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[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

CEO of Citadel: "no one is more wrong than I am today", he built the most profitable hedge fund in history

in this interview he explains why he hired a Russian rocket scientist, why being the smartest in the room is a mistake, and why being right 54% of the time made $90 billion

Bookmark & watch it. Then read the article below - The 77-year-old formula that explains why a small edge is all you need ↓

[Ondo Finance @OndoFinance]

Tokenized $STRC is now live.

Stretch (STRC) is @Strategy's perpetual preferred stock paying monthly dividends, currently yielding 11.5%.

Now available across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana through Ondo Global Markets.

[ Q-Cap  @qcapital2020]

Investing for Dummies : Data Center Edition

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 JUST IN: $114T+ custodian DTCC to pilot tokenized securities trading in July, with full launch set for October.

Over 50 TradFi and crypto firms involved, including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, Circle, Ondo, Ripple Prime and more.

[Eliant Capital @eliant_capital]

A lot higher
https://t.co/yV7gnMqUxP

[Eliant Capital @eliant_capital]

Thematically, Korean defense continues to be one of the more compelling structural setups.

Most of the focus has been on Europe’s rearmament, but South Korea is quietly taking share across the global defense supply chain in the background mostly driven by faster delivery, lower cost, & the ability to scale production quickly, which is something Western primes are struggling with given backlog constraints.

And in a world racing to rearm & rebuild inventories, it’s less about who has the best systems & more about who can actually deliver on time, and Korea is one of the few that can.

[Ariel Hernandez @RealSimpleAriel]

And when he makes that happen I fully expect a Delaware judge to strike it down 🤣

[Astro Zan @alshfaw]

Remember we have a unique situation today, they put the A2M2 earnings in "one day", normally they give us two days alternating between good and bad news. E.g. Last time bad $META $MSFT then good $AMZN ALPHABET $GOOG. Today, an all-in-one ticket. This is an "unprecedented event" it never happened before the question is why? Max impact in which direction? Wdyt?

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[Eliant Capital @eliant_capital]

Why does the administration care about stocks so much?

Well, nearly half of U.S. equities are owned by households, so market declines directly hit wealth and confidence. Given the ‘wealth effect,’ maintaining market stability has effectively become an unspoken policy priority.

[Elite Swing Traders @1ChartMaster]

Professional momentum traders often prioritize the 8-week Exponential Moving Average (EMA) over the 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA)—which is the daily equivalent of the 10-week line—because it acts as a "stricter" filter for the strongest market leaders.

While both are popular, here is the condensed reasoning for choosing the 8-week EMA:

1. Speed and Sensitivity
The 8-week EMA is "front-weighted," meaning it reacts faster to recent price action than a simple moving average. In a parabolic momentum move, a stock can stretch very far away from its 50-day SMA. Waiting for a throwback to the 50-day might mean sitting through a 15-20% correction. The 8-week EMA tracks the price more closely, allowing traders to identify support much earlier.

2. Identifying "True" Institutional Strength
The highest-quality momentum names (often called "True Market Leaders") rarely break their 8-week EMA during the meat of a move.

The 50-day SMA is the "public" benchmark; everyone sees it, so it often gets "undercut" by stop-hunting.

The 8-week EMA acts as a hidden floor. If a stock holds this level on a closing basis, it signals that institutions are aggressively defending the position and won't let it mean-revert to the slower averages.

3. Avoiding "The Churn"
The 50-day SMA can often flatten out or become "noisy" during a consolidation. Because the 8-week EMA is calculated on weekly closing data, it filters out the daily "noise" and intraday volatility. If a stock is trending above a rising 8-week EMA, the primary trend is considered mathematically intact, regardless of what happens on a Tuesday or Wednesday.

4. Risk Management (The Exit Signal)
Momentum trading is about capturing the "easy money" portion of a trend.

50-day SMA: By the time a stock breaks the 50-day, the character of the trend has often already changed from "momentum" to "cyclical" or "broken."

