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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. In this week’s video, VantagePoint Software reviews forecasts for PowerShares QQQ ($QQQ), Alpha and Omega Semiconductor ($AOSL), Amazon ($AMZN), Nvidia ($NVDA). Avis Budget Group ($CAR)
Hello again traders and welcome back to the hot stocks outlook for April 17th, 2026. I hope you all have had an excellent week out there in the financial markets. And as always, we’re here to take a look at the most recent Vantage Point AI predictive forecast.
So, if you haven’t already, be sure to go ahead and click the link down in the description below. Get signed up for a live demonstration and you can learn all the specifics about how these predictive indicators and artificial intelligence technologies are helping traders make much better trading decisions out in the marketplace. Uh, and so we’ll revisit the broader stock market here. So, the past couple of weeks, we’ve gone ahead and looked at SPY. Well, we have a very similar forecast in shares of the Q’s, QQQ.
And this is again is a great example of how all of these predictive tools work together regardless of what markets you’re trading and what sort of chaos might be going on in the world. And what we have here of course is daily bars and candles. So each one of those candles will represent a full and complete trading day. And it’s right up against all that price data that you’ll notice that there is a black line but also a blue line value.
And so what we’re looking at with that black line value is actually a simple moving average. This is a very common technical analysis indicator. Uh, in this case it would be a 10 period. So that just means that it looks at the previous 10 closed prices, adds them all together, and then divides by that number. Now VantagePoint traders are really using this as a baseline, letting us know where market prices have been because all that data really just reconfigures. It’s reconfigured from the past. So it has no predictive capability. It really just tells us what has already occurred.
Now VantagePoint traders every evening though are able to analyze how is this blue line value looking in response to that black line. And so whenever we see this blue line, this predicted moving average cross above or below the actual moving average, well in this case it’s suggesting prices are going to start moving higher. But this value for this number essentially price to get calculated and plotted on the chart every evening. Well, this is where the technology of artificial neural networks come into play and are performing what we would call intermarket analysis.
And so what that means is that rather than just looking at the past like traditional technical analysis does, Vantage Point’s tools are taking in data from dozens of other markets that are known to drive and influence future prices. Now, this can be things like other individual stocks within the market where there’s been that strong significant relationship between that individual stock and the target market. In this case the Q’s, QQQ, but it goes all the way down the line. This will look at things like ETFs. This will look at things like global currencies, the value of the US dollar, global interest rates, uh, and even things like global commodities where applicable.
So really takes this global approach analyzing all of these relationships and how they’re affecting the markets that you are trading and then generates a highly accurate prediction about where prices are headed next. Uh, and it’s through all of these indicators, whether it be the predicted moving average, our neural index at the bottom, or the vantage point predicted high and low. Well, they’re all solving different problems utilizing that artificial intelligence technique.
And so whenever we see again that blue line cross above the black line, what’s suggesting average prices are going to start moving higher. Now, when it comes to the Q’s here, QQQ, we can see that since that forecast came through, uh, and this is Friday before the open here, we’re up probably about 10% here in the past 10 trading days just on the Q’s, QQQ. So, a very significant move. And this is something over the past couple of weeks. We looked at SPY the last two weeks. Here’s Q’s, QQQ, the exact same forecast and a great opportunity to either get long the indices or trade individual stocks where we also see those very bullish signals coming through.
Now in the Q’s here, QQQ, let’s go ahead and take a look at our other predictive indicators. Now, at the very bottom of the chart, we of course have the VantagePoint predicted neural index. And in this case, we only see green on the bottom of the chart here, but this can switch to a red configuration. And this has a very high level of accuracy, upwards of 86% accuracy at predicting whether short-term prices are likely to be higher or lower over the next 48 hours.
So a couple of candles is how we can think of that as far as trading goes. Uh, and you see here that it’s been a pretty straight ride up. Ten days of the overall trend is up. The neural index suggesting that there’s a very high likelihood we’re going to see bullish prices over the next 48 hours. Uh, and of course we can then layer in every single trading day. Well, what is VantagePoint’s predicted high and low for the trading day? And you see it’s telling you, look for prices to move down towards these lows, towards these lows. You see we sort of split the difference there as far as the actual low over the next trading day.
And then again, you know, obviously getting this gap up and this move and hitting predicted low, hitting predicted low. Uh, this would actually just be Monday. So, as a trader going into the trade this week and you say, “Okay, well, there’s the level where you really want to pay attention to, uh, shares on the Q’s, QQQ, potentially buy some tech stocks when we get down to that price level.” Uh, you see up about 5% just this week. It’s a very exciting move here in the Q’s, QQQ, and of course a great example of how all these predictive indicators work regardless if you’re trading the major indices, if you’re trading an ETF or an individual stock.
