How My $10K AI Portfolio Investment Beat the Market by 900%‼️🔥

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Hey guys, welcome back. About 60 days ago, right in the middle of March, I deposited exactly $10,000 of my own cash into a live brokerage account with Fidelity so I could prove a point on this channel. I told you that the real wealth in this AI super cycle, it wouldn't be captured by chasing retail hype or following generic media narratives. It would be won by investing in the physical constraints and the bottlenecks that we saw in the AI infrastructure buildout. These bottlenecks included everything from compute to memory, networking, optical, and ultimately the power and cooling that helped the AI clusters keep moving and help them deliver optimal performance. Let me show you pull that investment up just to remind you because back in March, I called it the $10,000 pyramid. That original video is still on the channel. It's March 16th. If you haven't seen it, I encourage you to check it out. But you can see I invested in eight individual stocks. Everything from Nvidia, AMD, Micron, Broadcom, Arista Networks, Aira Labs, Applied Opel Electronics, and Vertive because all eight of these companies were dealing with significant bottlenecks in the market and trying to help us move through that so we can accomplish the AI infrastructure buildout. I also wanted to test the thesis that we could diversify our investment across these different stacks of the AI buildout and drive massive returns. And I posted the first video on March 16th. Like I said, here's the cool thing. We had a thousand subscribers on that time frame. I followed up 30 days later to show you what the return was of the of this investment. We had over a 25% return in 30 days. It was a 25.3%.

[00:01:37]But here's the thing. Our channel grew to 6,000 subscribers in that 30-day time frame. Well, today I want to bring to you the 60-day return of this in portfolio stat, this investment overall.

[00:01:48]And here's the cool thing, too. The subscribers now have grown to almost 17,000 for the channel. The growth of this channel, it's perfectly mirroring the explosive growth of our capital in this investment. Today, the portfolio just hasn't grown. It has completely detached from the broader market. Just like I hope this channel on YouTube will completely detach from all the other channels and we'll see explosive growth on the platform overall. But guys, the value of this uh portfolio now, it's sitting at over $16,000. We've had a 60% return in 60 days. I'm going to break down exactly what we saw in the portfolio, and I'm also going to break down all in eight individual uh positions. I'm going to expose why the biggest name in AI was actually our largest pure pure stock underperformer as well. and I'm going to give you my exact 30-day outlook for what I think each individual asset will do over the next 30 days before I drop my 90day return on this investment. But if you haven't done it already, make sure you hit like. Make sure you hit subscribe to the channel. As I mentioned, we're approaching 17,000. I want you to be part of this community. Let's keep driving the forward momentum together.

[00:02:59]Let's keep growing this community, engaging with each other together. So, if you like this type of content, make sure you hit subscribe. But let's take first before we dive into the individual positions, let's just take a look at the leaderboard and see how this investment stacked up against the indexes and against many other ETFs that we follow on the channel. So, let me pull that up.

[00:03:19]You can see we have the rank. I'm comparing it against six other types of investments. You can see the 60-day return and ultimately the comparison of this investment that I've built to the to the indexes and the ETFs. But honestly, this was not a minor beat. If you look at the table, this was a total annihilation of institutional capital.

[00:03:39]The Dow Jones and the S&P 500, they crawled along at a 4.2 and a 5.5% return during the 60-day window because because legacy non- tech sectors, they frankly just weighed them down. the tech heavy QQQ on the third row there which ranked fourth it managed a 6.5% return largely because meggaap software names they just they traded sideways during this 60e period it it they've throttled them down you could see my return versus the QQQ on the far right there now even if you were smart enough to narrow your focus to just a pure tech sector and if you looked at something like the XLK from State Street you barely scratched the surface of a return compared compared to my portfolio stack. XLK gave you an 11.2% return in 60 days. Still a nice profit, a nice return for that investment overall. But the only funds that even came close to the AI stack that we built on this channel were the semicond the pure semiconductor ETFs like socks which gave you a 36.5% return and the heavily concentrated SMH from VANX semi the VANX semiconductor ETF which brought in a 40.7% return in the 60-day period. But remember, we still beat the the premier semiconductor ETF by nearly 20% absolute alpha.

