「Byte Stock Speculation Makes $30 Million」 Protagonist's Review: Seizing the AI Storage Opportunity due to Hard Drive Price Surge, Recommends Investing in AI Companies to Hedge against AI Replacement Risk

BlockBeats News, July 5th, the protagonist of "Byte Stock Trading Makes $30 Million" Leto Bao has finished reviewing his US stock investment experience at Binance Square. Some of his remarks are as follows:

Around August last year, his investment style shifted to value investing, with a major allocation in indexes, especially the Nasdaq 100, and some positions in actively selected companies such as Google. At that time, wanting to build a database and backtest investment strategies quantitatively, he bought two hard drives on Pinduoduo, only to find that the hard drive prices kept rising.

He stated that the rising hard drive prices became the first signal for him to focus on the storage track. At that time, there were already reports mentioning AI-driven memory price hikes, coinciding with the rise in hard drive prices. The second signal came from his Data Engineer work experience, where ByteDance was also requiring the team to shorten the data lifecycle, reducing data storage time, for example, from two to three years to one year or six months, and deleting redundant data due to insufficient storage resources.

Leto Bao said that based on the rising hard drive prices, AI storage demand, and research report analysis, he initially bought some related targets but did not heavily invest because he had not seen concrete evidence at the time. It was only after he discovered through 13F institutional holdings that institutions had been increasing their positions in the same direction for three consecutive quarters that he started to increase his position size, holding it until now. He mentioned that he still holds storage-related positions and has gained a significant profit.

Regarding sectors such as robotics, aerospace, nuclear energy, and power, Leto Bao stated that he believes these four sectors are unlikely to become mainstream in the market in the past year. Among them, the robotics sector has a relatively higher chance, the aerospace sector may experience short-term sentiment-driven trading, but its profitability might be under pressure in the next six months due to the current high valuation, although he remains optimistic in the long term. As for nuclear energy, traditional nuclear power plant construction and approval cycles are too long, with a long payback period; small modular reactors (SMRs) face the issue of high costs.

Regarding economic indicators, Leto Bao mentioned that the CPI price index is also one of the key indicators the Federal Reserve focuses on. Non-farm payroll data will also impact market judgments, with a certain correlation between overheated employment and inflation. However, the relationship between macroeconomic indicators is complex and not simply derived in a linear manner. The Federal Reserve is responsible for formulating interest rate-related economic policies and adjusting policies to serve the operation of the US economy. CPI, non-farm payroll data, Federal Reserve policies, and financial report seasons should not be simplistically regarded as "noise" but have certain reference significance. He pointed out that when he previously invested in NVIDIA, he overlooked the interest rate hike environment, leading to a significant account drawdown. Therefore, macro factors still need to be considered in investment decisions.

Finally, Leto Bao advised that investments should start as early as possible and funds should be allocated to relevant assets promptly. Many future jobs and positions will be affected by AI, so if ordinary people want to hedge against the risk of being replaced by AI, they can consider investing in AI-related companies.

Leto Bao is a former employee of ByteDance, known as the "Byte Stock Master." He achieved significant profits by investing in US stocks and capturing the AI storage track, reportedly earning around 30 million yuan and resigning. The story began when he noticed a significant price increase while buying hard drives on Pinduoduo, leading him to research data storage demands and heavily invest in related stocks.