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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 19h

Just brace for choppiness next few weeks. It’ll pass. Focus on strength beyond the chop in AI.

#NVDA #AMD #PLTR #AVGO

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 19h

We’re going to keep going back and forth for maybe a few weeks. Stocks will be choppy.

But we say keep buying dips. This tit-for-tat will end the same way the April tit-for-tat ended: diplomatic resolutions + something resembling "open enough" trade. Stocks will bounce back.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 19h

So now we’re in the tit-for-tat phase.

Trump threatens 100% tariff, walks it back, but then issues these new port fees.

China says… hold up… if you want peace, then don’t do these port fees. They issue their own port fees and tell the US: do as you say.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the most important chart in the stock market right now

Some of my favs…

- Rare earths #USAR #MP #CRML #UAMY #NB #UUUU
- Copper #SCCO #FCX
- Lithium #ALB #SQM
- Graphite #NVX
- Uranium #LEU #UEC #CCJ

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

Now, I’m a huge believer that charts can tell the real story on a stock -- before it’s plastered all over the news.

The lesson? Respect the chart. Follow the chart. Listen to the chart. Find profits in the chart.

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago, I used to believe technical analysis was like reading tea leaves -- an unscientific approach for traders. Several big successes later by just looking at the chart, I no longer believe that.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

The chart on ABAT just looked real good. But charts discount fundamentals, don’t they?

Maybe it’s not dumb luck. Maybe it’s just good chart work.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

Full disclosure: in our breakout stock service, we recommended #ABAT stock a few weeks ago around $2.

It’s up about 5X since then.

You could call it dumb luck. We didn’t factor in a run on critical material stocks into our bull thesis.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure. But I feel confident in saying something is coming in the next 1-2 years. Stay all-in with AI for now. But don’t get complacent.

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

Swan risks.

Maybe it’s a reinflation wave. Maybe it’s massive dollar debasement. Maybe it’s a surge in the long end of the curve. Maybe it’s China making a move on Taiwan. Maybe it’s a Main Street revolt.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

But I do know market conditions like the ones we have today — elevated valuations, lots of risk-taking, lots of leverage, lots of debt, labor market cracks, credit market cracks, weakening consumer sentiment, high rates, high inflation, etc — are a cocktail that historically tends to produce Black

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

This Trump-China spat over rare earths isn’t the "big one" that will end the AI Boom. This is a buy the dip moment. But don’t get complacent. The "big one" is coming.

I’m not sure what it’ll be. Or when exactly it will happen.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

What’s up with this new #BTC whale that shorted the heck out of Bitcoin right before Trump’s tweet slamming China that killed risk assets?

And now that same whale is adding to the short again today?

I’m not saying there’s information asymmetry here… but it’s suspicious…

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

#AVGO #MRVL #ARM #AMBA

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone in AI is trying to make their own chips now. That doesn’t mean #NVDA is done. GPUs will always be important. But custom ASICs / XPUs are becoming increasingly important. They’ll eat market share. And as they do, the companies powering this market share expansion will do very well.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

AVGO + OpenAI in massive custom AI chip development deal. 10GW custom AI accelerators.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

#BE + #BN is major validation of Bloom Energy’s fuel cell tech as onsite backup power for AI datacenters.

Now that this is a full-boar AI Energy play during “The Crunch” (AI data centers creating a supply crunch for energy), BE stock will keep skyrocketing.

$10 -> $110 in a year. More to go

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

It also emphasized the long term enduring value of rare earths miners. They are the physical foundation of the most important technological revolution of our times.

#MP #USAR #NB #UUUU

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 1d

The latest Trump/China trade debacle didn’t end the AI Boom. It only made it stronger by emphasizing the lengths each country will go to secure the most mission critical resource in the Age of AI: Rare Earths.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 5d

Keep an eye on adoption metrics as these stablecoin launches roll out to see how they're catching on and what preferences are emerging.

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 5d

With state involvement, there's a regulatory edge that might speed up institutional adoption. That's the secret sauce that sets stablecoins like this apart from stablecoins like USDC.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 5d

The Roughrider Coin, fully backed by USD and set for a 2026 launch, aims to boost bank-to-bank transactions and merchant adoption via Fiserv's platform, which processes 90 billion transactions annually across 10,000 financial institutions.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 5d

Stablecoin launches are picking up steam. Now North Dakota is rolling out its state-backed stablecoin, the Roughrider Coin, in partnership with #FI.

Thanks to the GENIUS Act, stablecoin innovation is on the rise in the U.S.

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Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 5d

According to #INTU, small business labor growth in 19 of the 20 states it tracks contracted in September. The economic divide between AI and Everything Else continues to grow. That's a rubber band that can't stretch forever...

Being Exponential | Luke Lango @beingexponential.bsky.social · 5d

And that means huge investment opportunities in the AI glasses supply chain. From #META to #AMBA to #U, I think there's a lot of opportunities out there in this trend...