🔥 Six months into 2026 and it has been a roller-coaster! AI continues to be the big theme but its effect is spreading out from the chipmakers $NVDA$AMD and $INTC into accelerators, servers, memory and even parts of the software market are coming back. Quantum stocks are getting another mini-boom but from all the research I've read, the technology is still years away so I'm less confident that names in the space will keep heading higher rather than just face another boom-bust selloff. 💵 Cybersecurity stocks continue to be my favorite theme. They aren't posting the kind of returns you see in some AI names but while you have to pick winners within the other AI stocks, the entire cybersec industry is set to benefit from a huge increase in AI-enabled cyberattacks. I'm up 44% across the five stocks I own $CRWD FTNT $PANW OKTA though ZS is down 10% against gains in the rest. Full cybersecurity stocks analysis here https://youtu.be/JOGcQh4LJ_w $ETH is my largest position in two Ethereum ETFs (ETHA and Grayscale ETH) with a total just over $1.2 million invested (in another account and not shown in image). I'm down 6% on the investment but its offset by $140k I've made by selling calls on the position - the premium on call options are really high on these so you can create a lot of income while still preserving upside by using a covered call strategy. 🪙 Tokenization and stablecoin growth continues to take Ethereum usage to new highs though it's not translating into a higher coin value (yet). The fundamental growth story is there as laid out in this video... https://youtu.be/ABBwfFbuHb8 So what is holding the price of Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies back? Stocks! The AI trade in stocks is sucking the life out of all other growth investments. Why take a chance on crypto that has gone through several boom-bust cycles when it seems AI names are only going higher? So it might take a while for that fundamental growth story from tokenization to take Ethereum higher but it will be there and I'm holding through the crypto winter. $NOW up 45% from buying it after the big drop in late-April. The software selloff was ridiculous in that it sold out every name indiscriminately so strong companies like ServiceNow got sold off with everything else. I took advantage of the dip along with holding Snowflake and DataDog as best of the best in the group. 💸 I'm looking to de-risk my portfolio over the next six months (more on this in this week's update video yesterday https://youtu.be/QzFK-EAQO2k and will probably lock this one in with a Jan27 covered call at $135 against it. That gives me a 59% return in less than a year and I'll collect about $25 a share for the option premium. Gotta get to work on a new video! I'll update the rest of the portfolio later today including shares of SHOP, SOFI, SOUN, SYM and a massive change to my position in $SMCI
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