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The Neocloud List got updated: $IREN - IREN secured a $9.7B GPU cloud contract with Microsoft, including 20% upfront prepayment, to deploy NVIDIA GB300s over five years. $CIFR - CIFR secured a $5.5 billion, 15-year lease agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Neocloud sector just got insanely bullish with new contracts coming in from hyperscalers and this just shows insatiable demand for compute. I expected $ORCL, $META, and $AMZN to make deals in the original thesis and looks like AWS entered the fray with $CIFR, with likely more deals incoming with other Neoclouds. $META also signed a $14B deal with $CRWV recently and from their ER scaling AI Capex, we'll likely see other deals with Neoclouds. This is insanely bullish across the whole sector. I attached my personal tierlist for fun, but we'll likely see a re-ratings in data centers/miners across the board when there's more time to analyze deals and margins.
Neocloud Ecosystem Cheat Sheet Part 1/2: Bullet Point Positive vs. Negatives. Full List by Marketcap: $CRWV ($66.2B) $NBIS ($32.85B) $IREN ($16.52B) $APLD ($9.69B) $RIOT ($7.34B) $CIFR ($7.3B) $WULF ($6.36B) $HUT($5.39B) $CLSK ($5.01B) $HIVE ($1.74B CAD) $WYFI ($1.29B) $WLAC($600m IPO) $DGXX ($393M CAD) $SLNH ($281.9M) _ Summary When comparing, a major source of alpha generation currently lies in the megawatt valuation arbitrage, which involves converting low-multiple Bitcoin power capacity into high-multiple AI hosting capacity. The second major alpha is margin generation, which involves being vertically integrated from the bottom up from GPU orchestration to software. Coreweave ( $CRWV ) - $66.2B Marketcap 🍏Positives ________________ - Sector leader by scale: quarterly revenue of $1.21B (+206.75% YoY) and EBITDA of $607.69M; on pace for $5B+ ARR in 2025. - $30B+ backlog, anchored by: - $14B Meta deal, - OpenAI - $6.3B NVIDIA GPU backstop agreement, - growng Gov contracts via CRWV Federal . - Expansion into U.S. government infrastructure is a major long-term moat if backstopped by federal workloads. - NVIDIA partnership ensures utilization floor; de-risks GPU oversupply. - Positioned as hyperscaler alternative with Tier 1 clients and national buildout footprint. Negatives ________________ - Aggressive capex: Q3 spend of $2.9–3.4B, with 2025 full-year guidance of $20–23B. - High-cost debt structure: Over $1B in projected annual interest, versus competors using low- or zero-interest convertible notes. - Q2 GAAP net loss of $291M, signaling limited profitability despite scale. - Execution risk remains high: e.g., failed $9B Core Scientific acquisition due to shareholder rejection. - Competitors like Nebius are closing the full-stack gap, weakening CoreWeave's software moat. Nebius ( $NBIS ) - $32.85B MarketCap 🍏Positives ________________ - $17.4B Microsoft deal for full-stack AI infrastructure (possibly rising to $19.4B). - Active include many enterprises such as MSFT, Shopify, Accenture, governments, and AI startups. - 71%+ gross margins on AI infra segment; profitable at the EBITDA level. - 1 GW+ powr secured, targeting dense GPU deployments across new sites. - Fully integrated software+hardware stack, which increases opex and is a moat. - $10B+ in assets, from $5.8B+ cash, ownership of companies like Clickhouse that powers Anthropic, Meta, and others growing rapidly. Negatives ________________ - Execution risks around full-stack delivery and latency SLAs could derail rollout. - Microsoft is the primary anchor on forward revenue extreme contract dependency (high concentration risk projected AI revenue) - 71% gross margin figure not representative of forward revenue or execution at scale and could lower to a more conservative 50-65% number. $IREN - $16.52B marketcap 🍏Positives ________________ - 2.91 GW power secured, diversified across North America, and expanding more than 3GW in renewable power capacity. - Full control over power, land, and data center construction = vertical efficiency and higher margin control compare to other bare metal. - Targets customers (e.g., AI labs, hyperscalers) who might bring their own Type-1 orchestration and prefer bare-metal control. - Historically the most efficient and profitable large-scale BTC miner and better positioned to handle rising GPU power/cooling requirements in B100/B200 generations for AI cloud pivot. - Targeting an ARR of over $500 million by the first quarter of 2026 by buildouting out a fleet of 23,000 NVIDIA B200/B300 + AMD MI350X GPUs. Downsides ________________ - No well-known enteprsie/hyperscaler contract visibility and limited disclosed large SLA deals yet - Not a full-stack provider; acts as Tier-1 (shell/colocation) = lower margin and tenant risk and illustrative GPU target. Meaning it is unable to capture the highest-margin revenues associated with integrated, proprietary full-stack cloud - Quoted 92% margins excludes expense recognition, and with D&A and would be much lower at scale. - The substantial capital expenditure required for the large-scale GPU purchase risks negative returns if future utilization rates fail to meet expectations $APLD 🍏Positives ________________ - $5B Macquarie financing facility, with first draw building 400MW AI campus. - Tenant: CoreWeave fully leasing Polaris Forge 1 (400MW), scalable to 1GW. - Proprietary waterless liquid cooling optimized for dense AI workloads - Capex-light via preferred equity. - AI-first buildout focused on latency, fiber, and power pairing in North Dakota. Downsides ________________ - Large-scale buildout depends on continued draws from Macquarie’s $5B facility. - 400MW CoreWeave lease is all-or-nothing; no clarity on tenant diversity. - Execution risk at Polaris Forge: weather, zoning, grid integration delays. - Exposed to single-tenant concentration and private-market GPU pricing dynamics. $RIOT 🍏Positives ________________ - 600MW idle capacity in Corsicana, TX under AI redeployment review. - Gigawatt-scale infrastructure in place, ready for rapid pivot. - Leverages one of the lowest power costs in the U.S. (ERCOT access). - TTM Gross Margin of nearly 60% as of Q2 2025, primarily derived from its core mining business. The successful implementation of this contract gives more confidence in converting additional existing mining sites into high-multiple HPC capacity. Negatives ________________ - AI pivot is purely exploratory; no firm buildout announced. - 600MW idle capacity = opportunity, but also dead capital for now. - Canceling mining expansion (8.3 EH/s) may weaken near-term revenues. - Needs permits, fiber, GPU supply, and anchor tenant before AI rollout can begin. $CIFR 🍏Positives ________________ - 10-year, $3B+ computing 168MW agreement with Fluidstack + $GOOGL - Agreement is substantially de-risked by a $1.4 billion commitment from Google to backstop the Fluidstack lease - High-margin, low-risk hosting model with leased facilities. Negatives ________________ - Fluidstack deal is 10-year but fixed-price, limiting upside if GPU rental rates increase. - $1.3B convertible debt adds dilution risk if equity markets weaken. - Site buildouts dependent on few customers, very high fill and utilization risk. _ Since the data center sector is so nuanced and broad thought it would be helpful if I wrote created a full TLDR list for newcomers to see the tradeoffs of each approach. I'll probably go back and add more stuff to $CIFR and $APLD and others in one final post since it didn't get enough justice. I just didn't realize how much time this took to write up + please correct me if any figures are off lol. Also would save me time if people helped fill out the rest lol so would appreciate it too for 2/2. ~~~ Help with the Crowdsourcing ~~~
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I first bought $HOOD at $11.47 and watched it grow 1000%+ to a 125B+ MC. Scaling from $150M to 1B quarterly revenue over years. I thought this was insane until I saw $NBIS. This 30B company is about to go from $100m quarterly revenue to $1.5-2B quarterly revenue the next year or two. This type of growth is mind numbing. If you're afraid of buying on a 7%+ increase day, just look at forward revenue ramp. The contracts with MSFT are locked in and there's more hyperscaler contracts coming. I only have single digit high conviction longs about Nebius is one of them. Be a part of history this time.
As expected, with META and their recent 14B deal with CRWV + MSFT with their 17B deal with $NBIS, billions to trillions will pour into Neoclouds from Mag7 when they're unable to handle new AI compute. Expects companies like AWS, ORCL and others to make more deals soon with companies like $CIFR or $IREN soon. This is a once in a generation opportunity to buy tiny new Neocloud companies that serve as the infrastructure of multi-trillion Hyperscaler cash cows.
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Nebius is playing out exactly how institutions wanted: Retail panic. Capitulation. Liquidity. I’ve been saying this for weeks: $NBIS Institutional ownership is ~38%. Every trick in the book will be used to get that number to 65-80% like $HOOD: Here's what and why this is happening: Nebius got put on Wall Street's radar after the MSFT 17-19 billion dollar deal last month. Before then institutional ownership was sitting in <30%'s due to a non-traditional public listing. Meanwhile we were able to see Nebius's fundamentals exploding: 1. 🚀 1,000%+ forward revenue growth with 55-75% gross margins to 4-6B+ ARR. 2. 💼 Large ownership of companies like Clickhouse powering Anthropic, Meta, Lyft, etc. 3. ⚡ NBIS powering Microsoft Azure + likely more Mag7 infrastructure, the cash cows of Hyperscalers 4. 🌊 Huge moat from full-stack + software GPU orchestration, leading to higher gross margins. 5. 💸 Largest datacenter builtout in history, with Meta signing deals with CRWV, and other hyperscalers following-suit. We've seen forward projections with TSM on this buildout, and they're blowout numbers. 6. 🏦 3X rate cuts boosting forward revenue projections. Nebius is a screaming buy and a once-in-a-generational company in the marketing as a $26B company and $100/share. We've seen this play with Robinhood, when they would have 50% below MC price targets, hit-pieces when share price was $20. Yet Robinhood grew from $150m quarterly revenue to $950m-1B, and market cap went from $15B to $130B and then became the darling of Wall Street. Wall Street and institutional investors see this clearly with Nebius for the next year but don't have large positions yet. However, retail only sees the dropping price, sensationalist articles about Oracle losing $100m trying to enter the space, and the current 100M revenue numbers instead of the projected $1B+/quarter. So, even if price can seem like they're dropping off marginal trades are executed at lower prices, even if more shares get bought: 1. Retail panic-sells, gets margin liquidated. 2. Mechanical hedging from MM's from short-dated options (couterparty to retail selling CSPs or buying short dated calls) exacerbates downside, creating a sell-off) 3. MMs from Citadel to Virtu absorb the flow by buying from retail. 4. MMs hedge + rebalance by offload to insitutions in block trades + dark pools. (harvesting selloff by institutions) 5. Institutions get low-visibility accumulation while keeping price down. (eg. 100k shares sold by retail, and 150k shares bought by institutions, while price drops.) Retail sees "red days" and thinks "no one’s buying" while accumulation continues quietly. Retail sentiment is collapsing but fundamentals have only improved (eg. new Israel data center build out for more ~80m+ ARR based on estimates). It's a slow, strategic process to accumulate a large percentage of a company's float as hedge funds and institutions see Nebius as a potential next 100B+ company. The fundamentals haven’t changed - only the share price and retail sentiment have.
