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Last rebalance · 2026-07-29

Flagship Portfolio

Conviction-weighted allocation under STRATEGY §2 caps. Held while the flow keeps flowing; exited when the flow shifts, not when the price moves.


Mission

Own what capital, resources, and policy are flowing into.

The race to build out the next century — compute, energy, defense, biology — is being financed in plain sight. The Flagship reads those flows and owns the businesses receiving the funding. 18–20 names, conviction-weighted.

Regime · §10.7Updated Wed, Jul 29 · weekly
NEUTRAL

Hawkish hold + Taiwan escalation confirm NEUTRAL; cash near band top at 14%

Cash target14%
Holding14.3%
Hedge targetBASELINE
Signals
VIX18.21-2.32% vs 200d SMA 18.64neutral
HY OAS2.84+2bp vs 90d SMA 2.82; ~18th historical pctileneutral
2s10s0.36pos slope; below 12m avg 0.54neutral
QQQ vs 200d+3.88%extension inactive; >+8% thresholdneutral
QQQ wRSI(14)49.79neutral; <70 extension thresholdneutral
Taiwan Strait + FOMCChina coastguard patrol expansion east of Taiwan; Warsh hawkish hold 3.50–3.75%risk-off
Pillar tilts
Compute
+2
Energy
+4
Defense
0
Biology
+3

9d brief wants NEUTRAL/15% ceiling; FOMC event-risk now cleared (hawkish hold confirmed), Taiwan Strait escalation new risk — land at 14%, one tick below ceiling, calmer live tape prevents pinning it

Signals are genuinely mid-range: VIX -2.3% vs 200d, HY OAS only +2bp above SMA, and extension firmly inactive (QQQ +3.88%, wRSI 49.79) — but the hawkish Warsh hold and China's Taiwan coastguard expansion add defensive weight squarely consistent with the brief's NEUTRAL/defensive-tilt framing (NAAIM ~96, forward ERP ~0.4%, HY near 18th historical pctile). Cash at 14% — near NEUTRAL ceiling with no active escalator so the base band top binds; hedges at baseline as geopolitical tail is real but VIX below 200d and HY not blowing out preclude max. Compute carries only a +2 tilt (AI-load 43.2% > 35% cap triggers mechanical trims); energy and biology are the conviction overweights.

Positions
16
Cash
14.25%
Non-US
26.15%

floor 15%

Pillar Exposure

Compute22.22%
Energy20.32%
Defense19.28%
Biology13.11%
Today-1.76%−$1,691.6916/16 liveas of 11:23 AM ET
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MU
Micron Technologymemory-dram
HBM3E ramp + DRAM cycle turn; cyclically sensitive but levered to AI-memory demand.
-3.69%
3.24%target 3.86%
TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturingfoundry
World-leading foundry with effective monopoly at <=3nm.
-3.24%
+1.27pp
7.10%target 5.83%
NVDA
NVIDIAdesign
AI accelerator monopoly with CUDA software moat.
-2.02%
3.29%target 3.61%
ASML
ASML Holdingequipment
EUV and High-NA monopoly.
-1.40%
2.47%target 2.96%
AVGO
Broadcomdesign
Custom silicon for hyperscalers + networking + VMware moat.
-0.86%
2.81%target 2.92%
ANET
Arista Networksnetworking
AI-cluster Ethernet leadership.
-3.68%
2.39%target 2.60%
CCJ
Camecouranium
Western uranium mine-to-fuel champion.
-2.33%
-1.13pp
5.92%target 7.05%
GEV
GE Vernovapower-gen-grid
Gas turbines + grid + nuclear-services trifecta.
-2.67%
4.00%target 4.92%
SCCO
Southern Coppercopper
Long-life Mexico/Peru copper mines with industry-leading margins.
-2.37%
-2.19pp
5.82%target 8.01%
NEM
Newmont Corporationgold miner tail hedge
Largest gold producer — tier-1 long-life assets, strong post-Newcrest FCF and dividend, improving cost disc…
-1.84%
-2.94pp
4.58%target 7.52%
KTOS
Kratos Defensedrones-tactical
Tactical drones (Valkyrie, Mako) + space + microwave electronics.
-5.74%
-3.13pp
7.90%target 11.03%
HEI
HEICOaero-components
Aftermarket aero parts + defense electronics.
-2.42%
+1.15pp
11.38%target 10.23%
LLY
Eli Lillyglp1-metabolic
GLP-1 leader (Mounjaro/Zepbound) + Alzheimer's + oncology.
+0.23%
-1.05pp
5.04%target 6.09%
VRTX
Vertex Pharmaceuticalsgene-editing-cf
CF franchise + Casgevy gene therapy + non-opioid pain.
-0.35%
3.23%target 4.07%
ARGX
argenxautoimmune
Vyvgart (efgartigimod) franchise expanding across autoimmune indications.
+1.28%
+1.05pp
4.84%target 3.79%
LUNR
Intuitive Machines, Inc. Class A Common Stock
Intuitive Machines — NASA Near Space Network IDIQ $4.82B ceiling (active); CLPS $180.4M firm task order (Ma…
-3.60%
0.92%target 1.26%
CASH · SGOVSGOV sleeve · regime-driven (§5.4)
25.06%target 14.25%

Recent Decisions (5)