[00:05:03]Those ETFs are weighed by market cap, meaning they are topheavy with massive chip designers facing extreme supply bottlenecks. by explicitly weighting the portfolio stack that we built into the infrastructure components and positioning our cash into the specific hardware relief valves that absorb these overflows. We beat the biggest institutional funds on Earth over the last 60 days. So, let's open up the dashboard. Let's look at each asset line by line and then we'll dive in and talk about each individual one. So, let me pull open the Fidelity dashboard. as of this morning. You can see it's really small. And so I'm going to get into each individual name, but you can see on the bottom that we had a 60% return, a 60.12% return across the board there. I'm going to cover all eight of these investments.

[00:05:51]But you'll remember when I first built this, I actually had a little about $100, I think, left over. I put that into the SNDU, which was the brand new SanDisk ETF at that time.

[00:06:03]that investment and it's maybe hard for you to see but it has grown over 250% in this 60 days. So I wish I would have put more money into that because it's had a massive return. It's actually been from an individual perspective the largest individual return across the board from any investment. But that was just a we'll call it a happy accident because it was a nice return. I just wish there was more in it as I look back. But let's get back to the dive into each individual uh investment in this stack. Astera Labs was the number one uh portfolio rank in this 60 days.

[00:06:35]My purchase price, as you can see here, was a dollar 12317.

[00:06:40]The last price as of Friday's close was 300 almost $37 a share. So, it was just over $149% return and just over $1,300 of pure profit for for my investment overall. Over the last 60 days, as you know, data centers, they have hit what hardware engineers call the connect the connectivity wall. It doesn't matter how fast Nvidia or AMD's GPUs can process data. If the data gets clogged, but while it's traveling between the compute cluster and the memory banks, you have a problem. And this is exactly where Astera Lab steps in. Their PCIe Gen 6 tech and their CLXL connectivity controllers are the absolute gold standard for clearing those server level traffic jams. Hyperscalers have ramped up cluster size sizes significantly over the last two months and it turned Astera Lab's proprietary hardware into a mandator mandatory high margin bottleneck asset. Over the next 30 days for this investment, I expect Astera will be it'll be entering into a classic high retention cycle.

[00:07:46]We anticipate or I anticipate further contract announcements from tier 1 hyperscalers integrating the the PC the PC9 Gen 6 those new Scorpio X series that we talked about the other day they'll be incorpor integrating those into their custom ASIC deployments. This stock it may it may be extended technically but because it represents the literal central nervous system of cluster scaling I expect it to safely hold its premium valuation through the June time frame. And let's jump over to our next biggest mover, our rank number two, which was AMD. You can see AMD I purchased at just over $197 a share. The last price as of Friday were was just about $468 a share. It gave me $137% return on the capital that I put into this stock with a over $1,600 pure profit in 60 days. So, this was a great movement. If you remember when I bought it, I just said you need to hedge against Nvidia is why I got AMD and it's been a a huge mover not only in 30 days but also in the in the 60 days right now. It's been doing a lot of heavy lifting for this portfolio. And as you can see below, it actually generated the highest dollar gain of any asset in the portfolio. The core driver for this 138% move from March to May was the institutional drisking. Trillion dollar hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, and Google realized that relying exclusively on a single source GPU provider like Nvidia was a massive operational hazard.

[00:09:15]AMD's rapid enterprise adoption of their MI325X and the transparency of their open-source ROCM software ecosystem allowed them to capture significant market share as an alternate compute vendor forcing institutions to aggressively reweight their portfolios into AMD over the next 30 days. I look for a a potential technical breakout. We we see supply chain checks. They're confirming the rising wafer allocations from TSMC specifically earmarked for AMD for high-end silicon. You remember I mentioned that AMD secured that allocation of the the two node wafer from TSMC. They have a great partnership there. So I expect this stock should see continued accumulation from whale block trades from retail investors. It will remain a anchor position in this portfolio.