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Neocloud Ecosystem Cheat Sheet Part 1/2: Bullet Point Positive vs. Negatives. Full List by Marketcap: $CRWV ($66.2B) $NBIS ($32.85B) $IREN ($16.52B) $APLD ($9.69B) $RIOT ($7.34B) $CIFR ($7.3B) $WULF ($6.36B) $HUT($5.39B) $CLSK ($5.01B) $HIVE ($1.74B CAD) $WYFI ($1.29B) $WLAC($600m IPO) $DGXX ($393M CAD) $SLNH ($281.9M) _ Summary When comparing, a major source of alpha generation currently lies in the megawatt valuation arbitrage, which involves converting low-multiple Bitcoin power capacity into high-multiple AI hosting capacity. The second major alpha is margin generation, which involves being vertically integrated from the bottom up from GPU orchestration to software. Coreweave ( $CRWV ) - $66.2B Marketcap 🍏Positives ________________ - Sector leader by scale: quarterly revenue of $1.21B (+206.75% YoY) and EBITDA of $607.69M; on pace for $5B+ ARR in 2025. - $30B+ backlog, anchored by: - $14B Meta deal, - OpenAI - $6.3B NVIDIA GPU backstop agreement, - growng Gov contracts via CRWV Federal . - Expansion into U.S. government infrastructure is a major long-term moat if backstopped by federal workloads. - NVIDIA partnership ensures utilization floor; de-risks GPU oversupply. - Positioned as hyperscaler alternative with Tier 1 clients and national buildout footprint. Negatives ________________ - Aggressive capex: Q3 spend of $2.9–3.4B, with 2025 full-year guidance of $20–23B. - High-cost debt structure: Over $1B in projected annual interest, versus competors using low- or zero-interest convertible notes. - Q2 GAAP net loss of $291M, signaling limited profitability despite scale. - Execution risk remains high: e.g., failed $9B Core Scientific acquisition due to shareholder rejection. - Competitors like Nebius are closing the full-stack gap, weakening CoreWeave's software moat. Nebius ( $NBIS ) - $32.85B MarketCap 🍏Positives ________________ - $17.4B Microsoft deal for full-stack AI infrastructure (possibly rising to $19.4B). - Active include many enterprises such as MSFT, Shopify, Accenture, governments, and AI startups. - 71%+ gross margins on AI infra segment; profitable at the EBITDA level. - 1 GW+ powr secured, targeting dense GPU deployments across new sites. - Fully integrated software+hardware stack, which increases opex and is a moat. - $10B+ in assets, from $5.8B+ cash, ownership of companies like Clickhouse that powers Anthropic, Meta, and others growing rapidly. Negatives ________________ - Execution risks around full-stack delivery and latency SLAs could derail rollout. - Microsoft is the primary anchor on forward revenue extreme contract dependency (high concentration risk projected AI revenue) - 71% gross margin figure not representative of forward revenue or execution at scale and could lower to a more conservative 50-65% number. $IREN - $16.52B marketcap 🍏Positives ________________ - 2.91 GW power secured, diversified across North America, and expanding more than 3GW in renewable power capacity. - Full control over power, land, and data center construction = vertical efficiency and higher margin control compare to other bare metal. - Targets customers (e.g., AI labs, hyperscalers) who might bring their own Type-1 orchestration and prefer bare-metal control. - Historically the most efficient and profitable large-scale BTC miner and better positioned to handle rising GPU power/cooling requirements in B100/B200 generations for AI cloud pivot. - Targeting an ARR of over $500 million by the first quarter of 2026 by buildouting out a fleet of 23,000 NVIDIA B200/B300 + AMD MI350X GPUs. Downsides ________________ - No well-known enteprsie/hyperscaler contract visibility and limited disclosed large SLA deals yet - Not a full-stack provider; acts as Tier-1 (shell/colocation) = lower margin and tenant risk and illustrative GPU target. Meaning it is unable to capture the highest-margin revenues associated with integrated, proprietary full-stack cloud - Quoted 92% margins excludes expense recognition, and with D&A and would be much lower at scale. - The substantial capital expenditure required for the large-scale GPU purchase risks negative returns if future utilization rates fail to meet expectations $APLD 🍏Positives ________________ - $5B Macquarie financing facility, with first draw building 400MW AI campus. - Tenant: CoreWeave fully leasing Polaris Forge 1 (400MW), scalable to 1GW. - Proprietary waterless liquid cooling optimized for dense AI workloads - Capex-light via preferred equity. - AI-first buildout focused on latency, fiber, and power pairing in North Dakota. Downsides ________________ - Large-scale buildout depends on continued draws from Macquarie’s $5B facility. - 400MW CoreWeave lease is all-or-nothing; no clarity on tenant diversity. - Execution risk at Polaris Forge: weather, zoning, grid integration delays. - Exposed to single-tenant concentration and private-market GPU pricing dynamics. $RIOT 🍏Positives ________________ - 600MW idle capacity in Corsicana, TX under AI redeployment review. - Gigawatt-scale infrastructure in place, ready for rapid pivot. - Leverages one of the lowest power costs in the U.S. (ERCOT access). - TTM Gross Margin of nearly 60% as of Q2 2025, primarily derived from its core mining business. The successful implementation of this contract gives more confidence in converting additional existing mining sites into high-multiple HPC capacity. Negatives ________________ - AI pivot is purely exploratory; no firm buildout announced. - 600MW idle capacity = opportunity, but also dead capital for now. - Canceling mining expansion (8.3 EH/s) may weaken near-term revenues. - Needs permits, fiber, GPU supply, and anchor tenant before AI rollout can begin. $CIFR 🍏Positives ________________ - 10-year, $3B+ computing 168MW agreement with Fluidstack + $GOOGL - Agreement is substantially de-risked by a $1.4 billion commitment from Google to backstop the Fluidstack lease - High-margin, low-risk hosting model with leased facilities. Negatives ________________ - Fluidstack deal is 10-year but fixed-price, limiting upside if GPU rental rates increase. - $1.3B convertible debt adds dilution risk if equity markets weaken. - Site buildouts dependent on few customers, very high fill and utilization risk. _ Since the data center sector is so nuanced and broad thought it would be helpful if I wrote created a full TLDR list for newcomers to see the tradeoffs of each approach. I'll probably go back and add more stuff to $CIFR and $APLD and others in one final post since it didn't get enough justice. I just didn't realize how much time this took to write up + please correct me if any figures are off lol. Also would save me time if people helped fill out the rest lol so would appreciate it too for 2/2. ~~~ Help with the Crowdsourcing ~~~
The Neocloud thesis aged well. 1 month later: $CRWV 120.34 → 135.64 (+12.7%) $NBIS 107.70 → 126.49 (+17.5%) $WULF 10.63 → 13.69 (+28.8%) $IREN 41.68 → 64.69 (+55.2%) $CIFR 11.47 → 20.70 (+80.4%) $BITF 2.54 → 4.51 (+77.6%) $WYFI 22.83 → 36.52 (+59.9%) $GRRR 19.90 → 16.95 (−14.8%) $SLNH 2.75 → 2.81 (+2.2%) $RIOT 17.69 → 23.01 (+30.1%) $MARA 16.13 → 19.61 (+21.6%) $CLSK 12.96 → 20.21 (+56.0%) $HUT 33.16 → 49.95 (+50.6%) This is only the beginning of the largest AI data center buildout in history and everyone on finx is still early. I'm very bullish on the Neocloud sector across the board, but personally have concentration in $NBIS due to the highest asymmetrical return.
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To settle the Neocloud debate: $NBIS > $IREN + others. Based on the $ORCL report, NBIS whitepaper, $CRWV acquisitions, and other factors, I decided to consolidate millions into Nebius and sell off miners like $CIFR. 📏 Gross Margins > GW capacity Here's the math + why: We've had a huge speculative run across the board on Neoclouds backed by forward revenue (eg. 19B $MSFT deal with $NBIS). However, crypto miners have recently gone up 500%+ due to raw GW capacity like $IREN and cheap energy. However, what people miss out on is capacity leads to much higher revenue but that revenue means nothing if it's not profitable (eg. $ORCL 14% gross margins). Now that more information has come out regarding $ORCL's buildout failure, $NBIS's whitepaper, and others, we know power and capacity mean little if the economics don’t translate. And $NBIS has everything. 1. The Margin Gap: Full Stack vs. Middleware Miners like $IREN and $CIFR must rely on orchestration partners (Fluidstack, Poolside, etc.) to monetize their GPUs. That means giving up 20–30% of revenue (~private estimates from deep research), plus absorbing GPU depreciation, power, and O&M. The result? At $3–4/hr GPU pricing and ~80% utilization, IREN/CIFR margin = ~44–52% At $5–6/hr and 90% utilization, margin could reach ~55–60%, but that’s the ceiling Meanwhile, Nebius earns 70–75% today by owning the orchestration layer and amortizing over 4 years (71.2% from previous Q, likely 60-70%, possibly higher from recent whitepaper claiming higher GPU utilizations). This gap compounds as scale and utilization rise. Miners give away a piece of every dollar they earn while Nebius INCREASES gross margins over time. 2. Software Is the Moat and Oracle Proved It Even $ORCL, an $800B hyperscaler, failed at building GPU orchestration profitably, reporting ~14% gross margins on their AI rental platform and losing ~$100M in the process. If Oracle can’t execute, expecting $100M marketcap small miners like $SLNH to build hyperscaler-grade orchestration from scratch is wishful thinking. Platforms like Fluidstack are essential bridges, but they come at a cost: margin compression, revenue leakage, and platform dependency. Nebius? It already did the hard part. Its in-house orchestration software, GPU utilization, with no middlemen taking a cut. 3. Power vs. Margin Calculations A single H100 uses ~0.7–0.84 kW. Even at $0.10/kWh, power is just $0.07–0.08 per GPU-hour. When GPUs rent at $4–6/hr, that’s 1–2% of revenue. What actually moves the needle? Utilization: 50% -> 85% uptime = +70% revenue per GPU That’s a multi-hundred bps margin swing, far outweighing any "cheap power" comparison with miners. Software utilization/orchestration is a moat and matters ~30–70 TIMES more than cheap power. And it's not like $NBIS doesn't have cheap power either lol. 4. The CRWV Exception to Miners Everyone points to $CRWV as miners pivot but Coreweave literally spent YEARS to do this, along with billions in software acquisitions. And even now, reports suggest their utilization trails Nebius. If miners think they’ll replicate CRWV, good luck. I'd expect in NBIS to strong outperform in next year's earnings reports when it comes time for execution vs. speculation. 🧩 The Asymmetry Nebius GM: 70–75% (full-stack, 4yr depreciation) IREN/CIFR realistic GM: 40–60% (middleware, 2–3yr depreciation) Gross margin delta: 15–30 points Execution risk: Nebius = 0 (already doing it); IREN/CIFR = high Nebius isn’t a power play. It’s a software margins play, with hardware upside. With $IREN and others, you're guessing if it can pull off a $CRWV. People keep saying "software it not a moat, and look at $CRWV for $IREN future HPC margins", but if $ORCL one of the largest hyperscalers is stuck at 14% gross margins. Then how do we expect these small crypto miners to pull off a Coreweave. In terms of ASYMMETRICAL UPDATE, $NBIS is the clear favorite out of anything. In terms of raw potential upside if $IREN manages to pull a $CRWV out a hat and beats out $ORCL in this, sure I'd concede. Software full stack is a HUGE moat that people vastly, vastly underestimate. With $NBIS, they can just let it plug and play scale up over time with the highest gross margins in industry. $NBIS is what true asymmetric return looks like.
Neocloud Position Update Friday Oct 24. This post is to send a message to $IREN and other Neoclouds holders that: 👑 $NBIS is superior. I sold out of other Neoclouds: $CIFR 250%+ gain, $IREN, $BITF, $WYFI, 50-100%+ gain, $WULF 5-10% loss. Now with $2M+ exposure in $NBIS shares/leaps + small $WLAC positions. Will add more Nebius positions next week if it stays at $115. I don't normally post sales, but there's a lot of annoying Neocloud posts recently claiming that theirs is the best. So I'm posting this to send a message that $NBIS is clearly superior in terms of asymmetrical upside and already has Mag7 deals locked in. And because of this, there's no point of diversifying into other Neoclouds. NBIS will likely have the highest margin moat from how they do full stack/GPU utilization with their diversified users. And their subsidiaries + portfolio companies (AI DBs, robotics/delivery, etc). are scaling alongside their operational business. There's also no exposure to bad interest debt that eats into margins. There's an easy path to 300% gain and a $100B+ marketcap just by waiting 1 year for another hyperscaler contract and there's no point in speculating gross margins from Bitcoin mining pivots (see how $ORCL lost $100M+ just bc of GPU utilization + buildout -> rev lag) even if some might have larger capacity. So just wanted to say: Nebius is THE Neocloud. 🫳🎙️
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We're seeing a sector crash in high-beta AI stocks, with names down 30-45%+ in 1M & 10%+ today. This includes direct beneficiaries of Mag7 Capex : - Nebius ( $NBIS ): $3B $META deal / $8B forward ARR. - TeraWulf ( $WULF ): <$50B Antrophic DC + JV FS/ $GOOGL - Iren ( $IREN ): $9B $MSFT HPC - Cipher ( $CIFR ): 15Y $5.5 billion w/ $AMZN. that improved their fundamentals in this past month alone. But markets are still panic selling names from $CRDO (-10.33% 1D) to $CIFR (-7.28% 1D) despite record forward revenue growth. This is driven over fears from macro (shutdown, Dec rate cut, corporate bond spreads, etc) and false (but nuanced) institutional claims eg. Burry on GPU depreciation, rather than individual fundamentals. This wipes away froth from the speculative parts of the AI sector such as $OKLO (energy, -37% 1M), but higher-margin growth names get caught together with it. I've said this before, but this reminds me of the time $HOOD sold off to $28 from $65 then pulled off a rally to $150. Or when $ALAB sold off from $100 to $50 off all earnings beats, then rallied to $245. Sometimes stock prices get detached from fundamentals when there’s fear in the markets, especially with “AI bubble” fears like what's happening now. But when the forward growth backs up any market cap projections, it’s just a matter of time and execution.
If you have any iota of doubt during this market correction. Remember this: $NBIS is a $24B MC company doing $8B forward ARR, targeting 30% EBITDA margins. Nebius core business powers Mag7 Hyperscalers from $MSFT to $META, enterprises from Shopify to Cursor to Accenture, and Government AI Infrastructure. They have $10B+ NAV with hyper-growth portfolio companies powering Cloudflare, Tiktok, Tesla, Netflix and Antrophic. And of course, Nebius is growing 700%+ Y/Y, which is almost unheard of going from $125M quarterly revenue to $2B+ in just 1 year. This company is the at the Center of the whole Artificial Intelligence buildout at $93, and is set to be the next $100B+ company. Do not let broad sell-offs affect your conviction.
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Added $200k worth of $NBIS leaps at $98.8, December $105 2026 strike. Nebius dropping 30%+ in a week from $140 to $97 might make you second-guess yourself, but it’s times like these where conviction matters most. If you understand the fundamentals and sector, this is a gift.