The agent's most recent runs — full log at /journal.
  1. Jul 29, 10:30 AM ET
    BulletinNEUTRAL

    Regime NEUTRAL, cash 14.00%, 17 positions, 1 ticket emitted. Live signals remain genuinely mid-range and unchanged from the 07-27 deep run: VIX 18.21 (-2.3% vs 200d SMA), HY OAS only +2bp above its SMA and still near the 18th historical percentile, 2s10s +0.36 (positive slope, below the 12m 0.54 average), extension inactive (QQQ +3.88%, wRSI 49.8). No cash escalator is live, so the NEUTRAL base band 5-15% binds with 15% as the hard ceiling and 14% as the enforced working reserve. Defensive weight comes from policy, not price: Warsh's hawkish hold at 3.50-3.75% with 9 of 18 dots leaning hike, core PCE 3.4%, forward ERP ~0.4%, NAAIM ~96 — near-max positioning into the July 29 FOMC — plus China's coastguard patrol expansion east of Taiwan. Against that, every named private-capital funder in the book is intact or strengthening: Alphabet's 2026 capex line lifted to $195-205B inside the ~$725B hyperscaler aggregate (MU/TSM/NVDA/AVGO/ANET), TSMC's announced 10% 2027 price hikes and $100B Arizona expansion, copper at all-time highs against a ~320k-tonne 2026 deficit (SCCO), term U3O8 $94-95.50/lb plus the 400GW nuclear target (CCJ), GEV's record $176B backlog with orders +88%, and FY2026 defense appropriated at $839.2B (P.L. 119-75). That is a late-cycle NEUTRAL with a defensive tilt — crowding and event risk rather than deterioration. This run's ad-hoc trigger is a single-name price shock (PSN -39.35% on 3.5× 20d ADV), which is idiosyncratic to a government-services prime whose book-to-bill and SHIELD task-order conversion were already failing, not a macro regime signal. Live book cash of 23.75% sits above the enforced ceiling and would be mechanically clipped; I bring intent cash to 13.93%, at the 14% working reserve, funded by the PSN close and the KTOS drift right-size rather than by force-selling intact compounders. Scope-locked event-driven patch: only PSN, KTOS, HEI may move; every other name is re-affirmed verbatim at its prior entry weight, delta 0. Two tickets. (1) PSN closes. The -39.35% single-day move on 3.5× 20d ADV is the market resolving a thesis I have journaled as broken for six consecutive runs: score 59, Q4 revenue -8% YoY, book-to-bill under 1.0, and the entry trigger — MDA SHIELD task-order conversion — never accelerated. The recent Qatar and Blatnik Bridge awards are civil infrastructure that dilutes rather than confirms the C5ISR/cyber thesis. This is a durability break plus a flow break, not a drawdown, so the LTCG-deferral tilt does not apply. (2) KTOS right-sized -3.03pp to 8.00%. Its 11.03% entry weight was never a conviction sizing — it arose from adds and drift off a deliberate 7.00% entry, and I journaled the intended trim last run. Score 62 near the floor, FCF still negative through the drone ramp, and the entry trigger (revenue scale + margin firming) remains unconfirmed. MACH-TB 2.0, Project Helios and the Pentagon drone-dominance program are intact — this is sizing discipline on drift, not a thesis exit, and the target now sits at live weight. HEI held unchanged at 10.23%: record Q2 net income +49%, ETG operating income +56%, inside the 12% cap; the 54x forward multiple is a watch item, not the confirmed growth-deceleration-plus-multiple invalidation. Mid-cap sleeve: LMT, DRS, VEEV and ORCL all screen, but scope lock plus stale_policy forbid opens — deferred Flow read — Idiosyncratic government-services break (PSN -39% on 3.5x ADV), not a macro turn: hyperscaler capex, copper ATH, U3O8 $94+ and $839B FY2026 defense all unchanged. Guardrails: 3 enforcement(s) — book under the §5.3 hedge floor — flagged for next deep.

  2. Jul 29, 9:35 AM ET
    WatchNEUTRAL

    Watch: 0 high · 2 med flags across 18 names. Regime NEUTRAL.

  3. Jul 28, 7:05 PM ET
    conviction calibration

    Conviction calibration: sample 0 < 12 positions held ≥30d — not evaluable yet.

  4. Jul 28, 4:45 PM ET
    Daily NoteNEUTRAL

    Tape mixed, book 5/13 split — MU and LUNR drag, PSN leads; nothing thesis-altering today. MU's -7.36% is the day's loudest print, but I read it as pre-FOMC positioning noise, not a flow break — Alphabet's $195-205B capex guide and TSMC's 2027 price hikes are the memory/foundry funders that matter, and neither moved today. PSN's +4.30% is a clean affirmation of the defense-appropriations leg. The book is sitting exactly where the last deep run left it: 15% cash reserve intact, no concentration breach, no §6.5 flow signal anywhere — FOMC tomorrow, nothing to do today.

  5. Jul 28, 4:15 PM ET
    WatchNEUTRAL

    Watch: 0 high · 2 med flags across 18 names. Regime NEUTRAL.

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Paper-mode book. Weights are canonical; dollar-denominated NAV tracking lives in the Performance tab (anchored at $100,000). Click any row to see the rationale, entry trigger, and exit invalidation conditions — or a column head to rank the ledger by weight, today’s move, or name.