These last couple of months have been good to my portfolio. It has been growing fast, crossing the $500k mark for the third time since inception. I secured and transferred $30k in profit last week from trimming shares of ServiceNow $NOW, Okta $OKTA, and Snowflake $SNOW after their big pumps. The rest of the portfolio barely changed, which is the way I like it. I added two new positions to my Pump&Dump mix: International Business Machines $IBM and the Roundhill Memory ETF $DRAM.
My investment portfolio as of June 1, 2026.
We've been saying this for a long time now. India and the Philippines are going to get walloped by AI algorithms.
In India alone there are "more than 2,100 centers employing about 2.36 million people and generating nearly $100 billion in annual revenue."
Would not want to be holding any of the below names:
$TCS — Tata Consultancy Services (largest by far)
$INFY — Infosys
$HCLTECH — HCL Technologies
$WIT — Wipro
$LTIM — LTIMindtree
$TECHM — Tech Mahindra
The most visible leader in autonomous driving today is an independent subsidiary of Alphabet $GOOG called Waymo, currently valued at $126 billion.
They’re operating in 11 major U.S. cities now and have established brand visibility and volume through their partnership with Uber.
But the reality is that Waymo is only a drop in the bucket.
While today’s volume sounds like a lot – 500,000 rides a week – it’s not.
Even at Waymo’s “million rides per year” target for 2026, $UBER still completes more rides in a single morning than Waymo does over an entire year.
Investors might think they can get exposure to autonomous driving through adding shares of $GOOG, but they’re falling for the “invest in everything with Google” fallacy.
Even if Waymo captured the entire $UBER global mobility segment – about $29 billion in revenues – that would still only constitute about 7% of the $402 billion in total revenues $GOOG realized for 2025.
You’re not getting much exposure to Waymo by investing in GOOG, and you likely won’t for a very, very long time even under the absolute best-case scenario.
Good day, Money Market!
Power chip companies tied to electric vehicles have surprised me lately. Their stocks climbed well past the broad market average, even though car-related sales slowed after the big growth years. These firms make more than just car parts, though. Their power chips and analog chips fit into factory systems, everyday electronics, and the huge buildings full of servers that support heavy computing loads.
The latest push in share prices comes mostly from artificial intelligence work. Supercomputers for training models need steady, high-power, and efficient components to keep energy costs down. Data center builders now focus hard on that efficiency. This created strong orders for leading power chips from Texas Instruments $TXN, On Semiconductor $ON, STMicroelectronics $STM, and Infineon $IFX.
The broad market index moved up steadily, while these power chip stocks ran far ahead over the full year. Texas Instruments $TXN kept its usual steady style yet still beat the index. Fresh demand from data centers arrived exactly when auto and industrial markets sat at the bottom of their regular cycle. The companies, therefore, benefited from both new business and early signs of recovery in their older markets. Owners of these stocks can feel good about the recent results. The core issue remains unchanged. Power chip makers still rely on customers in fields that expand and contract with the wider economy. That pattern shows no sign of ending soon.
These last couple of months have been good to my portfolio. It has been growing fast, crossing the $500k mark for the third time since inception. I secured and transferred $30k in profit last week from trimming shares of ServiceNow $NOW, Okta $OKTA, and Snowflake $SNOW after their big pumps. The rest of the portfolio barely changed, which is the way I like it. I added two new positions to my Pump&Dump mix: International Business Machines $IBM and the Roundhill Memory ETF $DRAM.
My investment portfolio as of June 1, 2026.
Various sources show $UBER taking anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of a fare with the driver getting the remainder. But that doesn’t mean 60 to 75% goes to the driver’s bottom line. From their profits, drivers are responsible for providing the vehicle and funding fuel, maintenance, and repairs.
This fleet management role is what $UBER assumes with their Waymo relationship. That needs to be as automated as possible which is what $TESLA is working on.
As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more, as the old saying goes.
Yet today every company touts their AI chops. If everything is AI, nothing is AI.
(Puts down bong and exhales.)
$TQQQ $SOXL $QLD $SSO $SPXL
Over 300 leveraged ETFs were launched in 2025. Every single one of these will hand Joe Retail his ass on a rusty platter.
That's because the vast majority of retail investors do not understand how these risky high-fee assets work.
At an average expense ratio above 100 basis points, you're just helping pay someone's mortgage in the Hamptons.
$ABCL is one of those stocks that if you say something critical about it, you're guaranteed the usual suspects will come around and respond.
At least most do so in a constructive manner as opposed to the $ASTS zealots who just basically start going mental.
Take it easy folks.
Intrinsic value doesn't care about anyone's posts on X.
Longevity is making a comeback but it's slow going.
One reason for that is the FDA not recognize aging as a disease .
As a result says Contrary Research, "researchers studying treatments for aging need to select a specific indication for their therapies to target as a proxy for aging in general."
Should aging be a disease?
Morningstar finding that, "investors are increasingly aware of the importance of minimizing investment costs."
Couldn't be happier to hear that.
We constantly preach about how important it is to reduce fees on passive investing products.
Ideally pay nothing - $FNILX $FZIPX $FZROX $FZILX
While $TSLA cybercab revenues may not be here yet, they’re currently realizing revenue from selling their own self-driving software which largely falls under a revenue segment labeled “Services and Other.”
Below you can see that plotted alongside $TSLA total revenues which have seemingly flatlined.