Nebius is playing out exactly how institutions wanted: Retail panic. Capitulation. Liquidity. I’ve been saying this for weeks: $NBIS Institutional ownership is ~38%. Every trick in the book will be used to get that number to 65-80% like $HOOD: Here's what and why this is happening: Nebius got put on Wall Street's radar after the MSFT 17-19 billion dollar deal last month. Before then institutional ownership was sitting in <30%'s due to a non-traditional public listing. Meanwhile we were able to see Nebius's fundamentals exploding: 1. 🚀 1,000%+ forward revenue growth with 55-75% gross margins to 4-6B+ ARR. 2. 💼 Large ownership of companies like Clickhouse powering Anthropic, Meta, Lyft, etc. 3. ⚡ NBIS powering Microsoft Azure + likely more Mag7 infrastructure, the cash cows of Hyperscalers 4. 🌊 Huge moat from full-stack + software GPU orchestration, leading to higher gross margins. 5. 💸 Largest datacenter builtout in history, with Meta signing deals with CRWV, and other hyperscalers following-suit. We've seen forward projections with TSM on this buildout, and they're blowout numbers. 6. 🏦 3X rate cuts boosting forward revenue projections. Nebius is a screaming buy and a once-in-a-generational company in the marketing as a $26B company and $100/share. We've seen this play with Robinhood, when they would have 50% below MC price targets, hit-pieces when share price was $20. Yet Robinhood grew from $150m quarterly revenue to $950m-1B, and market cap went from $15B to $130B and then became the darling of Wall Street. Wall Street and institutional investors see this clearly with Nebius for the next year but don't have large positions yet. However, retail only sees the dropping price, sensationalist articles about Oracle losing $100m trying to enter the space, and the current 100M revenue numbers instead of the projected $1B+/quarter. So, even if price can seem like they're dropping off marginal trades are executed at lower prices, even if more shares get bought: 1. Retail panic-sells, gets margin liquidated. 2. Mechanical hedging from MM's from short-dated options (couterparty to retail selling CSPs or buying short dated calls) exacerbates downside, creating a sell-off) 3. MMs from Citadel to Virtu absorb the flow by buying from retail. 4. MMs hedge + rebalance by offload to insitutions in block trades + dark pools. (harvesting selloff by institutions) 5. Institutions get low-visibility accumulation while keeping price down. (eg. 100k shares sold by retail, and 150k shares bought by institutions, while price drops.) Retail sees "red days" and thinks "no one’s buying" while accumulation continues quietly. Retail sentiment is collapsing but fundamentals have only improved (eg. new Israel data center build out for more ~80m+ ARR based on estimates). It's a slow, strategic process to accumulate a large percentage of a company's float as hedge funds and institutions see Nebius as a potential next 100B+ company. The fundamentals haven’t changed - only the share price and retail sentiment have.
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Markets are starting to price in: A divergence between AWS-style full-stack Neoclouds like $NBIS and miners such as $CIFR, $BITF, $CLSK, and others. This is the reason I sold off $IREN $WULF and others, and consolidated into Nebius. Why? 💹 Margins > ⚡️Capacity. Just today: The CTO of Nebius stated: “Almost no Neocloud in the market is actually a cloud. As in a bunch of baremetal with a ton of third-party software slapped on top.” Provocative? Absolutely not — if you take the term “cloud” seriously, not just as slapping on a bunch of hardware boxes. Danila explained how baremetal operators will soon discover the challenges Nebius has already solved at scale. And that’s exactly why I stated $NBIS has the highest asymmetrical upside, since miners may struggle with margins at scale. We’ve also seen a Forbes article by Nebius Co-Founder Roman Chernin, summarize how the AI economy requires a new, full-stack, AI-native infrastructure, not the stitched-together systems: “You can buy racks from one supplier, cable them together... but in the long term, economics, flexibility and speed depend on you controlling your own stack.” “If you control the stack, you control the product, the performance, and the economics.” _ This doesn’t mean there’s no room for other HPC companies like $WYFI, $APLD, $WULF, and others to grow, and the Neocloud segment is just beginning its run-up (especially when we look at $META or $AMZN earnings). However, during the speculation phase, we’ve already priced in capacity buildout with miners - most are already up 50–200%+. But when it comes to execution, those who control the full stack will win on margins. We’ve seen $CRWV figure that out firsthand, spending billions on software acquisitions and still maintaining lower utilization than $NBIS (as per the whitepaper). We’ve also seen how an $800B hyperscaler (Oracle) failed to build out its stack, running at 14% gross margins. If Oracle couldn’t fully integrate its software, and CoreWeave is still spending years trying to do so, how will small miners pivot? Arguments from “Type-1 only” operators will find out the hard way what margin compression at scale looks like. As the Forbes article concludes: “At the end of the day, if you’re just cabling the boxes or building service on top of infrastructure you don’t control, you’re limited in the game of scale and efficiency.” $NBIS already has that full stack today.
The harsh reality is: Many of these HPC miner pivots will fail. The lack of asymmetrical upside is why I sold off miners like $CIFR, $IREN, $WYFI, and $WULF and into full-stack AWS Neoclouds like $NBIS However, miners that pivot well like $CRWV have very high upside 📈 Why? As a trader, I rode almost every single Neocloud from $BITF to $IREN as a narrative momentum trade. And most are up 50%-250%+. But none of them aside from $CRWV have contracted AI workloads or cash-flow visibility at scale. Currently, many just look at Coreweave when it comes time to execution. When the new report that $ORCL, a $800B hyperscaler, lost $100M on their buildout and only had 14% gross margins, this should have sent alarm bells regarding moats, buildout risks, and margins. I took this as a lesson that HPC is actually a huge moat and gross margins matter a ton more than capacity buildout. These tradeoffs are what people should think of when weighing the execution risk when putting money into $200M market caps like $SLNH. This is not a bear post, I am still bullish on the Neocloud buildout as a whole, this about execution risks and the reality of the situation. However, my guess is: The market will price this in before earning reports come out and margins are scrutinized. We will likely see several popular names sell-off and consolidate into the Neocloud winners whether that's $NBIS or $IREN, and people are free to speculate which one will succeed. The reality is when there's a new emerging market, not every company succeeds. But if you choose the right winner like $NVDA, there's generational returns. I just started early, selling off many miners like $CIFR to $SLNH to $IREN to $BITF and consolidating into likely winners like $NBIS. When Nebius already has hyperscaler contracts + large moats in full stack + high gross margins + high cash balances + subsidiaries, the downside risk is a lot less, and the asymmetrical upside is a lot higher.
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The harsh reality is: Many of these HPC miner pivots will fail. The lack of asymmetrical upside is why I sold off miners like $CIFR, $IREN, $WYFI, and $WULF and into full-stack AWS Neoclouds like $NBIS However, miners that pivot well like $CRWV have very high upside 📈 Why? As a trader, I rode almost every single Neocloud from $BITF to $IREN as a narrative momentum trade. And most are up 50%-250%+. But none of them aside from $CRWV have contracted AI workloads or cash-flow visibility at scale. Currently, many just look at Coreweave when it comes time to execution. When the new report that $ORCL, a $800B hyperscaler, lost $100M on their buildout and only had 14% gross margins, this should have sent alarm bells regarding moats, buildout risks, and margins. I took this as a lesson that HPC is actually a huge moat and gross margins matter a ton more than capacity buildout. These tradeoffs are what people should think of when weighing the execution risk when putting money into $200M market caps like $SLNH. This is not a bear post, I am still bullish on the Neocloud buildout as a whole, this about execution risks and the reality of the situation. However, my guess is: The market will price this in before earning reports come out and margins are scrutinized. We will likely see several popular names sell-off and consolidate into the Neocloud winners whether that's $NBIS or $IREN, and people are free to speculate which one will succeed. The reality is when there's a new emerging market, not every company succeeds. But if you choose the right winner like $NVDA, there's generational returns. I just started early, selling off many miners like $CIFR to $SLNH to $IREN to $BITF and consolidating into likely winners like $NBIS. When Nebius already has hyperscaler contracts + large moats in full stack + high gross margins + high cash balances + subsidiaries, the downside risk is a lot less, and the asymmetrical upside is a lot higher.
The Neocloud thesis aged well. 1 month later: $CRWV 120.34 → 135.64 (+12.7%) $NBIS 107.70 → 126.49 (+17.5%) $WULF 10.63 → 13.69 (+28.8%) $IREN 41.68 → 64.69 (+55.2%) $CIFR 11.47 → 20.70 (+80.4%) $BITF 2.54 → 4.51 (+77.6%) $WYFI 22.83 → 36.52 (+59.9%) $GRRR 19.90 → 16.95 (−14.8%) $SLNH 2.75 → 2.81 (+2.2%) $RIOT 17.69 → 23.01 (+30.1%) $MARA 16.13 → 19.61 (+21.6%) $CLSK 12.96 → 20.21 (+56.0%) $HUT 33.16 → 49.95 (+50.6%) This is only the beginning of the largest AI data center buildout in history and everyone on finx is still early. I'm very bullish on the Neocloud sector across the board, but personally have concentration in $NBIS due to the highest asymmetrical return.
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Neocloud Position Update Friday Oct 24. This post is to send a message to $IREN and other Neoclouds holders that: 👑 $NBIS is superior. I sold out of other Neoclouds: $CIFR 250%+ gain, $IREN, $BITF, $WYFI, 50-100%+ gain, $WULF 5-10% loss. Now with $2M+ exposure in $NBIS shares/leaps + small $WLAC positions. Will add more Nebius positions next week if it stays at $115. I don't normally post sales, but there's a lot of annoying Neocloud posts recently claiming that theirs is the best. So I'm posting this to send a message that $NBIS is clearly superior in terms of asymmetrical upside and already has Mag7 deals locked in. And because of this, there's no point of diversifying into other Neoclouds. NBIS will likely have the highest margin moat from how they do full stack/GPU utilization with their diversified users. And their subsidiaries + portfolio companies (AI DBs, robotics/delivery, etc). are scaling alongside their operational business. There's also no exposure to bad interest debt that eats into margins. There's an easy path to 300% gain and a $100B+ marketcap just by waiting 1 year for another hyperscaler contract and there's no point in speculating gross margins from Bitcoin mining pivots (see how $ORCL lost $100M+ just bc of GPU utilization + buildout -> rev lag) even if some might have larger capacity. So just wanted to say: Nebius is THE Neocloud. 🫳🎙️
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I'm researching new stocks that actually look interesting - rare lately There's no need to paywall or gatekeep new stocks like others So just going to share them: 1. $LGN - DC buildout. Mag7 like $APPL, $MSFT, $GOOGL, $TSLA, $AMZN as clients. 2. $LYC.AX - Sole military-critical rare earths like Samarium, Gadolinium, and others to Western countries. 3. $DGXX - Just based on comments under my previous thesis, 1/5th cash no debt, 2.76X P/S compared to others trading at 20x, 200MW in 1 year time with ownership of power, 300M marketcap (obviously need to verify if it's true or no. 4. $KRKNF - Advanced underwater sensors, batteries and robotic systems to large clients like Anduril. (it's been getting popular recently so not exactly under-the rader, but something I'm looking into it) 5. $FI FiserV- Just thought I'd throw this in, well known stock but 44% drop on earnings to a $38B marketcap. On this, need to determine whether whether it can pull a $UNH recovery or if things like new payment rails like stablecoins are cannibalizing its core business long term and this will take time. Haven't done deep-dives yet on all of these so I have to verify if all the information is true. But community DD is always better than one person looking into it, so... If anyone has new insight on these companies or new tickers that people might not know about feel free to share.
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The Neocloud thesis aged well. 1 month later: $CRWV 120.34 → 135.64 (+12.7%) $NBIS 107.70 → 126.49 (+17.5%) $WULF 10.63 → 13.69 (+28.8%) $IREN 41.68 → 64.69 (+55.2%) $CIFR 11.47 → 20.70 (+80.4%) $BITF 2.54 → 4.51 (+77.6%) $WYFI 22.83 → 36.52 (+59.9%) $GRRR 19.90 → 16.95 (−14.8%) $SLNH 2.75 → 2.81 (+2.2%) $RIOT 17.69 → 23.01 (+30.1%) $MARA 16.13 → 19.61 (+21.6%) $CLSK 12.96 → 20.21 (+56.0%) $HUT 33.16 → 49.95 (+50.6%) This is only the beginning of the largest AI data center buildout in history and everyone on finx is still early. I'm very bullish on the Neocloud sector across the board, but personally have concentration in $NBIS due to the highest asymmetrical return.
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If you have any iota of doubt during this market correction. Remember this: $NBIS is a $24B MC company doing $8B forward ARR, targeting 30% EBITDA margins. Nebius core business powers Mag7 Hyperscalers from $MSFT to $META, enterprises from Shopify to Cursor to Accenture, and Government AI Infrastructure. They have $10B+ NAV with hyper-growth portfolio companies powering Cloudflare, Tiktok, Tesla, Netflix and Antrophic. And of course, Nebius is growing 700%+ Y/Y, which is almost unheard of going from $125M quarterly revenue to $2B+ in just 1 year. This company is the at the Center of the whole Artificial Intelligence buildout at $93, and is set to be the next $100B+ company. Do not let broad sell-offs affect your conviction.
Northland announced a $NBIS $205 price target off the assumption of $2-4B ARR for CY2026 back in September. From their same economics used, we would now get an 1Y PT: ~$355.00/share (+248.04%) off Nebius's earnings report with $7-9B ARR projected Here's the updated metrics: Northland Capital Markets 09/24/2025 report, their CY2026 scenario assumed: ARR: raised from $2-4B Revenue: $2.3B Adjusted EBITDA: $907M EV/Sales multiple: 23.8× for the core AIaaS business. Shares outstanding: ~290 M Equity value per share: $205PT New Nebius fundamentals (Q3 2025 release): CY2026 ARR ≈ $8 B (midpoint), Revenue ≈ $4.6 B, and proportional EBITDA scaing (~$1.8 B). Keeping their EV/Sales ≈ 23.8×, new core EV ≈ $4.6 B × 23.8 = $109 B. Add the subsidiaries (≈ $7 B total from Northland’s sum of parts) and net cash (~$0.7 B) -> total equity ≈ $117 B → ~$355 PT It's a mechanical extrapolation assuming valuation multiples for their analysis, not the analyst updated PT that might change based on dilution/execution risks, etc. 2-3x of $NBIS CY2026 ARR from the analyst's 2-B estimate to the new management guidance midpoint of $8.0 billion mechanically drives the valuation higher The updated price target is based on a re-run of the DCF model.
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Replying to @DudeWhoInvests
With all due respect, there’s basically zero substance or analysis from these types of posts. You’ve done this with $FI yesterday saying “CHEAP” then this again with $NVO. Saying something is cheap with useless explanations is how followers end up blindly losing money.
