Viga Liu
💼TradingKey U.S. Stock Analyst
🏅CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)
🎓University of Waterloo | Actuarial Science (Finance Focus)
📊Stocks | Macro Strategy | Cryptocurrencies
Summary
Viga is a CFA charterholder and equity research analyst at TradingKey Investment Research, specializing in U.S. tech: semiconductors, AI, software, and crypto.
Areas of Expertise
Fundamental Analysis: Researches companies in semiconductor, AI, software sectors, deeply analyzes earnings and industry trends
Macro Research: Tracks Federal Reserve, inflation, liquidity, and related key futures Instruments
Multi-asset Strategy: Analyzes opportunities in global asset allocation and rotation
Crypto Market Research: Focuses on mainstream crypto assets, studies market trends and macro correlation
Market Insights: Regularly writes in-depth company reports and market special topic analysis
Experience
TradingKey｜U.S. Stock Analyst 2024 - Present
Total 113 articles
Build First, Talk Later: Decoding Trump's Portfolio Logic
TradingKey - How a 113-page filing became a roadmap for America's AI strategy
Wed, Jun 17
Gold Is Falling—Should You Panic? First Look at This 175 year Indicator
TradingKey - A classic indicator the Bond King says has stopped working may be the missing key to this gold boom and the repricing of money itself.
Wed, Jun 10
Full Recap of Jensen Huang's Taipei Speech: Who Won, and Whose Moat Is Quietly Crumbling
TradingKey - From chips to ecosystems, a platform war is taking shape
Tue, Jun 2
Most people buying gold have no idea there's a 1973 number hidden in the U.S. government's balance sheet
TradingKey - A deep dive into the U.S. government's gold reserves — and why a number frozen since 1973 suddenly matters more than ever.
Wed, May 27
NVIDIA Q1 Earnings Deep Dive: Why Did a Beat Fail to Rally the Stock? A Complete Breakdown of Highlights and Hidden Risks
TradingKey - NVIDIA just reported Q1 FY2027 earnings — $81.6B in revenue, 85% YoY growth, and guidance that topped expectations again. Here's the full breakdown.
Thu, May 21
Behind the Record Gold Exports, a Signal Most People Missed
TradingKey - Gold was never tariffed. But $135 billion worth of gold bars crossed the Atlantic anyway.
Thu, May 14
Record Earnings, Collective Decline After Hours—What Exactly Happened to Photonics Stocks?
TradingKey - Decoding earnings, analyst splits, and market timing—where are we in the optical cycle?
Fri, May 8
War, Oil Prices and Computing Power: The Rising Cost Floor Beneath the AI Bull Market
TradingKey - Iran war is quietly lifting inflation and computing costs through oil, fertilizer, and helium supply chains—and rewriting the real economics behind the AI bull market.
Fri, May 1
When Diversification Fails: Why the Allocation Value of Gold Is Systematically Underestimated in the AI Era
TradingKey - In an AI-driven world where your assets and income are tied to the same bet, why is gold the one thing still being systematically undervalued?
Thu, Apr 23
How the US Solves Its Own Debt: A Nationwide Shift of Assets Behind the Stock Market, Bond Market, and Inflation
TradingKey - Is your wealth really growing, or just quietly paying down America’s debt for it?
Thu, Apr 16
Ray Dalio’s Methodology: An Investing Framework Distilled From 500 Years of History
TradingKey - From debt cycles to gold allocation, how he has stayed on his feet through repeated crises
Thu, Apr 9
Why Some Stocks Hold Their Ground When Everything Else Falls
TradingKey - The recession isn't here yet — but the smart money is already moving. Understand this logic, and you could lose a lot less when the next crash hits.
Thu, Apr 2
Coherent (COHR): In this round of AI optical interconnects, which deserves more attention, it or LITE?
TradingKey - 6-inch InP wafers + Nvidia’s $2B backing: how is Coherent evolving from a LITE customer into the manufacturing backbone of AI optical interconnects?
Thu, Mar 26
When Light Replaces Copper: Lumentum (LITE) — The Optical Heart of the AI Era
TradingKey - When copper maxes out in AI data centers, Lumentum is the optics company Nvidia is betting billions on.
Thu, Mar 12
It’s Not Gold Soaring; It’s Paper Money Shrinking: Measuring Gold with Five Real-World Yardsticks
TradingKey – Want to know where gold’s true level really is? This article measures it against stocks, the US dollar, housing, oil and even burgers to show where its price really stands today.
Fri, Mar 6
Iran War Escalates, Hormuz in Crisis: Where Are the Real Opportunities in US Oil Stocks as Crude Spikes?
TradingKey - The Iran war is grabbing headlines, but oil prices and oil stocks turned up long before the first missile. This piece unpacks 5 key shifts behind the move—and the US energy stocks best placed to ride it.
Thu, Mar 5
When Gold Meets Crypto: Are Crypto Traders Taking Over Gold’s Price?
TradingKey - A new class of 24/7, high‑leverage crypto traders is flooding into tokenized gold—quietly reshaping who moves the price, when it moves, and how deep the next gold bull run can go.
Fri, Feb 27
Is SaaS Dead? The Truth Behind the Software Meltdown, the Missing Floor, and the Peak That’s Not Coming Back
TradingKey - A trillion dollars just vanished from software stocks—this piece breaks down who AI is really killing, who quietly benefits, and why cheap SaaS may be the biggest value trap of this cycle.
Thu, Feb 12
Silver’s Mid Game Battle: Leverage Has Shattered, Demand Still Stands – This May Be a Once in a Decade Rethink of the Logic
TradingKey - Was silver’s violent plunge the end of the story or the real beginning—and what does it quietly reveal to anyone thinking of buying the dip?
Tue, Feb 10
When Nvidia Is No Longer the Only Answer: What Should Investors Really Be Worried About?
TradingKey – While the market is still debating whether Nvidia is overpriced, its scarcity value is being gradually eroded.
Thu, Feb 5
