Victor Nelin

Founder & CEO, Trend Alpha Corporation
2025: +36.3% 2024: +85.3%
Top-20 U.S. Investment Championship
Systematic Investment Strategies

[Victor Nelin @VictorNelin]

Take MORE Vacations and Trade LESS
That's what @10MinuteTrading titled our interview. And he's right — that's the whole strategy.
+85% in 2024. +31% in 2025. Top 20 US Investing Championship.
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[Victor Nelin @VictorNelin]

The average leader runs about 19 months. So where do today's leaders sit?

→ Sandisk: ~16 months into its run
→ Micron: ~14 months

Full report: https://t.co/DWRPaY602I

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How long does a # TML True market leader run before it breaks?

So I measured it. Eight dominant leaders of every cycle since 2019, one metric each: months from the breakout to the top that ended the trend.

@Upticken @PeterLBrandt @CFlanders7 @ovtlyr

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→ TSLA: 25 months, then -73%
→ ENPH: 24 months, then -50%
→ MRNA: 18 months, then -90%
→ UPST: 10 months, then -97%
→ SMCI: 14 months, then -85%
→ NVDA: 24 months, then -37%
→ APP: 20 months, then -45%
→ VST: 20 months, then -35%

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I bought in 2023 via private markets. IPO pricing = my exit liquidity, not my entry.

Not bearish on the company. Bearish on buying hype with no trend to confirm.
Watchlist, not buy list.

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3 reasons I'm NOT buying the SpaceX IPO (while already owning SpaceX):

IPO hype takes ~3 years to digest. Apple took 70 months to reclaim its listing price. Tesla 34. Palantir 32.
~4,000 employees become millionaires on day one. That's ~20% of the float looking for an exit.

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V-bounce appears to be quite exhausted, doesn’t it?
@PeterLBrandt @MarkRitchie_II @Upticken @RyanPierpont

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@USICOfficial Eagerly awaiting

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@CFlanders7 how do you get T2108 information into excel?

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud.

Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match.

Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines.

Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past.

That's exactly what Altman wants you to think.

Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings...

A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion.

If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem.

Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this:

Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language.

xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity."

Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise.

An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits.

That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking.

Just look at what he did this week:

Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins.

Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally.

That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense.

He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back.

OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg.

They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy."

That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win.

Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak.

OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery.
Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion.

The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away.

And the timing couldn't be worse...

OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them.

A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth.

This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist.

Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama.

The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER.

And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.

[Victor Nelin @VictorNelin]

Managing $100K+ on your own?
Happy to talk strategy, portfolio structure, and tax efficiency — no strings attached.
Book a free 30-min consultation → https://t.co/eGtZ9PtQav

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Our track record through the noise:
2024: +85.3% (vs S&P +25%)
2025: +31.1% (vs S&P +18.4%)
2026 YTD: +0.23% (vs S&P -3.84%)

Sitting in cash IS the strategy right now.

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We're watching a few setups (cyclicals, energy) but won't enter without trend confirmation.
Capital preservation first. Offense second.

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Crypto is stagnant. BTC failed its 4th reversal attempt at $66,855 — rejected at the 21 & 50 DSMA simultaneously.
Silver lining: volatility is compressing. Could be building a base.

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Equal-weight S&P (RSP) bounced off the 200 DSMA — that's actually a decent sign. Not everything is falling apart. Earnings season is around the corner.

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Weekly update from Trend Alpha.
Both strategies — Pure US Growth and Pure Crypto Growth — are 100% cash.
No positions. No FOMO. Here's what we see:

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S&P 500 attempted a rally that looked like a short squeeze. Almost broke above the 21 & 200-day moving averages. Almost.
Close: 5,583. Still in correction territory.

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Thanks @10MinuteTrading — one of the best trading channels out there.
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What's harder — entries, exits, or doing nothing?

[Victor Nelin @VictorNelin]

Take MORE Vacations and Trade LESS
That's what @10MinuteTrading titled our interview. And he's right — that's the whole strategy.
+85% in 2024. +31% in 2025. Top 20 US Investing Championship.
Watch here 👇 https://t.co/cbnx3p4pMc

[Victor Nelin @VictorNelin]

What we covered:
→ Why breakouts beat buying the dip → Cash as your best position in bad markets → Risk management rules that actually protect capital → How I scan 1000s of charts to find leaders early

[Victor Nelin @VictorNelin]

There's no shame in being a speculator. But there's a cost to pretending you're an investor when you're not — because it changes how you manage risk, when you sell, and what you expect from your portfolio.
Know which game you're playing

[Victor Nelin @VictorNelin]

I'm a speculator. And I think investors are better than me.

Not what you expected to hear? Let me explain

An investor buys a stake in a business to run it and collect dividends. A speculator buys something cheaper and sells it to someone who needs it more — at a higher price.