[00:10:09]So, let's jump over to the the next wave. The ones that didn't return as much as those two, those two were clearly the highest performers in the stack. But the third portfolio rank was Applied Opel Electronics. I purchased Applied Up Electronics at $98.17.

[00:10:24]The last purchase price was 181.49. This stock did get over 200 a share at one point very briefly. So, it pulled back a bit, but it still gave us almost an 85% return on capital. and looking at a profit of just about $764 in the 60 in the 60-day time frame.

[00:10:42]They're pure play within the optical super cycle. Traditional copper uh cables inside data centers, you know, they're facing physical deaths. They simply cannot transfer AI data rates over long distances without experiencing signal degradation for or overheating.

[00:10:58]Over the last 60 days, data center designs shifted massively towards fiber optic backbones. We saw huge growth with lumenum coherent applied opto electronics as well. Even saw Corning with massive growth in this time frame.

[00:11:12]So opto electronics 800G and next generation 1.6 terabyte optical transceivers are the literal optical pipelines chosen by massive cloud providers to link server racks together triggering an explosion in orders for the company. Over the next 30 days, I expect some high beta momentum for the stock. I would expect intense headline sensitivity as the market tracks component lead times. If manufacturing output keeps up with demand, applied opa electronics can challenge its overhead resistance level cleanly because the optical transition is a multi-year secular trend. It's not a temporary temporary spike.

[00:11:50]>> And now let's jump over to our fourth ranked investment, which is an investment that we love in on this channel and follow very closely. It's Micron Technologies. And Micron, you could see it ranked fourth in the investment. I purchased it back in March at 446. The last price as of closing Friday was 751, giving us over a 68% return. 60-day return from a from a pure profit perspective is just over $800.

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[00:12:17]So Micron, you know, we follow it very closely on this channel. The move was driven or what we saw in that 60-day period was driven entirely by the absolute supply deficit in high bandwidth memory particularly HBM3e. We also saw a huge ramp up for HBM4. So traditional memory it cannot keep up with AI processors. Micron proved over the last 60 days that its HBM architecture is not only faster but significantly more energy efficient than the competitors with management confirming they are effectively sold out of HBM capacity well into the foreseeable horizon. The gross margins expanded drastically for this company converting a cyclical commodity stock into a high margin technology monopoly over the next 30 days. I expect steady low volatility volatility accumulation.

[00:13:05]Look for pricing revisions to show that premium contract prices for HBM are climbing even higher. Micron is a structural locking key asset for AI.

[00:13:15]It's a structural lock and key asset for this portfolio investment as well making it a highly defensive hold with upside with significant upside would say into the late summer. I do expect this stock to move over 800 and continue to push towards that thousand benchmark that we've talked about on the chain. Let's jump over to our next stock which is Broadcom. Broadcom ranked fifth. I purchased it at 32374. It's at 41414 right now. 28% return over just over almost $420 investment return on investment in pure profit. Broadcom. It delivered a textbook institutional return of 28% as you can see on the screen. From March to May, the core narrative for this company has been the explosion of custom silicon AS6.

[00:14:00]Hyperscalers who want to build their own custom internal AI chips rather than paying commercial markups must co-design co-design that hardware with Broadcom to leverage their unmatched intellectual property. Combined with their dominance and high-end the Tomahawk Ethernet switching chips, Broadcom acted as a indispensable toll booth for custom cloud infrastructure. In the next 30 days, expect steady upward tracking.

[00:14:26]Broadcom is a favorite among institutional dividend growth managers.

[00:14:31]Look for a continued block trade support as large funds rebalance their mid-year portfolios into high free cash flow large caps like Broadcom.

[00:14:41]Let's jump over to the next which is Vertive Holdings. You can see I purchased it at just about 267 a share.

