Brian Coughlin

Value investing is mostly buying something nobody wants and then acting surprised nobody wants it

@wallstengine Source?

China 🇨🇳 Q2 GDP grew 4.3% YoY, below 4.5% est. and down from 5.0% in Q1, marking the weakest pace since 2022. June Retail sales: +1.0% vs -0.1% est. Industrial output: +5.3% vs +4.7% est.

@cronosbro 🤪

@EquityBrian thankfully your subscribers are more rational folks

Imagine getting stabbed over a bad stock pick.

What’s your best under-$10B market cap idea right now? Bonus points if you explain the bull case.

China’s liquidity taps may be opening back up. Could be a nice tailwind for China tech. h/t - Michael Howell

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned: Every major drawdown feels like this is it. October 2023. April 2024. August 2024. April 2025. March 2026. Every single one felt different while you were living through it. The headlines got louder, fear spread everywhere, and it became easy to convince yourself that another 2000 or 2008 had arrived. But here’s what I’ve noticed: Corrections and bear markets are not the same thing. A correction is often driven by sentiment, positioning, or macro uncertainty. A true bear market is usually accompanied by a sustained deterioration in fundamentals: - Earnings growth slows or turns negative. - Companies begin cutting CapEx. - Market leadership narrows and breaks down. - Major indexes form persistent lower highs and lower lows. That’s why I spend far more time studying earnings reports than financial headlines. The market can ignore fear. It struggles to ignore deteriorating earnings. Could we eventually see another prolonged bear market in next 3 or 4 years? Yes. But until I see meaningful evidence that corporate earnings, CapEx spending, and institutional leadership are breaking down, I treat sharp pullbacks as part of a bull market - not a reason to abandon my process. The biggest gains I’ve ever made came after periods that felt the most uncomfortable. Staying invested doesn’t mean ignoring risk. It means knowing the difference between temporary volatility and a genuine change in trend. That’s a distinction every investor/trader should learn. Separate fear from facts, and you’ll separate yourself from the crowd. H/T: @charliebilello

RIP $IBM

My thoughts on $BABA ahead of 1QF27 earnings coughlincap.com/p/alibabas-pre…

One-year performance: U.S. vs. China. $SPY $QQQ $KWEB $FXI

@jukan05 @rwang07 🤣

I’m going all-in on leverage as soon as the market opens. Thanks, @rwang07.

Have I mentioned that nothing ever happens?

Utterly self-defeating. “The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to ban collaborations between every U.S. scientist it funds and nearly all Chinese research institutions and their employees.” science.org/content/articl…

@P_Remarks 🤣🤣

@jukan05 lol

SK HYNIX SENIOR OFFICIAL: POSITIVELY REVIEWING THE PURCHASE OF SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT BONDS — YONHAP INFOMAX PETRO-MEMORY IS COMING.

Bullish

Tell us how you really feel Brian! I agree that investors are paying for more than 10-years of epic record setting profitability growth without shit happening along the way. How likely does that sound? This is what the retail momentum investors don't realize in my opinion. At a certain price point (especially with $SPCX), you're betting on growth that is impossible to reach. Just from a math perspective. Even a once in a 100-year business isn't worth an infinite amount.

You guys are actually insane if you own $TSLA or $SPCX here… Elon’s greatest talent is convincing retail investors to hand him unlimited money at completely absurd valuations. This kind of shit only works in a raging bull market, and a lot of people are due for a very rude awakening.

@Polymarket Only $50K?

BREAKING: OpenAI launches a $50,000 bounty for anyone who can universally jailbreak GPT-5.6’s biosafety protections.

@MikeFritzell My issue with DUOL is what will the incentive be to learn a new language at all once AirPods or some equivalent can translate conversations in real time?

That’s first level thinking. What Duolingo will do is add better AI tutoring to their subscription offering. Nobody’s uninstalling Duolingo to learn languages on ChatGPT.