#1222 Alpha Score 9.8

John Coogan

Co-Host, TBPN
· tracked since Jun 2026
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Alpha Score 9.8
Calls
55
Win Rate
38.2%
return
-2.6%
Calls 55 79 Posts tracked · 0.9/day Posted today
Calls
7d 2
30d 9
90d 54
Best Calls
DELL Long +28.3%
CRM Long +23.1%
MSFT Long +22.4%
Worst Calls
RKLB Long -39.2%
000660.KS Long -30.4%
BFLY Long -21.3%
Most Mentioned
NVDA ×13
META ×12
GOOGL ×8
Recent Calls
IGV Long 3 hours ago
XLU Long 2 days ago
GPRO Long 1 week ago
Win Rate 38% Long 52 Short 3
Win Rate
7d 37%
30d 57%
90d 0%
Average Return -2.6% Long Return -2.5% Short Return -4.4%
Average Return
7d -2.7%
30d -3.1%
90d -7.9%
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Long
Jul 02
$194.72
+12.2%
Nvidia benefits from AI token demand.
Meta employees consumed 73.3 trillion AI tokens in a single month, and Nvidia is partnering with AI cloud firms via revenue sharing, creating circularity; this reinforces demand for Nvidia's accelerators.
AI Compute
Long
Jun 16
$600.21
+6.9%
Meta AI acceleration remains underappreciated bull case.
Meta is shifting from token maxing to token budgets and min-maxing AI spend, which is sound business discipline. The bull case is that Meta is potentially the greatest business in history that is not threatened by AI but accelerated by AI, and management will likely need to clarify its real strategy within the next month because the vague 'personal superintelligence' messaging is hurting the stock.
Hyperscalers
Long
Jun 29
$351.02
-6.1%
Google capacity scarcity is bullish
Google limiting Meta's access to Gemini capacity shows AI compute is a scarce commodity and demand is outstripping Google's capacity. This is extremely bullish for Google because it confirms Google Cloud acceleration and pricing power in AI services, even though Google does not break out Gemini revenue.
Hyperscalers
Long
Jul 06
$419.58
-13.4%
Tesla's accessory ecosystem leverages Model Y scale
Tesla's high Model Y volumes and uniform configurations let it mass-produce first-party accessories like the dual-zone fridge and wireless charging pad. The new Model Y L expands the lineup, and this accessory scale advantage is hard for multi-SKU automakers to copy.
Autos & EV
Long
Jun 12
$160.89
-8.0%
SpaceX IPO is healthy and successful.
Conventional valuation methods have repeatedly failed for Elon Musk companies: Tesla was dismissed on valuation but revenues and earnings eventually materialized. Stuart Kirk's FT column argues terrestrial valuations don't apply to Elon, and John echoes that Elon companies can stay disconnected from fundamentals longer than skeptics can stay solvent, so investors should trust the plan rather than short or avoid SpaceX solely on 95x revenue.
Space
Long
Jul 28
$340.87
-4.3%
Apple wins via do-nothing strategy.
Apple's market cap crossed $5 trillion and it is running a 'do nothing and win' strategy while staying neck-and-neck with Nvidia; its physical iPhone and device ecosystem limits AI disruption, and Apple should also benefit from open-source AI even though it has not signed the open-weight letter.
AI Hardware
Long
Jul 06
$391.86
+4.3%
Manual Ferrari demand keeps RACE strong
Ferrari's manual-by-wire 12Cilindri gives buyers the gated shifter and clutch experience they asked for, should sell all 1,499 cars, and shows Ferrari is listening to enthusiast demand while addressing emissions and positioning.
Autos & EV
Long
Jun 29
$2677000.00
-30.4%
Memory makers profit from AI shortage
Micron's explosive profit growth shows an enormous transfer of cash from AI providers to memory chip makers. Micron raised DRAM prices more than 60% sequentially and NAND prices more than 80%, while data center demand and limited high-bandwidth memory capacity keep supply tight. Micron, Samsung Electronics, and SK hynix are analogized to oil producers for the AI airline industry; Micron joined the trillion-dollar club and the Barron's bull case says the stock could still double.
AI Memory
Long
Aug 10
$197.47
+23.1%
Legacy SaaS remains sticky despite AI.
AI agent workflows still often terminate in legacy SaaS platforms. Even after AI-generated video creation in Neural Frames, the user still needed Adobe Premiere; similarly, many AI/agent processes still end at Salesforce or Adobe. This makes the AI-kills-SaaS short thesis premature and supports stickiness for incumbent platforms.
AI Software
Long
Jul 20
$400.55
+22.4%
Microsoft can fund AI capex best.
The AI economy is severely compute-constrained across land, power, grid, chips, construction, and cooling. Companies with massive net income from non-AI products can fund hundreds of billions in capex, which is a bull case for Microsoft.
Hyperscalers
Long
Jul 14
$61.96
+1.9%
AI infrastructure spending is winning.
AI spending is rotating toward GPUs, memory, networking, hyperscale cloud computing, and frontier model inference; these areas are the current AI investment winners while legacy mainframe/server vendors are being squeezed.
Thematic ETFs
Long
Jul 28
$527.90
+6.0%
Chip controls won't hurt American chipmakers.
Dario Amodei's proposal to keep restricting powerful chip and chipmaking equipment sales to China is framed as not hurting American chip companies because U.S. demand is essentially unlimited and maintaining China's chip gap is a strategic advantage for the United States, supporting the domestic chip and equipment complex.
Thematic ETFs
Long
Jul 22
$244.92
+2.8%
Cloud providers reaccelerating on AI demand.
GCP, Azure, and AWS are reaccelerating revenue growth as AI adoption increases; even at the low point AWS was still growing 15-20%, and now growth rates are increasing as new models and applications drive higher token consumption and cloud demand.
Hyperscalers
Long
Jul 03
$120.35
-17.0%
Trump-aligned tech like Intel, Dell outperform
Tech companies that cooperate with the Trump administration have been strongly rewarded. Intel is the clearest precedent: after a government stake, its stock is up roughly 400%, while being difficult to do business with the administration has been unambiguously bad for others. That makes Intel and Dell the clean examples of the pro-administration alignment factor behind the OpenAI stake story.
Foundry Equipment
Long
Jun 26
$367.00
-1.8%
OpenAI chip win boosts Broadcom AI ASICs.
OpenAI launched its purpose-built 'Jalapeño' LLM chip designed with Broadcom, and the accelerated chip development cycle shows custom AI ASIC designs are compressing go-to-market timelines, supporting Broadcom's AI semiconductor role.
AI ASIC
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John Coogan has 55 trade ideas tracked on Buzzberg across 55 tickers since June 2026. Win rate 38% across 55 evaluated calls, average return -2.6%. Ranked #1222 on the Buzzberg Alpha leaderboard. Most covered: NVDA, META, GOOGL.