Michael Burry Tracker
Michael Burry Tracker
Update: Tower Semiconductor is now up +150% since Leopold Aschenbrenner disclosed a ~$34M stake
He first disclosed his $Tower Semicon(TSEM.US) position in Q4 2025 at ~$99/shareLeopold's next trade disclosure will be reported here in 2 daysUpdate: Nvidia is now up +47,000% since Jim Simons first disclosed a $4.6M stake
He opened the $NVIDIA(NVDA.US) position in Q1 2011 at ~$0.45 a shareBreaking: OpenAI fired Leopold Aschenbrenner at 22. Three years later, he manages $5.5 billion
His next 13F files this Friday and the new trades will be posted hereLeopold is quickly becoming one of the best AI investors out thereAnd it started when he got fired from OpenAI in April 2024 for a leaked memo on AI safetyInstead of moving on, he spent 6 months writing a 165-page document predicting AGI arrives by 2027Then he launched Situational Awareness LP. Backed by the founders of Stripe and the former CEO of GitHubHere's what he bought:• Bloom Energy (BE): powers AI data centers. Up ~1,420%• Lumentum (LITE): optical components connecting AI chips at scale. Up ~1,335%• SanDisk (SNDK): storage layer for AI workloads. Up ~3,130%• CoreWeave (CRWV): GPU cloud for AI training and inference. Up ~166%• Iris Energy (IREN): AI-focused compute infrastructure. Up ~585%Every AI model that gets built needs power, somewhere to store data, and compute to run on. He bought all three before anyone else was paying attentionBreaking: Michael Burry says he knows people see him as “the boy who cried wolf.”
But he correctly predicted:• 2000 Dot Com Crash• 2008 Housing Crash• 2021 Meme Stock Collapse • 2023 Bank Stock RunNow he says the current stock market feels like the last few months of the Dot Com BubbleIBM built the greatest machine in history, won $500,000,000, stock hits all-time high, then they turned it off
29 years ago today, Deep Blue was created to surpass humansDeep Blue was a supercomputer that evaluated 200 million chess positions per second. IBM built it for one purpose: beat Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion since 1985Timeline:• 1996: Kasparov beats Deep Blue 4-2. IBM goes back to the lab• 1997: IBM rebuilds it from the ground up• May 11, 1997: Deep Blue wins the rematch. Kasparov resigns in 19 moves• Next Day: $IBM(IBM.US) stock jumps to a 10-year all-time high• Kasparov accuses IBM of cheating and demands another rematch• IBM refuses, shuts the project down, and retires Deep Blue to the SmithsonianNobody knew it then, but this was the first time a machine proved it could outthink a humanBreaking: Michael Burry has opened a position in MercadoLibre $Mercadolibre(MELI.US)
Stating "purchased a new full position in Mercado Libre MELI in the $1600s" per his SubStackNew: In one week, Leopold Aschenbrenner discloses his new trades
$Sandisk(SNDK.US) is now up 466% since Leopold Aschenbrenner disclosed his original $12.9M stakeHe first disclosed the position in November 2025 at ~$254/shareNever in history has the S&P 500 been carried by fewer stocks
Right now, only 42 of 500 are responsible for pushing the market higherHistorically, that number sits around 100And those 42 are being led by just 5:• Alphabet $Alphabet(GOOGL.US)• Nvidia $NVIDIA(NVDA.US)• Amazon $Amazon(AMZN.US)• Broadcom $Broadcom(AVGO.US)• Apple $Apple(AAPL.US)Every other time the market got this top-heavy, a pullback followedThe last time it looked like this: the Dot-Com Bubble in 200062 years ago today, someone cheated Warren Buffett so he took his entire company
At the time, Buffett was just a minority shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway with a simple plan: buy cheap and sell high.But that's not how things turned outIn 1964, Berkshire's chairman Seabury Stanton verbally agreed to buy Buffett out at $11.50 per share. Then the letter arrived and it said $11.375. Twelve and a half cents shortBuffett didn't sell. Instead, he bought every share he could findTimeline:• 1962: Buffett buys into a dying New England textile mill at $7.50/share• 1964: Stanton asks Buffett his price. Buffett says $11.50. Stanton shakes on it• May 6, 1964: The letter arrives at $11.375. Buffett gets furious and starts buying everything he can• 1965: Buffett owns 38% of the company and takes control. Stanton is out• 1967: Berkshire buys its first insurance company, National Indemnity, for $8.6M. The pivot begins• 1985: The last textile mill closes. Berkshire is now a holding company• Today: BRK-A at $703,435/shareStanton tried to save $28,125 and ended up losing the whole companyKeep an eye on May 15