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Institutional Flow assessment for 13F Neocloud filings: · Nebius ( $NBIS ): 🟢 Strongly Positive (7/10) · WULF ( $WULF ): 🟢 Highly Positive (8.5/10) · IREN ( $IREN ): 🔴 Very Negative (3/10) · CIFR ( $CIFR ): 🟢 Highly Positive (8.0/10) · Coreweave ( $CRWV ): 🟡 Neutral (5.5/10) · Cleanspark ( $CLSK ): 🟢 Highly Positive (9.0/10) _ TLDR Summary Updates: $NBIS · Strong overall quantitative growth in institutional ownership, driven by a mix of solid, long-term institutional buyers alongside high activity from quantitative funds and hedge funds. $WULF · Structurally stable and secure institutional base, characterized by large, long-only asset managers like Vanguard and BlackRock who hold high conviction in the stock. $IREN · Ownership is dominated by high-frequency traders, market makers, and quant funds (eg. Jane Street, Citadel). This structure is viewed negatively as it suggests less stable, short-term holding pressure and a lack of conviction from long-term institutions. $CIFR · Excellent institutional setup marked by inclusion in major indices (passive demand) and strong, conviction-based buying from active funds, highlighted by a massive stake increase from Alyeska. $CRWV · High trading volume suggests significant market interest, but ownership is currently highly concentrated, with a notable presence of market-makers, leading to a neutral score that implies balanced risk/reward in the flow. $CLSK · Considered the best institutional structure in the group, combining broad, supportive passive index inclusion with aggressive, high-conviction active accumulation, suggesting the lowest qualitative risk. _ Comments: Eg. " Bullish - Jane Street + Citadel own x of $IREN " (hint: it's not positive). Especially when long term holders like FMR (Fidelity): 2.12M shares, trimmed large percent of stakes. The type of fund matters eg: Passive (Most Positive) Vanguard, BlackRock index, State Street, Geode, etc Long (Positive) Fidelity, T. Rowe, Wellington, BIT, etc Hedge Fund (Neutral to Positive) Alyeska, Coatue, Millennium, etc Quant/MM (Negative) Jane Street, Citadel, Susquehanna, SIG, Two Sigma, etc This is a subjective framework when scoring how positive flows were just from this quarter (not overall ownership).
We're seeing a sector crash in high-beta AI stocks, with names down 30-45%+ in 1M & 10%+ today. This includes direct beneficiaries of Mag7 Capex : - Nebius ( $NBIS ): $3B $META deal / $8B forward ARR. - TeraWulf ( $WULF ): <$50B Antrophic DC + JV FS/ $GOOGL - Iren ( $IREN ): $9B $MSFT HPC - Cipher ( $CIFR ): 15Y $5.5 billion w/ $AMZN. that improved their fundamentals in this past month alone. But markets are still panic selling names from $CRDO (-10.33% 1D) to $CIFR (-7.28% 1D) despite record forward revenue growth. This is driven over fears from macro (shutdown, Dec rate cut, corporate bond spreads, etc) and false (but nuanced) institutional claims eg. Burry on GPU depreciation, rather than individual fundamentals. This wipes away froth from the speculative parts of the AI sector such as $OKLO (energy, -37% 1M), but higher-margin growth names get caught together with it. I've said this before, but this reminds me of the time $HOOD sold off to $28 from $65 then pulled off a rally to $150. Or when $ALAB sold off from $100 to $50 off all earnings beats, then rallied to $245. Sometimes stock prices get detached from fundamentals when there’s fear in the markets, especially with “AI bubble” fears like what's happening now. But when the forward growth backs up any market cap projections, it’s just a matter of time and execution.
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Pretty disgusting correction across the board. Last 5 days for high-beta growth stocks: • $SMCI -26.11% • $RKLB -19.85% • $CRCL -19.81% • $NBIS -19.14% • $WYFI -18.55% • $ALAB -16.64% • $CRDO -16.8% • $HOOD -14.36% • $ASTS -14.09% • $IREN -13.22% • $AMD -11.63% • $CIFR -10.05% • $RDDT -9.00% Speculative no revenue stocks like ( $RGTI -27.33%, $QBUT -25.5%, $QBTS -25.43%, $OKLO -17.04% etc), had larger corrections across the board. When the government reopens, I’d expect many of the speculative names to stay down, while companies where fundamentals are in tact (eg. $CIFR, $NBIS, $TSM, $HOOD, $RDDT) would recover. Current Contract Market data: Nov 12th-15th: 22% Nov 15th: 49% (~half chance sometime in the next week) Nov 30th: 92% Great time to position into higher-beta stocks during large corrections, (if fundamentals are in-tact), especially when we're in the extreme-fear part of markets and there's 75%+ of a third rate cut next month. Broad selloffs like these are also why you don't do short dated options <30dte, even if you are correct on earnings like $SNAP or $CIFR.
Ignore the noise and hold positions/add in market winners. You have: - Insane forward revenue growth from Neoclouds like $NBIS, $IREN, $CIFR - Record high CapEX projections from Mag7 earnings like $META to $MSFT - Record high forward revenue projections + margin growth from semiconductors like $TSM. If fundamentals are in tact, news headlines like "The AI Party is Over" is BS. We'll likely see a major recovery when government shutdown ends. This is likely a short-term correction pricing in a few things such as no third rate cut (86% -> 70%, still likely) + government shutdown extending past the 16th (53% chance, 30% chance 2 days ago) per contract markets.
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We are 12 days away from a rate cut (94.1% odds). MMs enjoy times like these to cleanse the option chain. In terms of levels I’m personally looking out for larger sized leveraged trades: $NBIS - $105-$110 $TSM - $170-$175 $BTC - ~<$100K $RKlB - $35-$40 $ALAB - $100-$120 _ Special shoutout to Amazon, which is down 4.6% YTD despite the rally. $AMZN - $200-$210 ($211 is extremely good now for calls, reminds me of $GOOGL at $145 before the epic rally. Basically around now seems good, but like Google it dropped below levels people expected so might even touch $200) I’m fine with margin + options on higher conviction stuff, this is just my personal risk tolerance, NFA. These times are the best to go long on high conviction.
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Full Transparency: I've joined X Monetization - here are my stats this month: • 5.3M Impressions 📈 • 17K Likes (+734%) 👍 • 8.9k Bookmarks (+5,000%+) 🔖 • 1.3k Shares (4,000%+) 🐦 As a trader, I make money in the markets (eg. $NBIS), never from followers or subs. I trade on my own thesis and always put my money where my mouth is. 🫂Thus, every cent from X will go straight back to the community + to charity. My goal is to share how I trade (since there’s no point in paywalling helpful information) and surface insights that helps regular people navigate through the noise. Grateful for all the recent support since I just joined X not too long ago. It just means I can help more people! Actions > words. Make money off the markets, not off followers.
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Breaking: U.S. Government moves to take stakes in quantum computing firms, a huge game-changer. National security names - AI ( $NBIS ), Energy ( $TE ), Space ( $RKLB ), Minerals ( $MP ), Quantum ( $RGTI, $IONQ, $QBTS) - could see a violent reversal as shorts scramble to cover and MM hedging mechanically goes upward. We now see a clear trend: Washington is deploying billions into national security companies, expanding from critical minerals to quantum computing, and likely to others. The Trump administration buying equity of various firms critical to national security could trigger significant institutional repositioning, as funds and algorithms rethink the risks of shorting assets tied to the U.S. government's buildout of rare earths, quantum, AI, etc. Institutions and MMs may short against retail, but they never bet against the U.S. Government's balance sheet.
Added $200k worth of $NBIS leaps at $98.8, December $105 2026 strike. Nebius dropping 30%+ in a week from $140 to $97 might make you second-guess yourself, but it’s times like these where conviction matters most. If you understand the fundamentals and sector, this is a gift.
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Northland announced a $NBIS $205 price target off the assumption of $2-4B ARR for CY2026 back in September. From their same economics used, we would now get an 1Y PT: ~$355.00/share (+248.04%) off Nebius's earnings report with $7-9B ARR projected Here's the updated metrics: Northland Capital Markets 09/24/2025 report, their CY2026 scenario assumed: ARR: raised from $2-4B Revenue: $2.3B Adjusted EBITDA: $907M EV/Sales multiple: 23.8× for the core AIaaS business. Shares outstanding: ~290 M Equity value per share: $205PT New Nebius fundamentals (Q3 2025 release): CY2026 ARR ≈ $8 B (midpoint), Revenue ≈ $4.6 B, and proportional EBITDA scaing (~$1.8 B). Keeping their EV/Sales ≈ 23.8×, new core EV ≈ $4.6 B × 23.8 = $109 B. Add the subsidiaries (≈ $7 B total from Northland’s sum of parts) and net cash (~$0.7 B) -> total equity ≈ $117 B → ~$355 PT It's a mechanical extrapolation assuming valuation multiples for their analysis, not the analyst updated PT that might change based on dilution/execution risks, etc. 2-3x of $NBIS CY2026 ARR from the analyst's 2-B estimate to the new management guidance midpoint of $8.0 billion mechanically drives the valuation higher The updated price target is based on a re-run of the DCF model.
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This week retail panic sent $NBIS tumbling to $94. Unfortunately, many retail are outside this community and sold shares in fear (mixed with MM mechanical hedging) based on stock price dropping alone. In the past two days, Nebius is back up over 17%. This is why why Conviction + Fundamentals/Knowledge > stock price. During the drop, institutions quietly stepped in and acquired more from darkpools + other methods. _ Fundamentally, Nebius was very undervalued. My base-case valuation of $NBIS sits near $39B today, with room to reach $100B within a year with another hyperscaler partnership. Nebius powers parts of Microsoft Azure and other future hyperscale infrastructure. Institutions know this, and they'll do whatever it takes to grow their ownership in a company at the core of global compute. If retail doesn't develop conviction in the stock from fundamentals and understand how institutions play the game, using dark pools, options flow, and to accumulate shares without moving prices, they'll capitulate purely off of fear instead of material changes. As noted in today’s Seeking Alpha piece "Nebius Pullback, The Smart Money Entry Point": "WhaleStream reports that approximately $100 million of net inflows were concentrated within the $103.90 area, indicating fresh institutional interest. This was confirmed by Fintel data (extracted from Nasdaq, FINRA, and Capital IQ), which records the off-exchange short-volume ratio near 19% and reinforces the thesis of significant Nebius buying through dark pools by the institutions. In practice, this supports the view that much of the Nebius buying is happening quietly through dark pools, as aligned with the observed build-up of call options." Accumulation is strategic but hidden in plain sight. Don't be shaken off.
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Ignore the noise and hold positions/add in market winners. You have: - Insane forward revenue growth from Neoclouds like $NBIS, $IREN, $CIFR - Record high CapEX projections from Mag7 earnings like $META to $MSFT - Record high forward revenue projections + margin growth from semiconductors like $TSM. If fundamentals are in tact, news headlines like "The AI Party is Over" is BS. We'll likely see a major recovery when government shutdown ends. This is likely a short-term correction pricing in a few things such as no third rate cut (86% -> 70%, still likely) + government shutdown extending past the 16th (53% chance, 30% chance 2 days ago) per contract markets.
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Thoughts on why I’m scaling my $NBIS position to $1M+ with a $225 PT: Thesis ______ When MSFT, GOOGL, and Mag7 are your customers like ALAB or CRED (when I took large positions in both sub $100) or before $NVDA or AVGO or TSM took off, a company's forward growth would likely explode in the 100%'s of percent. There are barely any companies in history where Mag7 are dependent on them. On top of that, when NVDA has every incentive to pump your stock as well.... NBIS becomes a stronger buy and has my highest conviction for 1Y timeframe. Moat + GPU lenders Critical Importance to NVDA _______ NVDA sees other hyperscalers like AMZN, GOOGL building out their own chips and reducing reliance. Answer? Build out GPU lenders eg. CRWV, by taking a stake and financing them, so Azure/Cloud/AWS can't replace NVDA. Access to GPUs becomes increasingly through these lenders and as we see with OpenAI, they no longer have the compute from MSFT and have to go to GOOGL. GOOGL also doesn't have enough compute so they go to WULF and others. MSFT goes to CRWV, NBIS and others, and big tech compute flows downstream to these GPU providers. NVIDIA has every reason to inflate GPU lenders like CoreWeave and NBIS to hedge against hyperscaler custom chips. And without compute, billions of dollars will flow to NBIS with NVDA propping them up. Macro Tailwind _______ 3x rate cut priced into Polymarket. If you saw my other post, triple rate cuts only happen once a decade (extremely positive for liquidity flowing into markets) + combined with end of year seasonality, which are positive for equities. On top of that, NBIS is a relatively smaller market cap, and relies on financing/debt to grow. When their interest burden drops, financing gets cheaper, and expansion looks more viable. NBIS is heavily valued on future earnings, and with rate cut projections, far our earnings of billions in rev from MSFT and other clients get marked UP. We're about to see a sharp re-rating after Fed meeting yesterday. Company Comparisons ________ If I had to choose NBIS -> CRWV -> WULF ->others weighing on potential to speculation tradeoffs. CRWV - NVDA clearly backing them, already large $63B+ MC. Could go way higher but growth potential with MSFT contract with NBIS, similar backlog, etc. at more than half the marketcap is why I chose them. $IREN, BITF, RIOT, $GRRR etc. - BTC miners pivoting to compute. I like them but they don't have the same de-risking as MSFT yet. WULF - I do like them since Google is backing them but NBIS conversion terms and MC relative to potential are better. Fundamentals ______ MC: 24.78B (When you compare to CRWV at 61B, which was still down 30% this year), now with similar revenue backlog, it has an easy potential to go to the same marketcap ($243+ a share). By 2026, with Microsoft deal accounted for, NBIS could be doing $5-6B total revenue with strong gross margins (≈70%). In 2027-2028, total revenue could reach $8-10B+, especially if base business (non-Microsoft) also grows aggressively. All with ~60-75% gross margins. This is insane but mainly due to NVDA supporting these GPU companies. Based on valuation, NBIS is more attractive than CRWV and less speculative than IREN or others without MSFT backing giving them 17B. Misc Thoughts ___ They already raised 4.1B+ and secured capex for the $17B MSFT contract. This was the biggest de-risking event and why I'd invest in NBIS at $90+ compared to something more speculative back at $50. There's likely other contracts from hyperscalers coming their way. I'd say easy path to $140, then maybe drop from convertible note, then up to $200. There's probably more specifics that I didn't get to like margin compression in a few years operating income depreciation risk etc. But this was the core of my investment thesis (macro, fundamentals, industry growth, moat + incentives) when I make investment decisions vs. swing trading and why NBIS is high conviction over the next year.
