Events of the week 5/20: NVDA and PDD earnings, fedspeak, jobless claims, inflation expectations, durable goods
Long ideas (4/21):
-AVGO: The true picks and shovels for AI chip expansion. Required for the buildout for CSP chip competitors with NVDA. VMWare acquisition is extremely value accretive, creating a very lucrative software branch of the chip giant.
5/15: VRT- Core to data center power and cooling. Like a leveraged NVDA bet.
5/21: FCX- World’s largest gold miner, major molybdenum producer (many industrial uses including its prevalence in almost all sources of renewable energy, economic expansion and rate cut beneficiary), major copper producer
Current 2023 fed hawkishness that are voting members: Dovish-Goolsbee, Cook, Harker (neutral), Barr (neutral)
-Hawks-least to most hawkish : Jefferson, Williams, Powell, Loretta Mester, Logan, Waller, Bowman, Kashkari
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Notes:
-Jan and July OPEX historically negative while April is positive
-Quadruple witching: March, june, september, and december (index, index futures, stocks, stock futures)
-Strong sectors for bull butterflies: Travel, semiconductors, asset managers (ABNB, ASML, BAM). Open on March 4th or later.
-Bid/ask size: Large bid size= more demand/buying, large ask size= more supply/selling
-cut losses and take profits without emotion. Only way to do that is appropriate position sizing!
-Keep in mind 0.66 a contract. Need at least 0.03 to break-even on a normal spread open and close (think 0.027 debited).