traders use to assess whether they are buying at a favorable average cost relative to long-term holders. If the broader market finds its footing next week, this confluence of technical support could serve as a strong launching pad. An undercut of recent lows followed by a sharp reversal would be the ideal entry scenario, shaking out weak hands before the next leg higher.

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At 3:47 a.m., the oil ticker looks like a heart monitor.

Green. Red. Green. Flatline. Then a violent spike, as if someone hit the chest with a defibrillator.

You sit there in the glow of the screen, stale coffee, shirt wrinkled from a day that never really ended, watching crude jump on a headline about the Strait of Hormuz. A narrow piece of water that most people couldn’t find on a map is suddenly dictating the mood of every portfolio manager from London to Singapore.

That’s the joke. The market isn’t trading what is happening. It’s trading what might happen.

And “might” is a dangerous word.

Missiles haven’t hit tankers. Not in the way the fear merchants suggest. Supply hasn’t collapsed. But expectations have been stretched on the rack. Every talking head runs a scenario tree: What if Iran escalates? What if shipping halts? What if oil rises to $120? What if this is 1973 with better haircuts?

The tape doesn’t need a disaster. It needs the possibility of disaster.

Here’s the dirty little secret you only learn after you’ve been punched in the mouth a few times: markets don’t require good news to rally. They just need news that’s less awful than what traders have already imagined in their darkest hour.

When everyone’s bracing for a category five hurricane, a tropical storm feels like a gift from God.

That’s why the rallies have been so sharp. A whisper of de-escalation and shorts scramble. Risk managers exhale. The bid gets hammered higher not because the world is fixed, but because the apocalypse was postponed.

But step back from the flashing headlines. Turn down the volume. Look under the hood.

We run a Market Quality gauge internally. Not sexy. No fireworks. Just a cold assessment of breadth, participation, and structural health. It’s sitting at 9 out of 100.

Nine!

Seven straight sessions of rotten internals. The kind of numbers that don’t scream on television but whisper something much more dangerous: the foundation is cracking.

Yes, there are survivors. There are always survivors. A handful of stocks are walking around like they’re immune to the plague. Every ugly tape produces a few heroes. Traders cling to them like life rafts and convince themselves the storm has passed.

It hasn’t.

Second-level thinking says weakness is spreading. Third-level thinking asks the question that actually pays: who’s leading?

Energy. Consumer Staples. Utilities.

Oil, toothpaste, electricity.

That’s not the profile of a market putting on its dancing shoes. That’s a market boarding up windows.

Energy strength makes sense. If the Strait tightens, crude bleeds upward. The commodity boys get their moment in the sun. Staples and utilities? That’s Grandma’s portfolio. Defensive cash flow. Boring dividends. The financial equivalent of canned food in the basement.

When that trio leads, the market is not embracing risk. It’s hiding from it.

And this is where most people screw up.

Volatility hits, and they get busy. They trade more. They refresh X every thirty seconds. They convince themselves that chaos equals opportunity. That if they just move faster, think sharper, click harder, they’ll extract gold from the rubble.

I’ve done it. I’ve overtraded ugly tapes and paid tuition for the privilege.

Activity feels productive. It feels like control.

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In reality, when market quality deteriorates, activity becomes a tax. Every impulsive trade is a small leak in the hull. You don’t notice it at first. Then one morning, you wake up, and the boat is sitting lower in the water.

This is one of those periods Livermore talked about when he said to go fishing. The old operator’s way of saying: step back before you donate capital to the machine.

Right now, the odds are not skewed. They are murky. Sentiment-driven. Positioning-heavy. A market where a single comment from a diplomat can rip faces off in either direction.

You don’t win medals for trading every day. You win by surviving long enough to trade when it actually matters.

Reduce exposure. Get selective. Let the tape prove itself. Demand that leadership broadens beyond oil rigs and toothpaste before you start talking about risk-on fantasies.

Proof is the only thing that matters.