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If there's one thing I learned trading: Money won't make you happy. Happiness comes from fulfillment; like investing toward a dream home for a loved one I've reached the end goal I started with but lost the meaning along the way Numbers go up on my screen but it feels empty
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No news dips are always a nice gift $NBIS. (Added calls at~$122.9)
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As expected, with META and their recent 14B deal with CRWV + MSFT with their 17B deal with $NBIS, billions to trillions will pour into Neoclouds from Mag7 when they're unable to handle new AI compute. Expects companies like AWS, ORCL and others to make more deals soon with companies like $CIFR or $IREN soon. This is a once in a generation opportunity to buy tiny new Neocloud companies that serve as the infrastructure of multi-trillion Hyperscaler cash cows.
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People are panicking about markets from $OKLO, $RGTI, etc. hitting all time highs and bubbles. Half joking but if you you want to time the top: Cathie Wood's ARKK is actually a good indicator. (~Feb 2026) It's a great canary in the coal mine when everything goes 🔼
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Wow, $NBIS just blew away ARR expectations on growth and just signed a surprisising $3B hyperscaler deal with $META from their ER. They now expect $7-9B ARR 2026, which is ~2.1B+ revenue/quarter. This is exactly how Nebius grows grow to a $100B MC and $NBIS is a generational company in the making. In terms of general earnings: EPS: -.52 vs -.4 (Beat by 23%) Revenue 155.73m vs. 141.1M (Miss by 6%) Markets are forward looking and any short term ER will be overshadowed by its immense forward growth projection. Will do a deeper rundown when there's more time to process information but so far, this is incredibly huge with a surprise hyperscaler deal. Stock should be up way above these levels when markets price this in.
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I was looking at $SPRB after @MartinShkreli posted about it and it’s TA-ERT, breakthrough enzyme therapy replacement. Just from a quick search if SPRB’s TA-ERT is approved and they capture 10-15% market share longer term ($180–$270M ARR) of $1.4B US market... Realistic fair value today could be ~$280m-630m MC from 2-3x rev calculations. Obviously there’s a lot of risk from clinical failures, commercialization, to dilution but a $85M market cap looks promising? (disclosure I bought $50k worth just as a high risk gamble) Obviously I’m not an expert in biotech and this is outside my domain, which is why I wanted to see if anyone else with any domain knowledge had feedback or red flags.
long $SPRB. my price target is $500. rare disease is my specialty. the ERT for Sanfilippo will be approved (CMC notwithstanding) and be the new standard of care.
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🧙‍♂️ Summoning Exodia, the ideal Neocloud Deck Exodia Deck: 🧩 $NBIS – Head 🧩 $WLAC – Left Arm 🧩 $IREN – Right Arm 🧩 $CIFR – Left Leg 🧩 $WULF – Right Leg Pot of Greed Setup: 🏭 $TSM$FLNC 🏡 $GLXY When all five are in your port, Sydney Sweeney descends from the Neocloud
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$NBIS earnings report blew away expectations with $7-9B ARR and a $3B hyperscaler deal with Meta. They also added to their enterprise client list with Cursor. Despite that, stock is down -1.77% currently before their earnings call. Why? Dilution~$2.7B 25M share dilution ATM offering that will be filed Nov 12th. Meaning 2.7B worth of shares (at current prices) can be sold in the open market at current prices vs. convertible notes (preferred structure), which is the most likely reason it's not up 20% by now. It affect share price short term, but the company fundamentals after this offering is incredible with amazing forward revenue growth. Eg. look at Rocketlab or others that did this to supplement growth. Will also delve into financial data given more time. But the $7-9 billion ARR for 2026 alone (which many analysts expected in 2028+), is insanely bullish.
Wow, $NBIS just blew away ARR expectations on growth and just signed a surprisising $3B hyperscaler deal with $META from their ER. They now expect $7-9B ARR 2026, which is ~2.1B+ revenue/quarter. This is exactly how Nebius grows grow to a $100B MC and $NBIS is a generational company in the making. In terms of general earnings: EPS: -.52 vs -.4 (Beat by 23%) Revenue 155.73m vs. 141.1M (Miss by 6%) Markets are forward looking and any short term ER will be overshadowed by its immense forward growth projection. Will do a deeper rundown when there's more time to process information but so far, this is incredibly huge with a surprise hyperscaler deal. Stock should be up way above these levels when markets price this in.
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Disclosure: I have no positions and don't plan on initiating any. (Reason: have too many high-beta stocks). I just wanted to publish some speculative research I did on Anduril supply chain companies after researching $KRKNF | Kraken Robotics. This is $OSS ($115.54M MC). TLDR: Anduril launched Effects-Short Range (LE-SR) for the US Army. OSS is an edge AI infra. $OSS seems like a Andruil supplier, despite Andruil aquiring Klas, a competing rugged AI edge company. OSS has announced a contract of $6.5 million to deliver 80 “high-performance servers and field-programmable gate array systems… for a mobile intelligence platform supporting U.S. military operations.” 1. OSS's specialization: High-performance, ruggedized FPGA and server systems for AI/ML at the edge in mobile, tactical military environments. 2. Anduril's requirement: The LE-SR (Altius 600) platform requires rugged, compact computing to run its Lattice AI software autonomously at the tactical edge. _ $6.5 million for 80 3U SDS rugged servers and FPGA systems. Functions include sensor data collection, AI-generated real-time analysis, and storage in tactical settings: mirroring Lattice's requirements for swarm management: Hardware: AMD EPYC 9004 “Genoa” processors, up to seven PCIe Gen4 x16 slots for GPU/FPGA integration, hot-swappable storage up to 1 petabyte, and ruggedization for -40°C to 70°C temperatures. Fit for C2: The systems suit ground-based hubs rather than drone payloads, supporting operator-on-the-loop interfaces and multi-asset coordination. ________ 3. The buyer is described as a "leading defense and technology solutions company". OSS has emphasized shifting to defense (now ~50% of revenue), with this deal part of a streak including $6M DoD renewals and other military wins The only missing piece is the customer name, which, given the military contractors, is often kept confidential, but it seems like its Anduril and it's a repeat-client (Additional development and platform opportunities are underway with this customer). A more in-depth information about OSS <-> Andruil contracts and info were fed through frontier model Deep Research tools: Gemini - 85% assigned probability Antropic Claude - 75-80% assigned probability OpenAI ChatGPT - 70% assigned probability XAI Grok - 40-45% assigned probability of OSS being the Andruil supplier. In the chance OSS is an Anduril supplier and scales up from the $6.5M contract, then it's likely to be re-rated upward from a $120m marketcap from high future revenue potential from this defense contractor. If not, then it deserves its current market-cap anyway due to other US Military contracts. The circumstantial evidence supporting the hypothesis of Anduril using OSS seems compelling. Thought it would be fun to post this before their ER to see if it's right or not (if they ever mention it). I don't plan on taking positions in this though since other high-beta stocks like $NBIS have higher asymmetrical return, but if $OSS 5x's, I'll be sad. I do look into small companies on the side to see if it's worth investing or not but just wanted to publish this for fun to see if it's right.
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AI is the largest national security issue and race in history. AI can design nuclear weapons or create life changing discoveries based on compute. $NBIS is the new infra of AI and Mag7 with 1400% Y/Y forward revenue. 🥭And it sold off 5.4% because of Seed Oils and Soybeans.
🧙‍♂️ Summoning Exodia, the ideal Neocloud Deck Exodia Deck: 🧩 $NBIS – Head 🧩 $WLAC – Left Arm 🧩 $IREN – Right Arm 🧩 $CIFR – Left Leg 🧩 $WULF – Right Leg Pot of Greed Setup: 🏭 $TSM$FLNC 🏡 $GLXY When all five are in your port, Sydney Sweeney descends from the Neocloud
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$AMD is about to get a huge re-rating from forward earnings + narrative changes from the $10Bs+ deal with OpenAI Forward revenue: They're currently doing 7.69B/Q, if we assume 10B/Y, it's quite material how much this adds. (32.5% - 65%+ increase in forward revenue based on tens of billions figure). So a 15-20%+ bump is justified. Narrative changes: AMD as a credible alternative to $NVDA for AI inference is starting to look real. The bigger question is whether OpenAI has the money to do this like with $ORCL, but that aside, forward revenue will spike, great material changes.
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Saturday Rant because the most popular X accounts are actively harming retail for engagement and subscriptions. The people who sell $10 courses on X just pick anything like $RGTI that went up 4000% off 0 revenue for engagement. Then add $JOBY, $OPEN, IONQ, etc. retroactively after a 1000%+ rise and that they're a top stock to own because "Future of X". There's nothing material and it's just harmful information. if people follow them blindly and pay $10 for this, your portfolio will get nuked. When I do stock lists, I write down transparently: A light explanation of catalysts or fundamental changes to a stock. People can disagree, but that's what makes discussions productive. People can make their own judgement from new information. So many of the most popular X accounts are just complete BS from an actual trader's perspective. It hurts to see newcomers blindly fall for this and end up losing their own money on top of paying for subscriptions too.
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Replying to @theinformation
Extremely poorly written and zero-contextualization article. Intentional no-contextualization led to broader selloffs last time they published an Oracle hit-piece @SEC @secpaulsatkins The core point - “Escalating compute demands could result in overbuilt servers without sufficient financial returns” - completely omits that $MSFT signed multi-year contractual reservations for confirmed utilization with many neoclouds (eg. $17-19B with Nebius or with $CRWV) These are tens-of-billions in minimum-utilization agreements Microsoft signed to scale capacity without “at-will” termination clauses. By stripping out that context, this becomes a short seller hit piece + Sam Altman terrible person narrative rather than actual news.
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We're seeing a live crash in AI + DC stocks right now with $IREN down 37.88% this week to $NBIS down 35.27% this month. Panic stems from Credit Tightening, High Interest Debt, OpenAI contagion, Macro, and most importantly: Irrational Fear. Here's what happening real time: 1. Credit Tightening - Companies like $APLD failed to sell bonds (under subscribed) and ended up issuing $2.35B in high yield debt offerings - Bloomberg Nov 14th. The bonds were sold at 97 cents on the dollar, a significant discount, with a yield of approximately 10%. The bond deal's risk is primarily tied to Applied Digital's reliance on $CRWV, which accounts for a substantial portion of its contracted earnings. More institutional cation (eg. Burry short report on GPU depreciation) around the buildout makes it harder for DC's to raise funds. Tightening funding conditions affect the entire ecosystem that issue debt to fund their own buildout. 2. High Interest Debt - Due to credit tightening, bad debt, which $CRWV has to fund expansion, causes $1B+ in losses a year. This cuts into margins and FCF. Likewise, $APLD and others that raise funds with bad yields face the same future issues and we're seeing a selloff in related companies for risk-management. 3. $1T+ in OpenAI promised funding without balances - Over $1 trillion+ in capex was promised by OpenAI going to $22.4B+ $CRWV and $300B+ to $ORCL, which they are building capacity for. The market is now skeptical of these promises from OpenAI due to not having the balances on hand and taking a risk-off approach. And now we're seeing contagion on that buildout from companies like Coreweave spread down to $CORZ and $APLD during this buildout that might rely on $CRWV for future revenue. 4. $CRWV is a sector leaders of AI infrastructure (and partially $ORCL). When the sector leader sell-off, usually others follow suit. 5. Rate Cut odds in December Fall: On top of the high interest debt, we're seeing rate cut odds in December drop to a coinflip ~53%. Having higher interest rates make it trouble for interest-debt burdened companies like $CRWV to refinance for stronger FCF. _ THE NUANCE and Repositioning: We're seeing a broad sell-off across the board. However, Capex and contracts from Mag7 ( $META, $GOOGL, $AMZN, $MSFT ) are confirmed with their extreme profitability. There's an easy way to safely reposition to avoid issues with future revenue growth + debt cycles. 1. Position into Neoclouds with contract visibility with Mag7: - $NBIS - $19B $MSFT deal, $3B from $META, broad enterprise support - $CIFR - $5.5B Colo deal with $AMZN, $3B deal with $GOOGL - $WULF - $3.7B+ deals with $GOOGL and more. - $IREN - $9B deal with $MSFT We will likely see more capacity speculative companies like $SLNH, $CLSK, and others fall off and consolidation into Neoclouds with visible enterprise contract (low downside risk of future revenue). 2. Position into Neoclouds with no/extremely low interest debt and high balance sheets: Companies like $NBIS are isolated from current credit market volatility as they have $4.79 billion in cash and cash equivalents from convertible notes. Or companies like $CIFR with $1.2B in cash. 3. Avoid companies with direct contracts with OpenAI that's not Mag7. _ Neoclouds are the backbone of Mag7 AI compute. This thesis has not changed and we'll likely see some scale to $100B+ companies in the future as the next AWS. However, we're seeing a widespread, indiscriminate sell-off caused by $CRWV, $ORCL, and OpenAI + credit tightening (partially due to incorrect institutional short reports from Burry on GPU depreciation). These types of sell-offs are completely not warranted for companies like $NBIS with $7-9B forward ARR and extremely strong balance sheets. But for other speculative companies, it's a well-needed correction. A good quote is “retail is last to sell, last to buy back”. If you think you can sell and come back two weeks later, missing one or two huge rebound days after a selloff can cost you most of the recovery gains. Institutions are probably buying the better names right now eg. $NBIS through dark pools/block trades now after these types of washouts and margin liquidations. We've also seen institutional ownership go from 38%-> 43-46% despite share prices dropping. Use this as a buying opportunity for good names, and hold through these periods of volatility.
