UBNT is back below $60 on zero news after earnings.
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Meanwhile, LQMT shot up by over 10% because Tony Chung resigns as CFO and joined as Director on the board, new CFO is Bryne Vance. Because of this, micro-cap portfolio is now up 8.84% vs Aug 28, more than 5% of top of yesterday :). LQMT 
making me tons of money⌠hopefully it will become 10x or more :), currently almost 4x.
Stocks usually decline on a new CFO. Thatâs weird.
Not decline on a new CFO. Decline on exit of the CFO. ex-CFO didnât exit the company, he joins as Director. When Fred Anderson resigned as CFO and joined Apple Board, AAPL didnât decline also.
Since no news, short UBNT puts (Dec $55). Also praying for PANW would decline over the next few weeks.
Also, short NTNX puts (Dec $22.50.)
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I still havenât used the short a put strategy. I opted to buy and sell calls against the position. Volatility is so low right now. Itâs not generating much yield.
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Although technically short put is equivalent to selling covered call, short put is meant to buy stocks at lower price. For example, shorted LITE when it is about to hit the 200 SMA because Iâm not sure whether it would touch the 200 SMA or bounce before that. If Iâm confident it would touch 200 SMA, I would place a GTC buy like IRBT at the 100 SMA. Same considerations for 50 SMA, 100 SMA and 200 SMA whichever is applicable.
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3 brilliant ways CRUS is investing in the future
- Digital headsets are set to skyrocket
- Taking the drama out of microphones
- Voice ID is a huge market in the making
Cirrus Logic (NASDAQ:CRUS) is known primarily for the audio chips it supplies to smartphone manufacturers. This has long been the companyâs biggest source of revenue, with Apple alone contributing 76% of sales in the most recent quarter.
High dependency on AAPL.
CRUS is not so attractive as diminishing sales & income.
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It is a huge risk to rely on a single customer for majority of the revenues. Just look at Imagination Technologies and GTAT for examples of how Apple deals with these suppliers.
4 year chart of VEEV
4 year chart of CRUS
Return is comparable. Donât see visible discount for overly dependent on one client. The bet is it is able to reduce dependency 
Remember investing is forward looking !
GTAT is bad management. Management lies that company is doing well and make believe by recruiting many and overpaying engineers meanwhile insiders keep selling shares. I knew this company as I lost a bundle believing management. The bet then is Apple will buy although is very clear from the onset that it might not depending on yield and quality⌠all speculators knew that. Bought this counter under the micro-cap portfolio⌠recover losses from profits betting on CRUS (yes when it was dirt cheap, sold all and now re-looking at it) and LQMT (yay!).
Apple says that it gave Imagination Technologies, several years â notice. Didnât buy this ticker because is not attractive, price too high and hyped is too strong.
Btw, are you guys parroting what pundits say or thought of it originally? That is thought is so and then realize pundits share the same view or read what others say and agree with it.
Having said above, have been wondering why Apple didnât integrate the sound & voice chips into their own chipsets Guess is a matter of when. Seriously, the bet is on whether they can move forward before the eventuality of Apple designing its own sound/voice chips.
Thatâs my concern. At some point, the functionality of CRUS will be integrated into the processor. You can see that trend in semiconductors. Itâd also save space. Everyone wants to save space to have a larger battery. I think the risk is even higher, since Apple designs its own processors for the iPhone and iPad.
Focus is on leading edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing and AI.
Why so limiting? There is nothing cutting edge about an audio chip.
I like companies with network effects and Redfin could be one.
Big data and cloud are not cutting edge. They are geeks gone wild. However I do believe in AI.
So we should invest in it now?
Up to you. 
My point is that there is nothing cutting edge about Lending Tree. What it has is a two-sided marketplace that benefits from network effect.
Ok, Iâll consider investing if you are also putting money into it