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 Amgen ($AMGN), DoorDash($DASH), Copart ($CPRT), Halliburton ($HAL), Hecla ($HL), Tesla ($TSLA)

Hello again traders and welcome back to the Hot Stocks Outlook for August 21st, 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, and you can get signed up for a live demonstration and learn all the specifics about how these predictive indicators and artificial intelligence technology is helping traders make much better trading decisions out in the marketplace.

DoorDash($DASH)

And so we’ll go ahead and start out here with shares of DoorDash. A lot going on in the energy and metals and mining space. We’ll take a look at those stocks as well. But a really great example again, how all of these tools work together.

And so with DoorDash here, what we’re looking at is daily price action. And that means that each candle on the chart, well, that’s going to represent a full and complete trading day. And so you’ll first notice that right up against all that price data is there is a black line and also a blue line value.

And so what the black line is is actually a simple moving average. So this is a very common technical analysis indicator. In many ways we could call this traditional technical analysis in that it just looks back at the previous 10 close prices, adds them all together, and then divides by 10. And really, the weakness with traditional technical analysis is that all the data is coming from the past.

So, it’s really just reconfiguring what’s already occurred and has no forward-looking predictive capability.

Whereas VantagePoint’s predictive indicators, this blue line value on the chart for this number essentially this price for it 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 back at past prices, Vantage Point’s tools are looking at dozens of other markets that are known to drive and influence the future price of the target market in question. So in this case, DoorDash.

Now this can be things like other individual stocks that share sometimes leading or lagging relationships, sometimes positive or inverse correlations. And this is what artificial intelligence is good at is making sense of that huge amount of data and then generating predictions off of that information.

And so whether it’s those relationships within stocks, obviously ETFs that wrap up a lot of these technology and delivery stocks and restaurant stocks can come into play.

But this really takes a global approach in that it looks at things like the value of global currencies like the dollar, global interest rate and bond market as well as, which will become applicable later in this demonstration, particular commodities especially when they’re applicable to driving the future movement of the target market or the intended asset or stock that you’re looking at.

And so what we see here with DoorDash is whenever that blue line crosses above the black line, well, it’s suggesting that these average prices are going to start moving higher. And as long as that blue line remains above the black line, well, we’d expect the overall trend to be to the bullish side.

So you see 18 days ago we got that predicted moving average crossing above the actual moving average. There’s actually some very great features within Vantage Point called the Intelliscan. And what this allows traders to do is actually scan really all of the markets available within Vantage Point and find specifically what they’re looking for.

And so a lot of these predictive indicators and tools are really tuned to solve different problems for the trader, whether they be a longer-term swing or position trader or a shorter-term day trader.

And so in addition to that predicted moving average, it’s going to forecast the overall trend. If you look at the very bottom of the chart here, you’re going to see this bar that can go from green to red, back to green. Well, this is the Vantage Point predicted neural index.

And again, it’s another tool, but in this case, tuned to solve this different problem, highlighting short-term strength or weakness just over the next 48 hour period. And it does this with an extremely high level of accuracy.

So, you’ll notice that as the trend starts moving to the bullish side, see that neural index stays bullish, a lot of momentum in the market over that time period, the neural index goes bearish. And again, it’s only looking ahead 48 hours at a time. So, it does that again with a very high level of accuracy.

And you’ll notice that the market runs sideways for a couple days here. Again, we run sideways for a very short period of time. You see the market sold off towards the middle of the day there, but the overall trend is very bullish. And once that neural index gets bullish, we see that momentum start to kick into the market once again.

So, this helps traders again anticipate some short-term weakness in the market, potentially some buy on the dip scenarios.

But lastly here, and what’s very exciting is we’re also provided a predicted high and predicted low range. So, not only are you getting the overall trend direction, short-term strength or weakness via the predicted neural index, but also intraday predicted high and low levels that traders can set limit orders or profit targets from.

And as we look back every week, we go ahead and say, okay, well, how accurate are all of those predictions relative to the actual market data and what actually occurred?

And so, today on Friday, we’re going to get the market trading. It’ll fill in this area and we’ll see how accurate today’s predicted high and low was.

But you see previously how this works when you have these levels the day before the market opens at 6 p.m. the evening before you’re going to have all these levels for the next trading day at 9:30. And you really see how this works where we get that predicted range moving higher.

