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Is this AI rebound just an oversold rebound? The super-earnings week will provide the final answer
Super Earnings Week on Aug 3: SpaceX’s first earnings report after its IPO, followed by AMD, PLTR, and SNDK, with nonfarm payroll data wrapping up on Friday This isn’t a typical week packed with earnings reports—it’s a comprehensive final check across the entire AI industry chain, from cloud computing, compute chips, optical communications, and storage to software applications. SpaceX will deliver its first post-IPO earnings report. AMD, Palantir, SanDisk, Arista Networks, Astera Labs, and Datadog will all take the stage in turn, with the nonfarm payroll data capping things off on Friday. The market has just bought back Mag 7, optical modules, and storage, but so far we can only prove that AI trading hasn’t ended yet—we still can’t prove that the most heavily battered sector before has completed a reversal.
A few days ago it was still “the stock must fall no matter whether the earnings are good or bad.” Now, the market suddenly starts rewarding good performance again.
Last night on Wall Street: 🔥 S&P 500 rose 1.8%, hitting a new all-time high 🔥 Nasdaq gained 2.6% 🔥 Dow surged by 907 points 🔥 Palantir jumped 29.5% 🔥 Micron rose 7.6%, and Broadcom climbed 6.6%
Why did good earnings surge this time?
Because the companies’ fundamentals were solid. At the same time, the oil price dropped 5.3% and U.S. Treasury yields fell back—two heavy stones weighing on tech stocks finally loosened.
The market isn’t blindly buying AI again; it’s selecting the companies that can truly turn AI into revenue, profits, and orders.
Next, the most important thing isn’t who shouts the loudest, but who can continue to raise guidance. Who do you think will be the next AI company to be repriced by funds?
The market was terrified to death yesterday, and today it’s back to accumulating positions. Why?
It’s not because the economy suddenly got better—it’s because oil prices fell.
Brent crude dropped 4.7% in a single day, and US stocks immediately surged:
🔥 Nasdaq up 2.1% 🔥 S&P 500 up 1.5%, just about 0.1% away from its all-time high 🔥 Dow up nearly 700 points, setting a record close
Now the market switch is very clear: Oil prices rise = worries about inflation, worries about rate hikes, tech stocks get punished; Oil prices fall = easing inflation pressure, and capital comes back to buy growth stocks.
So don’t just focus on tech stocks. Going forward, you should pay more attention to crude oil and US Treasury yields. They’re the real remote controls for global risk assets right now. #美股 #原油 #科技股
In this market, the truly formidable are never the “stock gods” who make a fortune in a single round. It’s those who, after surviving bull and bear cycles, can still keep the profits in their hands.
I’ve seen far too many people make big money, yet very few can hold on to the results. Even fewer can control drawdowns and keep wealth growing long-term and steadily.
Conquering the realm is hard; holding the realm is even harder.
The financial market is the same: making money may depend on the trend, courage, or even luck. But keeping money is about cognition, discipline, and a deep respect for risk.
Stay humble in good times and steady in bad times; stay clear-headed when earning and hold your line when losing.
Never let a single heavily concentrated position or a moment of impulsiveness strip you of the right to keep participating.
As long as you’re still at the table, opportunities always exist. Once your principal is depleted, even the biggest market moves have nothing to do with you.
In the world of trading, legends of short-term overnight wealth are never in short supply. What’s truly scarce is the ability to remain stable and reach the finish after countless cycles.
What is truly admirable about Buffett is not just how much he earned, but the fact that he spent his lifetime proving this: investing isn’t about who can run the fastest for a moment—it’s about who can control risk, compound steadily, and go far enough.
In the end, the market often rewards not the smartest or most aggressive people, but those who always maintain a sense of reverence, know how to go on the offensive, and know how to survive.
A few days ago everyone was scrambling to escape; today they’re scrambling to buy again.
South Korean stocks surged 17.9% in a single day: Samsung rose 28%, and SK hynix rose 30%.
The market suddenly figured out one thing: if the money spent on AI can be turned into profits, then it isn’t a bubble.
But a one-day rally doesn’t mean the risks are gone. A real bull market depends on orders, earnings, and a continuous inflow of capital—not just a one-day turnaround in sentiment.
US stocks rebound collectively tonight, and the storage crowd finally gets back on track!
$MU Micron, $SNDK SanDisk, $SKHY SK Hynix, $WDC Western Digital, $STX Seagate all surge together, and the semiconductor space—$NVDA and $AMD as well—starts to warm up.
This round of storage stocks saw a consecutive selloff from the highs, and many names have pulled back 30%—50%. Leveraged products even buried a bunch of people outright. After falling this much and killing so many, shouldn’t it rebound in a decent way at least once?
