Meme your way to sanity (and action) as stocks plummet

Welcome to AI Collision 💥,

In today’s collision between AI and our world:

Memes to lighten the load
Actions of a 10 year old over 30+ years
What to buy?

If that’s enough to get the dip buying started, read on…

AI Collision 💥

Forewarning, the start of today’s essay is meme heavy. But I’m of the view that in some markets you’ve got to laugh your way through it a bit just to keep sane.

Maybe that’s an awkward reaction on my part. But when I wake up and see my portfolio down 10% in a day, 20% in a week, etc, I believe I have two choices: 1) sook about it and be a pain in the backside to be around; 2) suck it up, know the decisions I made are the decisions I made and get on with doing something about it… and be a fun bloke to be around.

I usually opt with 2). But the only way I can do that (at least, speaking for myself) is to just roll with the mayhem. I find stock market memes are a great way to do that. That’s because they are funny. And when life gets a bit crappy – and right now, at least in the stock market, crypto market, any investment market, it’s a bit crappy – try to look to the lighter side of things… and then do something about it (I’ll get to the “do something about it” shortly).

For now, the memes…

Starting with our featured image of the day, Salt-Bae Trump:

The market when you buy the dip:

The real dip:

The market isn’t done with us yet:

Say thanks to JD Vance:

A classic from Seinfeld:

And finally another classic, from Star Wars:

See? A bit of humour to lighten the room. Well, it helps me at least.

So now the mind is clear and ready to go again, here’s an exchange I had with a friend the other morning as we woke to mayhem in the market.Friend:

Rough day. Tech stocks were always incredibly overpriced and now they’re just correcting, can’t blame Trump for that.

Me:

Yeah some are overpriced, but then you look at NVDA that is tracking for another 140% rev growth from datacentres, can’t meet demand, is booked for years with product. Then TSMC who already has booked entire production lines in facilities they haven’t even built yet – long term these are generational buying times, just DCA into it. Remember the January 2018 China/US trade wars? That was all Trump puffing his chest at China too, then the market went on a seven year rocket. Same thing will happen again.

That’s my unfiltered and honest view. That yes, the market is brutal. Taking painful hits on stocks that were 20%, 30% higher two weeks ago hurts a lot. We all feel it.

But then, you ask yourself, what is my strategy? What is my time frame? What level of risk am I comfortable with? And where the heck can I find some more cash to invest in the market?

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Each of us has different answers to the questions above. But as I thought about it all morning, I took myself back to when I bought my first stocks.

I was 10 and my grandfather helped me buy them.

But that wasn’t the first, last and only time I ever bought stocks. No – I invested regularly, over 30+ years.

I’ve always been investing, looking for opportunity and never standing still. The worst thing is to stand still, specially when markets are moving fast, wildly and with a lot of volatility.

So right now, I’m not standing still. I’m looking to buy, be it bitcoin, crypto, stocks or even collectibles. Ideally, all of the above!

For me, the hardest thing to decide in these markets is what to buy, not if to buy. That’s what I hope to help guide you through here at AI Collision. But I can’t give direct stock recommendations in this free publication, which is something we do elsewhere at Southbank Investment Research – trying to help our readers break through the mainstream noise to find edge of the bell curve, contrarian ideas that can transform a portfolio.

I think, right now the market is littered with these opportunities, some of the best long-term wealth, I think, is made in markets like this.

And over the last few weeks and months, I’ve written about some of those opportunities. The only thing you need to do now is take action and decide what fits your strategy, your risk tolerance, your timeframe and your available capital.

My colleague James Altucher has similar ideas and he’s sharing one such opportunity right now in AI – but time is ticking. He believes this particular window of opportunity closes on 17 March. So best get your skates on.

Boomers & Busters 💰

AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).

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Boom 📈

WISeKey International (NASDAQ:WKEY) up 21%
EchoIQ (ASX:EIQ) up 15%
Team Internet Group (LSE:TIG) up 6%

Bust 📉

Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) down 11%
AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV) down 12%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) down 18%

From the hive mind 🧠

AI drive thru, AI tools for managers… when you think AI, I reckon McDonald’s doesn’t pop into the mind right away. But this is a company that is very used to integrating the latest technologies into its restaurants. So Maccas and AI seems like a pretty good match to me (so long as I get through the drive-thru quicker!).
Wait, what, another DeepSeek moment?! C’mon, that was only a few weeks ago! OK, so maybe not that big. But there’s a lot of hype around “Manus” and what it can do. China is really starting to up its AI game.
Speaking of China, here’s another thing it’s leading the pack with when it comes to the latest and most high-tech developments in our world.