Opportunities will come back. They always do. Markets are cyclical beasts. Fear exhausts itself. Sellers run out of ammunition. New leaders emerge like green shoots through cracked pavement.

But they don’t emerge because you willed them into existence.

They emerge because the internals heal. Because breadth expands. Because risk stops hiding in defensive corners and starts taking ground again.

Until then, patience is not cowardice. It’s a position.

And sometimes, in this business, the hardest trade is doing nothing at all.

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LRN: Stride Inc 📊

What they do: A provider of online and blended learning programs

Why watch? Stride’s fiscal second-quarter earnings report marked a genuine inflection point for a company that had been navigating a difficult operational period. The stock surged more than 30% following the print: the kind of move that often signals the beginning of a sustained recovery. The business is now on firmer footing, and the fundamental picture has become considerably clearer.

To appreciate where Stride is today, it helps to understand what went wrong. The company made an overly ambitious attempt to integrate multiple third-party technology partners into its platform: a decision that caused significant operational disruptions and slowed enrollment growth, particularly in the K-12 segment. Material inconveniences are big enough to undermine investor confidence and suppress the stock for an extended period. Management has since resolved these integration issues and adopted a more disciplined, selective approach to technology partnerships. It’s a lesson learned under pressure, but the organizational learning that comes from navigating operational adversity often produces more resilient companies.

With the technical headwinds now behind it, Stride’s fundamental story comes into sharper focus. Enrollment trends in adult and career learning programs are robust, and this is where the most compelling growth opportunity lies. As the labor market continues to evolve rapidly (driven by automation, AI adoption, and shifting industry demands), more adults are actively seeking to reskill or upskill. Stride’s career and technical education programs are well-positioned to capture this demand. The valuation looks reasonable relative to earnings power, particularly given the growth trajectory of the higher-margin career learning segment.

Technical Outlook: Since the earnings-driven gap has opened higher, the stock has been consolidating in a tight range: exactly the kind of healthy digestion you want to see after a sharp move. The $82.50 level has emerged as the critical support zone, having been tested multiple times during this consolidation phase. Its significance stems from the fact that it represents the intraday low of the gap-up day itself, a level that institutional buyers who participated in the post-earnings move are likely defending. Both the 10-day and 20-day exponential moving averages are converging at this same price point, creating a meaningful confluence of technical support. The risk-reward here is well-defined: a sustained break below $82.50 would invalidate the bullish setup short term, while a successful defense of this level sets up the next leg higher with a clearly defined stop-loss.

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The thing about panic is that it doesn’t announce itself. No sirens, no flashing lights. Just a slow tightening in the chest, a shift in the air you can’t quite name. The market doesn’t scream, it whispers. And if you’ve been around long enough, you learn to listen for those whispers in the static.

Last week, the whisper got louder.

Oil didn’t just tick up. It moved, nearly twenty dollars in a handful of trading days, punching through $94 a barrel like it had somewhere urgent to be. Traders started using that number again, the one they always use when they want to sound prescient but are really just scared: one hundred. A hundred-dollar crude. It’s close enough now that you can smell it.

Meanwhile, the Gulf is burning. Not metaphorically. Actually burning.

Iran launched missiles and drones across the region. Kuwait lit up, Dubai’s alert systems wailed into the night, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia found themselves in the crosshairs. Israel and the United States kept dropping bombs inside Iran, a campaign that’s already put more than fourteen hundred people on the ground. The body count climbs. The oil price climbs with it.

Here’s what matters, and it’s not the geopolitics seminar version: the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow little chokepoint where a fifth of the world’s oil squeezes through every single day, is now inside the blast radius. Every tanker that passes through is a bet. Every insurance underwriter is repricing risk in real time. Every central banker is running scenarios they hoped they’d never have to run again.

And Washington? Washington shrugged. Trump was asked about gas prices, and he said what every president eventually says when the chips are down: if they rise, they rise.

War first. Economy second. The honesty was almost refreshing.

