This Mid-Autumn, I’m sending Tiger and some of my favourite stocks straight to the moon! From Singapore’s skyline to a sky full of bullish wishes, may our lanterns glow and our portfolios glow even brighter. 😂📈✨ Which stock would you put on your lantern?

Monday gave us one of the cleanest tests of the memory rally so far. SanDisk fell roughly 1.4% to around $1,766 after its S&P 100 inclusion became effective. Meanwhile: 🟢 Micron +2.77% 🟢 SK Hynix +0.73% 🔴 SanDisk -1.41% At first glance, that looks strange. If memory is still hot, why did one of 2026's biggest memory winners fall while its peers rose? I think the answer is important: The market may finally be separating the memory-cycle thesis from the SNDK trade. And that changes my Pick Levels. SNDK: The Easy Catalyst Has Expired SanDisk's S&P 100 inclusion created something traders love: a catalyst with a deadline. Index-tracking funds needed exposure. Traders could anticipate those flows. Momentum attracted more momentum. Then came September 21. The inclusion became effective. A

$NVIDIA(NVDA)$   $Micron Technology(MU)$   $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$   $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$   A 5% U.S. Treasury yield sounds very tempting. Lock in roughly 5% from government debt, avoid much of the daily drama of the stock market, and get paid while you wait. So if I could only choose: 🅰️ 5% Treasuries 🅱️ Stocks My answer is B, but with a twist. I would still choose stocks for their greater long-term upside, while treating 5% Treasuries as my paid waiting room for the next equity opportunity. Because when

$Exxon Mobil(XOM)$   $Chevron(CVX)$   $Spdr S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Etf(XOP)$   $Micron Technology(MU)$   Oil above $100 naturally makes XOM, CVX and COP look like the obvious winners. But I think the more interesting trade is happening somewhere else. At these levels, oil stops being only an energy story. It becomes an inflation, interest-rate and valuation story. The chain I'm watching is simple: Oil ↑ → Inflation pressure ↑ → Rate-cut expectations ↓ → Treasury yields ↑ → Growth va

$Micron Technology(MU)$   Memory just gave us another reminder that this cycle is anything but normal. Intel's CEO warned that memory prices have risen more than 500% and shortages could worsen next year. The market immediately heard the supplier-side implication: extraordinary pricing power. MU jumped 5.50% to $977.50, while SNDK gained about 6.2%.  But there is an important distinction: 500% higher memory costs are fantastic for sellers. They are painful for buyers. And eventually, extremely high prices can become their own demand problem. 🔥 Why I Am Still Bullish The shortage thesis is getting harder to dismiss. AI servers require enormous amounts of memory, supply remains constrained, and Intel is now war

The memory trade enters the week of 8 September with something it did not have a week ago: confirmation. SNDK enters around $1,740. MU around $1,017. Both have shown extraordinary relative strength. But from here, I think their paths diverge. SNDK has a new mechanical catalyst. MU has the cleaner fundamental catalyst. And this week, both have to survive a major macro test. 🔴 SNDK: The Countdown to 21 September Begins SanDisk will enter the S&P 100 on 21 September. That matters because index-tracking funds will need to reposition around the rebalance. But I would not confuse that with unlimited upside. The index catalyst is real but temporary. SNDK still needs NAND pricing, AI storage demand and its long-term customer commitments to justify the valuation once those flows are finished. M

Micron closed Friday +6.10% around $1,014, reclaiming the psychologically important $1,000 level while the S&P 500 fell. Like SNDK, MU benefited from Dell's $95B AI-server backlog and expectations for another major jump in memory contract prices. But MU has one additional risk its peers do not: Nearly 10,000 Taiwan workers are threatening strike action. The Taiwan Risk Is Real, But Not Yet a Production Problem More than 80% of surveyed union members reportedly supported strike action over bonuses and profit-sharing. That sounds alarming because Taiwan is critical to Micron's manufacturing footprint. But the distinction matters: No strike has started. Production has not stopped. For now, this remains a labour negotiation. That creates an unusual paradox. If Micron production were disrup

SanDisk closed Friday +10.44% at $1,734. MU gained 6.10% and SK Hynix 8.14%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.48%. That divergence is the story. Memory rallied despite a hot jobs report, higher Treasury yields and renewed Fed fears. Two months ago, that combination could have crushed these high-beta names. Friday, investors bought them instead. Relative strength on a green market is nice. Relative strength during a macro shock is evidence. Why Memory Exploded Three catalysts converged. First, Dell disclosed a massive $95B AI-server backlog, another strong signal that AI infrastructure demand remains intense. Second, Susquehanna reportedly expects DRAM contract prices to rise more than 50% this quarter and NAND around 60%. Those do not look like cycle-end numbers. They suggest scarcity is still

