I came to the US from Ukraine at 9, not knowing a word of English.
At 17 I got obsessed with markets as I wanted to help my family financially. I spent a year on penny stocks and futures and learned nothing except how to lose money.
At 19, second year of uni, I tried again. I had $20K saved from odd jobs and remote web work, and I put all of it into $HIMS at $25 in November of 2024.
It ran to $70 and portfolio went over $55K, but I didn't sell.
Then April 2025 hit. The tariff crash roundtripped $HIMS all the way back under $25.
I sat through the entire drawdown, bought more, held on conviction, and sold at $55 in June.
Around then I joined the HIMS House Discord and met some of the best traders I've ever met: @GuSonOfBu, @RJCcapital, @mpk_twit, @chonky_453, @KawzInvests, @JerBearRN, @retail_mourinho, @NighthawkTradez, @Fluke340, and Solar. I don't think they know just how much they mean to me. They changed how I see this entire game and help me improve to this day.
Right after selling $HIMS, I got greedy.
I blew $15K in two hours on a shitco, the exact penny-stock mentality I thought I'd left behind. Gone in an afternoon.
That loss is the best thing that happened to me.
I stopped chasing. I built an actual strategy: high conviction, thesis-driven, 4–18 month outlook. Only names I understand deeply. No noise, no lottery tickets.
Since then:
$HOOD 70 → 147
$SNDK 230 → 1,800
$KRKNF 2.6 → 6.2
$MU 350 → 1,000
$NBIS 95 → 220
$PENG 39 → 81
$MRVL 180 → 245
$20K → a $150K+ portfolio. ~400%+ returns net of deposits since I started a year and half ago.
I'm 20 and just getting started.
NFA
Some days rough knowing port was 180%+ YTD in June and has not been the same since...
Then I remember I'm alive, healthy, have 6 figs at 21, bench 2 plates for reps, have infinite potential in anything I do and port is still up 60% YTD.
Life is awesome.
- KC
$MU $NBIS $SNDK $AAOI
$SIVE has a $1.2B 'opportunity pipeline,' not backlog. Company's own words. Potential pipeline ≠ signed contracts.
Actual signed stuff:
- ALLSPACE production orders, SemiNex $3.4M initial program, Tachyon builds, CHIPS Act award.
That's it, less then $20M. Rest is prospective.
268% pipeline growth with a fraction of that converting to real orders isn't a real story, a lot more needs to be proven.
Was a small position, no need to attack me with a Chat GPTd post and tagging half of X.
- KC
@KaiCapitalx selling $SIVE / $SIVEF at 2.82 because “just promises”?
$1.2B pipeline (+268%), product revenue growing, deals with SemiNex + GlobalFoundries + POET for CPO / ELS, plus a new $4B SAM in optical circuit switches.
That’s not PowerPoint. That’s the InP laser chokepoint for AI data centers.
Q2 was ugly on the P&L. The thesis was never this quarter’s revenue.
Calling the $SIVE army to come defend this:
@aleabitoreddit@Pep_Invest@BULLOFBRITAIN@PatschSchneider@Million_Sancet@MoleLabs@fynnvestor@PhotonBull@ren_stocks@outliercapx
Is this just another bagholder cope… or did he sell the exact moment the product ramps start?
Come fight. $SIVE $SIVEF
@xT1T00@AccrueReturns Literally is 🤣, they could have said any number is their "opportunity pipeline" and bam 10000% growth from last time we talked about it
$HPE reports tonight after close
> Guide: Revenue $11.5B-$12.1B, EPS $0.88-$0.93
> Street's above the guide on both: consensus revenue $12.1B, EPS $0.94
> In-line won't cut it here, needs a raise to hold the YTD move
> Track record: beat every quarter the last four, average surprise of 16%
Watching for:
> AI server backlog $ figure
> Gross margin trend on AI systems (historically dilutive)
> FY26 full-year guidance revision
@stepnotonpets Average day for @kevinxu , if you arent larping being a genius trader by showing 4% gains on a tiny account then are you really larping?