Bull or Bear Market now?

Obigoot
10-24

Your portfolio thinks it’s diversified.

Your risk budget knows better. 

Semiconductors are only ~13% of the global stock market by weight…

…but they’re eating ~20% of the entire risk capital.

Tech overall? 28% of the index, 40% of the risk.

That’s not diversification. That’s a high-beta AI casino wearing a passive-index costume.

Low vol made everyone lever up.

VaR models said “more size, king.”

Now any shock → first thing sold = the chips.

Vol rises → more selling → more vol. Snowball goes brrr.

Fundamentals can be fine. Positioning doesn’t care.

When 1/5 of global risk lives in semis, every wiggle becomes a forced-liquidation party.

Welcome to 2026: the market is a semiconductor ETF with extra steps.

Manage the risk, or the risk manages you. Do not over leverage.


$iShares Semiconductor ETF(SOXX)$  $E-mini Nasdaq 100 - main 2612(NQmain)$  $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$  

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Comments

  • Sheepysheep
    10-26 16:17
    Sheepysheep
    This is a good analysis of the market, much knowledge gained from this insightful post
  • IMMORTALIS
    10-26 23:31
    IMMORTALIS
    The hype in the AI sector is completely disconnected from real-world revenue.
    We have reached a phase where companies are pouring billions into infrastructure simply out of fear of missing out, ignoring basic unit economics. What makes this worse is the circular economy keeping the machine afloat:

    Nvidia invests heavily into leading model developers like OpenAI.

    OpenAI pays fortune-level sums for Microsoft cloud capacity.

    Microsoft uses that revenue to buy next-gen GPUs directly from Nvidia.

    Because each successive funding round assigns astronomical valuations to these entities, every player on that cap table reports massive unrealized book gains. It creates an optical illusion of unprecedented growth and profitability. Once the leverage dries up and these companies actually have to justify their capital expenditures with sustainable, paying end-users, reality will hit just as hard as it did in 2000.

    • Obigoot: 
      a different perspective but not entirely wrong. we can only look at the future, and hopefully we did the right thing now.
  • puffyxx
    10-26 14:43
    puffyxx
    20% sounds low ngl. Once you count derivatives and off-book leverage, semi risk can feel closer to 30% and that is systemic, not just high beta.
    • Obigoot: 
      this are all part n parcel of the US stock market.
  • rui123e
    10-26 23:32
    rui123e
    不准备做保险再见再见再见再见就谢娜谢娜相机相机相机继续就行
  • rui123e
    00:04
    rui123e
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