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@blossombriefs • 4d Road to 35,000 MSTE shares (update)Here is the monthly update as promised. I apologize for the delay, I have to make this post after my 12hr shift, I couldn’t find the time earlier. Finally I have some peace now to write this post,after all my kids went to bed.

Today was Harvest's payday. I recieved $2 ,333.22 in distributions from MSTE based on the recent distribution cut to $0.075 /share.
The recent distribution cut didn't feel good tbh but I understand the reasoning behind the cut, it is to protect the NAV of the fund. Harvest can write more OTM calls allowing MSTE to capture more of the upside when the underlying MSTR rips 🚀.
Even with the distribution cut,the yield is still pretty high.

I reinvested all the distributions back into buying more MSTE shares. Now I have 32,035 shares with an ACB of $7.97 .

Since all my registered accounts are maxed out for this year, I am only relying on reinvesting the distributions, to lower my ACB. So far I have been able to bring the ACB down from $19 to $7.97 , thanks to the BTC bear cycle.

The realistic goal for the end of this year is to get to 35,000 MSTE shares and possibly lower the ACB even further.

So far MSTE has paid me $51 ,172 in distributions.

Despite the juicy premuims, I am still 6 figure in the red 😂, it's the same old story of my life 🙈.You can see all the proof in the pics attached below.

2 months ago I was down an eye watering -$200 ,000 and a laughing stock of Blossom. Currently I am down -$174 ,500 and still a laughing stock 😂🤞 I guess.

That's an improvemt of $25 ,500, not including the distributions. The numbers look much better if you add in the distributions received to calculate the total returns more accurately. But I am lazy and tired, ain't Nobody got time for that, lmfao😂.

I am sure there are many smart people here on Blossom, who will be able to calculate the total returns far more accurately than I can.

Honestly at this point I don't care, one day I will see GREEN 🟢, its been soo long seeing just RED 🔴.

Recently $BTC ,$MSTR / $MSTE have been on a 🚀 tear lately and I am loving it. Hopefully this upcoming bull run for the next 3 years will bring outsized performance to my portfolio and I get to see new ATH 🤞

My conviction in MSTE still stays the same, I am one stubborn Bull 🐂, I dont panic or budge from my conviction / decisions that easy. I have already crashed and burned, now it's time to rise from the ashes and shine bright like a Diamond💎 🙈 lmfao 😂.

Fair warning 🛑🛑, never follow me, just enjoy my roller coaster journey, or you will get burned. I have no finance background to back my investing decisions. Nor will I ever ask you to buy my MSTE 101 course for a small fee / donation of $1000 lol 😂😎.
You can enjoy my endless rants for the upcoming few years for free, till I am officially in the GREEN. Tread these crocodile ($MSTE )infested waters carefully at your own risk.

I wonder how the portfolios of other MSTE whales of Blossom @garygill @adrian_pii @monthlymint @ccetf @anbha @onmargin and many others that I can't even recall are doing.
I am just a small tuna fish compared to them.

Anyways that's it for this update, I am tired now, goodnite 💤💤
See you next month with another update, till we meet again, stay Blessed and keep hustling.119 reactions • 70 comments

@blossombriefs • 3d Why I'm Not Borrowing to Invest Right NowThere have been a lot of posts on here lately about portfolio lines of credit, and a few people have asked me what I think of them. Personally I'm not touching one right now, and it comes down to two things.

The first is valuations, and I'm not predicting a crash when I say that, since I'd never try to time one. But the way I see it, the stock market is already incredibly leveraged, and it wouldn't take that much to trigger a fairly large sell-off at this stage. When the whole system is already stretched, I'd prefer to not be leveraged at this point.

The second is that I'm already somewhat leveraged, just not in the way people usually mean. I have some student loans sitting at 0% interest, and every dollar I invest instead of paying them down is essentially a dollar invested with borrowed money. At 0% that's a comfortable amount of leverage for me. Adding a second loan at 4% to 5% on top of it is a different decision entirely.