$Micron Technology(MU)$   Memory stocks finally pulled back. Micron fell 2.64%. SanDisk lost 1.90%. SK Hynix dropped 2.31%. Normally, after the extraordinary memory rally we have seen, I would call that healthy profit-taking. This time I would not dismiss it so quickly. A new variable has entered the memory thesis: production risk. Unions representing nearly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are threatening strike action over bonuses and profit-sharing. That matters because Taiwan is not peripheral to Micron's business. It is one of the company's most important manufacturing hubs. Until now, the biggest debate around MU has been: How high can memory prices go? The question may temporarily become: How much memory can

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$   Tesla's Cybercab finally crossed an important line this week. It stopped being a presentation. Real Cybercabs are carrying real passengers in Austin, without steering wheels or pedals. Tesla had 45 Cybercabs registered in Texas as of Friday morning, and the stock initially celebrated, jumping 5.42%. Then reality arrived. The shares gave back the enthusiasm, and US regulators opened an audit examining roughly 1,000 Cybercabs and the technical basis Tesla used to certify that the vehicles comply with federal safety standards. That sequence tells us almost everything about the Tesla trade right now. The technology has moved forward. The valuation has moved much further. 45 Cars Matter More Th

$SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$   $Micron Technology(MU)$   $SK hynix(SKHY)$   SanDisk just gave us a perfect lesson in why price action and fundamentals are not always the same thing. SNDK flipped from roughly 2% down intraday to close up 5.5%, with an extraordinary burst of volume into the closing bell. Then it gave back part of the move after hours. The catalyst? MSCI World Index inclusion. Passive funds tracking the index had to buy SNDK as the rebalance took effect. That means part of Monday's rally was not investors suddenly deciding SanDisk was worth more. It was mechanical demand. So should we dismiss the move? No. Becaus

Thursday's session produced one of the more confusing divergences of the year. NVDA closed up 8.74% after delivering revenue up 106% year on year, data centre sales up 117%, and a forecast for roughly 70% top-line growth next year. CFO Colette Kress explicitly named rising memory costs as the reason gross margin is heading from 75% today to a trough of 71 to 72% in Q4. High bandwidth memory now accounts for an estimated 30 to 40% of the cost to build an AI accelerator. The world's most important AI chip company just told the world, on an earnings call with full legal accountability, that memory suppliers have pricing power over it. SNDK closed down 0.96%. MU closed down 0.32%. SK Hynix gained 2.27%. That divergence deserves a straight answer rather than rationalisation. The Three Reasons M

$NVIDIA(NVDA)$   $Micron Technology(MU)$   $SK hynix(SKHY)$   August 2026 was not a month. It was a stress test. In the span of four weeks, the market experienced its sharpest single-day crash of the year, a record high close, a Warsh hawkish shock, an NVDA blowout, a China memory threat, and a SanDisk Investor Day that rewrote the NAND story permanently. If your positions survived all five of those in sequence and you still have conviction, you have earned it. If you did not, August just taught you something worth learning before September. Here is the honest review, and the September pla

I think both choices miss the more interesting trade. When an index hits a record, I do not automatically ask, “Is the market too expensive?” I ask: What has NOT returned to its high, even though its fundamental story has improved? Right now, two names stand out to me: Micron and SanDisk. That gap between price recovery and fundamental recovery is my Pick Level. 🧭 First, Why Is the S&P 500 at a Record? The Aug 13 record was not simply FOMO. July PPI was flat month on month versus the 0.2% rise economists expected, helping calm fears of another near-term Fed hike. Treasury yields eased and technology shares helped push the S&P 500 to a record 7,798.99. Meanwhile, the AI investment cycle remains alive. That combination matters: Cooling inflation → less rate pressure → lower discount-

Three weeks ago SNDK was at $1,000. MU was at $705. The narrative was peak cycle, guidance miss, China competition, and NAND euphoria fading. Today SNDK closed at $1,641 after gaining 7.39% on the day. MU closed at $971 after gaining 2.30%. MULL is at $22.62, up 4.67%. The SanDisk Investor Day just delivered the most detailed bull case the memory sector has ever produced in a single presentation. Here is what changed and where this goes next. What the Investor Day Actually Said This was not a cheerleading session. CFO Luis Visoso put specific numbers on the table with full accountability: - Flash market: $300B in 2026, $500B in 2027. Not an analyst estimate. The CFO of the world's largest pure-play NAND company saying this on record. - Supply tight into 2028. Demand continues to outpace Sa

The uncomfortable answer is neither cleanly. What just happened is not a bubble bursting the way 2000 happened, where the underlying businesses were illusions. And it is not a straightforward bargain hunt either, because some of what got priced in at the peak was genuinely ahead of the fundamentals. This is a valuation reset on real businesses, triggered by three separate catalysts converging in 72 hours. 1. Three Catalysts, Not One SanDisk delivered nearly $9 billion in Q4 revenue, a record 84.6% gross margin, and more than $5 billion in adjusted free cash flow. Revenue and earnings both beat estimates. The stock still fell 5.4% on the day and another 7% after hours. The reason was one number: Q1 FY27 revenue guidance came in at $10.3 to $10.8 billion against Street expectations of $11.16