But pay attention: for now, let’s define it as an oversold rebound—we can’t confirm a reversal yet. Next, the key is whether it can continuously see increased volume and hold key levels.
South Korean stocks saw another round of selloff for the third straight day. The KOSPI index fell 1.2% today to 5,593.56 points. After a plunge of 10.8% over the prior two days and nearly 6% the day before that, the cumulative decline over three days is already close to 18%.
Most ironic of all, today two chip giants just released financial results that were nearly “off-the-charts”: Samsung Electronics reported second-quarter operating profit of about 89.5 trillion won, up more than 19-fold year over year. The stock rose as much as 2.4% in early trading, but ultimately fell 0.7%.
SK hynix’s quarterly operating profit grew nearly 6 times. After yesterday’s drop of more than 9%, the stock fell another 5.6% today.
This suggests that what the market is trading right now is no longer simply whether performance is “good” or not, but rather: How long can the high-demand cycle for AI and memory chips last; whether massive capacity expansions will trigger the next round of oversupply; whether the rise of Chinese manufacturers will drive down memory prices and profit margins; and when overvalued, high-leverage trades will finally be unwound.
A few months ago, results that beat expectations meant funds rushed in to buy. Now, even with profits hitting records, the stock may still surge briefly and then pull back.
How outrageous is this Samsung earnings report? In Q2, operating profit was about 89.5 trillion KRW—up more than 19x year-on-year—basically making money off AI, HBM, and storage price hikes. So what happens next? The stock price should drop… but will it? The old market was: Earnings beat expectations → funds immediately pile in. Now the market is: Earnings beat expectations → first, see if it can get even better; Growth not fast enough → drop; Capital expenditures too high → drop; Slightly conservative guidance for the future → still drop. What investors worry about isn’t that Samsung can’t make money today, but rather how long storage price hikes can last, whether the frenzied capacity expansion could lead to oversupply, and whether Chinese manufacturers will start fighting for profits. The market no longer buys “good earnings”—it’s voting on whether things can stay good in the future. This may be the most dangerous change in global tech stocks right now.
Late-day pullback in the Han market, but the truly dangerous signals haven’t changed.
The KOSPI fell more than 8% during the day, but ultimately ended down 6%. SK Hynix logged record profits, yet its stock price closed down 9.4%, while Samsung fell 4.8%.
Months ago, results that beat expectations lifted the market. Now, when earnings are merely average, the stock falls; even when earnings are strong but don’t exceed the most optimistic forecasts, it still falls. The market isn’t punishing current-period profits—it’s pricing in an overextended valuation and a future that has already been discounted too aggressively.
Is a market crash coming? Global AI chip stocks are going through a valuation stampede:
🇰🇷 South Korea: The KOSPI triggered a circuit breaker yesterday and closed down 10.8%. It fell another 8.2% at midday today; $SK hynix fell 12.6%, and Samsung Electronics fell 8%.
🇺🇸 United States: Micron fell 8.9%, AMD fell 8.1%, and Applied Materials fell 7.8%.
Most ironic of all: now, as long as you release earnings results, the stock will drop. SK hynix just turned in a record 60.5 trillion won quarterly operating profit, up about sixfold year over year, yet its share price keeps plunging.
Next, watch three things: 1️⃣ Whether U.S. chip stocks continue their heavy-volume selloff 2️⃣ Whether major tech companies can prove that AI investments are turning into cash flow 3️⃣ Whether the Federal Reserve signals even stronger rate hikes
After South Korea’s stock market falls, US chip stocks take over.
Ahead of the bell, Micron is down 4.6%, Applied Materials is down 3.5%, and Nvidia is also declining. What the market is worrying about now is no longer just a domestic DUV system, but the previously lofty valuations of AI chip stocks—whether they can withstand intensifying competition and falling returns on capital expenditures.
The most important signal tonight: after the market opens, whether investors truly step in to buy the dip—not just how much stocks are down premarket.
South Korean stocks close sharply lower, down 10.8%: chip panic has spread from a single sector to the entire market
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell 13.4% and 14.7%, respectively, indicating that the selloff is concentrated in semiconductor core assets
The Nikkei 225 fell by about 4% and the Taiwan market dropped 4.7%, suggesting that risk has spread along Asia’s chip supply chain
If US-listed semiconductor stocks continue to fall, it may trigger passive funds to cut positions, increase volatility, and further squeeze valuations of high-valued tech stocks
$BTC and other risk assets may also face indirect pressure due to global liquidity tightening