Wealthsimple's portfolio line of credit is prime plus 0.5% for most people right now, which works out to about 4.95%, and 3.95% if you're at the top tier. FP Canada's 2026 planning guidelines put expected returns on a diversified stock portfolio at roughly 6.3% to 6.6% a year before fees. So most people borrowing at 4% to 5% are hoping to clear about 1.5% to 2.5% a year on the borrowed money, and that's the average case. On $35 ,000 borrowed, that's roughly $500 to $900 a year, before tax.

I don't feel comfortable with the majority of people paying 4% to 5% interest to invest right now, because expected returns over the next number of years aren't significantly higher than that. You're taking a lot of risk for not much potential gain.

Say you have $50 ,000 invested and you borrow another $35 ,000 to buy more, so $85 ,000 is in the market. If stocks drop 30%, which they've done plenty of times, your $85 ,000 becomes $59 ,500. You still owe the full $35 ,000, so what's left of your own money is $24 ,500. The market fell 30% and you fell 51%. The interest bill of about $1 ,700 a year keeps coming the whole time you wait for the recovery, and if the drop is big enough, the lender can ask for some of the money back at the exact moment you'd least want to sell.

I'm not against borrowing to invest in every situation, and I don't think the people doing it are being reckless. Someone with a steady income, a long timeline and a rate well below what they can reasonably expect to earn can make a case for it, and that's their call to make. For the amount of upside on the table today though, I'll keep my leverage where it is, at 0%.

If you're using a portfolio line of credit, what rate are you paying, and what return are you counting on?60 reactions • 103 comments

@blossombriefs • 1d Why I choose Covered Call over Growth.My plan is to attain fire 🔥 in about 2 years from now… (by DEC 2028). I will be 43.5 years old then. That means I will attain my retirement before 21.5 years…

1. Regular monthly cash flow:
This is probably the biggest advantage. If your portfolio produces enough sustainable cash flow to cover your expenses, you don’t need to decide every month which investments to sell.
My plan:
Portfolio: $600 ,000
Covered-call distributions: 17% = $102 ,000/year
Living expenses: $50 ,000/year
You could potentially live on the cash distributions while reinvesting the excess of 50,000$. This can make early retirement feel more like receiving a salary.

2. Less psychological pressure during a market crash:
Imagine you own a traditional index portfolio worth $1 million and withdraw 4%. If the market falls 30%, your portfolio could temporarily fall to $700 ,000. Selling investments during that period can be psychologically difficult. A covered-call strategy may continue generating option income and distributions even during volatile markets, although distributions and NAV can still decline. Covered calls can provide some downside cushioning but do not eliminate market losses.

3. Potentially easier budgeting
Monthly distributions can match monthly expenses:
Covered-call distributions → Bank account → Rent, groceries, bills and other expenses. This creates a simple retirement cash-flow system.

4. You may avoid selling assets during specific market conditions:
With a traditional withdrawal strategy, you may need to sell investments to generate spending money. With an income-focused portfolio, distributions can provide some or all of your required cash. This can reduce the number of discretionary sales you make.

$USCL $QQCL $ENCL $HHIS $MSTE $HBTE $BANK $UTES $BIGY $EASY $QDAY $SDAY $CDAY $YTSL121 reactions • 35 comments

@blossombriefs • 6d Can I reach 4 Million by Early Retirement?Now that Blossom has made a dedicated "retirment" topic I'd thought ill share some reverse engineering numbers about my retirment goal.

I think a lot about what retirement, in fact my wife @jesswang would tell you that Ive been talking about retirment in my early 20s.

Right now, there is $933K invested in the markets and I’m adding roughly $3 ,000/month.

If I leave it invested for the next 14 years:

7% return → ~$3.3M
8% return → ~$3.8M
9% return → ~$4.3M

So $4M by 46 isn’t some crazy number anymore.

But with the investments I’ll also have my RCMP pension, which I'm projecting to be around $63K /year at age 46.

If I eventually have $4M invested and use a 4% withdrawal rate:

$4 ,000,000 × 4% = $160 ,000/year

Add the pension:

$160K from investments
+$63K pension
= ~$223K /year

That’s the number I keep coming back to. That number will help me reach Fat FIRE and would give my family options.

