$老虎证券(TIGR)$ I Stopped Trying to Outsmart the Fed, and It Saved My Portfolio I used to think I could predict the Fed. I’d read every dot plot, hang on every word from Powell, and convince myself I knew when the pivot was coming. Then August happened. The 10-year yield punched through 5%, and suddenly every stock I owned was trading on macro, not fundamentals. Good earnings? Didn’t matter. Strong guidance? Ignored. If you were a long-duration growth name, you got sold. I watched solid companies drop 10–15% in a week for no other reason than “rates are higher.” That’s when I finally accepted something simple: I can’t control rates. I can only control my exposure. So I changed my approach. I cut my position sizes. I stopped averaging down on broken c
My pick is ①: Inference / AI Agents. Selling off Asian chip stocks just because AI leaders said "slow down" is a knee-jerk overreaction. Slowing down frontier training doesn't mean stopping construction. Foundation models are already big enough. The money is shifting from chasing model benchmarks to monetizing inference and agents. High-frequency inference consumes HBM and DRAM even more persistently. The memory logic is intact. ASICs and networking will benefit as demand diversifies. Today's broad sell-off is a textbook headline-driven panic. Don't hand over your core chips. Let Micron's Sept 30 earnings show the real demand numbers. I'm watching for dips, not joining the bears.