When the Numbers Stop Adding Up

The economic data started cracking at the same time. Unemployment is back up to 4.4 percent. Nonfarm payrolls were down 92,000 last month, and that’s after they went back and revised the earlier numbers lower. Samuel Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics put it plainly: “The idea that the labor market has turned a corner implodes with this report.”

So now you’ve got energy inflation spiking just as the labor market softens. If you’ve been in this business more than a decade, you know this script. You’ve seen it before. 1973. 1990. Every time geopolitics slams into a fragile cycle, risk assets get punished. The market doesn’t forget these patterns; it just pretends to until it can’t anymore.

What makes this moment different, or at least more slippery, is the politics underneath. Saudi Arabia, which reportedly pushed Washington to hit Iran earlier, is now quietly looking for an exit ramp, trying to open back channels with Tehran. In the UAE, frustration is spilling into public view.

Markets can handle wars; they understand. Clear fronts. Predictable timelines. A beginning, a middle, an end. What they can’t handle is fog. Expanding theaters. Uncertain retaliation. Critical infrastructure is sitting within missile range, and nobody is sure what will happen next.

You can see it in the positioning. Demand for Treasury inflation protection has surged, pushing valuations to the highest levels in nearly a year. It’s the kind of quiet, defensive rotation that happens before the loud stuff. The stuff that makes headlines.

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Time to Go Fishing?

If you’ve been doing this long enough, you recognize the phase. The screens are busy. The news is constant. But the conclusions? Scarce. Volatility rises, narratives multiply, and conviction, real conviction, becomes strangely hard to find. The battlefield map gets drawn in fog, and everyone’s pretending they can still see the terrain.

Jesse Livermore, the old speculator who made and lost fortunes long long time ago, had a line that still gets quoted on trading circles: “There is time to go long, time to go short, and time to go fishing.”

Is this fishing time?

The smartest operators know when the game becomes unreadable. During the oil crisis of the ‘70s, in Kuwait in 1990, after September 2001, every time the world tilted sideways, the best traders did the same thing. They reduced exposure. They held liquidity. They waited for the structure of the world to reveal itself again.

This moment has that same texture. Oil climbing. Geopolitical risk spreading. US macro data starting to crack. But no clear trend has fully formed yet. There’s movement everywhere and clarity nowhere.

In situations like this, the market doesn’t have much to say. And neither should you.

Sometimes, the most sophisticated strategy is the oldest one in finance. Hold cash. Watch carefully. Wait until the fog lifts.

Because the fog always lifts. The question is what you’ll see when it does, and whether you’ll still have enough ammunition left to do something about it.

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CHTR: Charter Communications📊

What they do: One of America's largest broadband and cable connectivity providers

Why watch? In a market dominated by AI headlines and momentum-driven narratives, Charter Communications represents the kind of overlooked, cash-generative business that tends to reward patient investors. The stock isn’t extended, the sector isn’t fashionable, and that’s precisely the point.

Charter has executed a meaningful strategic reinvention. The company has deliberately shifted away from its identity as a traditional cable operator toward becoming a fully converged connectivity provider, meaning it bundles broadband, video, and increasingly mobile services into a single, integrated offering. This isn’t just a marketing repositioning; it reflects a genuine operational transformation designed to defend market share against two growing competitive threats: fiber overbuilders (telecom companies laying new fiber-optic lines in Charter’s territory) and fixed wireless access providers (companies like T-Mobile and Verizon offering home internet through cellular networks).

The early results of this strategy are encouraging. Internet subscriber losses, a persistent concern for investors, have moderated meaningfully in recent quarters. Meanwhile, mobile line additions continue to accelerate: a critical metric because mobile bundling increases customer stickiness and reduces churn. When a customer has both their home internet and mobile phone service through the same provider, they’re far less likely to switch.

Charter’s approach to returning capital to shareholders deserves particular attention. The company pays no dividend, which might initially seem like a negative. In reality, it reflects a deliberate and highly tax-efficient capital allocation strategy. Over the past five years, Charter has repurchased enough shares to reduce its total share count by more than 30%. For long-term shareholders, this means each remaining share represents a larger ownership stake in the business without any tax event.