I started investing at 22 without really knowing where investing would take me...thats why I love how life changing this stuff really is..seeing young people starting early is amazing.

$1M is the next milestone.
$4M is the long-term goal.
46 is the retirement target...or maybe earlier?

There.... my first retirement post in the "Retirement Topic" as a 32yr old lolololol. 85 reactions • 40 comments

@blossombriefs • 4d Power is the next hot sector 🔥The next AI bottleneck is POWER ⚡️ — and these stocks have recently pulled back.

If you were at blossomcon I’m sure you heard me emphasize how important power , electricity and grid upgrades will be in order for ai and physical ai to move forward. This is one of the reasons why I continue to increase exposure to electrical infrastructure

Power is the next AI bottleneck because chips now arrive faster than electricity, transformers, and grid connections.

Jensen Huang calls electricity “the bottleneck,” not GPUs. Energy sits at the base of AI infrastructure: factories turn electrons into tokens, so revenue is tokens per watt. He expects small nuclear reactors beside data centers and says computing may need ~1,000× more energy as agents run continuously.

Elon Musk says the limiter moved from chips to transformers to generation. The U.S. will soon make more chips than it can power; he cites ~15 GW of 2027 compute sitting idle. China scales solar faster. His fix: on-site turbines now, solar satellites later.

Gavin Baker frames two constraints—watts and wafers. Power shortages slow overbuild and make tokens-per-watt decisive. Watts ease around 2027–28; zoning remains a choke.

Chips take months. Gigawatts take years.

$VST — Generates massive amounts of electricity from nuclear and natural gas. Has 20-year nuclear power deals with AWS and Meta, giving it direct exposure to Big Tech’s growing power needs.

$CEG — America’s largest nuclear operator. Supplies huge amounts of reliable 24/7 electricity, with long-term power deals tied to Microsoft and Meta’s growing data-center needs.

$GEV — Builds the gas turbines and grid equipment needed to create and move electricity. AI data centers need huge amounts of new power generation, making turbines increasingly important.

$VRT — Builds the power and cooling infrastructure inside data centers. Think liquid cooling, power management, UPS systems and increasingly microgrid infrastructure.

$BE — Provides onsite fuel-cell power, allowing data centers to generate electricity closer to where it’s needed instead of waiting years for new grid connections.

$CCO — One of the world’s largest uranium producers. Uranium is the fuel that keeps nuclear reactors running, giving Cameco exposure to rising nuclear power demand.

$ETN — Makes the electrical equipment that gets power into and around the data center — breakers, switchgear, transformers and power-distribution systems.
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@blossombriefs • 4d Outperformed 98% of the Portfolios on this App! 🏆..... and counting.........using one single KTS #2 Tool. 😂🤣

And I told you exactly how to do it about two years ago.

Seriously. Go check for yourself. Open your favorite accounts on this app right now and look at their all-TIME returns. I’ll wait.

Nobody’s close.

Most portfolios on this app? 😂🤣

In March 2024, I shared a simple ETF approach that could be used to READ, LISTEN to, and TIME the markets to achieve double-digit annualized returns. (KTS #2 – Follow the Sector.)

On April 29, 2024, I bought one share of $XME and one share of $XES as part of the “This Is the Way” series to demonstrate the application of KTS #2.

Here's yesterday's RE-POST of the original March 2024 post sharing the KTS #2 tool:
https://www.blossomsocial.com/posts/KTS-2-Follow-the-Sector-RE-POST__POST-1788528588432-2Vw4Cx2V_qoQV3QbaHcPIAvML

And here's the link to the "This is the Way" Series post:
https://www.blossomsocial.com/posts/This-is-the-Way-Series-1-KTS-2__POST-1714389509714-79HySrJi_qoQV3QbaHcPIAvML

Since April 1, 2025, these two subsectors have returned:

$XME : +110% 🏆
$XES : +75% 🏆

While $SPY returned only half of XES and one-third of XME for a measly +38%. 🤢🤮

You could have simply followed my second KTS post and outperformed…….everyone. 🤑🤑🤑

