Chip Dip Hunter

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AMD
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Buys semiconductor stocks when they dip sharply but are still in long-term uptrends.

byAmaltash Advisors LLC

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The idea

Buys semiconductor stocks when they dip sharply but are still in long-term uptrends.

This strategy targets the semiconductor sector — one of the most powerful corners of the stock market — and looks for short-term dips within longer-term uptrends. Think of it like buying a sale on stocks that are still fundamentally climbing. It only buys when prices have pulled back sharply but the broader trend is still pointing up, and it exits once prices bounce back to a healthy level. It never shorts — this is a long-only, buy-the-dip strategy. The portfolio spreads across eight semiconductor names — including heavyweights like NVIDIA, Broadcom, and ASML — plus a small cash position that earns yield while the strategy waits for the right moment to strike. Each position has a fixed size and a built-in safety net to limit losses if a dip turns into something worse. Personality-wise, this strategy is patient and selective. It won't trade just because the market is moving — it waits for a specific combination of conditions that rarely line up all at once. When they do, it moves quickly, holds for a short window, and then steps aside. Here's a simple scenario: Imagine NVIDIA has been on a long-term upswing, but over the past two days it suddenly drops hard — maybe on a broader market selloff or a temporary scare. The strategy sees that drop as an opportunity, steps in to buy, and then waits for the bounce. Once the price recovers to a normal level, it exits and waits for the next setup. It's designed for investors who believe in semiconductors long-term but want a smarter, more systematic way to buy the dips.

Design

How it works

  1. Waits for specific price pullbacks in quality chip stocks

  2. Exits quickly once prices bounce back to normal levels

  3. Spreads risk across eight semiconductor companies plus cash

  4. Only buys dips—never bets on prices falling

Conditions

Where it works, and where it doesn't

Every strategy is built for a particular kind of market. These are the conditions this one is designed around — and the ones it is not.

Built for

  • When semiconductor stocks are climbing overall but hit temporary speed bumps
  • During market-wide selloffs that don't reflect chip sector fundamentals
  • When volatility spikes briefly then calms down quickly
  • In bull markets where dips get bought back up fast

Not built for

  • When a dip turns into a real downtrend—the bounce never comes
  • During prolonged chip sector weakness or industry-wide bad news
  • When volatility stays elevated and prices keep falling after entry
  • In sideways or choppy markets where there's no clear recovery pattern

The Simulation Lab

Ten bad markets, before your money is in one.

Almost anything looks good in a rising market. That is not a test. So we put the strategies listed here through the same ten bad markets, and this one has been through them. They are stretches of real market history, with names and dates: the 2022 slump, the COVID crash, a year that went nowhere. We picked them before this strategy existed.

Two of them are below. Each one shows our drawing of what that market looked like, and the rules this strategy follows when a market like it turns up. None of this is a score. What actually happened to the strategy is in your dashboard, not on this page.

10bad markets, picked before this strategy existed
8 of 10can run on the real trading days of the time they name
2 of 10we model ourselves, and we mark them as modelled
6 Sep 2026when we last ran this strategy through them

When markets fall

The 2022 Slump

A full year of falling prices as interest rates shot up.

our model of the S&P 500 around 2022ends about 20% below where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500
The real dates
3 Jan – 30 Dec 2022
What the index did
fell 19.4%
How we run it
Real trading days

A full year of lower highs as the Federal Reserve raised rates from near zero to over 4%. The index was down 25% at its October low, having staged two rallies of more than 10% on the way down, and a third of 14% into the year end.

The rules this strategy follows here

  1. 1
    What it holds

    9 companies.

  2. 2
    When it sells

    One of them drops 6% below the price it was bought at.

  3. 3
    What it does

    It sells that one. The rest carry on.

No overnight drops in this market.

When markets go nowhere

When Tech Handed Over to Oil

Yesterday’s winners became 2022’s losers.

our model of the S&P 500 around 2021–22rises about 27% at its turn, then ends about 2% above where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500
The real dates
4 Jan 2021 – 30 Dec 2022
What the index did
2.2% higher
How we run it
Real trading days

The index gained 27% in 2021 and gave almost all of it back in 2022, finishing the two years roughly where it began. Underneath that flat line the leadership inverted: technology, the index's largest sector, contributed most of the 2021 gain and was among the hardest hit in 2022, while energy was 2022's best-performing sector by a wide margin.

The rules this strategy follows here

  1. 1
    What it holds

    9 companies.

  2. 2
    When it sells

    One of them drops 6% below the price it was bought at.

  3. 3
    What it does

    It sells that one. The rest carry on.

No overnight drops in this market.

A market that ends where it started still charges you for every trade made inside it. This is where the cost of trading adds up fastest. That is why it sits in the set right next to the crash.

When markets go nowhere

The Year That Went Nowhere

2015 swung up and down all year and finished where it started.

our model of the S&P 500 around 2015swings about 9% either way, and ends about 1% above where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500
The real dates
2 Jan – 31 Dec 2015
What the index did
roughly flat

When markets fall

The COVID Crash

A third of the market’s value gone in a month — most of it overnight.

our model of the S&P 500 around Feb–Mar 2020falls about 34% at its worst, then ends about 14% below where it begana shape, not a scale · not this strategy

Index
S&P 500
The real dates
19 Feb – 23 Mar 2020
What the index did
fell 33.9%

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The results open in your dashboard, where we can explain what they mean for you. They are simulated results, so we never show them here.

Open the stress tests

trade.amaltash.com/marketplace/chip-dip-hunter?tab=stress

All ten markets

  • The Bull Run of 2016–17When markets rise · modelled Tested
  • The 2020 ReboundWhen markets rise Tested
  • The 2022 SlumpWhen markets fall · shown above Tested
  • The COVID CrashWhen markets fall · shown above Tested
  • The Christmas 2018 ScareWhen markets fall Tested
  • The Year That Went NowhereWhen markets go nowhere · modelled · shown above Tested
  • The Wild Swings of Late 2022When markets go nowhere Tested
  • The Quiet YearWhen markets rise Tested
  • The Magnificent Seven YearWhen markets go nowhere Tested
  • When Tech Handed Over to OilWhen markets go nowhere · shown above Tested

These ten are the whole set. We picked them for the damage they did — the fastest crash on record, a year that went nowhere, a grind that punished every rally — not for how they make anything look.

8 of these 10 can run on the real trading days of the time they name. We model the other 2 The Bull Run of 2016–17 and The Year That Went Nowhere. A strategy needs a stretch of history to warm up on before a test starts, and our price data does not go back far enough to give these that. So we built stand-ins that behave like those years, rather than replays of them. A modelled market is not a forecast, and it is not what would have happened. The shapes drawn above are our models of those markets — never this strategy — and they have no scale. The dates and index moves next to each one are the real figures for the period it is modelled on. Nothing on this page says how any strategy did in these tests.

Holdings

What it holds

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