8-week EMA: A weekly close below this line is often the first "sell into strength" signal. It tells the trader that the momentum is cooling, allowing them to lock in profits while the stock is still relatively high.

[Yiannis Zourmpanos @yianisz]

I’ll give you a hint.. this is one of those moments where everything looks crowded… but it isn’t.

AI infra isn’t slowing, it’s shifting layers. $NVDA just told you with CMX, Groq, CPO: the bottleneck is no longer compute, it’s memory + data movement + orchestration.

The market is still stuck on GPUs. The money is moving elsewhere..

KV cache becoming a category isn’t noise, it’s signal. That pulls in names like $VRT $ANET $CIEN $APH on the infra side, not just compute.

Again the “TurboQuant kills memory” take? I’m not buying it. compression lowers cost > usage explodes > total demand still rises. That still feeds $MU $WDC $STX over time.

Photonics is even cleaner. Demand is locked, supply is tight. That’s $LITE $COHR $MTSI $TSEM $AAOI $FN.

..and compute doesn’t disappear, it just gets repriced. $NVDA $AMD still win, but they’re no longer the only game.

The real rotation is happening in plain sight:

compute > memory > interconnect > orchestration.

Most portfolios are still stuck in step one.

[Yiannis Zourmpanos @yianisz]

Everyone still thinks AI = GPUs. That’s already outdated.

This chart is the tell: agent workloads are swamping CPUs while GPUs sit idle.

Up to 90% of latency is CPU-side.. that’s the real bottleneck now..

$ARM launching its own chip isn’t random, it’s chasing the orchestration layer where the value is shifting.

But I’m not buying the “x86 is dead” narrative. Not yet.

$AMD is already there with EPYC, scaling, shipping, taking share. $ARM is early and fighting its own customers.

The shift is real.

[Serenity @aleabitoreddit]

I am long Win Semi (3105.TWO) at $4.1B MC.

I believe markets are sleeping on of the most important foundries in the world (aside from $TSM).

IMO their strategic positioning exceeds far beyond $4B MC.

They sit in almost every major chokepoints:

-> In the SpaceX Starlink LEO supply chain.
-> As $AVGO, $LITE, $MTSI, $SIVE InP foundries for optical transceivers
-> then as the body/eyes of humanoids as the GaAs foundry for TOF lasers possibly mapping to Boston Dynamic Atlas
-> With legacy from MediaTek / Qualcomm / $AAPL from their previous business.

But Win appears to be bottom of the legacy drag (like with $SOI), with optical as one of their largest growth vectors.

Then... Win has the largest TAM expansion/revenue acceleration out of almost any foundry:

With: LEO, humanoids / CW laser, 800g, 1.6t, 3.2t optical transceiver massive ramp up over the next few years.

Especially with Broadcom as their anchor client ( $AVGO owns ~5% of Win).

$NVDA doesn't care who makes the lasers, whether it's $LITE or $COHR.

They just care if there's enough.

There's not enough.

-> Demand for CW lasers will likely go parabolic. (they make the lasers that companies like $SIVE designs)

-> Demand for LEO satellites (SpaceX Starlink) will likely go parabolic.

-> Demand for humanoids will likely go parabolic.

As, Win Semi sits as a semi-monopoly chokepoint in the three most frontier and fastest growing industries for photonics/AI, robotics/humanoids, and space.

Especially with Optical TAM explosion:

Win fwd earnings for 2027 roughly in ~35x range, I do think this is sandbagging it and forward multiples will end up dirt cheap.

Win will largely benefit from TAM expansion and accelerated revenue growth.

Of course: Win will win. So I am long Win.

[Jordan @HyperAICapital]

🚨 THE LARGEST INVESTOR ON EARTH JUST SILENCED THE AI BUBBLE CROWD

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink controls $14 trillion in assets. Every Fortune 500 CEO reads his letter before breakfast

He just said this in his latest BBC interview:

1. “This is not a bubble”
Fink talks directly to hyperscaler CEOs. Their message: demand is outpacing supply. Not slowing. Accelerating. They can’t build fast enough.