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor ($AOSL)
Now, of course, we’re likely to see tech stocks move higher. Well, here’s shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductors. This is a good example of how all of these predictive indicators work together. Now, you’ll notice that our neural index is bearish here. And what happens? Sideways price action, a gap down. But you’ll notice that this blue line, that predicted moving average that we covered, has never crossed below the actual moving average. So it’s telling us this, the overall trend is still bullish here.
Uh, and of course again you see neural index bearish. You’ll get that weakness over the subsequent couple of trading days. But very clearly as we get that more separation, neural index very bullish, and clearly this market’s been in a bullish uptrend for a while here. And so with Alpha and Omega Semiconductors, we see the overall share price is up 47% in the past 25 trading days.
Then of course we have those VantagePoint predicted highs and lows. And you really see how this works. It’s telling you, look down towards these predicted lows if you want to be a buyer, warning you that we might see some reduced price action over the next trading day. Uh, and you see here that every single day you’re getting an updated forecast before the trading day actually occurs.
Then we fill in that data and see how accurate it is. And so you see how it’s letting you know the predicted lows likely to be a little bit lower here, right? Expect prices to drop and then things start to reverse. Now it’s saying, look, the overall trend is up. Neural index is bullish. Trading down towards these predicted lows, you might want to be a buyer. Uh, and very clearly a nice move here in shares of Alpha and Omega. Again, a 48% move, 25 trading days.
Here’s shares of Amazon. And this is going to trade much more in line with the index. But a very nice setup here with that blue line crossing above the black line. And VantagePoint really makes it easy to do your analysis. So when you say, “Hey, look, we’ve got an opportunity in Amazon here. Maybe we should look to go ahead and long.” Well, where should we look for those price levels? Of course, VantagePoint, if you have an order waiting down at that predicted low, you’re just going to get filled at the open and the market’s going to move higher.
You see move down to this predicted low and again this week Monday moving down to that predicted low and even here yesterday on Thursday moving down to the predicted low and likely going to see some strength going into the next trading day. Uh, as we do have actually a very strong forecast here, just look at the separation between that blue line and the black line. So this is a very strong uptrend already. The market’s up 20% in the past 10 trading days.
Uh, shares of Nvidia as well. Very simple, blue line over black line. And really the beauty here is that all of these predictive tools, we can actually enter in these predictive indicators into VantagePoint scanning feature called the Intelliscan.
And so when you’re running these scans and identifying, hey, where are these fresh crossovers coming through, you’re going to get a lot of those clues that, hey, we’re seeing Nvidia go higher, Amazon go higher, the Q’s, QQQ, starting to turn up, and very clearly getting that signal that the expectation is for markets to move higher and trend up.
So here in Nvidia, again since that crossover has come through, the market’s up about 13%. Uh, but we are seeing pretty strong movement here in the pre-market going into Friday. So really exciting stuff there. Uh, and clearly the Q’s, QQQ, go up. We’re going to see Nvidia, likely Amazon, move up as well.
Uh, and lastly I’ll just go ahead and end here on Avis Budget Group. And this is a very interesting opportunity here. But what’s so interesting about it is nothing’s really happening up until this point on the chart. But if we look very closely, and I know it’s hard to see with some of the scaling here, but the crossover is actually happening there.
And this is a great example of saying, look, the blue line remains above the black line the entire time over this period, letting you know that the trend is up. But you will get these periods where the neural index is saying the subsequent 48-hour periods are likely to be bearish. And so you see the market runs sideways, not really moving much day-to-day until we start to see that separation.
Uh, predicted neural index get bullish. Uh, and this is what’s really exciting is even in a market as volatile as this, you have very accurate short-term levels to do some trading. And so you see here moving down towards these predicted lows. And even as the market starts to move higher, predicted low, predicted low, predicted low, pretty close, predicted low, predicted low, predicted low.
Uh, and the market just keeps bouncing off of those levels where those neural networks are expecting the market to trade. So overall here, we’ve got a monster move. Shares are up about 370% over the past 30 trading days. A lot of that, of course, just coming over the past couple of weeks here. 266% just over the past 15. So really exciting opportunities.
And again, it doesn’t matter which markets you choose to trade, but Vantage Point, through its Intelliscan feature, can help you identify some of those new opportunities, but also just do that broad-based analysis that says, “Look, we’re starting to see these crossovers in the Q’s, QQQ, in shares of Amazon, Nvidia, and therefore some really exciting opportunities opening up,” which again we highlighted a couple of weeks ago, identifying a lot of these moves starting to shift where there’s still a lot of anxiety in the market, but that’s how things go.
You really want a good tool that’s going to consistently do a good job of forecasting short-term price movements with this technology.
So we’ll go ahead and leave it there for today. But once again, this has been the Hot Stocks Outlook for April 17th, 2026. Thank you all for watching. Best of luck out there, and bye for now.