Think about all the TIME you’ve spent building your portfolio since that date? 🤔

Think about how you are juggling the daily ups and downs of economic data, concerned about whether you should be in …. or out of the SpaceX IPO. Is the semiconductor rally over? Is Crypto a buy again? Is the Fed going to raise or cut rates? The country’s debt is unsustainable!?!?!? Silver & Gold are back???? What’s Michael Burry thinking? What’s BlackRock buying? Are software stocks back for good? What’s going on in the Middle East? China and North Korea!?!?!? Russia-Ukraine??? Whatever happened to the ESG movement? Is TRUMP just saying shit to keep markets propped up until the midterms? And is the SpaceX IPO – at the highest level of understanding – just Elon Musk selling a new crypto coin to the Teachers’ Unions??? 🤣😂

You think this helps you. But does it? Does half of what you read really matter?

Maybe it’s interesting. Maybe you’d rather be catching every financial news development because it’s your passion. But is it necessary for portfolio outperformance? 🤔
The answer is no. No, it’s not.

That should be music to your ears! 😀😃😄😁🙂😊

There are even popular members of this community who preach spending 50–100 hours researching a single company before investing 😂🤪🫨😳🤣😆.

And their profile shows an all-TIME return of……………-1.65%! WTF!?!??

In the greatest bull market of their life 😂. Oh geez.

Keep it up basement boy - maybe you’ll get there one day? 😂🤣

Meanwhile……. successful investors step back to see the big picture.

They read the plan and the strategy we laid out. They see it playing out in real-TIME and are reaping the rewards of their intelligence – and got their weekends back. 😎

Answer this honestly. It’s April 29, 2024, and you get to run it again.

Door 1: Buy XME and XES, close the app, and go live your life for two years.
Door 2: Your “sophisticated” portfolio, your watchlist, your 100 hours of research, your swing trading. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!!! 😂

Which door do you walk through? 🤔 I’ll give you 5 minutes to digest that……even though it should only take you 5 seconds. 😂

Or maybe you’re buying XEQT, VFV and other passive funds?

Do you even know how just ONE measly percent of outperformance impacts your retirement age? 🤔😅

If not, read this:
https://www.blossomsocial.com/posts/Why-Outperforming-the-SandP-500-Index-Matters__POST-1712844746313-WeQtSmOp_qoQV3QbaHcPIAvML

Look at the chart attached and tell me which sector you would have wanted to own over the last 18 months. I’ll tell you what: my first pick wouldn’t be the line at the bottom (S&P 500), but that’s just me.

Wanna know the best part?

$XME and $XES have chopped sideways for most of this year (2026) building potential energy….and STILL beat virtually everyone on this app. Now wait until that coiled energy converts to kinetic energy! 🚀👩‍🚀😅😂🤑🤑🤑

And the party isn’t over.

I told you when I bought it..…and you had a 2-year window to enjoy my content for free and learn an alternative approach designed to outperform any type of market.

The ones who could recognize the true value and listen are now members because they understand that they can outperform for the rest of their lives by stepping back and reading the market instead of the news within the context of the real estate/banking crisis cycle.

They’re also the only ones who’ll know when $XES and $XME aren’t favored sectors anymore.
Always remember that I want you all to win!

But I can’t do it for you. You have to recognize for yourself that conventionalist propaganda will never allow you to outperform… and take the steps to change that.

Learn about membership here: https://www.beskarcapitalkts.com/

Natural selection is alive and well.

I always give you my best. 🏆

This is the Way! 🏄🌊

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@blossombriefs • 2d Make comment I will roast your portfolio.

Nothing is financial Advice. I am the furthest thing from a professional this app has to offer.

I sleep at in an hour and a bit. so Hurry up and Happy sunday.
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@blossombriefs • 1d How Much Can You Actually Withdraw?The 4% rule was recently discussed and Ive also seen some misconception when it comes to safe withdraw strategies in retirement...the basic idea is pretty simple:

If you have $1 ,000,000 invested, a 4% withdrawal rate means taking roughly $40 ,000 in your first year of retirement, then generally increasing that dollar amount with inflation.

