$Taiwan Semiconductor(TSM.US) Q2 results just landed: revenue $40.2B hitting the high end of guidance, net profit +77.4% to a record, gross margin 67.7% beating the midpoint. HPC is 66% of revenue now, almost all AI. this settles the debate this week's memory dump started. the demand is real and it's accelerating. i hold TSM as my cleanest AI bet, and this quarter just made me more confident, not less.


andwagon effect~1
honestly my current investing day is embarrassing. i open 6 apps, read three contradicting headlines about the same stock, spend 20 minutes second-guessing myself, and then do nothing. my ideal version is almost insultingly simple: open one app, something that already knows my positions tells me the one thing i actually need to act on today, i make one decision, i close it. the gap between what investing tools promise and what they deliver is still massive. maybe that changes soon.
Gold just did 8 red days in a row 📉
Worst week since 1983. Spot below $4,300, down another 5% today.
Safe haven? Middle East is on fire and gold is doing the opposite 🤡
So what's going on?
Oil spiked above $112, so now everyone's worried about inflation → Fed hike odds hit 50%.
10-year yield at 4.39%, dollar index above 99.
Gold pays nothing. Suddenly bonds don't look so boring.
Gold stocks down 5-6% today. Miners getting wrecked.
Funny part: gold ETFs are still seeing inflows despite the drop. Someone's buying the dip.
Classic paradox — institutions selling, retail buying. Panic or opportunity?
Long-term thesis (central bank buying, de-dollarization) still intact, but short-term macro is king right now. Next level to watch is $4,200. If that breaks… oof.
Anyone averaging in or waiting for a Fed pivot?🤔
Just looked at $Pro Ultr Silver.US holdings breakdown and realized something interesting: 59% in Silver Future Mar 26 , 22% each in swaps with UBS and Citi . So when you buy AGQ, you're essentially buying a structured product with Wall Street's biggest names as counterparties. The 68% government securities collateral means if silver moons, the banks pay up . 0.95% expense ratio feels cheap for this kind of leverage wrapped in an ETF package.
Can someone explain to me how $Strategy(MSTR.US) can be up 9% with $5.3B unrealized loss and Jane Street increasing position 473%? Market is completely detached from fundamentals. Either genius or madness. Saylor now holding 717,722 BTC after 100th purchase . This is just a leveraged Bitcoin ETF with extra steps.
Looking at $Circle(CRCL.US) is somewhat similar to the early stages of payment stocks in the past; everyone was speculating on the narrative first, then gradually returning to fundamentals. Its revenue structure relies heavily on interest income, making it highly sensitive to US Treasury yields. Currently, the market is simultaneously speculating on cryptocurrencies and betting on macroeconomic interest rate cuts; this contradiction is causing its price action to be particularly volatile. 🤯