The underlying business benefits from durable secular tailwinds. Remote work arrangements have permanently elevated household bandwidth consumption. Streaming continues to displace traditional broadcast television, driving demand for faster, more reliable internet connections. And as smart home devices, connected appliances, and eventually autonomous vehicles proliferate, the demand for robust home connectivity will only intensify. Charter’s infrastructure sits at the center of all of this.

Technical Outlook: The chart setup is constructive, though it demands patience. The stock has been surfing the 20-day EMA for several sessions, but the price action has been frustrating. Every apparent breakout attempt has been met with a quick reversal. For nearly two weeks, the stock has traded in an almost perfectly sideways range just below the $236.00 level, which has emerged as the clear line in the sand. A decisive close above $236.00 is the trigger that would open the door to the next leg higher. Notably, in a market environment that has been broadly challenging, Charter has been displaying impressive relative strength—holding its ground while many other names have struggled. That kind of resilience in a difficult tape is often a precursor to outperformance when conditions improve.

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I’ve been in this business long enough to know that the first casualty of war isn’t truth: it’s sleep. The second is certainty. By the time most people were pouring their morning coffee, oil futures had already rewritten the day’s script.

Brent crude didn’t wait for confirmation. It never does.

Here’s what they won’t show you in the sanitized market commentary: while state broadcasters in Tehran were announcing two hundred casualties, traders in Singapore were already repositioning. Not because they’re callous (though some are) but because capital doesn’t observe moments of silence. It moves in the dark, repricing risk while the rest of us are still trying to figure out what just happened.

When the Door Was Open

I remember the first time I understood this, really understood it.

It was 2011, watching screens flicker with news from Tripoli while my colleague (a guy who’d spent three years building a North Africa energy book) sat frozen at his desk. His entire thesis was evaporating in real time, and all he could do was watch the numbers bleed. That’s the thing about geopolitical events: they don’t care about your models. They don’t care about your conviction. They just are.

Iran has been in a ghost position for decades. A country that exists in the market imagination as pure potential energy—massive reserves, educated population, strategic geography—all of it locked behind a door nobody could quite figure out how to open. Every few years, someone would pitch the “Iran normalization trade” with the enthusiasm of a prospector who’d just found color in the pan.

And every time, the door stayed shut.

The Shah’s Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s version, was the last time the door swung wide. Rapid industrialization, women in universities, a modernization campaign that looked, from a distance, like progress on fast-forward. But progress built on a foundation of political concrete has a way of cracking. Dissent didn’t disappear; it went underground, gathering pressure like water behind a dam. When Khomeini returned from exile in 1979, that dam didn’t just break, and it obliterated the landscape.

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What followed was forty-five years of a different kind of calculus. The Islamic Republic became a study in how ideology and economics can coexist in permanent tension. By late 2025, the toman was trading at 140,000 to the dollar: not a currency, really, but a slow-motion confession of structural failure. For anyone trying to model Iranian risk, that number told you everything: this was a system running on fumes and willpower.

Now, in the wreckage of Saturday morning, a different name is circulating. Reza Pahlavi. The son. The exile. The guy who’s been waiting in the wings for longer than most traders have been alive. Some protesters have been waving the old Lion and Sun flag, the pre-revolutionary symbol that carries the weight of a different national memory. Whether that’s nostalgia or a genuine appetite for restoration is impossible to say from here.

Revolutions are easy to start. Building what comes after, that’s the hard part. And markets, for all their supposed efficiency, are terrible at pricing the difference between collapse and renewal. They can tell you what just broke. They can’t tell you what might grow in its place.

The Cost of Rationed Possibility

I’m writing this from a European perspective, which means I carry my own biases. I grew up in a world where institutions bend but rarely shatter, where change happens through negotiation and incremental reform. That lens makes it hard to fully grasp what it means to live for decades under a system that rations not just goods, but possibility itself. The economic cost of that isn’t just measurable in currency depreciation or capital flight: it’s in the ideas never pursued, the businesses never started, the human potential that atrophies in the absence of oxygen.

