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18 dated public stances tracked since 2025-08-29, most recently 2026-10-21. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Jan Van Eck's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Jan Van Eck is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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18
tracked stances
13
themes
0
side flips
2026-10-21
last heard
Returns 90d -2.6% 57% correct · 7 calls · 180d +0.9% 50% correct · 6 calls · 1y +8.3% 50% correct · 6 calls
Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances. “% correct” is the share of those scored calls whose direction-aware return was positive at the horizon — in a rising market a bullish call is correct by default, so read it beside the market, not alone.
Scored calls
Every tracked call with at least one matured horizon: the rows behind the Returns line above. A dash is a horizon that has not matured yet.
| Date | Name | Call | 90d | 180d | 1y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | NVDA | bullish | +0.8% | — | — |
| 2025-08-29 | NVDA | bullish | +1.6% | +12.3% | +26.9% |
| 2025-08-29 | GPZ | bullish | -7.5% | -18.4% | -10.3% |
| 2025-08-29 | Gold Miners | bullish | +31.8% | +77.3% | +57.1% |
| 2025-08-29 | ETH | bullish | -30.0% | -51.9% | -42.1% |
| 2025-08-29 | ENERGY | bullish | +0.9% | +23.5% | +45.9% |
| 2025-08-29 | BITCOIN | bullish | -15.7% | -37.3% | -27.8% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | 3 | 3 bullish | 2026-10-21 | |
| BITCOIN | 2 | 2 bullish | 2026-10-21 | |
| ENERGY | 2 | 2 bullish | 2026-10-21 | |
| Gold Miners | 2 | 2 bullish | 2026-10-21 | |
| AI/TECHNOLOGY STOCKS | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-10-21 | |
| ETH | 1 | 1 bullish | 2025-08-29 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
Nvidia is the foundational hardware layer of the AI ecosystem with a durable software moat, generating significant cash returned via dividends and buybacks, and its valuation has derisked substantially versus prior cycles when it was a pure commodity chip…
“Nvidia is just a completely different animal... the IBM of that system and they're dividending”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
The halving was a normal cyclical event and Q2 was the correct tactical entry point as called; long-term Bitcoin is structurally bullish as an alternative store of value in a world of persistent government deficits and spending
“long-term I'm very very bullish”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
2026-10-21
Gold Miners
bullish
Thoughtful Money (Adam Taggart) · video
Gold miners have dramatically reduced debt over the past decade, structural decline in new gold discovery makes existing mine assets increasingly scarce and valuable, and companies are delivering significant shareholder returns via buybacks in addition to…
“they've paid off all that debt and they are not leverage players the way they used to be”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
US shale production growth is unlikely to repeat as that cycle matures while global oil demand keeps rising, energy companies are returning capital via buybacks in addition to dividends (total shareholder yield in high single to low double digits), yet equity…
“the equities are not pricing in higher oil prices... you're missing actually two-thirds of the story”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
Chinese private gold purchases hit an all-time record pace consuming 46% of global production (double last year's pace), global investors increasingly view gold as the primary safe haven versus fiat currency, and the recent correction after the runup has been…
“I am 10-year very bullish on gold... early early innings of a long-term bull market”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
Blue Owl still pays a healthy dividend providing income while waiting for the equity to re-rate; the bond-squeeze headwind and regulatory scrutiny over private credit mismarking appear already priced in after the stock gave back its ~30% Q2 gain, and the…
“I'm not selling my personal position there... the equity of Blue still paying a very healthy dividend so you get paid to wait”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
Short-duration Treasuries at ~5% offer attractive risk-adjusted yield with minimal duration risk, buyers have historically emerged at 5.5%+ creating technical support, and VanEck has begun tactically buying bonds despite remaining structurally underweight due…
“2-year duration, wow, that's pretty attractive, right? You're not taking a lot of duration risk and you're getting paid 5%”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
2026-10-21
AI/TECHNOLOGY STOCKS
bullish
Thoughtful Money (Adam Taggart) · video
