Vantagepoint A.I. Hot Stocks Outlook for January 23, 2026
The Hot Stocks Outlook uses VantagePoint’s market forecasts that are up to 87.4% accurate, demonstrating how traders can improve their timing and direction.
The Hot Stocks Outlook uses VantagePoint’s market forecasts that are up to 87.4% accurate, demonstrating how traders can improve their timing and direction.
Since 1990, the S&P 500 Index has told a very consistent story, even though the ride along the way has often felt anything but consistent. First, the big picture. Roughly 8 out of every 10 years have been positive. That matters. It tells us that the long-term bias of the U.S. stock market is upward, even though the path is uneven and occasionally painful. Across all the years in the dataset, the average annual return is about 12%. That number alone explains why equities remain such a powerful wealth-building tool over time. But averages hide important details, so let’s look under the hood. The biggest up year in this period was 1995, when the market surged more than 37%. When the market goes up, it tends to go up decisively. In fact, the average gain in up years is roughly 19%, which tells us that strength, when it appears, usually persists. On the downside, the worst year was 2008, when the market fell about 36%. Down years are fewer, but they can be sharp. The average loss in down years is about 15%. That asymmetry is important. Losses are less frequent than gains, but they demand respect when they occur.
Wall Street analysts, bless their well-pressed suits and finely tuned spreadsheets, have once again gathered around Energy Fuels ($UUUU) to offer guidance. What they have produced is not consensus but a philosophical argument disguised as a forecast. One camp sees a future glowing at $27, another peers nervously down at $13, and the stock itself sits in the middle at $23.52, wondering who exactly is in charge here. This is not so much a prediction as it is a polite disagreement conducted with dollar signs.
The Hot Stocks Outlook uses VantagePoint’s market forecasts that are up to 87.4% accurate, demonstrating how traders can improve their timing and direction.
Housing used to be the byproduct of a functioning economy. Now it’s a luxury good, priced like one, financed like one, and defended as one. And yet we’re told to celebrate growth as if rising output automatically translates into rising lives. It doesn’t. It just means more money is changing hands, often to solve problems that didn’t exist when money still knew how to behave.
Silver didn’t wake up one morning and decide to run. It’s been pushed there — slowly, relentlessly by math. Demand keeps climbing while supply stubbornly refuses to cooperate. Industrial users are taking more ounces every year, and they’re not doing it for jewelry boxes or vaults. They’re doing it because silver is an input, not an opinion. Electronics, electrification, power systems. Silver gets consumed, not admired.
The Hot Stocks Outlook uses VantagePoint’s market forecasts that are up to 87.4% accurate, demonstrating how traders can improve their timing and direction.
Benchmarks provided the answer. Without them, even strong returns risked becoming optical illusions. A stock that rose 10% in 2025 could appear successful in isolation yet still represent a missed opportunity if its sector or the broader market advanced twice as much. The S&P 500 and major sector indexes served as the market’s scorecard, revealing where capital was truly being rewarded. Traders who anchored their decisions to relative performance gained an objective lens through which to assess strength, avoid laggards, and stay aligned with institutional behavior. Those who did not were left navigating the year without a map.
Now here’s the part most people miss — and it’s the only part that matters. The spread between those two forecasts is $141.00. When you measure that variance against the most recent closing price of $334.61, you’re staring at a projected volatility range of 42%. Forty-two percent. That’s Wall Street quietly admitting it has no consensus and fully expects big movement. Direction is debatable. Magnitude is not. This is the market telling you, in plain numbers, “Don’t get comfortable.”
The Hot Stocks Outlook uses VantagePoint’s market forecasts that are up to 87.4% accurate, demonstrating how traders can improve their timing and direction.