The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Joanne Feeney'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. Joanne Feeney is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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.
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.
2026-10-14
TJX
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Discount retail acts as a portfolio stabilizer as 30% cumulative inflation since 2020 squeezes consumer budgets and channels value-seeking shoppers toward off-price formats
“some stabilizers whether it is a T.J. Maxx or the oil pipeline companies”
Open Interest 10/14/2026
2026-10-14
OIL PIPELINE COMPANIES (MIDSTREAM)
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Midstream pipeline infrastructure provides portfolio protection against geopolitical risk as Houthi attacks on Saudi Aramco and broader Middle East escalation threaten oil supply routes and lift energy prices
“oil pipeline companies to protect against some geopolitical risks”
Open Interest 10/14/2026
2026-08-24
long AVGO / long GOOGL
basket
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Broadcom and Google are core AI infrastructure beneficiaries trading at attractive valuations after the recent tech sell-off, with durable demand for AI compute providing earnings visibility
Markets Eye Bessent, Warsh, Nvidia | Open Interest 8/24/2026
2026-08-24
long TGT / long TJX
basket
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Target and TJ Maxx are defensive consumer plays capturing trade-down spending from budget-stressed shoppers, with traffic remaining robust as inflation and higher gas prices pressure consumer budgets
Markets Eye Bessent, Warsh, Nvidia | Open Interest 8/24/2026
2026-08-24
long LHX / long DEFENSE / long DEFENSE
basket
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Defense contractors provide portfolio protection against escalating Iran conflict and rising global defense budgets driven by the US pulling back from its traditional security role, forcing other nations to rearm
Markets Eye Bessent, Warsh, Nvidia | Open Interest 8/24/2026
2026-08-24
NVDA
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Nvidia trades at ~21x earnings while growing EPS at over 40%, making its price-to-growth ratio highly attractive; confirmed pricing power by passing 15% memory cost increases on to customers signals demand remains robust
“you look at Nvidia trading at like 21 times and it's growing at more than double that”
Markets Eye Bessent, Warsh, Nvidia | Open Interest 8/24/2026
2026-08-24
AMD
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
AMD is a special opportunity positioned to continue gaining market share against Intel in servers and to make meaningful inroads against Nvidia in AI accelerators
“AMD, we think is a special opportunity because it has a chance to continue to gain share versus Intel”
Markets Eye Bessent, Warsh, Nvidia | Open Interest 8/24/2026
2026-08-24
WSM
owns
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Williams-Sonoma's affordable luxury positioning draws resilient upper-middle-class and higher-income consumers who continue to spend despite broader macro stress and inflation pressure on lower-income cohorts
“It's that affordable luxury. It draws in the upper middle class and higher and they tend to continue to spend”
Markets Eye Bessent, Warsh, Nvidia | Open Interest 8/24/2026
2026-03-19
long NVDA / long AMZN / long PANW
basket
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Maintaining ~25% allocation to AI, cloud, and cybersecurity growth leaders provides necessary upside exposure because underlying demand for AI infrastructure and data centers remains robust regardless of geopolitical uncertainty
“whether it's an Nvidia, Amazon, or a Palo Alto, for example. We want to be exposed to the growth”
90d +31.6% · 180d +53.0%
Open Interest 3/19/2026
2026-03-19
ENERGY
owns
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
US energy companies benefit directly from higher prices caused by geopolitical escalation in Iran while being insulated from the supply shocks hitting Europe and Asia, which lack domestic production
“we have overweights in the energy sector, right? Recognizing higher prices would follow any escalation”
90d -7.3% · 180d +12.6%
Open Interest 3/19/2026
2026-03-19
TJX
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
TJ Maxx is a defensive consumer play that gains foot traffic precisely when the economy weakens and consumers trade down to discount retailers to stretch budgets under higher energy prices
“particularly when things get tougher, more foot traffic goes over to the TJ Maxx set of stores”
90d +6.5% · 180d -18.9%
Open Interest 3/19/2026
2026-03-19
DEFENSE
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
The ongoing Iran war is accelerating European defense spending commitments, creating sustained demand growth for European defense companies that was already underway
“defense industry obviously continues to be a strong opportunity in Europe. Um more so now”
90d +6.9% · 180d -5.7%
Open Interest 3/19/2026