$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ What can be seen from the earnings report...

$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ What can be seen from the earnings reports of semiconductor-related companies every quarter is that it is not necessarily indicative of the overall semiconductor market. Despite mentioning this on the board every time, it's clear just by looking at the earnings reports of ASML and TSMC. It's already evident from the monthly reports, even before TSMC's 3rd quarter announcement, that there won't be any failures like ASML. Since we already know about TSMC from the monthly reports, the reaction after the earnings report will probably be weak. The point here is that if you keep selling when ASML fails and the stock price drops, you'll never win. Individual investors like us may be able to make a fortune with high volatility NVDA by short-term profit-taking and repeated trading if they have a good sense of trading, but if you can't do that well, just holding it is fine.