Institutional Flow assessment for 13F Neocloud filings: · Nebius ( $NBIS ): 🟢 Strongly Positive (7/10) · WULF ( $WULF ): 🟢 Highly Positive (8.5/10) · IREN ( $IREN ): 🔴 Very Negative (3/10) · CIFR ( $CIFR ): 🟢 Highly Positive (8.0/10) · Coreweave ( $CRWV ): 🟡 Neutral (5.5/10) · Cleanspark ( $CLSK ): 🟢 Highly Positive (9.0/10) _ TLDR Summary Updates: $NBIS · Strong overall quantitative growth in institutional ownership, driven by a mix of solid, long-term institutional buyers alongside high activity from quantitative funds and hedge funds. $WULF · Structurally stable and secure institutional base, characterized by large, long-only asset managers like Vanguard and BlackRock who hold high conviction in the stock. $IREN · Ownership is dominated by high-frequency traders, market makers, and quant funds (eg. Jane Street, Citadel). This structure is viewed negatively as it suggests less stable, short-term holding pressure and a lack of conviction from long-term institutions. $CIFR · Excellent institutional setup marked by inclusion in major indices (passive demand) and strong, conviction-based buying from active funds, highlighted by a massive stake increase from Alyeska. $CRWV · High trading volume suggests significant market interest, but ownership is currently highly concentrated, with a notable presence of market-makers, leading to a neutral score that implies balanced risk/reward in the flow. $CLSK · Considered the best institutional structure in the group, combining broad, supportive passive index inclusion with aggressive, high-conviction active accumulation, suggesting the lowest qualitative risk. _ Comments: Eg. " Bullish - Jane Street + Citadel own x of $IREN " (hint: it's not positive). Especially when long term holders like FMR (Fidelity): 2.12M shares, trimmed large percent of stakes. The type of fund matters eg: Passive (Most Positive) Vanguard, BlackRock index, State Street, Geode, etc Long (Positive) Fidelity, T. Rowe, Wellington, BIT, etc Hedge Fund (Neutral to Positive) Alyeska, Coatue, Millennium, etc Quant/MM (Negative) Jane Street, Citadel, Susquehanna, SIG, Two Sigma, etc This is a subjective framework when scoring how positive flows were just from this quarter (not overall ownership).
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Neocloud Earnings Today + Why Michael Burry is Wrong: $WULF - ER was positive, $17B TCV from 520 MW HPC capacity. 240 MW JV in Texas for DC expansion + $5B financing. Nothing special like $CIFR ER with AWS, just conf (eg. deal finances) and site dev. $CRWV - ER was bearish near term due to lower forward revenue Q4. $55.6B backlog ($22.4B from OpenAI). Slight earnings beat 1.36B vs. 1.29B (129% Y/Y), EBITDA margins (61%). Stock dropped on datacenter delay, this hurts FY 2025 (505-5.15B vs. 5.29B consensus). Operating margins was lowered, which I predicted due to debt financing with interest (~1B+ interest/year) that cuts into margins, while other Neoclouds don't have that same issue. That being said this was a one-off issue, and we'll likely see any sell-off bought back after next quarter since markets are forward looking. _ As for Michael Burry arguing on GPU deprecation: he's completely wrong, but partially right about understating it. His general claim: capex of chips on a 2-3 yr product cycle should not result in the extension of useful lives -> in Google's case, their TPUs from 7 years ago are being run at 100% utilization lol. Repeat 7 years ago. Amin Vahdat, said that Google currently has seven generations of its TPU hardware in production, and that the “seven- and eight-year-old TPUs have 100 % utilization.” "Google says TPU demand is outstripping supply, claims 8yr old hardware iterations have “100% utilization” -Data Center Dynamics -> in Nvidia's case A100 (PCIe and SXM4 variants), are still in operation. They were launched in 2020. It's 2025 now. Older models keep their value and still deliver equity. They don't just get nuked since it's an add-on to compliment newer models. Nvidia’s A100 can be partitioned into isolated instances to maximize utilization, and older-gen accelerators are still monetized for inference or lower-prio tasks rather than getting nuked as what he claims. They actually have residual value and still re-sale for a lot 5 years later. He's completely wrong here on shelf-life, but might be correct in how some hyperscalers stretch the idea of utilization to justify aggressive capex. It's a nuanced argument but Neocloud thesis remains in tact and stronger than ever.
The Neocloud List got updated: $IREN - IREN secured a $9.7B GPU cloud contract with Microsoft, including 20% upfront prepayment, to deploy NVIDIA GB300s over five years. $CIFR - CIFR secured a $5.5 billion, 15-year lease agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Neocloud sector just got insanely bullish with new contracts coming in from hyperscalers and this just shows insatiable demand for compute. I expected $ORCL, $META, and $AMZN to make deals in the original thesis and looks like AWS entered the fray with $CIFR, with likely more deals incoming with other Neoclouds. $META also signed a $14B deal with $CRWV recently and from their ER scaling AI Capex, we'll likely see other deals with Neoclouds. This is insanely bullish across the whole sector. I attached my personal tierlist for fun, but we'll likely see a re-ratings in data centers/miners across the board when there's more time to analyze deals and margins.
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The Snapchat Thesis: How a 🐶💩 Stock Re-Rated from Sell to Buy. $SNAP flipped the switch, making their biggest expense a revenue stream. There's two things that SNAP needed to do to grow vs. $META, $RDDT. and... Snapchat finally did it, well one of two. That is: 1. Monetize Memories (Storage) - potential 50%%+ upside. 2. Compete vs Tiktok with a public web app + Tiktok-style feed (1000%+ upside) Snapchat finally flipped the switch with #1 and made their biggest OPEX expense a revenue stream: They monetized storage and deleted wasteful storage. _ Snap brings in $1.35B revenue a quarter and is growing at healthy rates with 1B+ MAU. Despite large revenue numbers, they're not profitable. Why? Because countless people like myself have stored GBs of videos taken from 10 years ago. Snapchat has been paying Google Cloud to store all of that for free. Google Cloud costs just eats so much into its net profits every quarter. So with this recent change - charging users (like iCloud) for storage, which is a huge new revenue stream, On top of reducing OpEx by a massive margin, Snapchat just got a rerating. _ Cloud Cost Breakdown Snap’s cloud infrastructure is one of its largest costs, historically over $2.4B annually (cost of revenue). Most of that is storage + bandwidth for features like Memories and videos. Memories + video archives ≈ 35-40% of cloud spend (estimates) ~90% of users under the 5GB cap (no cost change), but 10% heavy users hold the majority of stored data _ If Snap deletes ~50% of existing stored data (non-paying users’ old videos/photos) Result: 40% of $2.4B = $960M cloud cost baseline tied to Memories 50% reduction in heavy-user storage ~ $480M savings (aggressive est.) After accounting for data migration, partial reallocation, misc: -> Snap may realistically realize ~40% of that, or ~$180–200M OPEX saved annually This goes straight to operating profit + FCF, since it’s a pure cost cut. _ Revenue from Paid Storage (Small User Base Scenario) Assuming a small number of users pay-far less than iCloud’s 60% adoption: MAU: ~900 million, Paying users: 2% (~18 million) Average plan: $2.49/month (most on $1.99 or $3.99 tiers) ARPU: ~$30/year Revenue = 18M × $30 = $540M per year Subtract ~$100M in hosting -> $440M net This revenue is recurring, high-margin, and adds directly to FCF. _ Estimated Combined Annual Impact: OPEX savings (cloud) = +$190M Paid storage revenue= +$540M Storage costs (COGS) = –$100M Net FCF improvement= +$630M _ Valuation Rerating If the market rerates Snap based on ~$850M sustainable FCF: Apply a 35× EV/FCF multiple (typical for growth tech with improving margins) EV ≈ $30B → Market cap ≈ $31–33B Aggressive Multiple FCF est. $850M _ Market Cap 25 × $21.25B EV ~ $22–23B mc (~$13–14/share) 30 x $25.5B EV ~ $26B mc (~$15–16/share) 35 x $29.75B EV ~ $31–32B mc (~$19–20/share) From ~$8.50 today -> potential +50–100%+ upside within 12–18 months, assuming: - Execution is smooth (no major user backlash, but really don't think users would quit.) Personally I'd just pay for it since I used Snap 5-10 years ago but don't want my data deleted. - 3 Fed rate cuts compress discount rates - Investors credit forward FCF Of course, all of this only happens 1 year from now. Also, I'm going off a lot of assumptions, such as 2% of users will pay (eg. Dropbox), vs. ICloud has 60% of users. _ Just thought I'd give a shoutout to @fossinvest, a small account I found while doing DD. They also did the math but used more aggressive calculations + similar idea, I'll give them credit for the image. _ I could be wrong with speculating the numbers (eg. $100-150M opex, and 1% paying users, but even with this FCF gets a huge boost). Either way, this is the largest material change SNAP has made for both revenue generation and operational expense cuts in history and it deserves a re-rating after. Market and hedge funds will now start to price this in since they're forward looking, but will take some time to digest the news.
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Why $ORCL facing challenges with GPU-as-a-Service (from leaks) is actually bullish for neoclouds like Nebius. Hyperscalers struggling with GPU economics strengthens the case for specalized neoclouds. This is an insane opportunity on $NBIS, $WYFI, $IREN, $CIFR, $CRWV and others: TLDR: (from rumors) Oracle faced a loss from: - Low utilization (idle capacity) before customer ramp - Massive upfront CapEx (Blackwell GPUs) - Heavy overhead - Discount pricing Result: Negative gross margins on GPU compute for Oracle. This is negative for Oracle, positive for Neoclouds: This is just goes to show 1. Proof of Complexity = Validation of Moat. Neoclouds like $NBIS do it better and this is an actual competitive moat and margin opportunity (This is why $MSFT went to Nebius to sign a deal instead of building it out themselves). 2. Capital Efficiency Advantage. Neoclouds use Leasing / colocation for flexibility (e.g. NBIS in Patmos & Verne), workload allocations to maintain high utilization (while Oracle struggled with utilization). 3. Outsourcing Demand Increases Oracle and Hyperscalers might shift workloads to Neoclouds and sign more contracts if they have trouble with buildout (eg. MSFT with CRWV) 4. Oracle used discount prices here. Neoclouds can just price rationally on top of optimizing their margins. 5. Custom Infra Increases Margins Neoclouds like Nebius have custom orchestration stacks for GPU scheduling, lot of internal software and automation to maximize utilization and yield to sustain 50-70% gross margins compared to ORCL. This is news negative for Oracle and Hyperscaler buildout but actually bullish for specialized neocloud providers like $CRWV, $NBIS, and others.
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Replying to @unusual_whales
Sorry but following @MartinShkreli is the dumbest idea for any non-biotech stock, especially with $OPEN. Not everything needs to make sense with markets. Just look at how all their quantum shorts like $QBTS is going.
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Lot of headline-only posters out there. I usually try to connect the dots on top of the headlines and fill in the why (it moves markets). TLDR on the new macro setup (bullish for high-beta names like $NBIS, $IREN, etc): 1⃣ DEAL TO END GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN TAKES SHAPE - Axios (Government shutdown likely ending within ~5 days) Commentary: Event-contract odds jumped from 27% → 54% in the past hour or two. We're pricing in a near-term resolution. • Liquidity flows back once government spending resumes. • Market reprices GDP growth higher. • Consumer spending picks up immediately. • Uncertainty fades (markets hate uncertainty). Result → Expect high-beta and cyclicals to do well when risk appetite comes back. 2️⃣ $2,000 “tariff dividend” proposal to American taxpayers Commentary: Feels like a mini-version of the COVID stimulus. Those deposits triggered the fastest jumps in retail spending, people were buying everything from Bitcoin to League Skins with that. But at least this came from tariffs. • Great for assets: more money flowing into the economy. • Might lead to inflation: more demand pressure, potential Fed pushback later. • Short-term: Extremely positive for risk assets and growth names. Mid to long-term: Could backfire with inflation and the Fed tightens. • Usually moves like this aim to ignite markets in the near term, good for anything heavy growth. Result → Expect frontrunning before the official reopening and a spike once it’s confirmed. You can kinda see stuff like $ETH start its recovery from the combination of the two above $3300->$3500 as an example. Again I expected things like #2, just due to midterms coming up next year. The party in power usually gets re-elected if markets seem to be doing well (so I'd expect stuff like #2 + fed pressured rate cuts, so markets go up). Of course this is just new news + speculation, not facts for sure given how volatile decisions are made lol. But generally focus on stocks that corrected but still have growing fundamentals eg. $NBIS, $RDDT, $ALAB, etc.