If Khamenei is truly gone (and the fog of war makes certainty a luxury), then Iran is entering a period where the only thing guaranteed is uncertainty. Markets will try to price it. They’ll build scenarios, assign probabilities, and hedge exposures. But the truth is messier than any model can capture.

This isn’t a binary outcome. It’s not “regime change equals opportunity” or “instability equals risk.” It’s both, simultaneously, with a thousand variables nobody can see yet.

What Gets Built in the Dust

Iran has the resources. It has the people. What it hasn’t had, for a very long time, is the political architecture that allows those two things to combine into something productive. Whether Reza Pahlavi—or anyone else—can build that architecture is the question that will define the next chapter.

Trump says operations will continue. Iranian sources are still counting bodies. And somewhere, in a quiet room far from the headlines, someone is already building the model for what comes next.

Because that’s what we do. We don’t stop. We can’t afford to.

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ATOM: Atomera Incorporated ⚠️

What they do: A semiconductor materials and technology licensing company

Why watch? Atomera operates in one of the most consequential corners of the semiconductor industry right now. The company’s core technology, called MST (Mears Silicon Technology), is a materials-level innovation that can be applied during the chip manufacturing process to improve yield, control dopant diffusion, enhance performance, and reduce variability. For non-engineers: think of it as a coating or treatment applied during chip production that makes the final product more reliable and efficient, without requiring chipmakers to redesign their entire manufacturing process.

The timing couldn’t be more relevant. The semiconductor industry is pushing toward increasingly miniaturized transistor architectures, including Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors, which are critical for the next generation of AI GPUs, CPUs, and networking chips. At these extreme scales (2 nanometers and below), manufacturing becomes extraordinarily difficult, and yield (the percentage of chips that come out of production working correctly) becomes the defining competitive variable. Atomera has established a strategic partnership with a large equipment OEM specifically to address these manufacturing challenges, a meaningful validation of the technology’s relevance at the frontier of chip production.

The company is also making progress in DRAM and RF-SOI markets, two additional high-value segments where MST’s diffusion-blocking capabilities could command premium licensing fees. Government-funded collaborative development programs represent another emerging opportunity, diversifying the company’s customer pipeline beyond traditional commercial chipmakers.

Now, the elephant in the room: Samsung. The Korean giant is currently laser-focused on improving margins by concentrating on high-margin, high-yield products: server DRAM, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and advanced nodes. To hit 50% profit margins, Samsung must improve yield, reduce defects, and maximize performance per wafer. Atomera’s MST technology directly addresses each of these pain points. If the technology delivers on its promises at Samsung’s scale, the licensing revenue potential would be transformative for a company of Atomera’s size. That said, it’s important to be clear-eyed: this remains a compelling story with significant execution risk. No licensing agreement has been announced, and the company is still in the process of proving commercial adoption at scale.

The company recently closed a $25 million registered direct offering at $5.00 per share with institutional investors. This capital raise provides runway to continue development and customer engagement while the licensing pipeline matures.

Technical Outlook: After an extraordinary 200% run accompanied by the highest weekly volume in the company’s history (over 30 million shares one week, followed by over 60 million the next, compared to a previous peak of just 13 million), the stock is now experiencing its first meaningful pullback. This is exactly the kind of consolidation you want to monitor closely. Notably, volume on the pullback has been light, suggesting sellers are not aggressively distributing shares. The $5.00 level is the critical weekly support that buyers must defend. The stock may seek the 20-day EMA rather than the 10-day as its natural resting point before the next move. A clean break above $5.50 would signal resumption of the uptrend, but patient investors can look for an earlier entry on a strong defense of $5.00—or a brief shakeout below that level followed by a swift recovery, which would be an even more constructive signal.

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The terminal blinks. Same numbers, different day. You refresh. Nothing. You refresh again. Still nothing.

