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Rule-driven cohort, additive-only
Thesis — NVIDIA's corporate equity deployments are a leading indicator for the Rubin Build-Out rotation.
Action — Pattern 03 admits a public-equity name when NVIDIA discloses a corporate equity stake (Tier 1) or admits the company to a named NVIDIA architecture layer (Tier 3 — NVLink Fusion, Spectrum-X, DSX, AI-RAN, Vera/Rubin, BlueField, CUDA, Omniverse). Equal-weight, additive-only, hold until NVIDIA divests.
The rule
(a) Add a name when NVIDIA discloses a corporate equity stake or warrants (Tier 1) or admits the company to a named NVIDIA architecture layer (Tier 3). Public companies only. NVentures venture-arm portfolio bets do not count. Private companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Mistral, Cohere, Wayve, Figure, Perplexity, Lambda, Reflection, Cursor) wait for IPO.
(b) Equal-weight at entry. Each new admission rebalances the cohort to 1/(N+1). Top-ups by NVIDIA — additional capital into a name already in the cohort — do not trigger additional buys. The position is the position.
(c) Hold until one of: NVIDIA divests, with disappearance from a 13F or trim greater than 50% read as the trigger; NVIDIA announces a contradicting partnership that displaces the original; the security delists. No stop-loss, no time-based exit, no technical override.
Live cohort · 10 names
Current portfolio after applying the 16-event timeline through 2026-05-26:
COHR · CRWV · GLW · INTC · IREN · LITE · MRVL · NBIS · NOK · SNPS
Hypothetical portfolio · $100k per signal
Assumes a diary follower would have allocated $100,000 to each of the 13 Pattern 03 signals at the disclosure-day market price, held additively, and sold the three names (RXRX, APLD, ARM) on their respective 13F-disappearance dates. Valuation date for the 10 held names is 2026-05-22 (the Weekly Signal close). Money-weighted annualized return uses XIRR — the same formula as Excel =XIRR(values, dates).
| Total invested | $1,300,000 |
| Exit proceeds (3 names: RXRX, APLD, ARM) | $871,186 |
| Held value (10 names) | $2,623,016 |
| Gross return | +168.8% |
| XIRR · money-weighted annualized | +113.8% |
Closer — Q1 2026 earnings call read-through
Based on the most recent NVIDIA earnings call and Jensen's commentary, the next logical Pattern 03 admissions would be Arm (ARM), Qualcomm (QCOM), and SoftBank — alongside INTC and SNPS which are already in the cohort. None of the three new names is currently a candidate as an equity-investment admission, so they do not trigger the rule mechanically — but the stocks are up materially since the call, which suggests the market is already pricing the implied architectural read-through. The signal is valid even without the trigger firing; Pattern 03 is the disciplined version of the read, the price action confirms the direction.