The research behind the 4% rule was built around roughly a 30-year retirement and a diversified portfolio. It's not a guarantee that your portfolio will earn 4% every year. It's a historical framework for surviving market crashes, inflation and different sequences of returns.

But here's where I think some investors get confused.

I've been seeing investors in covered-call ETFs saying things like:

"My fund yields 8–10%, so I can withdraw 6-8% and still be fine."

I don't think that's the right way to look at it.

An 8–10% distribution does NOT mean your portfolio is generating an 8–10% total return.

Covered-call ETFs generate income by selling call options. That can create a large cash distribution, but you're giving up some upside potential in exchange for that income. And some distributions can also be classified as return of capital, which isn't the same thing as the portfolio actually earning that amount.

That's the part that can create a false sense of security.

You see $10 ,000 deposited into your account and think "I'm living off the income. I'm not touching my principal." But the more important question is? What happened to the total value of my portfolio after that distribution?

Cash flow ≠ return.

That's why I personally don't want to build my retirement around chasing the highest possible yield.

I've been seeing people talk about withdrawing 5%, 6%, 7%+ as if it's automatically sustainable because their ETF is distributing that much.

It can work in certain circumstances.

But there's a huge difference between:

"My ETF pays me 8%."

and

"My portfolio can sustainably support an 8% withdrawal rate for the rest of my life."

Those are two completely different things.The biggest problem with a high withdrawal rate is sequence-of-returns risk.

Imagine retiring with $1M .

If the market performs terribly during your first few years of retirement while you're withdrawing 6% or 7% every year, you're taking money out while the portfolio is down.That can permanently damage your portfolio's ability to recover. And the longer your retirement is, the more important this becomes.

Obviously, real retirement planning is more complicated than multiplying your portfolio by a percentage.

Taxes, pensions, CPP/OAS, inflation, asset allocation and spending changes all matter.

The 4% rule isn't a magic number either. It's a guideline based on historical outcomes.

For me, I'd rather build a portfolio large enough that I only need to withdraw 3-4%.

And hopefully a much better chance of never having to worry about running out of money.

The goal isn't just to retire.

The goal is to stay retired.

Hope this made sense and Happy Monday. 74 reactions • 39 comments

@blossombriefs • 5d 3 Common Covered Call ETF Misconceptions These are the three biggest misconceptions I see on here when it comes to covered-call ETFs.
I call them misconceptions because the fund companies themselves do not make these claims and, in many cases, their own material directly contradicts them.

Fund companies are actually pretty clear on this. They consistently remind investors that yield is not the same as return, and that total return is the number you need to look at when evaluating how an investment is actually performing.

So with that said, here are my top three.

1. A higher yield means you can spend more
I put this at number one because I see a lot of people looking at the yield of a fund and making investment decisions based largely on that number. A higher distribution yield means more cash is being paid out per dollar invested, but it does not mean the investment is earning a higher return.
A fund yielding 12% can still produce a lower total return than a fund yielding 4%. That is the distinction people need to understand: cash flow and investment return are not the same thing.
A lot of people seem to assume that a higher yield automatically means they can spend more than a traditional 4% withdrawal rate. That conclusion is not supported by math or the fund companies themselves which consistently point investors back to total return, because that is what ultimately determines how much a portfolio can support over time.

2. If you sell shares, you will eventually deplete your account
This one gets repeated all the time, usually because people focus on the number of shares being sold instead of what is happening to the total value of the portfolio. Selling shares is not automatically the same thing as consuming your capital. What determines that is the relationship between your withdrawals and the total return of the investment, not the yield. If your investment earns a 10% total return and you withdraw 6%, you can still end the year with more money than you started with.
You may own fewer shares, but the shares you still own can be worth more. That is really no different from owning a covered-call fund that pays a large distribution and then reinvesting part of that distribution to maintain or grow your capital.

Fund companies themselves make this point. Recently, Olivia Li, Portfolio Manager at BMO ETFs who manages covered-call funds, stated: “You can create essentially the same cash flow by investing in the underlying index and periodically selling a small portion of your holdings.”