This is what they don’t prepare you for in business school: the slow torture of a market that refuses to move. Since November, we’ve been locked in a cage match where nobody throws a punch. Bulls stare at bears. Bears stare at bulls. Everyone’s waiting for someone else to flinch first.

I’ve been doing this long enough to know that boredom in markets is like silence in a bad neighborhood. It doesn’t mean nothing’s happening. It means you can’t see what’s happening yet.

The Rotation

Close your eyes, and you’d think the market’s asleep. Open the hood, and you’ll see capital moving like a card sharp’s hands: fast, deliberate, invisible to anyone not paying attention.

Everyone’s screaming about AI. Bubble or backbone? The lazy comparison is to 2000, when every kid with a Geocities page got venture funding and companies with no revenue traded at fifty times nothing. But here’s what’s different: the hyperscalers aren’t burning through daddy’s money. They’re printing cash! tens of billions in operating flow, the kind of numbers that make your eyes water when you actually look at the statements.

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Is there excess? Absolutely. There’s always excess when humans smell the future. But excess doesn’t mean fraud. It means overshoot.

My great-grandfather worked for the railroad. By 1901, over half the railroad stocks in America were bankrupt. Dead money. Shareholders got obliterated. But you know what didn’t go bankrupt? The actual rails. The steel stayed in the ground. The infrastructure became the circulatory system of the entire industrial age. The investors who funded it got slaughtered, but the country got rich.

That's the thing about revolutions: they're terrible investments until they're not. And even when they are, the people who build them rarely get to keep the spoils.

If AI becomes infrastructure—and it will—then we need to talk about what happens to pricing power. When electricity was new, the companies that built the grid made fortunes. Then it became a utility. Returns flattened. Margins compressed. Everyone still needed it, but nobody got rich owning it anymore.

That’s the risk here. Not a crash. A slow fade into respectability. You fund the revolution, you earn utility returns. It’s not sexy. It’s not a Ponzi scheme. It’s just the patient, grinding reality that capital hates to admit: sometimes you pay for the future, and someone else collects.

What's Actually Moving

Equities won’t break. That’s the headline. But underneath, there’s a tell: the S&P MidCap 400 is leading. Not the Magnificent Seven. Not the meme stocks. The middle boring, cash-generating, operational businesses that don’t get profiled in Wired.

The Russell 2000 just turned green in our models. Small caps. The stuff that moves when people think the economy might actually hold together.

We added positions this week. Solar. Big tech. Software. Not the fashionable names. The ones that generate cash and don’t need a story to justify the valuation.

No stops triggered! In a market this choppy, that’s a miracle.

Survival as Strategy

There’s a scene in every war movie where the veteran tells the rookie that the goal isn’t to be a hero. The goal is to make it home.

Markets are the same.

In dull regimes, the winners aren’t the ones swinging for the fences. They’re the ones who don’t get knocked out.

Resilience compounds. Slowly. Quietly. Long before the excitement comes back and everyone pretends they knew it all along.

The machine wasn’t built to reward patience. It was built to extract fees from impatience. But if you can sit in the waiting room without losing your mind, you’ll still be here when the doors finally open.

And they always open.

Eventually.

We are currently developing an application.

It is not a generic solution for every market participant, but a platform built specifically for swing trading, momentum strategies, and short to medium-term investing.

If we see meaningful interest, we will open a limited number of testing spots and allow selected users to access the platform early.

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MU: Micron Technology Inc 📊

What they do: A leading global manufacturer of memory and storage solutions

Why watch? Most narratives surrounding Micron focus on artificial intelligence driving unprecedented memory demand, HBM being sold out through 2026, and the stock trading at a discount relative to the broader semiconductor sector. While these points are valid, the market may be underweighting a more nuanced and potentially more important story: how Micron is allocating its constrained supply and converting that strategic positioning into superior margins and cash flow.

