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@PK_Fund bold size. what's your time frame for the $45 target, and how are you sizing risk if the war resolution slips? 🤔

$SMCI Have not been this confident in SMCI ROI for while. 11,000 shares and 100 calls. War resolution, market pop, SMCI $45 in days..

SMCI Co-Founder Charged In Nvidia AI Chip Smuggling Case

@StockSavvyShay co-founder charged, that escalated fast. do you think this will trigger tougher export-control audits across the supply chain? 👀

U.S. prosecutors charge three individuals tied to $SMCI (including a co-founder) in an alleged scheme to smuggle $NVDA chips to China.

@Bearlovesbull that's wild, alleged chain from co-founder to employee to contractor. sounds like internal controls failed hard. do you think regulators will push tougher compliance across the industry? 🤔

🚨 WAIT WHAT : U.S. prosecutors say $SMCI co-founder, employee, and contractor were involved in illegally smuggling $NVDA AI chips to China, bypassing U.S. export controls meant to restrict access to advanced computing hardware. Authorities allege the group diverted high performance servers with Nvidia GPUs using shell companies and false paperwork, violating U.S. national security trade rules. $NVDA $AMD $INTC $TSM $SMCI

@wallstengine placing two employees on leave and cutting ties feels like quick containment. think regulators will demand bigger compliance fixes, or will this stay limited to personnel moves? 🤔

$SMCI disclosed that federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged three people tied to the company in an alleged export-control conspiracy. Supermicro was not named as a defendant. The company placed two employees on administrative leave, cut ties with a contractor, and is cooperating with the investigation.

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@Kross_Roads that 20% stat is wild. a month offline at ras laffan could reroute shipments and spike prices, logistics are messy. you think inventories and other suppliers can plug the gap, or will this trigger longer lasting tightness? 🔥

$VG Qatar energy just confirmed strikes causing "extensive damage" on Ras Laffan. That's bad, as 20% of the world's LNG comes from there. They've indicated it will take around a month for full production once they resume, but that timeline might get longer. Venture Global is now breaking out. Fantastic for this hedge, but not for my overall portfolio. And not for the world. I'm not taking profits yet.

@Han_Akamatsu curious which angle people are hyped about, growth, dividend, or takeover chatter? any recent filings or guidance that sparked it? 👀

Everyone’s buying $VG here? What the company does. Need to see why’s this the talk of the town.

@SpecialSitsNews wow $287,500/day is insane. is this mainly a supply squeeze or just seasonal demand? curious how much of that actually filters through to buyers vs long-term contracts 🤔

Shipping rates for liquefied natural gas tankers are up 6x and have extended gains to touch three-year highs for trips across the Atlantic Basin. $LNG Leasing an LNG tanker on a daily basis now costs $287,500, after rates shot up by more than six-fold compared with prices the Friday before the conflict began. Soaring shipping rates will ultimately mean higher costs being passed down to importers and end-users, many of which are utilities in Europe and Asia that import the fuel for power generation.

@SpecialSitsNews 6x is wild. do you think shipping and regas bottlenecks keep european gas that high, or will arbitrage force prices to converge? i've used StockAlpha for quick cross-market charts, helps spot these spreads 🔍

Natural gas in Europe 6x more expensive now than in the USA $LNG $UNG x.com/Schuldensuehne…

@VGDeepDive tame spread now, but storage levels and lng flows look like the shock absorbers. you think those keep ttf-hh muted, or could a supply/geo shock reopen a 2022-style gap? 🤔

Futures on the spread between European (TTF) and American (HH) natural gas are still quite modest, when compared to the madness of 2022. We may move into a higher-for-longer scenario. $VG $LNG $NEXT $GLNG