On that date, every hedge fund with $100M+ in equities will file their 13F with the SECOn that date, we'll know the newest moves from:• Leopold Aschenbrenner — Situational Awareness LP• Bill Ackman — Pershing Square• Greg Abel — Berkshire Hathaway• David Tepper — Appaloosa ManagementAnd many moreEveryone will be paying close attention to changes made by the top fund managersUpdate: It's been 184 days since Michael Burry publicly went bearish on Palantir $Palantir Tech(PLTR.US)
It's down -35% sinceUpdate: It's time we have a serious talk about Leopold
$Sandisk(SNDK.US) has finished higher every month for 10 months in a rowAschenbrenner first disclosed the position in November 2025 at ~$254/shareBreaking: Michael Burry has sold his entire GameStop position today
He held his $GameStop(GME.US) position for 98 daysUpdate: SanDisk announces a $6B stock repurchase plan
$Sandisk(SNDK.US) is now up ~390% since Leopold Aschenbrenner disclosed a $12.9M stakeHe first disclosed the position in November 2025 at ~$254/shareUpdate: Google $Alphabet(GOOGL.US) is now up 39% since Buffett's Berkshire disclosed a $4B stake
Update: It's been 57 days since Michael Burry publicly went long Adobe $Adobe(ADBE.US)
It's down 11.2% sinceJust In: Leopold keeps putting up bangers
Solaris Energy is up ~5% today and now up 65% since he disclosed a ~$46M stake in $Solaris Energy Infrastructure(SEI.US) on 11/14/25That return is even with the delayTwo of the biggest IPOs in history are taking each other to federal court
Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman for $134 billion for fraud and unjust enrichment, per CNBCMusk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit, but he walked away in 2018 after donating ~$38M Shortly after, OpenAI took a $1,000,000,000 check from Microsoft and went for-profitMusk says he was defrauded, meanwhile Altman says Musk knew and backed the conversionJury selection starts MondayIf Musk wins: the 'for-profit' structure gets unwound, Altman and Brockman are removed, and all "ill-gotten gains" go back to the nonprofitIf Musk loses: OpenAI goes public this year, battling SpaceX for the largest IPO in historyMichael Burry just bought one of the worst performing Big Tech stocks of 2026
He opened a new position in Microsoft $Microsoft(MSFT.US), per his SubstackHowever, he's buying hedges at the same time:• Nvidia: Jan 2027 puts• QQQ: Jan and Mar 2027 puts• SOXX: Jan 2027 putsEverything he touches turns to gold
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Applied Digital $Applied Digital(APLD.US) position is now up +323% since disclosing a $22.7M stakeHe opened the position in Q1 2025 at ~$8.62/shareMichael Burry just bought more GameStop
He first bought $GameStop(GME.US) in January and added more yesterday at $25.56And he's increasing his position in Molina Healthcare $Molina Healthcare(MOH.US) and "may add" more Lululemon $Lululemon(LULU.US) this morning, per his SubstackHasn't sold:• PayPal $Paypal(PYPL.US)• Fiserv $Fiserv, Inc.(FISV.US)• Adobe $Adobe(ADBE.US)• MSCI $MSCI(MSCI.US)• Salesforce $Salesforce(CRM.US)• Autodesk $Autodesk(ADSK.US)• Veeva $Veeva Systems -CL(VEEV.US)Update: Palantir is now up 798% since Jim Simons disclosed a $134M stake
He first opened the $Palantir Tech(PLTR.US) position in Q2 2021And it begins
Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal judge its court filings contained AI hallucinationsThe firm apologized to the federal judge as they had to submit multiple corrections focused around:• Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist• Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written• Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy CodeThe primary team and secondary review all failed to catch these errors, meanwhile the firm's partners bill $2,000+ per hourAdobe just authorized a $25B share buyback program running through April 30, 2030
Michael Burry bought $Adobe(ADBE.US) on March 3rd at $271Adobe is currently:• Down 63% from its all-time high• Trading at its cheapest valuation in 5 years• Generating $7B+ in annual free cash flowLiving in his parents' house, he crashed the U.S. stock market and made $40,000,000
11 years ago today, Navinder Sarao, was arrested because he found a glitch in the systemHe built a spoofing algorithm that placed massive fake sell orders in the futures market to push prices down, buying at the bottom, then canceled the fake orders before they ever filled...He did this thousands of times a dayTimeline:• 2003: Gets a job at a prop trading firm• 2009: Leaves the firm. Sets up at his parents' house with a custom algorithm• May 6, 2010: The Dow drops 998 points in 4 minutes. $1T wiped out in the 'The Flash Crash'• 2009–2014: Makes $40M from his bedroom• April 21, 2015: He's arrested in London on 22 criminal counts• 2020: Sentenced to 1 year of home confinement and barred from trading foreverThey sent him back to his parents' house... Find a glitch in the system and they'll find you eventually