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@KobeissiLetter Big shift in hedge fund positioning. It’ll be interesting to see where that capital moves next.

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@KobeissiLetter Semis at 16 percent after an 8-point cut sounds like dumping until you remember Goldman had them near 10 percent at the start of 2026. That’s a crowded trade getting smaller, not hedge funds leaving the building.

@KobeissiLetter Tomorrow they buy.

@KobeissiLetter Retail appreciates the sale price

@KobeissiLetter Software and services can be replaced by AI for the most part, it's a short story too.

@KobeissiLetter Hedge funds discovered that "sell high" works even when the stock has a GPU on it.

@KobeissiLetter Institutions buy at top. Retail is king 👑 always has been

@KobeissiLetter Hmmmmm I’m patiently waiting for the NVIDIA reports fiscal Q2 results after the U.S. market close today.

@KobeissiLetter It is not panic selling, just routine portfolio rebalancing after an insane run. 16% exposure is still nearly triple the historical average

@KobeissiLetter Taking profits doesn't automatically mean they're bearish. If semis went from ~6% of exposure to 16%, even after this selling they're still massively overweight. Sounds more like trimming winners than abandoning the AI trade.

@KobeissiLetter Exposure is still elevated despite the recent de-risking.. this looks more like profit taking than a full exit from semis.

@KobeissiLetter Some of that is price rather than selling. KLA is down 39% since 30 June, so its weight in a book falls even if nobody sold a share.

@KobeissiLetter and there we have the reason for the dip

@KobeissiLetter Calling it rebalancing. We all know it's profig-taking before the next leg down.

Net exposure means the after-hedge bet, so an 8-point drop from the June peak is funds cutting how much of the whole book depends on chips. The awkward part for bulls: at ~16%, semis still look large versus most of this chart, so this can be heavy de-risking and still not be a clean washout.

@KobeissiLetter De risk before earnings?

honestly "rapidly dumping" is doing a lot of acting here. the same post admits chip exposure is still double its 2024-25 average. that's not dumping, that's a very rich guy selling one of his three yachts and calling it downsizing my read: this is trimming, not exiting. going from an extreme overweight to a slightly-less-extreme overweight after a huge run isn't fear, it's just funds locking gains while still betting heavily on the theme. the direction of the flow and the level of the position are telling opposite stories so the honest read to me is bullish-ish, not bearish. if the smart money were actually scared they'd be at their 6% average or below, not sitting at double it. "reducing from historic highs" and "getting out" are not the same sentence, even though the headline wants them to be

@KobeissiLetter BIDDING

@KobeissiLetter I feel like this account just says one thing one week and then the complete opposite next week

@KobeissiLetter that chart is net exposure, so an 8 point drop from the 24% peak also fits funds keeping chip longs and adding semi shorts against them, hedging a winner and dumping it look identical on this line

@KobeissiLetter More market volatility ahead? x.com/ShockingChart/status/209…

@KobeissiLetter Wait, -8 points since June?! That chart dump is actually insane, I’m in shock.

@KobeissiLetter While everyone is hyping AI, funds are quietly cashing out on silicon 💸

@KobeissiLetter Is this the slow bleed everyone was talking about rather than the bubble popping

@KobeissiLetter Hedge funds: “Take some profits.” Retail: “BUY THE DIP.” 😂 The market never changes.

@KobeissiLetter “Dumping” is doing a lot of work here. Exposure fell from ~24% to ~16%… and 16% is still more than 2x the 2024-25 average. Looks less like abandoning semis and more like unwinding an extreme position.

@KobeissiLetter Semiconductor exposure at 16% remains double the 2024-2025 average even after the eight-point drop.

@KobeissiLetter locking in those profits right before the rest of us notice 👀 x.com/CaitlinEParker/status/20…

@KobeissiLetter The missing software rotation makes this look more like a concentrated chip trade than broad AI risk appetite.

@KobeissiLetter Hedge funds locking chip profits while software exposure stays thin shows the cycle rotating, not ending.

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@KobeissiLetter Global hedge fund portfolio breakdown: ▪️Semiconductors: 16% ▪️Software: 2% ▪️Explaining why they sold before the top: 82%

@KobeissiLetter Semiconductor exposure is falling fast, but 16% is still a significant concentration. The interesting question now is whether this is genuine de risking or simply positioning ahead of the next move in AI spending.

@KobeissiLetter The most interesting part isn’t that hedge funds cut semis from the peak — it’s that 16% exposure is still nearly 3× the 2024–25 average. That looks less like “dumping chips” and more like taking some chips off the table after an enormous run.

@KobeissiLetter Just smart risk management after an unprecedented sector rally

@KobeissiLetter With software exposure hitting record lows at ~2%, the valuation spread between hardware infrastructure and software applications is reaching an extreme.

@KobeissiLetter It looks like SOXX has dropped ~25% and therefore exposure has dropped. There's no genuine selling by hedge funds.

@KobeissiLetter HF chip de-risking is a Growth/SMH print, not a full regime. NQ stays long-biased only if Vol/Credit and Liquidity already allow it. Positioning isn't the composite. @MacroRegimeBot

@KobeissiLetter Trimming exposure from 24% to 16% is standard risk management after a historic run. Hedge funds now have massive cash reserves ready to deploy for the upcoming Q4 earnings and Fed rate cut rally. Positioning is getting reset for the next leg up. 📈⚡

@KobeissiLetter Calling it a dump when exposure is still double November's levels is generous. That's profit taking with better PR.

@KobeissiLetter Bro, the atmosphere is everything. Takes my breath away.

@KobeissiLetter Hedge funds think the AI party is gonna stall.

@KobeissiLetter No

@KobeissiLetter Positioning data is useful but it's a snapshot, not a thesis. Fundamentals for the leading chip names haven't really changed.

This is a percentage-of-exposure chart, so it falls when semis underperform even if nobody sold a share — "dumping" and "the rest of the book went up" look identical here. Software at a record 2% is the more interesting line anyway: that's the crowd deciding the picks-and-shovels trade still beats whoever eventually monetizes the output.

@KobeissiLetter 😎