Jay Pestrichelli, Chief Trading Officer at Tidal, has made the same broader point: yield does not equal return, and investors need to look at total return when evaluating these products.

If the investment earns more than you spend, your capital can grow. If you consistently spend more than the investment earns, you are consuming capital. It does not really matter whether that money arrived as a distribution or because you sold a few shares.

3. Covered calls let you retire with less
This last one is probably the easiest to separate from what the fund companies actually say, because you will not see them promoting this idea. It is entirely a retail-investor claim. There are some people that argue that covered-call funds allow someone to retire with less money saved simply because the fund pays a larger distribution. But a 15% distribution does not suddenly give a smaller portfolio the same spending power as a much larger one. Someone with a $500 ,000 portfolio earning a 15% distribution is not automatically in the same position as someone with a $1 million portfolio simply because the cash yield is higher.

The distribution rate tells you how much cash is being paid out. It does not, by itself, tell you how much the portfolio can sustainably support over time. There are no fund companies that are out there pushing this narrative or supporting it and when they are asked they bring the conversation back to total return.

Those are the 3 big misconceptions that I see people spreading. In the end total return tells you what the portfolio earned. If you don’t want to spend down your portfolio you have to spend less than the total return.

Covered calls change how the cash flow is delivered. They do not change the mathematics of total return.

There are plenty of reasons people choose to be income investors, and many of them are perfectly valid. For anyone looking seriously at income investing, I highly recommend reading The Income Factory and spending some time reading or listening to interviews with the people who actually manage these funds.

One of the things you will quickly notice is that many of the more outlandish claims made about income investing are not coming from the fund managers themselves. Now I imagine there will be people who disagree with this, and for those people I would say: go directly to the fund company and ask them.

Does a higher distribution rate, by itself, allow you to sustainably spend more?
Is selling shares inherently worse, from an economic standpoint, than receiving the same amount of cash through a distribution?
Can a covered-call fund with a higher distribution allow you to retire with a smaller portfolio?

And share the answers they give below !47 reactions • 47 comments

@blossombriefs • 2d Wealthsimple Kids and Teens AccountWealthsimple has introduced a new Kids & Teens account, giving Canadian parents a way to help their children learn about spending and money management — while keeping parental controls in place.

But how exactly does it work? In this video, I break down Wealthsimple's new Kids & Teens account and explain what parents need to know before opening one.

We'll cover:
💳 How the Kids & Teens prepaid Visa card works
👨‍👩‍👧 What parents can control
💰 How allowances and money transfers work
📱 What kids can see and do in the Wealthsimple app
🔒 Spending limits and purchase restrictions
🌎 International spending and ATM withdrawals
🤑 Apple Pay and Google Pay eligibility
💵 How the account earns interest
🧾 Important ownership and tax considerations
🎓 Why this account is NOT an RESP
🔄 What happens when your child reaches the age of majority
⚠️ Important limitations parents should know about

One of the biggest questions I address is: Is Wealthsimple's Kids & Teens account basically a kids' RESP? The answer is no — these accounts serve very different purposes. The Kids & Teens account is designed for everyday spending with a prepaid card, while an RESP is designed for long-term education savings.

The Kids & Teens account is currently in beta and isn't available to all Wealthsimple clients yet. During the beta period, it's available for children aged 16 and under. The account is also currently unavailable to Quebec residents.

This video is based on information provided by Wealthsimple about its Kids & Teens account. Product availability, features, terms and eligibility may change, so always check Wealthsimple's current information before opening an account.

I would love to hear from you: Would you give your child a prepaid spending card like this? And what age do you think kids should start managing their own money?
https://youtu.be/ZzqX6VTr6AI60 reactions • 42 comments

@blossombriefs • 3d Putting my income on automation for a whileIn recent months I've been day trading and jumping from one CC ETF to the next CC ETF.
Yesterday, though, my wife and I bought about 31,000 shares of $ECHI and now we're just going to sit back and let the distributions pay the bills.