[00:14:47]Last share price was just over 327. gave us just about a 23% return, almost a $272 of profit into the into the portfolio. So, this is a direct play, as you know, on the thermal constraint wall that we saw in the AI infrastructure buildout. As AI server racks scale past the the 100 kilowatts of power density, old school air conditioning fails completely. The data center physically burns up. Over the last 60 days, liquid cooling shifted from a luxury concept to an immediate engine engineering mandate.

[00:15:20]Vertive specialized liquidtoair heat exchangers, chillers, and direct chip cooling loops saw an unprecedented backlog, proving that you can't run the world's smartest software without worldclass plumbing. Over the next 30 days, I'm very bullish on Vertive. As summer temperatures will drive up across North America, the physical constraint on on data center grids will become front page news. Vertive structural dominance and power management and cooling infrastructure should draw further momentum over the next 30 days as retail investors and institutional investors look for tangible playbooks to hedge against the power constraints. And now let's jump over to the last two. And the only two I have remaining are both Nvidia and Arrested Network. So, I'm going to jump show you both and then we'll have a little bit of a teachable moment here. But you can see Nvidia was uh ranked seventh. I got it at about 184 share. It's at 215 as of Friday. A 17.2% return and over a $300 return on investment. Arista Networks, it ranks last right now, but guys, every one of these stocks is green. Last is still almost a 16% return. Purchase price 133.

[00:16:30]Last price was 154. gave me just about $189 of pure pure profit overall. So that ranks out the final two. And here's what I want to say. If you look closely, like they were still strong returns.

[00:16:42]Nvidia gave us over 18%. Arista gave us almost 16%. But the but here's the irony or the teachable moment from this, I would say, for the channel. The two lowest performing pure equity assets in this entire 60-day run are two of the most famous, highly covered AI stocks on the planet. If you simply bought in video or rest in that 60 days ago, you made decent money. But because you were buying the most popular consensus trades on TV or across analysts, your upside was naturally capped by a massive institutional crowd already crowding the trade. But there is a much deeper layer here that that retail investors completely miss about the architecture uh connecting these companies. Nvidia it is no doubt is the undisputed king of proprietary AI chip design but Arista on the other hand they dominate the AI data center network such the network switch market but they don't actually design their own underlying silicon. Arista builds the world's best network hardware and software by taking Broadcom's merchant switching silicon and wrapping it in Arisa's legendary EOS software stack. Look what our portfolio did by mapping the physical reality. We didn't just capture Arista's steady 15 16% move. We also captured the massive 28% return or gain from Broadcom, the company that is supplying the very silicon that Arista's infrastructure relies on. This is the ultimate proof of our thesis and what our for the 17,000 people on the channel. Now, here's the teachable moment that the companies supporting the core supply chain are quietly outperforming the front page names. When you stop chasing the obvious consumer headlines and you map how the physical infrastructure passes revenue down the line, you find much cleaner asymmetrical alpha. So we So if we take a look at that $10,000 investment, the blueprint that was centered on the constraints and the bottlenecks in the market, we built that to over $16,000 in 60 days because we trusted the physics.

[00:18:46]We tracked the infrastructure store shortages and we looked at the raw data rather than the speculative noise. This video is definitive proof that the thesis we tested 60 days ago is providing us with massive returns. But the market is forwardlooking. It's always forward-looking and the bottlenecks and constraints are constantly migrating. The next massive hurdle isn't just memory or thermal management. It's advanced packaging.

[00:19:11]It's power generation. It's networking, optical interconnects, construction timelines, and honestly labor and equipment as well. This is what we need to stay disciplined. This is what we need to keep our eyes on and focus on to help to make sure we adapt our approach moving forward. Guys, we are so close to crossing the 17,000 subscriber milestone for this channel because this channel, as you know, it's built on verified transparency, institutional grade analysis and advice, and a total refusal to push generic retail hype. If you want to join our community and push towards that ultimate goal of a 100,000 subscribers for the channel, hit that subscribe button now. Make sure you turn on the notifications so you get my next video tomorrow as well. But thanks each and every one of you for supporting the channel and I look forward to seeing you in the next one.