AI is a decade-long mega-trend distorting equity markets and VanEck is explicitly overweight tech above the already tech-heavy S&P 500 because sitting out the trade since the ChatGPT moment has been very expensive year-to-date, one-year, and two-year
“if you listen to the naysayers or stepped out of this mega trend trade of tech, you are leaving a lot of money on the table”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
2026-10-21
India Equities
bullish
Thoughtful Money (Adam Taggart) · video
India has absorbed a concentrated stream of bad news — Iran conflict (energy importer), tariffs, AI disruption to outsourcing — and is now at the bottom of its four-year valuation range while the structural case of highest GDP growth rates, emerging fourth…
“now that everyone has given up on India, it's finally getting to the bottom of its valuation range”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
2026-10-21
MEMORY CHIP EQUITIES
bearish
Thoughtful Money (Adam Taggart) · video
Memory chip companies are earlier in the maturation cycle than Nvidia, resemble a teenager versus Nvidia as a mature company, and should not be valued at comparable multiples — VanEck issued a cautionary client note in Q2 flagging uncertainty about whether…
“there we actually put a cautionary email out to our clients in Q2 saying, I don't know”
The Big Squeeze: High Bond Yields Becoming A Problem For Stocks | Jan van Eck
CUDA software ecosystem creates a durable moat analogous to IBM's hardware-to-software-to-services pivot, and Jensen Huang's relentless cost-reduction strategy ('Walmart of compute') positions Nvidia as the dominant blue-chip AI infrastructure provider for…
“I'm a bull on Nvidia because he's like the Walmart of this ecosystem”
90d +0.8%
Why Memory Is a Bubble but Nvidia Isn’t | TCAF 243
2026-05-22
MEMORY CHIPS (MICRON, SANDISK)
bearish
The Compound · video
Memory chip companies lack durable competitive moats — their earnings boom is driven by price hikes rather than value-added innovation, leaving them exposed to Chinese competition and to model-efficiency gains that will reduce memory demand per token over time
“I don't think these memory companies have a competitive mode”
Why Memory Is a Bubble but Nvidia Isn’t | TCAF 243
Two large upside surprises not yet reflected in NVIDIA numbers — Middle East sovereign data center spending (cheapest energy costs in the world) and physical robotics revenues — could drive estimates materially higher
“the amount of money they're putting into data centers in the Middle East — robotics are not in the NVIDIA numbers at all”
90d +1.6% · 180d +12.3% · 1y +26.9%
How to Make Money in the Bull Market for Electricity | TCAF 206
Bitcoin serves as a hedge against US fiscal deficit and dollar debasement, and has delivered in his portfolio across multiple years as government debt risks have grown
“we've been talking about Bitcoin and gold for a couple of years — those hedges have really worked out super well”
90d -15.7% · 180d -37.3% · 1y -27.8%
How to Make Money in the Bull Market for Electricity | TCAF 206
2025-08-29
Gold Miners
bullish
The Compound · video
US fiscal deficit and global de-dollarization are driving foreign central banks to rotate from US treasuries into gold, creating a multi-year structural bull cycle for gold and gold miners
“the world wants a hedge against the dollar — what's the second best currency? It's gold”
90d +31.8% · 180d +77.3% · 1y +57.1%
How to Make Money in the Bull Market for Electricity | TCAF 206
2025-08-29
GPZ
bullish
The Compound · video
Private credit managers hold a structural competitive moat — only a handful can write billion-dollar checks for data centers — and will rerate higher as advisor adoption of private-market allocations grows over a 5–10 year runway
“I am super bullish on this theme”
90d -7.5% · 180d -18.4% · 1y -10.3%
How to Make Money in the Bull Market for Electricity | TCAF 206
AI data center electricity demand requires clean baseload power that only nuclear can supply at scale; bipartisan political support and Trump executive orders provide near-term catalysts while long build timelines create supply scarcity
“Trump is pro-nuclear... it's a global thing, it's bipartisan”
90d +0.9% · 180d +23.5% · 1y +45.9%
How to Make Money in the Bull Market for Electricity | TCAF 206
Wall Street will standardize on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to tokenize securities and handle stable-coin payments; post-2023 gas-fee stability makes it viable for institutional builders for the first time
“ETH is like the Wall Street token because that's what people are going to build on”
90d -30.0% · 180d -51.9% · 1y -42.1%
How to Make Money in the Bull Market for Electricity | TCAF 206
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