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AGROAdecoagro
LONG
PublishedSep 8, 2026
Entry price$10.50
Target$13.2 (prob.-weighted) (+26%)
Current
Return since
StatusOpen

A sugar-plus-urea vehicle, not a pure sugar one: 84% of FY27 sugar is unhedged, so each cent above 17.4c flows to EBITDA, but the bear case is as much about urea at $450/t and a 5.0x multiple on $1.95bn of net debt as about sugar. Fairly priced with positive skew — a low-weight convex overlay whose job is the bull case.

CANE · AGRO · BGSuper El Niño 2026-27 — a sugar trade into the event peak
LONGTHEME
PublishedSep 8, 2026
Expressed viaAGRO
SourceIssue #8 (12 pages)
StatusOpen

Strength is consensus; phase is the edge. Every agency has the strongest event since 1950 as its base case, so the event itself is priced. What is half-priced is the India-data premium in Mar-27 raw sugar (our 21.0c against a 19.05c forward, with fatter tails on both sides), and what is unpriced is that sugar reverses at the ONI peak unless India turns net importer — so the position needs an exit rule before end-January 2027. Grains and fertilizers are not on the transmission chain; palm oil is, but after the peak.

GEV · HUBB · ETN · EME · AGX · ACMU.S. Power, AI Data Centers & Industrial Equipment
LONGTHEME
PublishedApr 24, 2026
Expressed via
SourceIssue #7 (23 pages)
StatusOpen

The strongest mispricings in the AI-power complex are absolute, not relative. GEV's 110 GW backlog against 24 GW a year of capacity locks in roughly 4.6 years of production through 2032 even in a bear capex scenario, against the 13% revenue CAGR consensus assumes.

BGBunge
LONG
PublishedSep 8, 2026
Price at pitch$125.32
Target$112 (prob.-weighted) (-11%)
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

Conditional. Bunge is selling its Brazilian sugar mills that would have made it a fit; what it offers is crush-margin optionality, and crush margins are strong for non-El Niño reasons (RVO clarity, a record July crush). Attractive below $110 or on oilseed confirmation: Australian canola losses, a narrower palm–soy spread, a lasting Black Sea premium.

CANETeucrium Sugar (raw sugar #11)
LONG
PublishedSep 8, 2026
Price at pitch$11.46
Target$12.45 (prob.-weighted) (+9%)
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

The core expression, but a front-month comparison overstates it. After the 29 September roll CANE holds May-27, Jul-27 and Mar-28, which capture 69–80% of the Mar-27 move in our scenario curves; contract by contract the fund earns −14.1% / +10.8% / +27.9% net of carry, a probability-weighted +8.8%, not the +16% the first edition implied.

MSFTMicrosoft
LONG
PublishedAs of Apr 10, 2026
Entry price≈$371.99
Target
Closed at≈$451.10
Realised+21.3%
StatusClosed · win

The market prices AI as a cost centre and a competitive threat to Microsoft. It is an accelerant: Microsoft controls both the productivity layer and the infrastructure layer, and the disruption narrative widens the moat rather than eroding it.

APOApollo Global Management
LONG
PublishedApr 3, 2026
Price at pitch$107.87
Target$155 (+44%)
Closed at≈$130.00
Realised+20.5%
StatusClosed · win

Litigation headlines are being priced as near-terminal risk. The Athene flywheel and private credit's structural growth are worth multiples of the current price, and the discount to Blackstone and KKR has no fundamental basis.

PBRPetróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) ADR
LONG
PublishedMar 28, 2026
Price at pitch$20.70
Target$33–37 (+69%)
Closed at≈$19.00
Realised-8.2%
StatusClosed · loss

A blanket EM and political discount is being applied to the world's lowest-cost offshore producer. The feared governance outcomes are largely priced; actual execution since 2023 has surprised positively.

USOUSO Jul-17 puts ($100 / $90 strikes)
SHORT OIL
PublishedMar 13, 2026
Premium at entry$6.50
Target
Closed at$4.20
Realised-35.4%
StatusClosed · loss

An $18–20 a barrel Hormuz risk premium against a 2026 supply surplus: the IEA projected supply +2.5mb/d against demand +930kb/d, and consensus had Brent at $63.85 for the year. Defined-risk puts replaced the decaying SCO.

LTMLATAM Airlines Group ADR
LONG
PublishedMar 13, 2026
Entry price≈$48.86
Target$62–65 (+30%)
Closed at≈$57.00
Realised+16.7%
StatusClosed · win

Sold down 30% on sector contagion despite zero Hormuz exposure and domestic fuel sourcing. This is the long side of the oil view: own the beneficiary of lower jet fuel rather than the commodity.

BABAAlibaba Group ADR
LONG
PublishedMar 2026
Price at pitch$128.00
Target$185 (+45%)
Closed at≈$120.00
Realised-6.3%
StatusClosed · loss

Priced as a fading e-commerce incumbent. The cloud and AI re-acceleration and the Qwen agentic platform are not in the multiple, and near-term margin compression is a deliberate investment cycle rather than structural decay.

