I was sick this weekend with a painful sore throat. So I focus on the fundamentals of rule based investing I do the analysis - follow the rules - make the prediction Monday, oil market starts retracing and the overall stock market is heading up. This leads to good gains for my long term portfolio. When I am investing, I am often not performing at 120% Instead, I might be sick, might be distracted, might be chasing kids around. During those <100% times, I would rely on the rules that I developed to make predictions and develop a view on where the market is going That's the crux of rule based investing - even if I am sick. Cheers, Eric Eric Seto Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) Founder of 5MinInvesting.com If you are looking for free materials to get started with your investing journey, here's the monthly passive income materials 1. First - you can attend the free webinar:  https://5mininvesting.com/value-video-2-0/ 2. Here’s the basic strategy to generate income for retirement - covered calls (and selling cash secured puts). Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/JjlszDh4-sI 3. Free Chart course - to set up your chart like mine to find discounted stocks: https://www.skool.com/invest-retire-community-1699/classroom/c1a58085?md=bede8cf0299045df9ecdf76396d43135 4. If you are interested in Investing Accelerator, you can schedule a call to ask any questions you have before joining the program: https://bit.ly/48mJlgR Remember there are additional resources in the classroom tab. Disclaimer: This communication is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation, or an offer to invest in any fund or strategy. No advisory relationship is formed by receipt of this content. Any references to strategies or markets are general in nature and do not reflect the performance of any client account or investment product.

Jensen Huang just laid out the roadmap for the next decade of computing. Last week at NVIDIA GTC 2026 — the "Apple Keynote of AI" — he didn't just announce products. He announced a new era of physical intelligence. I've attached the 12-minute supercut so you don't have to sit through 2 hours. Watch it. Then come back here. Here's what caught MY eye as an investor: 🏭 AI Factories are the new data centres. This isn't a metaphor. Jensen literally reframed NVIDIA's entire business as infrastructure for manufacturing intelligence. If you're still thinking GPU → gaming, you're a cycle behind. 🤖 Open Claw = The Linux of Agentic Computing An open-source standard for AI agents that can operate in the physical world. Think: what Linux did for the internet, Open Claw could do for robotics. Open-source → ecosystem → moat. Watch who builds on top of it. 🔗 Sixth Gen NVLink + Gro System The interconnect arms race is real. This is the plumbing that makes trillion-parameter models actually work at scale. Whoever controls the interconnect controls the throughput. 💧 Liquid Cooling is now a strategic asset Data centre efficiency is the silent constraint on AI scaling. Liquid cooling isn't boring infrastructure — it's a bottleneck play (Goldratt would approve 😄). 🌐 Spectrum X + Co-Packaged Optics The network is becoming the computer. Speed-of-light data movement inside AI factories. This one has long supply chain implications worth tracing. The 20% insight you need: NVIDIA isn't a chip company anymore. It's the operating system for the Physical AI economy. The companies building on top of this stack — in healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, robotics — are where the 2nd and 3rd order returns will come from.

Let me tell you about Leopold Aschenbrenner. Columbia valedictorian. > Graduated at 19. > Got hired by OpenAI to help figure out how to control AI smarter than humans. > Then got fired for basically telling them their security was a national security disaster waiting to happen. Most people would go lick their wounds. - Leopold wrote a 165-page manifesto. 📄 "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead" predicted AGI by 2027. It went so viral in tech circles that a UT Austin professor called it "one of the most extraordinary documents he'd ever read." Then Leopold launched a hedge fund around the thesis. In one year: $383M → $5.5B. So what's the actual bet? Here's where it gets interesting for us as investors 👇 He's NOT loading up on AI chatbot companies. His thesis: the real winners are the picks-and-shovels plays — power plants, data centres, and the infrastructure quietly feeding the AI gold rush. Think less "who's building the smartest AI" and more "who's building the roads AI travels on." 29 positions. One core idea. Massive conviction. The links if you want to go deep: 🔗 The manifesto itself → https://situational-awareness.ai 🔗 His actual Q4 2025 portfolio (13F filing) → https://13f.info/13f/000204572426000002-situational-awareness-lp-q4-2025 Fair warning: the manifesto is 165 pages. I'd suggest starting with the 13F and working backwards 😄

Over the weekend, Iran's supreme leader was eliminated by US. In the last few months, the president of Venezuela was removed by US. Why are these two countries important? You might have guessed it. Oil. ​Iran produces and ships 13% of the oil to China. This is shipped through "shadow fleets" which are not publicly disclosed Venezuela ships 5% of its oil to China. While this is not a high number, the friendly relationship between Venezuela and China is important. Think of it like a backup oil suply. This represents almost 20% of China's oil imports (which is most likely understated, as no one in their right mind would honestly report about shadow oil deliveries) By controlling both Iran and Venezuela, ​this leads to China relying on Russia on oil and going to the public market to buy oil. If you searched up oil companies, they have been going up for the last 3 weeks (which is interesting given that the strike only happened this weekend) - cough cough, insider. ​The ​US's military movement on these countries creates an imbalance on power politically, but more importantly, this creates an oil supply shortage for non-Western countries. This will lead to a temporary spike in oil price (and oil companies' share prices) ​While China mainly relies on coal for electricity generation, a reduction in 20% (or even 30%) of its oil imports will slow down logistics and manufacturing In Investing Accelerator, we will analyze the macroeconomic and the stock market impact at a deeper and more detailed level. ​​That's why the weekly update on the overall market conditions is important. ​​​If you are interested in accessing my latest analysis coming this weekend during our regular update, you can join Investing Accelerator here and ACCESS my latest analysis. Remember that sometimes war doesn't mean the market will go down.​ Cheers, Eric ---- Eric Seto Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA)

When you are investing, you want to hold onto profitable assets that grow year after year (the S&P 500 is an example) ​​Your default state is buy and hold So if you look back at Yahoo Finance for the specific stock/index performance for the last 5-10 years, that's what you would get. ​Now to get a different return than the market, there are mainly 3 ways: 1) You select securities that beat the market and grow faster than the market. That is usually pretty hard and that's where fundamental analysis comes in 2) You hold cash when the market is going down. For example, you forecast the market will go down by 5% and you hold cash. You buy back after a month. You are now 5% ahead compare to the market 3) You short the market while it is going down. The market goes down and you short - you make 5% while the market is down 5%. Now you are 10% ahead. That's really what you are trying to achieve when you are investing It sounds simple because it is. But what's important is how you define repeatable patterns that can help you identify 1,2,3.​ Cheers, Eric ---- Eric Seto Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) Founder of 5MinInvesting.com In February, my goal is to help 15 people with no financial background master investing. You will learn two strategies: • Long-term investing with options — learn how to find discounted blue chip stocks using technical and fundamental analysis You will also learn how to hedge during a bearish market to protect yourself • Monthly passive income — learn how to generate cash flow for retirement or replacing/boosting part of your salary using options Here's a step by step guide on how to join Investing Accelerator for free: https://www.skool.com/invest-retire-community-1699/how-to-join-investing-accelerator-for-free If you’re interested, you can hop on a free strategy call with me or Michael to see if you are a good fit.