Asymmetric Edge Research

Ex-quant. Own capital.
High-conviction AI infra, energy & special situations.
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Most finance accounts post hindsight screenshots.

This one doesn't.

How this works:
• Real-money trades, called in real time
• Regime shifts & risk-on/off, in context
• Chokepoint research — asymmetric setups
• Sizing logic — how much, not just what
• Honest postmortems — wins and losses
• Methodology shown, not just screenshots

Focus: AI infra, energy, special situations.

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$PLTR and $MSFT performing extremely strong today.

As mentioned previously the whole “software is dead” panic was massively overdone.

That indiscriminate sell-off was a gift to patient investors.

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I think a lot of tech investors are misreading $MSFT right now.

It’s one of the more compressed names vs its own history in my tech universe — which is what makes this interesting.

Feels very similar to what happened with Google when the whole “search is dead” narrative peaked.

Back then, everyone was convinced AI would kill search and margins.

But the business just kept compounding underneath.

And once that gap between perception and reality closed, the multiple followed.

Microsoft feels like it’s in a similar spot.

The focus is all on AI capex, margin pressure, competition… but the core business is still doing its thing.

I don’t really see this as a “software is dead” story.
If anything, it’s more about where value shifts to.

Microsoft isn’t just software — it sits right at the infrastructure + distribution layer AI runs on.

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$PLTR remains my #1 risk/reward pick over the next 12 months.

The setup is still looking strong: multiple compressed to ~90x forward (vs ~130x historical average), revenue growth ~85% YoY, FCF margin 55%, up from 34% a year ago.

Today's +4% is one data point. Let's see if it keeps going.

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@moninvestor Exactly this!

If your portfolio ends up with 20+ stocks you are probably just building a worse version of the index.

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@TheEcomLad @jaxxdwyer Is that a recent change? Looking at my feed, some of the bigger accounts seem to post 20+ times per day.

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@zeroxkyle There are still plenty of great opportunities out there.

The problem is that most people only focus on the same handful of stocks after they already went ballistic.

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@AlexFinn Everyone can build an app now.

Precisely because of that, audience and distribution become everything.

The product probably doesn’t get to $300k ARR without the 450k followers behind it.

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Focusing just on bottlenecks is like assuming today’s shortage automatically becomes tomorrow’s monopoly.

Real markets adapt: substitutes emerge, new entrants scale, customers vertically integrate.

The key question people should focus on is how long those bottlenecks can last before capitalism attacks them.

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@Leo_Traydes What looks like the "only trade that matters" today eventually becomes yesterday’s obsession while something else captures attention and liquidity.

That has been the case with stocks, gold, crypto etc.
The cycle always repeats.

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Reducing Bitcoin to just gambling ignores that it survived multiple crises and still ended up on institutional and corporate balance sheets.

I agree that most crypto is just speculation without any long-term value, but generalizing everything into the same bucket is like looking at the dot-com bubble and saying the internet itself was worthless.

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@rektfencer Nasdaq/M2 is one of the weirdest valuation to use.

You’re comparing global tech cash flows to a domestic money aggregate and pretending the ratio has some natural law equilibrium.

That’s not valuation analysis. That’s chart cosplay.

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The irony is that passive investing only works because a minority is still doing active price discovery.

If literally everyone bought ETFs markets would become less efficient and mispricings would grow.

Most active traders will underperform, but without active risk-takers there’s no serious price discovery at all.

The problem is not stock picking itself. The problem is leverage, ego, and mistaking a bull market for skill.

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@norveclifinance "AI gets cheaper" does not automatically mean "AI infrastructure dies"

Semiconductors got cheaper for 60 years.

The world responded by putting chips into literally everything.

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@burrytracker 1999 had https://t.co/6wuT9Yf9zF

2026 has companies spending $80B+ annually because demand for compute is exploding faster than supply.

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@Ashton_1nvests Compared to its own historic forward multiple $MSFT is actually quite cheap.

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The itch to sell isn't the risk. The re-entry is.

Over the last 10 years, 0.4% of trading days drove two-thirds of SPY's return. Miss the 10 best days and
+257% becomes +89%. Miss 30 and there's almost nothing left.

Selling on a euphoria feeling is a bet you'll be holding on exactly those days. That's where the game is
lost, not in the drawdown you're trying to dodge.

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Two things that people forget with charts like this:

1. That’s the Nasdaq, not the overall market. Today’s index is dominated by massively profitable tech giants, not random dot-com companies with no earnings.

2. Using M2 as some clean long-term valuation anchor gets messy after years of QE and massive monetary expansion.

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@Invesquotes This is exactly why alpha will probably never fully disappear.

Markets are driven by human nature, and most people psychologically cannot tolerate watching great businesses compound "too slowly"

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People were selling $MU at $681 last week. It's bid past $940 this morning.

It had dropped 15% in a few days, from over $800, and that shook them out. Then it ripped 19% in one session
and never looked back. A 40% rebound off the low they bailed at.

The drop was easy to react to. Sitting through it needed a reason to own the thing, written down, and most
people never had one.

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@MerlijnTrader The important part here is not whether Huawei truly reaches "1.4nm"

It’s that sanctions are increasingly pushing China toward building a fully parallel semiconductor ecosystem instead of remaining dependent on the Western one.