LKNCYLuckin Coffee (OTC)
LONG3-year hold
PublishedDec 2025
Price at pitch$37.69
Target$147.20 (+291%)
Closed at≈$35.00
Realised-7.1%
StatusClosed · loss

The market still prices Luckin on legacy fraud risk and OTC liquidity. Underneath is a data-driven store machine growing 56% a year, halfway through its expansion cycle, with unit economics Starbucks cannot match in China.

Position notes & work in progress

Names that are held or watched with the research not yet complete: the reasoning is recorded in the same fields, but there is no full model or published note behind them yet, so they are not scored as theses. A position note graduates when the write-up is done; the next one in the queue is the AMAT / LRCX wafer-fab-equipment model.

AMAT · LRCXWafer-fab equipment: the second leg of the memory upcycle
LONGTHEMEPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAug 25, 2026
Expressed viaAMAT, LRCX
Source
StatusOpen

Memory capex follows memory pricing with a lag. With HBM and DRAM pricing at records, the equipment cycle has further to run than the multiples of AMAT and LRCX imply; the market is pricing the current capex level as the peak.

AUG 2026Positioning update — the summer rotation
LONGTHEMEPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAug 25, 2026
Expressed viaMU, AMAT, LRCX
Source
StatusOpen

Between May and August the book was rotated out of EM value, energy, hyperscalers and the Japan basket into memory (MU 30%), wafer-fab equipment (AMAT 10%, LRCX 5%), data-center power (VRT 10%), China travel (TCOM 10%) and gold (GLD 30%), with 5% cash. Ten positions were closed: six for gains, three for losses, one flat.

MUMicron Technology
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedApr 3, 2026
Entry price$366.79
Target
Current
Return since
StatusOpen

HBM is bespoke, high-margin memory that scales with every GPU generation, not commodity DRAM. The first position exited at $155 on a prior-cycle ceiling that proved wrong; the re-entry at $367 was built into a 30% position as the cycle confirmed.

KLK · SDG · IOI · WILPalm oil: the post-peak trade (watchlist)
LONGTHEMEPOSITION NOTE
PublishedSep 8, 2026
Expressed via
SourceIssue #8 (12 pages)
StatusThesis only

The palm chain has the best base rate in the theme (peak → +6 months median +12%) and no US-listed vehicle, and its clock is the opposite of sugar's: price highs came 5–13 months after the ONI peak because trees respond to drought with a lag, and Indonesia's B50 mandate (1 October) removes 16–17 Mt from the export market on top of the weather. A 2027 story to be built after the December CPC confirmation, not before.

VRTVertiv Holdings
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAug 25, 2026
Entry price≈$255.75
Target
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

Issue #7 passed on VRT at 51x on valuation, not on the business: data-center power and thermal management remain the most direct picks-and-shovels exposure to the AI buildout. The stock is 21% below its Apr 24 price of $323, and the position reverses the earlier call on price.

GLDSPDR Gold Shares ETF
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAug 25, 2026
Entry price≈$410.00
Target
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

The book's non-tech leg. Against a 45% semiconductor sleeve, gold is the one large position whose driver is not the AI capex cycle: the cross-market signal from the Iran-war episode (Treasuries and gold pricing more risk than equities) has not resolved, and central-bank buying supports the bid on drawdowns.

TCOMTrip.com Group ADR
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedMay 22, 2026
Entry price≈$46.00
Target
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

The regulatory overhang on China internet is priced far more severely than the actual policy environment. Trip.com is the dominant online travel agency in the world's largest outbound market with an under-penetrated inbound corridor, and earnings power sits well above consensus.

UBERUber Technologies
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAs of Apr 3, 2026
Price
Target
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

The market fears autonomous vehicles will destroy Uber. Uber is more likely to be the distribution layer for robotaxi fleets: AV operators do not want to run supply, insurance, support and demand aggregation at scale.

TTWOTake-Two Interactive
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAs of Apr 3, 2026
Price
Target
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

Valued on current-year GAAP losses while the market ignores the magnitude of GTA VI. Generative AI cuts content development cost rather than threatening the franchise; the disruption fear is backwards.

GOLDBarrick Mining
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAs of Apr 3, 2026
Price
Target
Current
Return since
StatusThesis only

Treasuries, commodities and equities are pricing the Iran shock with very different levels of pessimism. If bonds are right, gold has further to reprice, and Barrick has lagged even the move gold has already made.

MTZMasTec
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAs of Apr 3, 2026
Entry price≈$318.34
Target
Closed at≈$300.00
Realised-5.8%
StatusClosed · loss

The stock lags a fundamental re-rating already underway: record backlog, recovering margins and direct exposure to grid modernisation and renewable transmission.

CATCaterpillar
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedAs of Apr 3, 2026
Entry price≈$715.64
Target
Closed at≈$1,064.90
Realised+48.8%
StatusClosed · win

Consensus models Energy & Transportation as a cyclical segment. The data-center power buildout makes it a multi-year growth driver, and reshoring capex is layered on top.

FCXFreeport-McMoRan
LONGPOSITION NOTE
PublishedMar 13, 2026
Entry price≈$57.71
Target
Closed at≈$60.00
Realised+4.0%
StatusClosed · win

Copper equities have decoupled from a copper price holding near multi-year highs. Two supply constraints absent from consensus models, DRC sulphuric acid and South American labour, tighten the market further.