One of the most important things you can do as a stock trader is to be patient with yourself and allow yourself time to grow. Not all flowers bloom at the same time, and not every journey unfolds on the same schedule. It may take you longer than someone else to develop the skills, discipline, and understanding needed to succeed, but that doesn't mean you're any less capable.
Avoid measuring your progress against others. Everyone learns at a different pace and reaches important milestones at different points in life. Trading is a personal journey, and your timeline is your own.
I know this firsthand because I was a very slow starter. It took me six years before I even became profitable. There were many times when I could have concluded that I simply didn't have what it takes. But persistence, patience, and a commitment to continual improvement made all the difference. Most of all, I knew that those who succeeded were just men like me, and if they did it, then so could I.
So give yourself space and grace. Give yourself time. Stay committed to the process and focus on getting a little better each day.
Above all, be patient with yourself—the big rewards come to those who refuse to quit before their time arrives. If I could do it, so can you.
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TSMC CEO’s remarks to TSMC employees regarding bonuses
Q: Why are engineers taking a pay cut (smaller bonus) while VPs and above are getting stock — effectively a raise? A: I'll have to go back and look into the relationship between the two.
Q: The articles of incorporation stipulate that profit-sharing must be no less than 1%. If the company keeps cutting it down toward 1%, can the articles be amended to protect employee rights? A: No.
Q: Last time, the compensation restructuring was "cut the bonus, raise base salary." This time you're cutting the bonus again — will base salaries go up? A: Future raises will be larger for lower job grades and smaller for higher ones.
Q: Is there a ceiling on compensation? A: There is no ceiling.
Q: (The questioner's logic was unclear. The gist was questioning whether overexpansion of fabs and headcount is diluting the bonus pool.)
Q: The bonus isn't increasing with EPS, but you mentioned earlier that the employee birth rate is 5x Taiwan's average. That doesn't add up. Shouldn't the company follow the government's lead and have the company raise the kids? A: Not possible.
Q: Rather than putting that money into green energy investments, why not pay it out to employees, or at least restrict it to charitable donations? A: Not possible.
Q: Even in downturns, the money doesn't get returned to employees. Wouldn't it be better to spend it on improving company benefits? A: The money doesn't get redistributed that way.
Q: Since you're developing AI, can we use fewer people and pay out more in bonuses? A: I'm working on it.
Q: Can we spend more on software and hardware equipment? A: Yes.
Q: Will ETE (equipment-related roles) get raises? A: I'll go back and check. They should be increasing.
Q: You said you can't keep sustaining 1.3x growth — is that because you're seeing some operational red flags down the road? A: There are no red flags.
(Management interjects) Complains that other companies' stocks are pumping for no good reason, and that TSMC's stock is severely undervalued. 95% of the world's AI chips are made at TSMC — please keep up the good work, everyone.
Q: Elon Musk is offering 2x salary to poach our people. Aren't you worried? A: First, I'm not worried. Second, do you really believe Musk? Do you believe you can smoke cigars like he does?
Q: Anything on the financials going forward? A: We're considering continuing to increase the dividend.
Q: Looking at the Samsung strike, TSMC's profit-sharing ratio has already dropped to 10%. Can you guarantee that at least 10% will continue to be distributed to employees going forward? A: No. The DRAM industry "earns in one year and lives off it for ten" — it's a different industry, not comparable.
Q: Do you support employees forming a union? A: If a union is formed, management has to spend a lot of energy dealing with it, so I don't encourage it. You're already getting this much in bonuses — why would you want a union?
Q: What if business turns south in the future? A: That's not a scenario we're assuming. But if the global economy really did collapse, management would take care of its people.
And now… $MU finally hits a $1 Trillion marketcap.
I did say this looks like the next $NVDA given how memory demand looks structural with AI.
This stock probably made a lot of millionaires going from $80 to $887.
“Leading” Glass Substrate players that were name dropped if you’re curious:
• $LPK �� TGV Equipment
• $GLW — Glass Materials
• $ASGLY (5201 T)— Glass Materials
• $NIDGY (5214 T) — Glass Materials
• $LRCX — Etching Systems
• $DSCSY (6146 T)— Dicing Equipment
• $SMHSF — Bonding Systems
• $ONTO — Inspection Tools
• $KLAC — Inspection Tools
Fun to see the stuff I’ve called out early in the year like LPK at ~$150m MC get mentioned as a critical player by Trendforce and others.
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How many Taiwanese semiconductor companies are now genuine AI infra bottlenecks?
Are there actually near-term alternatives to Taiwan’s semi-ecosystem?
Or are we also giving ourselves a bit too much credit for the AI buildout narrative?
I read Goldman Sachs’ AI report, and I was genuinely impressed.
The core insight is as follows:
Agentic AI could turn AI from a capex-heavy cost burden into a business where usage growth drives margin expansion. As token costs fall, more complex agents become economically viable. These agents then consume far more tokens through longer context windows, repeated reasoning loops, validation, tool use, and always-on background monitoring.
This increase in token usage improves infrastructure utilization, strengthens unit economics, and gives hyperscalers and model providers more room to reinvest in model quality, distribution, and capacity.
In other words, the bull case for AI capex is not simply that usage will grow. It is that this usage growth can increasingly flow through at attractive incremental margins. Goldman Sachs argues that this margin inflection is beginning to appear from 2026 onward.
如果你的男朋友这两天没有打开 Claude Code / Codex,
没有满嘴「半导体超级周期」、DRAM、NAND、HBM、PCB 永远缺货,没有突然研究韩国国运,什么 SK 海力士是 AI 铲子股、三星明年盈利世界第一、斗山能源是韩国版 GEV,没有深夜感慨这是国运、是东亚制造业复兴。
��明他没有任何投资理财观念,看不懂产业趋势,错过了时代贝塔。
但也说明他不会被泡沫诱惑,没有 FOMO,不会顶部 All in ,不会把被套也不卖说成长期主义。这种男人,情绪稳定,账户也稳定。
可以考虑结婚了。
If you are living an angry life, feeling like a victim, and you think you are hurting or spitting others by being unkind or apathetic, you are only depriving yourself of the fullness of life and you are living a lonely existence.
Forgiveness, gratitude and love will free you from the demons that haunt you and make you bitter. 😇🙏
Don't try it... live it and trust it.
Anyone with a functioning brain can trade stocks successfully—so then, why do few succeed on a big level?
Because few are willing to admit one simple truth: you suck!
Your head is full—sucky opinions, sucky assumptions, and “logic” that feels right but produces the wrong results.
As long as your cup is full, there’s no room for anything that actually works.
Empty it!!!
Strip away the ego. Discard everything you think you know.
Then find someone who’s already done it—at a high level—and shut up long enough to learn.
And finally, the hardest part: commit.
Commit to a strategy. Commit to your coach. Commit to the process. Commit to the belief that you can do it.
No dabbling. No second-guessing. No halfway effort.
Because success in this game doesn’t come from intelligence—it comes from discipline, humility, and coachability.
And most people fail because they lack all three.
You don't know shit! If you did, you would already be worth tens of millions of dollars. But I'm here to tell you that you CAN do it. Because I did. Anyone who tells you can't, never did it themselves. That's the final peace of the puzzle. Stop listening to losers and self proclaimed gurus. If they are so smart and they know how to teach you. Why haven't they done it for themselves. Do you really think someone who hasn't made 100 million dollars can teach you how to do it? If you do, then, that's why you'll never achieve it.