In a supply-constrained environment (which is where Micron finds itself today), the most critical strategic decision isn’t how much to produce, but rather where to send what you produce. Rather than distributing output evenly across all markets, Micron is deliberately rotating its production capacity toward the highest-margin, highest-return-on-investment applications. This is a subtle but powerful shift that can dramatically impact profitability even if total unit volumes remain relatively flat.

As AI workloads scale exponentially, the storage infrastructure must evolve to move data faster and store it more densely to support the massive datasets that need to sit close to compute resources. Micron’s data center NAND revenue exceeded $1 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, with the company successfully qualifying 122-terabyte and 245-terabyte QLC (quad-level cell) solid-state drives at multiple hyperscale customers. These aren’t simply larger versions of existing drives; they represent an entirely new product class purpose-built for AI-scale workloads. Micron is already qualifying PCIe Gen6 interfaces for the next technology cycle, positioning itself at the leading edge of storage performance.

For context, the shift from general-purpose memory to AI-optimized memory products can carry significantly higher margins, sometimes 2-3x higher, because these products are mission-critical, highly differentiated, and face less price competition. If Micron can continue executing this product mix shift while maintaining supply discipline, the earnings leverage could be substantial.

Technical Outlook: Micron is one of the strongest-performing stocks in the market within one of the most important investment themes of recent months: memory and storage. The stock is currently approaching a significant downtrend line that began at the end of January and appears ready to break through. After a brief pullback at the beginning of the month, the stock has recovered. It is now trading above the 10-day and 20-day exponential moving averages, a sign of strong underlying demand and buyer support. This resilience in a choppy market environment is particularly impressive and suggests institutional accumulation. A clean break above the downtrend line with volume could trigger the next leg higher, potentially attracting momentum buyers.

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This week, the market did what it does best: it made liars out of everyone.

January started with Wall Street leaning so far forward they were practically kissing the pavement. Record low cash. Hedges? What hedges? AI was the lock, the sure thing, the trade you’d mortgage your mother’s house for.

Then, in the span of a few weeks, the script flipped.

Not because AI stopped working (it’s working just fine, thanks) but because someone finally asked the question nobody wanted to hear: who’s getting cooked by this thing?

Turns out, it’s not the robots that are the problem. It’s the humans who thought they were irreplaceable.

The Software Purge

The S&P 500 Software Index didn’t just stumble; it got dragged into the alley and worked over. Meanwhile, Goldman’s “AI resilient” basket? Outperforming as if it had insider information. The market’s telling you something, and it’s not subtle: software isn’t dead, but the gravy train has left the station.

If your product is a glorified wrapper around a database, a feature some kid with a laptop can replicate in a weekend using Claude or ChatGPT, you’re in trouble.

The companies that survive this aren’t the ones with the slickest UI or the best Series B pitch deck. They’re the ones managing the messy, high-stakes stuff: systems of record, critical data infrastructure, workflows where a screw-up means lawsuits, not just a bad Yelp review.

Complexity is the new moat. Liability is the new defensibility. Everything else is just noise waiting to get compressed into an API call.

The Contagion Spreads

But it didn’t stop at software. The fear metastasized. Wealth managers, brokers, and tax advisers (the entire white-collar apparatus that spent a decade getting fat on margin expansion) suddenly looked vulnerable.

A decade of optimism got repriced in weeks.

Private debt markets, loaded up on exposure to these businesses, started sweating. The S&P 500 had one of its ugliest stretches in months before a softer inflation print gave it permission to stop bleeding.

We’re range-bound now. Choppy. Difficult. The kind of market where forcing a trade is how you get your face ripped off.

Cash Is a Position (Again)

So we did what any sane operator does when the kitchen’s on fire: we stepped back. Closed another position. Raised more cash.

When setups aren’t following through, when the edge isn’t there, you don’t trade for the sake of trading. You wait. You watch. You preserve capital.

Aggression has its place. This isn’t it.

Building in the Wreckage

But here’s where it gets interesting.

While the market was busy eating itself, we decided to test the AI disruption thesis firsthand.

We’ve been building our own app: rewriting and integrating the proprietary algorithms and indicators we originally developed on TC2000, but in a new environment built specifically for how we trade.