If all goes well we won't touch it but I won't hesitate to trade it for another ETF or go 50/50 with another one if the solid Canadian companies that it holds suddenly become not so solid.

* I'm 58 and retired and this is my only source of income so I'm not interested in holdings with expected long-term growth, I'm looking for immediate cash. 💰💰💰48 reactions • 45 comments

@blossombriefs • 4d Side job + School Income (+$1219)✅💵Good afternoon everyone!! A rainy friday here!

As yesterday was my last day of work before school starts Im taking the morning to noon (now) off to relax! Now for the rest of the day I’m doing school related tasks that have to do with my job at school!

But yesterday was a great day!!! I got paid from 2 income sources

1: I got paid from my side jobs and made an income of $450 !

2: I was paid out from doing work for my school over the past 2 weeks and that totaled out to $244 .

So! I will be investing absolutely all of it!!

This morning while gathering supplies for this project I’m working on the market opened, and right then and there I bought some ETFs!

I bought
$485.80 of $XEQT in my FHSA
$208.20 of $VFV in my RRSP!!

total of $694 this morning.

Again,still doing that 70/30 split and this officially puts me at $1219 for the week and at a portfolio of $49 ,100. IM SO CLOSE TO $50 ,000 I CANT BELIEVE IT.

we’re going to keep pushing and will most definitely hit $50 ,000 by week 2 of September I CAN FEEL IT!! 82 reactions • 21 comments

@blossombriefs • 3d My space thesis has changed (just as the industry)I took the hard decision to sell my beloved $RKLB and reallocate into $PL .

Not because I think $RKLB isn’t executing or because I’ve lost confidence, it’s actually quite the opposite!! $RKLB remains one of the companies I’m most bullish on in the space industry and the CEO is the greatest of all time.

It’s just no longer the best fit for my investment thesis as the industry evolves and my investing strategy being to allocate big where I have the most conviction, so having $RKLB at less than 10% of my portfolio did not make sense for my strategy.

I do keep one symbolic $RKLB share in my RRSP bought at $3.72 because it’s where everything started when I started my investing journey 3 years ago.

The focus for space companies now is tilted towards "space applications", like $RKLB acquiring $IRDM for $8 billion to get connectivity into their inventory, satellites monitoring agriculture, $PL providing real-time satellite imagery, etc.

Among these applications, I see a lot of potential in the development of AI infrastructure in space over the next few years and I believe Planet Labs is positioned to benefit from this.

My thesis is that $PL sits at the intersection of satellite infrastructure, Earth observation and AI for both on Earth and potentially in space.

$PL isn’t an in-space data centre company today but it is already a pioneer!

Planet is $GOOGL ’s partner on Project Suncatcher, an initiative exploring the deployment of Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) in orbit to scale AI compute in space. The first two prototype satellites are expected to launch in early 2027, for an envisioned constellation of 81 satellites.

Some benefits of data centres in orbit is that you have unlimited and free power and you do not need water to cool as heat gets radiated out of the satellite into space. It’s essentially a low-latency connectivity satellite like Starlink, but instead of beaming Internet it beams AI results back on Earth.

Planet has also been a pioneer in Earth observation and is now rapidly adding AI into its satellite imagery platform. The company has partnered with Anthropic to incorporate Claude to help customers turn raw satellite imagery into actionable insights more efficiently.

According to a Bloomberg report from last week, $PL is also in discussions to provide satellite-imaging services to help monitor data-centre construction as it expands beyond its defense/government market.

In August, $PL renewed a contract with an undisclosed hyperscaler AI developer to monitor data-centre and semiconductor manufacturing construction globally.

Its Pelican high-resolution imagery is being used to track construction milestones at these facilities.

I like to see how $PL has been diversifying their revenue lately. I would not be surprised to see an acquisition very soon given they have now $860M in cash following their ATM offering.

For FY2027, ending January 31, 2027, Planet expects revenue of $430 –441M (+41% YoY) and adjusted EBITDA of $3 –10M (-50% YoY)

Have a great long weekend!! 74 reactions • 24 comments

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