AI Capex Digestion — the Crowded-Trade Unwind

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AI Capex Digestion — the Crowded-Trade Unwind

status active priority high thesis tickers 8 scan-mentioned tickers 92 events 38 latest

The crowded AI/mega-cap-growth + enterprise-software trade is digesting a capital over-rotation — the risk-side counterweight to the bull spine (Pillars 1/2). The index hides it (SPY/QQQ ~3-5% off highs) while half the mega-caps are 30-57% off highs and money rotates into value/breadth/defensives. Governing question for the REAL book: healthy mid-cycle rotation (quality dips intact -> keep buying) vs capex-ROI reckoning (mega-caps roll, hyperscalers guide capex down -> get defensive). Born 2026-06-26 from the rotation map + playbook digests + macro-pundit convergence (Bilello, Kobeissi). Read so far: rotation, not reckoning.

Watch for: GOOGL SMA20 reclaim (~$363) = bellwether for healthy rotation; hyperscaler capex guidance next earnings (MSFT/AMZN/GOOGL/META) = the leading tell (a guide-down flips rotation->reckoning and hits the AI supply leaders MU/AVGO next); golden-cross mega-caps (GOOGL/AAPL/AMZN) rolling into death crosses = quality-dip cohort breaks; breadth winners (RSP/VTV) rolling over = broad de-risking; froth tell (MU +168% above VWAP) breaking its 50-day = digestion reaches the supply side; midterm Q3-bottom seasonality = low-confidence supportive overlay.

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paradigm track record untested — no scored verdicts · low confidence · n=0 cycle

The thesis basket — the 8 tickers this perspective actually tracks. Everything else it has touched is folded below.

GOOGL $344.00 -0.8% 30d coming into play MSFT $480.35 +22.0% 30d in trend NOW $117.70 +14.0% 30d coming into play ORCL $146.65 +16.0% 30d retreating PLTR $172.55 +30.3% 30d coming into play NFLX $76.02 +10.3% 30d retreating RSP $220.79 +3.5% 30d in trend VTV $226.69 +4.0% 30d in trend
Seen alongside in scans (40 shown of 84) — symbols that appear with this perspective, not the thesis basket
AAPL $305.59 -8.4% 30d coming into play ABBV $250.33 -1.6% 30d in trend ADBE $254.04 +7.1% 30d retreating AMAT $535.31 +1.1% 30d coming into play AMD $506.00 +2.1% 30d coming into play AMKR $61.30 -2.6% 30d coming into play AMZN $261.31 +5.7% 30d in trend APLD $31.18 +20.9% 30d retreating ARM $271.43 +1.6% 30d coming into play ASML $1,883.12 +7.9% 30d in trend AVGO $392.43 +5.8% 30d coming into play BABA $124.71 +8.5% 30d retreating BE $232.16 +8.0% 30d coming into play BUG $41.89 +2.5% 30d in trend CAT $881.65 +0.3% 30d coming into play CEG $278.20 +10.2% 30d retreating CGNX $66.60 +4.0% 30d coming into play CIFR $18.50 +5.3% 30d coming into play CLMT $48.35 +12.9% 30d in trend CORZ $20.13 -3.9% 30d coming into play CRM $190.97 +11.8% 30d retreating CRWD $213.90 +5.3% 30d in trend CRWV $106.00 +44.8% 30d coming into play DIA $534.19 +2.6% 30d in trend DK $67.21 +6.7% 30d in trend DRAM $60.39 +14.6% 30d too-young DUK $123.58 -1.1% 30d coming into play ETN $455.40 +14.1% 30d in trend GEV $1,079.00 +2.0% 30d coming into play GLD $405.49 +10.1% 30d coming into play HACK $115.56 +4.1% 30d in trend HIMS $28.61 -12.9% 30d retreating IREN $44.90 +33.5% 30d retreating ISRG $390.33 +13.0% 30d retreating IWM $304.06 +3.4% 30d coming into play JETS $30.85 +1.3% 30d in trend JNJ $262.37 +3.7% 30d in trend KLAC $205.76 -3.3% 30d coming into play LEU $184.12 +18.0% 30d retreating LLY $1,183.16 +0.3% 30d in trend
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