Methodology: each issue's direction is a live signal — long/short opens or holds a position, neutral means flat, and every direction change opens, flips, or closes it. Returns are direction-aware (a short gains when the price falls) and compound across positions from first observation to the latest issue. "Price move" is the stock's own raw change, shown separately. Neither represents actual portfolio performance.
Position History1/1 closed trades won · profitable since 2026-07-07
- 2026-07-04Long$194.83 → closed $202.812026-07-18+4.10%
- 2026-08-05Long$211.94 → open → $225.3+6.30%
Brief History (23 issues)
Position call — one of three: stay long. Demand was just pre-validated by CoreWeave's $100B backlog and 2020-era cards booked through 2029; the moving-average stack is intact, RSI14 at 63 is not overbought, and low-volume consolidation at 84% of the 52-week range reads as coiling, not distribution. Entry/add zone $215–$226 (last print down to the prior breakout shelf); stop at $208, below the 20-day SMA ($209.28) and roughly 2.4 ATRs off the last price — a break there voids the pre-earnings structure. First target the $236.54 52-week high, then the $250 round number on an earnings clear. With RSI7 at 70.7 and consensus crowded into Aug 26: no chasing, no leverage — let position sizing absorb the event vol.
Position review: yesterday's signal was long—decision is to stay long. CoreWeave and Super Micro just falsified the 'peak demand' thesis with hard capex dollars; price holds above every moving average with RSI at 62 and the trend structure intact. Thin volume (0.85 relative) and the financing-platform controversy are blemishes, not cracks. The entry zone's lower bound at 217 is one ATR (7.5) below the close; the 208 stop sits under the 20-day SMA (208.38), roughly two ATRs down; first target is the 52-week high at 236.54. Caveat: Aug 26 earnings is a binary event with ~96% growth already priced in—size positions to survive the print.
Position maintained. The financing controversy caps near-term multiple expansion, but nothing in the tape has weakened: it holds every moving average on declining volume with ATR at just 3.5%. The cleaner add is $208-213 near the 20-day at $207.80, stop at $202 below the 50-day at $206.27 (roughly 2 ATR), target back at the 52-week high of $236. Note both today's CPI and the August 26 print are volatility events — this is not the place to size up to full.
A cumulative 8% two-day pullback with the moving-average stack intact and no volume expansion reads as headline noise rather than trend reversal — the long stays on. The 20- and 50-day converge into dense support at $206-207, and only a break there implies structural damage; the stop sits below the 200-day at $194.16 with the 52-week high at $236.54 as the target. The circular-financing debate cannot be settled near-term, but it bears on the valuation premium, not on current orders.
Maintaining the long and the bullish stance. Today's key information is confirmed dispersion within the sector: the memory chain was downgraded on its price cycle while the compute chain was untouched, validating the decision to price them separately. The entry zone rises from $208–216 to $212–220 above the 50-day at $206.07, the stop lifts from $198 to $202 just beneath that average, and the target holds at $250. With a 3.4% ATR, a 9.8% stop absorbs nearly three standard deviations of daily movement — a scarce property in a field where many names carry ATRs above 9%.
Maintaining the long and the bullish stance. Today's entire signal is relative strength: the memory chain was gutted, semis broadly struggled, the AI capex narrative faced its first systematic challenge — and it fell 0.10%. Entry at $208–216 above the 50-day at $205.85, stop at $198 structurally above the 200-day at $193.77, and a $250 target just beyond the $236.54 high. With a 3.6% ATR, that 9.6% stop distance absorbs more than two standard deviations of daily movement, so this can be sized as a normal allocation rather than a wager — a scarce property among today's names.
After clearing $220, a hold above the SMA20 ($205) on any pullback keeps the position; stop below $207 (about one ATR under the SMA20), target the $236 prior high. Strength likely persists into the Aug 26 print, though expect wider swings.
Up 2.56% reclaiming the 50-day at $205.69 with RSI firm-neutral at 56.9 after an 8.7% week, and Morgan Stanley reiterating Overweight — finally keeping pace as the whole semiconductor chain strengthens.
Up 2.93%, notably light versus its index weight on a 2.1% Nasdaq day, with RSI at 53.1 sitting right on the 50-day at $205.84. The 52.1% consensus upside is tempting but direction is unresolved; sidelines.
Up 0.25% — essentially flat on a day semis collapsed, notable relative strength. Still below the 20- and 50-day, though 64 analysts target $314.29 for 59.5% upside — wait for a reclaim of the 50-day
Watchlist: -1.6%, relatively resilient — the Cerebras/AMD alliances don't dent the crown, but next week's hyperscaler capex language is the real direction switch, sidelines
Playing neocloud kingmaker with the 9.3% Nebius stake while its own tape barely moved +2%; 65 analysts see +51% — wait for the dip, don't chase the plateau
The $205 stop broke, so we execute: this long ran from 7/2 with a raised stop, and Kimi K3 plus capex-debt worries are narrative-level headwinds — no re-entry below resistance
Down 2.4% to $207.40, 1.2% above the $205 stop — the arms dealer finally took one head-on; a break means exit, for the relative-strength story only exists above the line
With relative strength confirmed and both averages reclaimed, the old stop is too far away; raising it to $205 locks the floor under this leg's gains — a trend position's stop only ever moves up.
Stray rounds hurt sentiment, not the order book. The stop hugs the 200-day's upper rim and the break-means-exit discipline stands — let $196 make the decision, not the panic.
Holding: the 50-day reclaim completes repair stage two. Stop raised from $188 to $196 (half an ATR under the 20-day); target extends to $235 beyond the $220 gap-fill.
Holding: lagging on a rotation day is no exit signal — the 200-day structure and the two falsified bear cases stand. Stop stays $188; three straight days of sector underperformance would trigger a rethink.
Holding: five closes above the 200-day plus two falsified bear cases raise the odds of trend repair. Stop at $188 (a half-ATR buffer under the 200-day), to be raised on a break of $210.
Keep the long: the bullseye name was the most resilient, with a four-day 200-day hold, bottom-percentile valuation, and doubled mention flow. Clearing the 20-day ($202) opens the repair; below $182, take the loss.
Repeated 200-day confirmation, cheapest multiple in a year, and a chip-rebound tailwind — keep the long. A break of the 50-day ($210) opens upside; a break of $178 (one ATR below the 200-day) signals reversal — take the loss.
First 200-day retest, sector-leading relative strength, and the cheapest multiple in a year — the best odds on the board amid the panic. A break of $178 (one ATR below the 200-day) upgrades panic to trend reversal; take the loss and walk.
Range trade: accumulate at the 200-day floor, trim at the 50-day ceiling. A break of $185 means the AI-hardware rotation turned into outflow — step aside first.