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🚨 Alert #4953 Fri Sep-18 13:02:40

World's largest contract chipmaker TSMC sees August revenue surge over 53% to record high
rocketnews.com · Fri Sep-18 12:06:59 published · Fri Sep-18 13:02:40 alerted · alerted 55m after publish · read at rocketnews.com ↗ · earnings · mat 65

TSMC reported a record 53.3% year-over-year surge in August revenue driven by robust demand for AI semiconductors.

🎯 Tickers & verdicts

tickerdirectionverdictsince close30mday loday hiintraday px
primary TSM▲ bullishFRESH-0.18%-0.07%428.06434.50
MU▲ bullishFRESH+0.94%-0.02%979.181017.75
AVGO▲ bullishFRESH+0.70%-0.15%348.49362.28
QCOM▲ bullishFRESH+0.44%+0.02%176.12190.10
AMD▲ bullishFRESH+0.36%-0.08%542.18559.41
peer NVDA▲ bullishFRESH+0.25%-0.12%218.76222.58
ASML▲ bullishFRESH+0.11%+0.04%1627.001679.92

🧭 Decisions

strategytickeractionsiderationale
S1TSM● enter▲ longverdict FRESH, direction bullish -> long TSM (earnings: TSMC reported a record 53.3% year-over-year surge in August revenue driven by robust demand for AI semiconductors.)
S2-○ skip—no counterparty in universe
S3NVDA○ skip—inferred long: materiality 65 below floor 75 → close +0.29%
S4TSM● enter▲ longovernight drift: long TSM at close, exit next close (earnings: TSMC reported a record 53.3% year-over-year surge in August revenue driven by robust demand for AI semiconductors.)

📈 Trades

strategytickersideqtyentryexitP&L $status
S1TSM▲ long2430.79432.98+4.38closed
S4TSM▲ long2433.25444.91+23.32closed

Retrospectives

tickermfemaereflection
TSM S1+0.88%-0.39%

Signal: correct. The bullish call played out — price rose from 430.79 to a peak of +0.88% unrealized, closing the trade +0.51%. Timing: reasonable on the intraday evidence — price was flat versus prior close (-0.18%) at decision time, so the move hadn't already run intraday; whether the August revenue news was already priced in over prior sessions can't be determined from this data. Exit: captured most of what was available — +0.51% realized against +0.88% best and -0.39% worst, i.e. roughly 60% of the peak move with limited drawdown exposure.

Dominant factor: a correct signal, competently executed — no major flaw in this trade; the only leakage was giving back ~0.37% from the unrealized high at exit.

TSM S4+2.80%-4.96%

Signal: right. The long call on the AI-revenue news paid off — price rose ~2.7% from entry to exit. Timing: mostly fine — at decision time the stock was flat vs. prior close (-0.18%), so the move hadn't already run, though the fill at 433.25 was ~0.7% above the prior close, giving away a slice of the move before entry. Exit: near-optimal — +2.69% realized against a best unrealized of +2.80%, so almost the entire available gain was captured; the dominant factor here is simply a correct signal with a well-timed exit. One caveat: the -4.96% worst unrealized is hard to square with a single overnight hold, and the data here doesn't settle whether the position was held longer than the stated one-day horizon.

📖 Glossary

  • S1 primary — trades the alert's primary ticker in the direction the article itself indicates; exits at the same day's close.
  • S2 counterparty — trades the inferred counterparty ticker (weakest signal, LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
  • S3 peer — trades an inferred peer ticker (also LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
  • S4 overnight — holds the primary ticker from today's close to the NEXT day's close.
  • Verdicts are decided top-to-bottom, first match wins; REPRICING is also the fallback when nothing else matches (2026-08-08 #220).
  • UNKNOWN — a needed price input (move since close or move in the last 30m) is missing.
  • PRICED — |move since previous close| ≥ 2.0%: already reflected in price.
  • REPRICING — |move in the last 30m| ≥ 0.5%: the tape is actively moving on it. Also covers a quieter move — |move since previous close| in [1.0, 2.0) with a quiet last-30m tape: still developing, not yet priced.
  • FRESH — |move since previous close| < 1.0%: a genuinely new move.
  • materiality — how market-moving the story was judged, 0-100 — alerts require materiality ≥ 70.

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