Assets That Will Separate Winners From Everyone Else
453: 60+ “Must Own” Assets for the Next Market Cycle
Good morning.
If you’re a time tested subscriber of Arb Letter, welcome back.
If you’re new here, I am glad you found this guide today as it is going to be an excellent summarization of the themes and names I am betting on in the coming decade.
If you take a moment to look at the state of the world since Covid, it’s apparent we’ve entered a new realm entirely in financial markets. Signs are everywhere.
The Palantir thread we covered yesterday.
The War in Iran and expansion of US military prowess around the globe.
The AI arms race.
The global battle between socialism and nationalism.
Money printing at an unprecedented scale.
Resource hoarding and shortages.
Society becoming even more digital ad online than we thought was possible.
All of these highlight the fast changing world we live in.
Today we’re compiling all stock, crypto, ETF, and asset picks/recommendations into one post.
After sheer bangers you guys printed on like PLTR 0.00%↑ NVDA 0.00%↑
INTC 0.00%↑ Bitcoin, AMD 0.00%↑ AVGO 0.00%↑ ALB 0.00%↑ and others, I figured it would be most valuable to lay my current plays out in the same post. Longtime readers will be the first to tell you that just one of these plays pays for years of what it costs to join this community for the year.
I never understood why people haggle and whine about $8 when they see folks knocking it out of the park with some of the plays we lay out here.
There’s no secret, I just remove all the fluff. It’s not normie slop. It just works.
All the noise and BS that still litters mainstream media, publications, and influencer commentary gets cut out.
I explain and lay things out the way they are. Not the way people want them to be or the way that benefits other individuals and organizations.
I know nothing for sure (nobody does), but there are plenty of signs on what is probably going to separate modern serfs from asset owners who have true freedom down the line.
I don’t have to reiterate the stakes for you guys:
Homes are unaffordable
The cost of living is soaring
AI is culling jobs left and right
College grads are jobless for longer periods
Markets are defying all logic while inflation remains stubborn
Your money just doesn’t go as far
You simply HAVE to get smarter to get ahead (or just maintain a certain standard of living).
Aside from the typical career hedges and personal development concepts we cover here regularly, owning the right companies and assets is your ticket to ensuring you can secure your future in this clusterf*ck world we find ourselves in.
Trump is set to appear on CNBC this morning at 8:30am ET which is sure to dictate which way markets turn today (will be get a “good time to buy” comment?) and that’s against what I personally think is an increasingly bullish backdrop.
Markets are tiring of the Iran nonsense despite US Vice President JD Vance traveling to Pakistan for new peace talks, we have retail is frothing at the mouth to ape into markets, and the AI supercycle isn’t losing any momentum.
Regardless of short term pullbacks and more TACO chaos, you can tell that we might be on the verge of full blown mania in risk assets. That liftoff or squeeze is not something you want to (or can afford to) miss. Over the last three weeks the markets are telling us they are begging to explode higher.
Our list and guide today is comprised of:
60+ tickers, companies, and assets I consider must owns
Quick run downs on why these are worth holding
ETFs for broader exposure if you don’t want to bet on one horse
The 5 Sectors/Spaces that will be table stakes in the next decade
TLDR version is this guide is packed with the absolute bangers. The GOATED names you should hold at all costs if you want to print. Everything in this list is a bet on one thing.
The world is becoming more unstable, more digital, and more resource constrained at the same time. Adjust accordingly brother.
Let’s get started.
Technology & AI (Artificial Intelligence)
The artificial intelligence arms race has been one of the most profound in markets in decades. It has become the defining battleground of this cycle, not just in tech but across geopolitics, defense, and capital markets.
What started as a software story has quickly evolved into an infrastructure race with chips, data centers, energy, and distribution. Every major player, from Big Tech to governments, are now competing for dominance because the winners will not just generate returns, they will control the rails of the next global economy.
It’s full blown mayhem.
Amazon is committing tens of billions into AI partnerships and cloud infrastructure, with total spend expected to reach well into the hundreds of billions over time. At the same time, leading AI labs are locking in enormous amounts of compute capacity, requiring energy on the scale of entire power grids just to train and operate models.
On the hardware side, the race is expanding beyond just NVIDIA (which you should already hold ideally). Companies are now signing long term deals to develop custom AI chips, signaling that control over silicon is becoming just as important if not more important as software.
The majority of you who have already generated outsized returns over the past 10 years likely hold some of these, but I think with recent software routs and AI bubble panic, there’s an opportunity to top off the war chest with some classic names and new horses.
Amazon AMZN 0.00%↑
Just announced they will invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as a part of an AI infrastructure deal. Additionally, Bezos announced that he is set to close a $10 billion funding round for his new AI startup code-named “Project Prometheus”. Sounds ominous and profitable…..
Microsoft $MSFT
One of our solid plays since the last market dip, Microsoft is deeply embedded across enterprise software and AI. Their partnership with OpenAI and integration of copilots across Office, Azure, and Windows makes them one of the clearest long-term winners in tech and AI. Do not fade the classics.