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What Wei Li is saying
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11 dated public stances tracked since 2026-07-07, most recently 2026-10-15. 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 Wei Li'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. Wei Li is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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tracked stances
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themes
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side flips
2026-10-15
last heard
Returns 90d +1.6% 80% correct · 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-07 | long USTS / short Long Dur Treasuries | pair | +1.8% | — | — |
| 2026-07-07 | USTS | bearish | +4.1% | — | — |
| 2026-07-07 | SPX | owns | +3.9% | — | — |
| 2026-07-07 | INDUSTRIALS | bullish | -6.5% | — | — |
| 2026-07-07 | Em Equities | owns | +4.6% | — | — |
View flips
Where the tracked view on a theme reversed between appearances — bullish to bearish or back. Dates are the episodes on each side of the turn.
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USTS | 2 | 1 bullish / 1 bearish | 2026-10-15 | |
| AI BOTTLENECK / SCARCITY THEME (MEMORY, CHIPS, INFRASTRUCTURE) | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-07-07 | |
| Ai Infra | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-10-15 | |
| Em Equities | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-07-07 | |
| HIGH GRADE AND QUALITY CREDIT | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-09-11 | |
| INDUSTRIALS | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-07-07 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-10-15
long USTS / short SPX
hedge
Bloomberg TV (uncut) · uncut_tv
Real yields have risen sharply driven by AI capital competition and future long-rate repricing is already front-loaded, making Treasuries—especially the front-end—attractive enough to fund by rotating out of US equities, which face mounting AI build-out and…
“we upgrade treasuries, in turn downgrading US equities to neutral to manage potential volatility around the AI build out”
Bloomberg TV uncut 2026-10-15 07:00 ET (30 min)
Budgetary concerns combined with elevated political volatility prevent extending the Treasury upgrade to European sovereign debt
“The upgrade does not extend to European government bonds at this point, no”
Bloomberg TV uncut 2026-10-15 07:00 ET (30 min)
2026-10-15
Ai Infra
bullish
Bloomberg TV (uncut) · uncut_tv
AI demand fundamentals remain structurally intact over the longer term and the current chip sell-off—six consecutive sessions, down 11%—represents a more attractive entry point, particularly for cash-rich companies that can weather near-term financing strains
“we would look at any market correction as potentially more attractive entry points as we build up going forward”
Bloomberg TV uncut 2026-10-15 07:00 ET (30 min)
2026-09-11
long SPX / short USTS
hedge
Bloomberg The Close · video
The AI investment boom is the common driver lifting both corporate earnings (bullish equities) and competition for capital (bearish long-end Treasuries), so these two legs are not in tension — overweighting equities alongside underweighting long-end duration…
“equity overweight alongside the Treasury underweight long end of the Treasury”
Stocks, Bonds Rise as US Core CPI Tops Forecasts Bolstering Case for a Rate Hike
2026-09-11
HIGH GRADE AND QUALITY CREDIT
bullish
Bloomberg The Close · video
Hyperscalers can comfortably clear rising cost of capital on 30% ROI funded at 6%, while weaker price-sensitive borrowers face stress — selectivity in high-grade, high-quality credit captures the strong credits while avoiding the vulnerabilities emerging in…
“very selective in credit...focusing on high grade, high yield, and quality credit”
Stocks, Bonds Rise as US Core CPI Tops Forecasts Bolstering Case for a Rate Hike
2026-07-07
long USTS / short Long Dur Treasuries
pair
Bloomberg Television · video
Long-duration US government bonds have lost their portfolio diversification properties in a supply-constrained inflationary regime, making the front and belly of the yield curve the better risk-adjusted expression of US fixed income exposure
“in the US we prefer front and belly of the curve over the long end of US government bonds”
90d +1.8%
Samsung's Record Profit Fails to Impress | The Asia Trade 7/7/2026
The combination of leading AI chips, leading AI models, energy independence, and the depth of US capital markets gives US equities a structurally superior position in what BlackRock views as a still-early AI supercycle where incremental margins remain above…
“we are yes overweight US equities because of the combination of leading chips, leading models, energy independence and also the depth of its capital market”
90d +3.9%
Samsung's Record Profit Fails to Impress | The Asia Trade 7/7/2026
2026-07-07
Em Equities
owns
Bloomberg Television · video
Fundamentals remain strong as evidenced by Samsung earnings, but a spike in underlying volatility has degraded the risk-adjusted case, prompting BlackRock to take profit from a prior overweight position while not exiting the theme entirely given EM's…
“we decided to take some profit by going neutral emerging market equities”
90d +4.6%
Samsung's Record Profit Fails to Impress | The Asia Trade 7/7/2026
The BOJ's clear policy direction toward rate hikes combined with Japan's reflation trade will push JGB prices lower; BlackRock prefers Japanese equities over JGBs as the better expression of the Japan reflation, and the dynamic mirrors a broader global…
“right now we're underweight JGB Japanese government bonds in particular because of the policy direction of travel and also the reflation trade”
90d +4.1%
Samsung's Record Profit Fails to Impress | The Asia Trade 7/7/2026
2026-07-07
AI BOTTLENECK / SCARCITY THEME (MEMORY, CHIPS, INFRASTRUCTURE)
bullish
Bloomberg Television · video
Focusing on verifiable AI bottlenecks and scarcity points — memory, leading-edge chips, and enabling infrastructure — delivers higher returns with lower dispersion than picking application-layer winners because we are still early in the AI supercycle with…
“AI scarcity remains their highest conviction theme… focusing on bottlenecks scarcity is a higher conviction trait than trying to identify winners at this stage”
Samsung's Record Profit Fails to Impress | The Asia Trade 7/7/2026
Physical AI will require batteries, sensors, robotics, and general industrial manufacturing capabilities regardless of which robot platform wins, and the majority of that supply chain is in Asia — creating investable bottleneck exposure that does not depend…
“we don't need to know which robots is going to win to actually know that physical AI is going to need batteries, sensors, robotics and general industrial manufacturing capabilities”
90d -6.5%
Samsung's Record Profit Fails to Impress | The Asia Trade 7/7/2026
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