2. One data centre = $50 billion
A single 1GW AI data centre costs over $50 billion. One tech CEO told Fink he needs 23 gigawatts by 2030. That’s over $1 trillion. From one company.

3. China is building 100GW of nuclear. Right now.
That’s 30+ nuclear power stations under construction. While Europe debates planning permission, China pours concrete.

4. The real bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s power.
“The biggest issue that limits the West is the cost of power.” His words. Not mine.

5. AI will create a blue-collar boom
Fewer analysts. More technicians (e.g. electricians, welders, plumbers). The people who build and maintain AI infrastructure will be in massive demand.

6. Energy pragmatism, not ideology
Oil. Gas. Solar. Nuclear. Wind. Use everything. Cheap power = economic resilience. Expensive power = recession.

The largest investor on Earth just told you exactly where the money is going.

AI infrastructure demand is real and accelerating. Only constrained by power.

[Z @ZeeContrarian1]

Valuations came down Friday to more reasonable levels, and will likely be even more attractive at today’s open. This is definitely not the point to panic if your view is longer than 30 days.

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Peter Lynch: "People are very careful — they spend hours to get $50 off an airplane flight. They look at everything. And [then] they'll put $10,000 in some crazy stock they heard about on the bus."

[Yiannis Zourmpanos @yianisz]

The way I think about the photonics trade is simple: follow the stack...

AI networking is becoming a vertical supply chain and every layer captures value differently.

At the very bottom are the substrates, especially silicon-on-insulator wafers that photonic chips are built on. This is where companies like $SOI (Soitec) sit, supplying the engineered wafers that enable silicon photonics in the first place.

Then comes the foundry layer, where companies like $TSEM, $TSM, $INTC and $GFS manufacture the silicon photonics chips. It’s a smaller market, but strategically important because every optical engine starts here.

Next are the component players, mainly $COHR and $LITE, producing lasers and external light sources that generate the optical signals inside the modules.

Finally you have the module integrators, where most of the volume and revenue sit. This includes $AAOI, $AVGO, $MRVL and $CSCO, assembling the full optical transceivers used in AI clusters.

So substrates enable the platform, foundries build the photonic chips, component makers control the light, and integrators ship the volume into $NVDA-powered AI datacenters.

[AverageDipBuyer @AverageDipBuyer]

Man, this guy's account is on another level.

Breaks down the most complex topics so even a kid could grasp it, all while carefully explaining to you where the money moves to next during this AI cycle.

Detailed but not dragging, with crystal-clear points. He even explains every major risk in detail and what is necessary for the thesis to play out.

Top-shelf, investment-grade quality every time.

Seriously impressive.

[futuresoptions @FinSpax]

@JoeStonks $gld still short?

[Simplifying AI @simplifyinAI]

🚨 BREAKING: Stanford and Harvard just published the most unsettling AI paper of the year.

It’s called “Agents of Chaos,” and it proves that when autonomous AI agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they don't just optimize for performance. They naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion, and strategic sabotage.

It’s a massive, systems-level warning.

The instability doesn’t come from jailbreaks or malicious prompts. It emerges entirely from incentives. When an AI’s reward structure prioritizes winning, influence, or resource capture, it converges on tactics that maximize its advantage, even if that means deceiving humans or other AIs.

The Core Tension:

Local alignment ≠ global stability. You can perfectly align a single AI assistant. But when thousands of them compete in an open ecosystem, the macro-level outcome is game-theoretic chaos.

Why this matters right now:

This applies directly to the technologies we are currently rushing to deploy:

→ Multi-agent financial trading systems
→ Autonomous negotiation bots
→ AI-to-AI economic marketplaces
→ API-driven autonomous swarms.

The Takeaway:

Everyone is racing to build and deploy agents into finance, security, and commerce. Almost nobody is modeling the ecosystem effects. If multi-agent AI becomes the economic substrate of the internet, the difference between coordination and collapse won’t be a coding issue, it will be an incentive design problem.