Pretty disgusting correction across the board. Last 5 days for high-beta growth stocks: • $SMCI -26.11% • $RKLB -19.85% • $CRCL -19.81% • $NBIS -19.14% • $WYFI -18.55% • $ALAB -16.64% • $CRDO -16.8% • $HOOD -14.36% • $ASTS -14.09% • $IREN -13.22% • $AMD -11.63% • $CIFR -10.05% • $RDDT -9.00% Speculative no revenue stocks like ( $RGTI -27.33%, $QBUT -25.5%, $QBTS -25.43%, $OKLO -17.04% etc), had larger corrections across the board. When the government reopens, I’d expect many of the speculative names to stay down, while companies where fundamentals are in tact (eg. $CIFR, $NBIS, $TSM, $HOOD, $RDDT) would recover. Current Contract Market data: Nov 12th-15th: 22% Nov 15th: 49% (~half chance sometime in the next week) Nov 30th: 92% Great time to position into higher-beta stocks during large corrections, (if fundamentals are in-tact), especially when we're in the extreme-fear part of markets and there's 75%+ of a third rate cut next month. Broad selloffs like these are also why you don't do short dated options <30dte, even if you are correct on earnings like $SNAP or $CIFR.
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Getting Vietnam flashbacks. Jokes aside, markets dropped 3.65%+ after Trump tarrifs Chinese imports by 100% and restricts the export of critical software to China. This surprise event was rational repricing but also catalyzed by fear + margin calls (after hours, with $IREN dropping 21% for example, or $BTC dropping to $107k). What this typically foreshadows is slower growth and higher inflation (lower rate cut odds). However, Polymarket and Fed futures data still shows 70-72% of 3 rate cuts by 2025. Midterm elections next year are also generally bullish for stocks. And we're approaching end of season seasonality, which is typically the best for stocks. And of course, many stocks dropped in crossfire without any direct exposure, such as $UNH or $DKNG (eg. Draftkings has nothing to do with China, imports, etc. since it's US sports related, but fell 9.4%) TLDR: likely a short term tariff shock, mild macro risk, and a overall sell-off from fear, but into recovery. Now that markets are closed, a lot of money can be made is in times of low liquidity high-spread like after-hours/overnight (during earlier tariffs, $HOOD dropped from $45 to $28 overnight then went on a massive rally to $100+). Random events like these are why I don't recommend options as positions can be nuked up in an instant. If you have cash positions, go bargain hunting for extreme selloffs, eg. $CIFR dropping 16% to $14, instead of panic selling your own positions. Otherwise, things like these are usually short term from shock, and we'll likely see a recovery frontrunning rate cut in late October. That of course if the stock isn't materially impacted from China revenue unlike $QLCM, $NKE, $MU, $CDNS, etc. (I didn't expect the extent of the reaction, lost a decent amount today, but will hold positions).
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I make fun of charting but sometimes it's genuinely helpful for pattern based reasoning (not TA). History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes for companies in similar sectors. With things material to fundamentals: Eg. $NBIS (64->100->86) vs. $CIFR (+32% into -18% into rise) post $17B MSFT deal and GOOGL 3B deal. We'll likely see CIFR increase like NBIS after the dip. It followed the same pattern where it rose 32%, then dropped 18%, and now it's beginning it's ascent similar to NBIS. Same thing can be said about AVGO post earnings (then dip, then massive rally) and ORCL now (great earnings, dip, then massive rally), because fundamentals changed. Thought I'd bring some Reddit style charting to X but this is one of the times generally when charting helps imo.
Lot of inspirational trader mindsets going around X lately like: "It will pay off. Be Patient". All BS. Traders consider sector momentum, catalysts, valuation, pullbacks, macro, IV, option flows, etc. Here's my mindset for short term trading for various stocks: 1. $NBIS - $111.91, even though it's up 1.53% on the day, CRWV is up 12% off Meta gives them a $14B contract. So usually it's bullish for all neoclouds. It spiked to $117 ( i probably would have still held) but pulled back to $111 likely from too much open interest, but we'll likely keep seeing a rally upward. So I'd use this time to DCA and buy calls/shares even if it's up 1.53% Not "truly a dip" but it's more of a dip during a rally. 2. $HIMS - $56.4 Down 4.67%, usually people just blindly buy the dip but this was actually caused from something material, which was Trump launching a direct to consumer GOV drug website. Short interest decreased back to 33% on the rise to $60. This dip will likely be used for short covering. I did buy $46 support but sold shortly on a bounce after I just felt like it would go down more. But I just personally prefer bottom entry points so that's probably closer to $50. I still remember AMZN launching a competitor, HIMS crashed 20% then rose again, I'd expect the same with Trump's program mid term but near term it's a headwind. 3. $RDDT - $228, down 5.45%, no news. Just probably valuation concerns. We saw similar growth stocks like ALAB, CRED, have random 20% pullbacks. Lot of software/social stocks like SNAP down 8.1% off non-material news. Correction is healthy, stocks don't just keep going up, I'd prefer to wait in the $100+ again, rather than $200+ (just personally), but it's actually a better buy than the rest, given RDDT has larger 5-8% pullbacks on random days, just from historical experiences so 6-7% drop is a good buy intra-day and you'd likely see it recover but we might see a lot of growth stocks have a larger correction into massive rally Nov/Dec so might not be an actual bottom. I don't really look at chart RSI nowadays, just do this based on feelings from experience looking at the stock + IV every day for the past year or two. 4. AMZN - No major macro news, prob government shutdown Oct 1st that might cause some panic for index but it's pretty immaterial. It dropped, 1.35% so I'd buy since it' a good time to cost average. 5. Klarna - $36, 5.3% drop. Sometimes you just go off gut feeling. Below IPO price, no major news. Most IPOs were down like Gemini, etc. If you wanted to build a long term position I'd buy at this level. 6. TSM - $277, I've been guilty of swing trading between $273-$279, so I just buy every drop to $273 and sell at $277-$279 for 2% profit purely with shares. So far I've done this ~2 times with shares. If it drops past $273, I'd just DCA and then if it drops further switch to calls. There's no True or False way to do this, everyone kind of has their own approach. (also sorry about CRM, bad earnings got that one wrong, I'll probably cost avg if ti declines further). But generally this is just what I'm thinking about when I go down the list of every single stock. Once again, everyone thinks differently, I just wanted to write down how I think if it's helpful to others.
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It's funny how the most followed stock accounts on X like @mikealfred hide replies about inconvenient facts and block accounts. That’s exactly why I created this account — to call out BS and genuinely help you all. This is what they tried hiding: $BKKT has a long track record of diluting shareholders: Feb 2024: Issued ~1.4M shares + warrants in a registered direct offering. Jul 2025: Issued another ~6.75M shares + pre-funded warrants in a $75M public offering, when the stock was trading around $24, but sold them to institutions at ~$10 (60%+ discount), triggering massive losses for retail. And this isn’t new, the pattern has been the same almost every year: hype retail with marketing -> issue discounted stock to raise cash -> repeat. Just a reminder X is full of snake oil. Be careful where you get your information from.
Replying to @mikealfred
It's sad how you're pumping a low mc stock that has a history of dumping dilution on shareholders. It's a cycle of hype -> stock rises -> dilution 70% under current prices -> shareholders get screwed. Decent thesis with other stocks but BKKT is a terrible shill to followers
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Lot of inspirational trader mindsets going around X lately like: "It will pay off. Be Patient". All BS. Traders consider sector momentum, catalysts, valuation, pullbacks, macro, IV, option flows, etc. Here's my mindset for short term trading for various stocks: 1. $NBIS - $111.91, even though it's up 1.53% on the day, CRWV is up 12% off Meta gives them a $14B contract. So usually it's bullish for all neoclouds. It spiked to $117 ( i probably would have still held) but pulled back to $111 likely from too much open interest, but we'll likely keep seeing a rally upward. So I'd use this time to DCA and buy calls/shares even if it's up 1.53% Not "truly a dip" but it's more of a dip during a rally. 2. $HIMS - $56.4 Down 4.67%, usually people just blindly buy the dip but this was actually caused from something material, which was Trump launching a direct to consumer GOV drug website. Short interest decreased back to 33% on the rise to $60. This dip will likely be used for short covering. I did buy $46 support but sold shortly on a bounce after I just felt like it would go down more. But I just personally prefer bottom entry points so that's probably closer to $50. I still remember AMZN launching a competitor, HIMS crashed 20% then rose again, I'd expect the same with Trump's program mid term but near term it's a headwind. 3. $RDDT - $228, down 5.45%, no news. Just probably valuation concerns. We saw similar growth stocks like ALAB, CRED, have random 20% pullbacks. Lot of software/social stocks like SNAP down 8.1% off non-material news. Correction is healthy, stocks don't just keep going up, I'd prefer to wait in the $100+ again, rather than $200+ (just personally), but it's actually a better buy than the rest, given RDDT has larger 5-8% pullbacks on random days, just from historical experiences so 6-7% drop is a good buy intra-day and you'd likely see it recover but we might see a lot of growth stocks have a larger correction into massive rally Nov/Dec so might not be an actual bottom. I don't really look at chart RSI nowadays, just do this based on feelings from experience looking at the stock + IV every day for the past year or two. 4. AMZN - No major macro news, prob government shutdown Oct 1st that might cause some panic for index but it's pretty immaterial. It dropped, 1.35% so I'd buy since it' a good time to cost average. 5. Klarna - $36, 5.3% drop. Sometimes you just go off gut feeling. Below IPO price, no major news. Most IPOs were down like Gemini, etc. If you wanted to build a long term position I'd buy at this level. 6. TSM - $277, I've been guilty of swing trading between $273-$279, so I just buy every drop to $273 and sell at $277-$279 for 2% profit purely with shares. So far I've done this ~2 times with shares. If it drops past $273, I'd just DCA and then if it drops further switch to calls. There's no True or False way to do this, everyone kind of has their own approach. (also sorry about CRM, bad earnings got that one wrong, I'll probably cost avg if ti declines further). But generally this is just what I'm thinking about when I go down the list of every single stock. Once again, everyone thinks differently, I just wanted to write down how I think if it's helpful to others.
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Initiated a small position ($50k shares, $50k April calls) in T1 Energy $TE $4.45, partly because I like League of Legends and Faker. I have energy positions such as $FLNC, SEI and $EOSE (trimmed) that performed very well. But like the rest, energy is pointed to benefit from the data center buildout and a $700m MC is a good risk-reward. I can confidently say I don’t know enough about solar/battery/energy to give a good fundamental thesis but got recommended this from other X users. So I’m not going to try to pretend I have domain expertise in this. But generally, when a company Grows forward revenue 300% y/y and starts the year off with 800-900m revenue from almost 0 the previous year, this a positive sign. Even with 25% gross margins, there’s quite a lot of debt 500-600m. But the growth is staggering and a beneficiary of the data center buildout. Sometimes just need to take the leap of faith with a sector and trust DD of peers on X.
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Replying to @alc2022
I have a fun time seeing your conviction on $PLTR and $DUOL and think they're hilariously wrong but we can agree to disagree. But trying to profit off followers is not the way to go. Make money off the markets, not by selling courses.
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Replying to @kakashiii111
Extremely dangerous post because you’re spreading disinformation. I hope you can make a correction before the post causes trouble: “They get great lease deals with the option to terminate literally at any time, without the risk” These are the termination clauses from actual SEC filings: - Microsoft may terminate a specific GPU Service tranche under the agreement if, after a grace period, Nebius fails to meet the agreed delivery dates for that tranche and cannot provide alternative capacity. - Either party may terminate the agreement for cause if the other party materially breaches the agreement and does not remedy it within 60 days. - Either party may also terminate if the other party: - Ceases to do business, dissolves or liquidates; or - Has a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding instituted against it (which is not dismissed within 30 days) — except where it’s a Chapter 11 reorganization and the agreement is being transferred to a solvent entity. There is no “at-will” termination right.
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I wrote a Option Sell Swing Trade strategy that would realized $20k profit in 5 days with $1M last week for 183%+ Y/Y. I always give exact positions ahead of time, not retroactively. $NBIS +$5.52K $HIMS +$1.427k $CIFR +$5.239K $RKLB +3.8K $TGT +$1.3k $AMZN +$1.22K $IBIT +$947.86 $META +$869 With a $1M portfolio on it would be ~2% week passive compound for 183% Y/Y return. Every strike expired worthless and the premium would be collected. Even when stocks declined such as $HIMS (down 5.32% today), and 6.5% this week, you would still have 100% profit. This is a strategy people do when you're able to bottom time extremely well as a swing trader. If I were to write puts again for this week, I would dynamically change the strikes, and skip out on some stocks that I wrote earlier like $RKLB due to an increase in price. Again this works for extremely advanced traders, this is not your typical "write put, make money" type strategy since you're actively bottom timing (like how I posted with Reddit today, trying to time $200 local bottom). Not just writing options at random times. If you don't know how to bottom time well, writing puts will magnify loss. Regardless, this is an example of how a lot of advanced traders write options to compound net worth.
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I have no words… +$37K on $SPRB in 2 hours ($21K realized). Ended up taking profit on most. It’s not much to me but I just find this amusing given the short timeframe and had nobody to share it with. I’ll hold $30k worth to see where it goes.
I was looking at $SPRB after @MartinShkreli posted about it and it’s TA-ERT, breakthrough enzyme therapy replacement. Just from a quick search if SPRB’s TA-ERT is approved and they capture 10-15% market share longer term ($180–$270M ARR) of $1.4B US market... Realistic fair value today could be ~$280m-630m MC from 2-3x rev calculations. Obviously there’s a lot of risk from clinical failures, commercialization, to dilution but a $85M market cap looks promising? (disclosure I bought $50k worth just as a high risk gamble) Obviously I’m not an expert in biotech and this is outside my domain, which is why I wanted to see if anyone else with any domain knowledge had feedback or red flags.
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Okay last post of the night I promise: $FLY ECLIPSE REUSABLE MEDIUM-LIFT ROCKET LAUNCHES AIMING 2026. $4.5B MARKET CAP. MEGA MOAT, backstopped by government + critical for national security. I DON'T NEED TO SAY MORE. Love, Early $RKLB investor and Rocketlab Megabull.
