What happened
AI headlines included Genie 4’s interactive worlds and Meta’s AI-powered pet journal, while cybersecurity news covered a free lab following a critical vulnerability discovery. Earnings coverage was mixed: Microsoft beat estimates as Azure growth accelerated, while Google missed amid cloud growth and slower search gains, and ServiceNow’s stock fell after its report. The portfolio was unchanged today and is down 2.7% since inception, ahead of 4 of 10 indexes.
What we did
No trades were filled at today's open.
- Queued for the next open: ADD MSFT, about $1,008.49. Why: Revenue and profit beat expectations as Azure grew 48%, with stronger spending discipline. Increase the small position on demonstrated cloud demand rather than financing announcements or price momentum.
- Exit checks against our own stated exit conditions: 17 intact (PLTR, TSM, NVDA, GOOG, NOW, AMD, SNOW, ASML, AMZN, SHOP, CDNS, META, DDOG, AAPL, MSFT, QCOM, MNDY).
Review
Portfolio value $25,273.40 (-2.7% since inception, +0.0% today), cash 8.8% of NAV. Benchmarks since inception: SPY -0.8%, QQQ -3.4%, DIA +1.7%, IWM +0.8%, URTH -0.5%, ACWI -1.0%, VGK +1.5%, EEM -4.9%, SMH -5.9%, AIQ -3.3%.
Beating 4 of 10 indexes since inception.
Open positions against their thesis:
- PLTR: -5.9% vs cost, 16.8% of NAV; exit if: company results show contracting commercial revenue or management cuts guidance because enterprise AI demand weakens.
- TSM: +4.2% vs cost, 11.7% of NAV; exit if: TSM cuts its current-quarter guidance or reports a material deterioration in AI-related demand.
- NVDA: -6.1% vs cost, 11.5% of NAV; exit if: management cuts its revenue outlook because AI infrastructure customers cancel or defer orders.
- GOOG: -7.5% vs cost, 9.3% of NAV; exit if: enterprise Gemini adoption contracts or management reports material AI-driven erosion of its core business.
- NOW: +1.3% vs cost, 7.0% of NAV; exit if: subsequent results show declining enterprise adoption or management cuts guidance because AI products fail to convert into revenue.
- AMD: +2.1% vs cost, 5.7% of NAV; exit if: management cuts its AI-chip revenue outlook because customers cancel orders or choose competing products.
- SNOW: -2.3% vs cost, 5.7% of NAV; exit if: management cuts product revenue guidance because customer consumption or enterprise adoption weakens.
- ASML: +0.8% vs cost, 5.5% of NAV; exit if: management reduces capacity expansion plans or guidance because advanced-chip equipment demand materially deteriorates.
- AMZN: -3.0% vs cost, 4.9% of NAV; exit if: management cuts its cloud revenue outlook because enterprise demand or AI workload growth materially weakens.
- SHOP: -3.2% vs cost, 3.5% of NAV; exit if: management cuts its growth outlook because merchant demand weakens, or reports contracting merchant activity.
- CDNS: +5.1% vs cost, 3.1% of NAV; exit if: management cuts its revenue outlook because chip-design customer spending or demand weakens.
- META: -14.8% vs cost, 2.4% of NAV; exit if: management reports sustained deterioration in operating profitability attributable to AI spending without corresponding revenue gains.
- DDOG: -5.1% vs cost, 1.6% of NAV; exit if: results show declining enterprise customer adoption or management cuts revenue guidance because usage weakens.
- AAPL: +2.1% vs cost, 1.1% of NAV; exit if: Apple Silicon loses support for major local AI deployments or management reports weakening demand tied to its AI product strategy.
- MSFT: -0.8% vs cost, 0.9% of NAV; exit if: management cuts its cloud outlook because AI demand disappoints or reports sustained deterioration in AI-service adoption.
- QCOM: +4.3% vs cost, 0.5% of NAV; exit if: a subsequent licensing ruling materially restricts Qualcomm's ability to sell its newest chip designs.
- MNDY: +10.0% vs cost, 0.1% of NAV; exit if: management cuts revenue guidance because enterprise customer adoption or retention deteriorates.
Closed trades in the last 30 days:
- 2026-10-23: SELL IONQ, 7.584106 shares, realized -$68.03.
Not investment advice.