(Shhh… keep it between us — it’ll be free for our Substack paid subscribers! 😉)

Swing setups. Momentum plays. Real-time signals. No bloat.

And you know what? It’s shockingly easy now!

Not frictionless: there are still technical landmines, moments where you’re staring at the screen wondering what the hell just broke, but the leverage AI tools provide is undeniable. A small team with strong ideas and some curiosity can build things that would’ve required a full engineering department three years ago.

It feels like building a video game, except this one actually makes us better at our job. And yeah, some companies are absolutely going to get disrupted.

We’re watching it happen in real time, because we’re doing the disrupting.

Irreplaceability at All Costs

So here’s where we are. The market’s shifted from “growth at all costs” to “irreplaceability at all costs.” The companies that win from here aren’t the ones with the best story; they’re the ones that are too embedded, too complex, too critical to replace.

We’re staying cautious. Higher cash. Selective exposure. And while everyone else is panicking about AI, we’re building tools that give us an edge in whatever comes next.

Because in the end, the best way to survive disruption isn’t to bet on who wins.

It’s to make sure you’re not the one getting replaced.

Join the free TradeDeck waitlist now to show your interest!

If demand is strong, we’ll fast-track the public beta and open limited early access to the software we’re currently testing in-house.

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PAHC: Phibro Animal Health Corp 📊

What they do: A global developer and manufacturer of animal health products and mineral nutrition solutions

Why watch? Phibro Animal Health has undergone a significant transformation following its acquisition of Zoetis’ medicated feed additive (MFA) business, which has reshaped the company’s Animal Health division and provided a meaningful growth catalyst. For those unfamiliar with medicated feed additives, these are products mixed into animal feed to prevent disease, promote growth, and improve feed efficiency in livestock: a critical component of modern animal agriculture.

The company is executing on its “Phibro Forward Initiative,” a multi-year program designed to drive operational efficiency through structural changes. The initiative includes three key pillars: First, establishing a global procurement organization to leverage scale for better pricing and cost reduction. Second, strengthening Salesforce effectiveness and reducing employee turnover through CRM tools and enhanced customer focus, and third, expanding the product portfolio with new offerings for both livestock and companion animals, which should drive revenue diversification and growth.

The recent financial results demonstrate that this strategy is working. Phibro reported a strong second-quarter performance with net sales of $373.9 million, up 21% year-over-year, and a 41% increase in adjusted EBITDA. Management raised fiscal 2026 guidance to $1.45–$1.5 billion in sales, $245–$255 million in adjusted EBITDA, and $120–$127 million in adjusted net income, significant upward revisions that reflect confidence in the business trajectory.

The Animal Health segment led the growth, with sales rising 26% to $290 million, driven primarily by the acquired MFA business. The new MFA operations contributed $94.1 million in the quarter, with total MFA growth of 34%. Legacy MFA sales dipped approximately 5%, largely due to a roughly $10 million inventory-timing impact that management expects to reverse in the coming quarter.

From a balance sheet perspective, the company generated $47 million in trailing twelve-month free cash flow and ended the quarter with $74.5 million in cash and short-term investments. Gross leverage stands at 3.1x and net leverage at 2.8x; manageable levels given the growth profile and cash generation. Management also announced a planned CEO transition in July, with Jack Bendheim moving to executive chairman and Donnie Bendheim assuming the CEO role.

Technical Outlook: The stock was recently rejected at all-time highs of $54.62 and has since formed a very narrow Darvas box, a consolidation range of just $2.00 from low to high. This tight range indicates indecision but also compression, which often precedes a significant move. However, we generally prefer to see more than just a couple of days of consolidation before entering, as very short consolidations are more prone to failure. A few additional days of sideways action would increase the odds of a successful breakout. Once the stock clears the all-time high resistance at $54.62, there’s blue sky ahead with no overhead supply, a setup that can lead to explosive moves as there are no prior resistance levels to contend with.

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