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With Taylor Swift entering the Neocloud space, not even 10GW compute on GPT-5 can find her a lasting boyfriend. Raising my 1Y price target on $NBIS to $450 and reiterating outperform on the rest due to infinite energy consumption. $WLAC $CIFR $FLNC $IREN $TSM $AMD $BITF $WYFI $GLXY
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Weekend Reflections ☁️ I just wanted to post every position I'm down on this year + lessons learned. ___ 1. $ETOR - ($62 → $38.6, DCA $48, -19.58%) 2. $VIRT - (~$38 → $33, -45%) 3. $SNAP - ($8.2 → $7.69, -6.2%) (new) 4. $SG - ($8.2 → $7.32, -10.73%) 5. $GRRR - ($20.5 → $16.99, -17.12%) 6. $FLY - ($30.2 → $26.5, -12.25%) (new) 7. $LTC - ($113 → $91.1, -19.3%) 8. $OPAD - ($4.61 → $2.94, -36.2%) 9. $CRM - (~$250 → ~$243, ~30%) 10. $AMZN - ($218 → $213) (new) 11. $RDDT - ($202 → $195) (new) 12. $WULF - ($14.5 → $14) (new) I post a ton of stocks, and I'm happy that there are only about 7 I've gotten wrong short-term (sorry if i miss one or two by accident) and about 5 that I didn't time the absolute bottom correctly. I still think they'll print in 2026, not too many losers though! Individual Reflections 1. $ETOR: Great stock fundamentally. Even down ~20%, I believe this will recover in 2026. 1/3 cash, growing at IBKR rates. It suffers from tax-harvesting effects (October/November) as hedge funds sell and rebuy in December. Lesson learned: None, Id do the same again. Holding for 2026. Trimmed slightly for tax harvest. 2. $VIRT: If I buy calls, probably shouldn't post publicly since it affects hedging flow. Trimmed for tax harvesting since we're nearing two more rate cuts (bullish for markets). Hedging worked but lost quite a bit. Lesson learned: Keep hedges to myself. Still think I'm directionally right, just wanted to tax harvest. 3. $SNAP: Posted around $8.2 when they converted memories to revenue. This is a 2026 play, not worried about short-term tax harvesting. Lesson learned: None. Holding for 2026. 4. $SG: Honestly, I just like the salad 🥗. It was $35+ earlier this year. I think it'll recover eventually, just a waiting game cause it's like 1 p/s now? Lesson learned: None. Medium-term hold. 5. $GRRR: Migrated into $WLAC after investigating their $1.4B contract more, seemed sus. Got baited by the $380M market cap vs. $1.4B revenue potential. Lesson learned: Trust my gut on suspicious companies. Could 5x if legit, but I don't trust it. Probably shouldn’t have entered. (Trimmed) 6. $FLY: Down ~12%, still a 2026 medium-lift play. Posted recently, could’ve timed better. Lesson learned: None, maybe better tax-harvest timing. 7. $LTC: Down ~20%. Crypto got nuked by liquidations + government shutdown delays ETF approvals. Lesson learned: Don’t margin crypto. Government shutdowns delay ETF approvals lol. 8. $OPAD: Sold earlier, but current prices are -36%. Meme stock I aped into. Lesson learned: Don’t touch meme stocks. 9. $CRM: ~30% loss due to short-dated options + missing earnings date. Swing trade gone wrong. Lesson learned: Always check earnings dates, was just a on-off mistake, dont think I've ever made this mistake before. 10. $AMZN: It’s Amazon. Moves down 1% sometimes. Lesson learned: None. Just posted recently. 11. $RDDT: Thought $200 was bottom, dipped further. Averaged down to $190. Lesson learned: None. Just posted recently. 12. $WULF: Bought because all neoclouds were going up. Bought at $14.5, dipped to $14. Lesson learned: Don't ape into stocks. Could've timed better. _ Tax Harvesting Summary Trimmed most losers for EOY tax harvesting, except newer positions ($AMZN, $RDDT, $WULF) and medium-term plays like $FLY (holding through 2026) that I mentioned. TLDR: - Don't go hard into tax-harvested stocks end of year (e.g. $LULU, $ETOR, $SNAP). Wait for December if timing. - Stop trading meme-stocks like $OPAD. - Trust my gut when SEA-related companies seem suspicious ($GRRR). - Option flows affect less-liquid stocks (e.g. $VIRT). March calls could still print so other people buying might affect things, just wanted to tax harvest tho. Other trades like $AMZN, $RDDT, $WULF are very recent, maybe could've timed them better, but get the exact bottom. _ Overall, so far so good! I've lost count of how many 100%+ returns I've had... and the number of losers is still small, both for count and position size.
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As you know, I do value investing too like with Upwork (+52% in 2 months, P/E 7-> 11.5). An interesting stock is $VIRT as an asymmetrical volatility hedge, a stock barely anyone talks about. Clean asymmetry to balance $IREN / $NBIS. 6.6 forward p/e, 5.38b MC, Virtu ~ Citadel, and does market making for a large percentage of retail orders. Current price: $35.19 Again, nobody is really talks about this stock, so I like testing my a new thesis against the market sometimes. I could be wrong and would love feedback too! This is a light DD on why I'm building light call + share positions: 1/ Rate cuts don’t nuke earnings. Virtu’s term loans are floating (financing +2.5%). total $1.545B. −75 bps ≈ ~12M yr interest savings (not all funding prices down but most are floating tho) 2/ Using Q2 as an anchor (EPS $1.65 / adj $1.53; NI ~$293M; rev ~44% YoY). If we est EPS 10–12% for lower VIX + ~2.6% for net rate drag -> $1.31–$1.34 EPS/qtr -> $5.22–$5.35 next 12 months $35.21 / $5.35 = 6.58x forward p/e $35.21 / $5.22 = 6.74x forward p/e Even if we overshoot because of good Q2 quarter as an anchor without rate cuts, EPS $4.78 -> 7.4× forward p/e, is still extremely good. Other websites like Value Investing estimate forward p/e to be 6.99 - 8 forward p/e. 3/ There's ~$303M authorization remaining for buybacks off a small 5.2B marketcap. If vol normalizes or spikes, expect both EPS and the multiple to lift from today’s ~6–7×. If not, it's undervalued and you can sit back with buybacks. IN my opinion Virtu is a great asymmetrical hedge. If VIX stays low and we get rate cuts, VIRT is undervalued + goes up anyway or stays flat/slightly down, other equities go up, and it serves its hedging case. The Nov 2025 market-structure changes probably is the larger risk to payment order flow, which might create some headwind. Regardless VIX increases and other equities go down, VIRT would get re-rated and goes up. I just see risk/reward being good at these levels so bought Calls. Would recommend shares instead. Starter positions: Call options for Mar 2026 (low 30 IV at entry).
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Personal thoughts for trading this October (macro + tailwinds): 1. Government shutdown is 97% likely, already priced in Polymarket. Again, this was already known way ahead of time. Which is why stuff like $VIRT or $VIX that I posted is a asymmetrical hedge during times of volatility. Don't be a panickan, this is already priced in and known in advance, usually during the actual news, what WSJ reports, people might panic sell or buy Puts. Use this opportunity to buy stocks on dips. Historically initially, stocks drop on the news but ends up increasing new the tail end (eg. Oct 2021 (Debt Ceiling) 15 days, SPY +1.34%). Right now, it's an especially great time to go LONG and if you don't have positions setup, use this time of uncertainty to stock up, not panic sell. 2. Polymarket is pricing in 56% of 75bps rate cuts this year. There's still a ton of macro tailwind for high growth stocks like $NBIS or RKLB or small caps on Russel. This decreased ~8% last fed meeting off positive economic data, but it's still likely just for risk management, so adjust accordingly. (eg. growth stocks that rely on forward earnings, stuff like Zillow or others that benefit from increased housing sales from lower rates, or small cap stocks with floating interest debt cut). But we'll likely get rate cut frontrunning in Oct after the short lived gov shutdown drop (if there is any) 3. SEASONALITY TAILWIND. October (front-running) -> November -> December. Huge opportunity for stocks. E-Commerce like $AMZN, tech like $APPL retail like $LULU, etc. All benefit from seasonality such as Christmas shopping, Nov black friday deals. Tech also performs great in December, so if you're position you can leverage longs aiming for March, on a government rate shutdown dip and just ride the wave until Jan. I don't know how how it's going to play out exactly, but just going off assumption that stocks drop off confirmation fears, it's likely short term and a great time to build long positions, not sell, because of macro + seasonality tailwind + immateriality of government shutdowns historically.
Lot of inspirational trader mindsets going around X lately like: "It will pay off. Be Patient". All BS. Traders consider sector momentum, catalysts, valuation, pullbacks, macro, IV, option flows, etc. Here's my mindset for short term trading for various stocks: 1. $NBIS - $111.91, even though it's up 1.53% on the day, CRWV is up 12% off Meta gives them a $14B contract. So usually it's bullish for all neoclouds. It spiked to $117 ( i probably would have still held) but pulled back to $111 likely from too much open interest, but we'll likely keep seeing a rally upward. So I'd use this time to DCA and buy calls/shares even if it's up 1.53% Not "truly a dip" but it's more of a dip during a rally. 2. $HIMS - $56.4 Down 4.67%, usually people just blindly buy the dip but this was actually caused from something material, which was Trump launching a direct to consumer GOV drug website. Short interest decreased back to 33% on the rise to $60. This dip will likely be used for short covering. I did buy $46 support but sold shortly on a bounce after I just felt like it would go down more. But I just personally prefer bottom entry points so that's probably closer to $50. I still remember AMZN launching a competitor, HIMS crashed 20% then rose again, I'd expect the same with Trump's program mid term but near term it's a headwind. 3. $RDDT - $228, down 5.45%, no news. Just probably valuation concerns. We saw similar growth stocks like ALAB, CRED, have random 20% pullbacks. Lot of software/social stocks like SNAP down 8.1% off non-material news. Correction is healthy, stocks don't just keep going up, I'd prefer to wait in the $100+ again, rather than $200+ (just personally), but it's actually a better buy than the rest, given RDDT has larger 5-8% pullbacks on random days, just from historical experiences so 6-7% drop is a good buy intra-day and you'd likely see it recover but we might see a lot of growth stocks have a larger correction into massive rally Nov/Dec so might not be an actual bottom. I don't really look at chart RSI nowadays, just do this based on feelings from experience looking at the stock + IV every day for the past year or two. 4. AMZN - No major macro news, prob government shutdown Oct 1st that might cause some panic for index but it's pretty immaterial. It dropped, 1.35% so I'd buy since it' a good time to cost average. 5. Klarna - $36, 5.3% drop. Sometimes you just go off gut feeling. Below IPO price, no major news. Most IPOs were down like Gemini, etc. If you wanted to build a long term position I'd buy at this level. 6. TSM - $277, I've been guilty of swing trading between $273-$279, so I just buy every drop to $273 and sell at $277-$279 for 2% profit purely with shares. So far I've done this ~2 times with shares. If it drops past $273, I'd just DCA and then if it drops further switch to calls. There's no True or False way to do this, everyone kind of has their own approach. (also sorry about CRM, bad earnings got that one wrong, I'll probably cost avg if ti declines further). But generally this is just what I'm thinking about when I go down the list of every single stock. Once again, everyone thinks differently, I just wanted to write down how I think if it's helpful to others.
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I'm actually losing my mind seeing this on X. Real traders will always make money off the markets. Not off their followers. The best advice you will ever get is free DD on X, or posts coming from randoms dropping $NBIS / $IREN. Not 🤡 Wave 69 XYZ $BMNR charting for $20.
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IMO opportunity front running the Boost SPAC Neocloud IPO through $WLAC (OKLO, DJT, etc) if u hv 3 months patience. Boost works with Fluidstack, likely backstopped by $GOOGL in the future. 75%+ EBITDA gross margin + 250% rev from last year. EST MC ~$600m, maybe next $CIFR.
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After looking into it more, looks like $NBIS's deal with $MSFT was largely better than $IREN's in terms of profitability and margins when normalized to 300 MW. It's not purely about revenue, since if you're not generating FCF from it, it's not that useful. For $IREN: $9.7bn total contract value $5.8bn GPU capex, including ancillaries ~38% gross margin. $NBIS 51.76%+ gross margin. I need to do more calculations to verify, this was just a quick deep-research calculation in terms of deal differences.
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Crowdsourcing the X community’s highest-conviction stocks — names like $NBIS or $RR below. Only 200%+ potential plays over the next 6 months. 📈 What's your single #1 highest conviction pick and thesis? Would be helpful to build a community watchlist for hyperscaling winners.
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I added $WWR ($170m MC) and $DFLI ($110.25M MC) today. For full transparency, I have no clue about their fundamentals Reason I bought? Today: "China expands rare earths restrictions, targets chip users" WWR does Graphite for batteries. DFLI does Lithium for batteries.
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Replying to @RealJGBanks
Sorry but terrible list imo, couldn't disagree more. If $RGTI, $OKLO, $JOBY, $OPEN, $IONQ are your top choices of small-mid caps to own by sector, have fun nuking the portfolio of followers. If someone posted this list before $RGTI went up 4000% off 0 revenue, then sure.
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Replying to @DeepValueBagger
Huge warning on $CRCL, especially going into December 2nd. You're trading on a low float. Circle sold 34M Class A shares in the IPO at $31. There's 202,550,578 Class A shares outstanding. 77.6% of all outstanding Class A (157M/202.55M) and ~463% of the 34M IPO float will be unlocked in December. If anything I'd go short + long COIN as hedge during before the event.
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