Broadcom: trend-following strategy vs buy & hold
Equities · tracked with Broadcom (AVGO)
Broadcom designs networking and custom AI chips used in data centres and smartphones, and owns a large infrastructure-software business (including VMware).
Growth of 100 since 2009
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What drives Broadcom
AI data-centre demand, the semiconductor cycle, acquisitions and its strong cash returns to shareholders drive the stock.
How a trend-following strategy handles Broadcom
Broadcom has been a steady compounder with semiconductor-style volatility — strong trends, interrupted by sharp corrections when the chip cycle turns.
Our Strategy Alpha applies the same simple, rules-based trend filter to every market: invested while the trend is up, in Treasury bills while it is down, checked once a month. It is not a forecast — it is a discipline that aims to keep most of the long climbs and sit out the deepest drawdowns.
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