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· Premarket Alpha · by Buzzberg Research
Retail posts centered on Ryan Cohen's GameStop purchases and value-board cases for ASML and financials; elsewhere, a premium seller was assigned WDC puts, managed futures were debated against bonds, and long-bond and cocoa positions framed rate and weather risk.
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GME / insider buying
Ryan Cohen's open-market purchases drew supportive posts: one holder is buying alongside him, another calls it a bull signal, a long-term holder added 2,000 shares over two years, and a warrant holder expects a one-year extension.
Dividend portfolio rules
A Chowder-rule thread: the poster says about half his portfolio fails the classic bar, HESM is flagged for a ~99% payout with Chevron's exit, and one holder's book splits between high-yield income names like O and CVX and barely-yielding ho
Managed futures vs bonds
r/Bogleheads weighed adding DBMF: one holder added a 5% position a year ago that is up ~20% and has acted as a hedge while bonds fell, while critics call copying recent CTA trades theoretically strange and unnecessary and prefer T-bills or
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by score · day changeCocoa thesis leans on a 'Godzilla' El Nino against depleted West African supply
The author updates a bullish cocoa thesis, up 60% since June, citing a potentially record El Nino, declining West African production forecasts, recovering demand and low ICE inventories, and holds a 2x leveraged cocoa ETC.
Cocoa +60% since my June DD. A GODZILLA El Niño is coming, and we’re LESS prepared than in 2023.
Soft commodities are pricing climate and supply risk that equity portfolios rarely hedge, and cocoa's inelastic demand makes it one of the purest expressions of a bad weather cycle.
Watch West African production forecasts, ICE inventories and El Nino strength.
Source →A burned SOXL trader buys TLT calls, arguing bonds are 'cool again' at ~5.6% yields
After a large SOXL loss, the poster argues bonds are attractive again at roughly 5.6% yields given AI-driven market risk and bought TLT calls with about 13% implied volatility.
$TLT - Worried about AI? Bonds are cool again DD:
Cheap long-bond optionality is the mirror of crowded AI hardware positioning; if inflation cools or growth cracks, duration is the highest-torque hedge retail is already buying.
Watch Whether long-dated Treasury yields fall as AI-driven risk hedging continues.
Source →Consumer AI monetization argument favours Google's user base, with long calls disclosed
The poster argues the real AI profit pool is consumer monetization, where Google's global user base and free-to-paid funnel dominate, and discloses long GOOGL calls converting to shares.
The real AI winner Take a minute and realize the real profit in AI will be made with consumers.
It is the demand-side counterpart to the infrastructure debate: if the consumer funnel is where AI revenue actually lands, distribution owners capture it without the capex.
Watch Google AI subscription and usage disclosures, and any per-user monetization data.
Source →Value board argues ASML is cheap again on booked 2027-28 capacity
The post argues ASML looks cheap again despite a P/E above 50, because 2027-2028 capacity is booked, pricing power has broadened across customers, and service and upgrade revenue recurs, with similar strengths in other semicap names.
ASML is starting to get cheap again I know a PE above 50 isn't cheap but hear me out.
If bookings already cover 2027-28, the equipment complex is insulated from a near-term AI capex pause, the counterweight to financing worry in levered compute.
Watch ASML's next bookings and 2027 revenue commentary.
Source →Intuit's AI disruption fear is overdone, argues the switching-cost bull case
The author argues QuickBooks' ecosystem, switching costs and network effects make the 'AI kills Intuit' thesis overly bearish, supporting a long-term bullish view on INTU.
Everyone Predicts AI Will Kill QuickBooks. Who's Going to Replace It? Everyone says AI will kill intuit.
Software incumbents with workflow lock-in are the cheapest way to bet AI augments rather than replaces vertical software, a crowded short thesis if wrong.
Watch Intuit's next quarter of QuickBooks net adds and AI product attach rates.
Source →Most argued
by comments per upvoteFinancials called a bargain on durable net interest margins and AI trading volume
The author argues the financial warnings are over, durable higher-rate net interest margins and AI-driven trading volume growth leave the sector undervalued, and discloses a position in Schwab.
Financials are a bargain The slew of financial warnings is over, and I can’t see how this sector is so
Banks offer rate-path leverage without AI-multiple risk, with the sector's higher-rate net interest margin tailwind the core of the thesis.
Watch Schwab's net new assets and net interest margin guide in its next report.
Source →Storage puts get assigned: WDC collected at $440, $390 and $365 with $325 strikes still open
A premium seller reports being assigned WDC puts at $440, $390 and $365 strikes, calls the stock insanely cheap, and holds further $325 puts expiring after earnings.
I also got assigned 4x$440, 2x$390(not yet, expiry tomorrow) and 1x$365 puts for WDC. The stock is insanely cheap.
It shows where volatility sellers are absorbing supply in storage and memory names, constructive if the fundamental bid returns and dangerous if the AI-memory selloff continues.
Watch WDC's post-earnings print and whether the $325 puts expire worthless.
Source →Aritzia thesis rides post-earnings drift into the 27 October investor day
The author cites a strong Q2 beat and launches a long ATZ.TO thesis on post-earnings drift into the 27 October Investor Day, holding long-dated calls.
Aritzia - The Great Canadian $LULU Aritzia has been smashing earnings for years.
Retail brand momentum is the other side of the K-shaped consumer story, and a dated catalyst makes the claim easy to grade.
Watch Aritzia's Investor Day on 27 October and subsequent sales trends.
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