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- Pulse 2026-06-11Semis Crack, AI Weakens, Risk Assets Slip TogetherThe 10 June US session was a synchronised risk-off day, led by semiconductors and AI. The watchlist closed broadly red, with the heaviest pressure in semis, AI/tech, gold, Korea, Taiwan and the Nasdaq
- Pulse 2026-06-10Is Software Really Bottoming — or Just a Dead Cat Bounce?Software and cloud stocks have reached a decision point. After a strong rebound from the April lows, the sector looked as if it was building a more durable bottom — but the latest price action is star
- Pulse 2026-06-09Nvidia's Crunch Time: Can Rubin Restart the Leadership Cycle?Nvidia has pushed above its multi-month trading range, but the breakout still needs confirmation — and that distinction is the whole story. My working thesis is that Nvidia leads early in each new chi
- Heresy 2026-06-09Nvidia: Great Company, Bad Hold — Closelook Heresy VIThe consensus on Nvidia fits on a hat: it is the AI trade, so you own it and keep owning it. The business deserves the respect — the margins, the moat, the execution are real. But "great company" has
- Weekly Signal 2026-06-08Gold's Buyer Base Has Changed
- Pulse 2026-06-05The Generals Have Followed Their TroopsOn 02 June I flagged a breadth warning in semiconductors: XSD, the equal-weight semiconductor ETF, had stopped confirming the mega-cap-led advance while SMH kept climbing. The troops were leaving befo
- Pulse 2026-06-04Two Agentic Earnings BeatsTwo Closelook portfolio companies reported earnings, both beating — and both with a direct line to the agentic-AI thesis — yet the market reaction stayed muted. Rubrik (RBRK) printed strong: revenue
- Pulse 2026-06-03META Stock Rallies 5% on AI Breakthroughs and Major UpgradeMeta Platforms (META) is outperforming a weak broader market, driven by two catalysts: a major commercial AI product roll-out and a significant Wall Street upgrade. Meta officially rolled out an ente
- Pulse 2026-06-02The Troops Are Leaving Before the GeneralsTwo semiconductor ETFs are telling two different stories, and the gap between them is the signal. SMH, the cap-weighted complex carried by the mega-caps, is up 5.46% over five days. XSD, the equal-wei
- Weekly Signal 2026-05-31Palantir Breaks the Channel
- Pulse 2026-05-29The New Value Stocks That Traditional Value Investors Like To OverlookA new class of value stocks is developing — and many traditional value investors have deliberately overlooked it. Old-tech hardware names — Dell, HPE, Texas Instruments, Lenovo, plus turnaround bets l
- Pulse 2026-05-28Bitcoin Is Sitting on the Line That Decides the RegimeNot decided — which is exactly why it's interesting. 71,581 is the hinge, 60,000 is the verdict. BTC trades at 73,248, down 2.47% today, back on the 50% retracement of the entire 2022–2025 advance (7
- Pulse 2026-05-27Gold's First Wave DownShort-term channel says 400. Long-term trend says relax. 2026 says: nothing here. GLD trades at 408.56 mid-session today, down 1.31%, sitting on the lower rail of a tight 30-day linear regression cha
- Pulse 2026-05-26Pattern 03 cohort — NVIDIA equity deployments as Rubin Build-Out leading indicatorPattern 03 admits a public-equity name when NVIDIA discloses a corporate equity stake (Tier 1) or admits the company to a named NVIDIA architecture layer (Tier 3 — NVLink Fusion, Spectrum-X, DSX, AI-R
- Weekly Signal 2026-05-25TLT: The Crowded Trade