This is very interesting where you see you get a gap down and it’s gapping down straight to the previous predicted low. Right? So this price action, this range didn’t get filled. Well, first thing the next morning that range gets filled and then the uptrend continues.

You notice the market sort of settles at these predicted highs. But again, overall the trend is bullish here. So traders would want to look to buy down towards these predicted lows, target predicted highs.

And you see here about, you know, four, five, six, seven entries as this market trends higher about 20% just over the past few weeks here. So really nice opportunity here in shares of DoorDash.

But again once you understand how to interpret the indicators on one market well we can take that and apply that to any market you might want to trade.

Copart ($CPRT)

This is a nice move this week in shares of Copart. So you see this blue line getting above the black line. And look at the neural index every single day just saying look expect some strength here even where we got this weakness on this red candle here.

Notice as we bring up those predicted highs and lows. Well what’s happening?

Well we’re scooting right down towards that predicted low. And just over the past few trading days now shares are up over 10%. So just this week really nice opportunity where the market if we really wanted to take a look at this predicted low pushed about 1% below the predicted low and then skyrocketed about 10%. So really nice trading opportunity there.

Halliburton ($HAL)

Now here shares of Halliburton and of course in the energy space and mining space really the just the raw material we’ve seen it in lithium stocks, rare earth stocks and companies.

Here you see this blue line getting above the black line indicating that there is a trend here. You also notice the amount of separation here between the predicted moving average and the actual is indicative of those very strong trends even if you get some short-term weakness in the meantime.

So you see here neural index it’s bearish here. You see we get a gap down and some weakness but very clearly this market is in an uptrend right? You’d only want to go long take profits on long positions.

And we see here over the duration of this move just about 11% rally just over the past 10 trading days. And of course we have those Vantage Point predicted highs and predicted lows. So a very good guide here that says look you want to be a buyer down at these predicted lows.

You see here as the neural index goes bearish it’s telling you expect the trading range to move lower. And sure enough we close right around that predicted low before the uptrend really starts to take off here.

So really nice move there in shares of Halliburton. Another 10% rally.

Hecla ($HL)

Here’s Hecla Mining. So GLD, the gold market’s been doing very well here. Here you see that blue line getting above the black line and just a lot of separation here, right? So indicating look, there is a strong trend here.

This is definitely an area where you might want to pay attention. And of course, every single day if you do want to get involved, well, you have those predicted highs and lows.

So you see how this works. Here again, filling that previous range, right? So, when you don’t hit those previous predicted lows, you want to be aware that look, we may fill that area.

You see all the price action is, you know, on the bullish side here, but sure enough, those predictions do a good job of letting us know where prices are likely to trade. And sure enough, we are in a strong uptrend here, in the metal and mining space.

So, here with Hecla Mining here, just about a 31% rally here over the past 11 trading days.

So clearly when we can identify those shifts in the trend early well that allows you to take a position and more importantly manage that position to make the most of these opportunities

Tesla ($TSLA)

Here’s shares of Tesla. Blue line crossing above the black line here. And you see here neural index bearish. You get a little bit of a gap down the next trading day. Running sideways with some selling in the morning here. Next day gap down.

But the overall trend is very clearly bullish here, right? Very great amount of distance between that predicted and the actual moving average.

And making it very clear, look, all you’d want to do is buy the market, take profits on long positions. See the market up almost 8% over just the past 11 trading days and a pretty strong trend in place here.

Amgen ($AMGN)

And so lastly we’ll look at Amgen. So this was a stock we looked at last week. A lot of things going on in just sort of the biotech and pharmaceutical space here with Amgen blue line over the black line.

Again you’ll get these periods where that neural index goes bearish but again that’s just a very short-term signal.

It’s only at any given time looking ahead 48 hours ahead on the chart. And so just this past week, if we look back at last Friday, which would have been this candle here, well, the forecast for the next trading day on Monday here down at that predicted low or Friday potentially Friday and Monday moving down to the predicted low.

We’ve already seen a 5% rally from those levels just last week here. So really nice opportunity here in shares of Amgen. Overall about a 20% rally just over the past 20 trading days.

And so some really exciting things going on. Now, we’ve seen the broader indices are sort of running sideways and flat here, maybe rolling over a bit, but that doesn’t mean there’s not some nice opportunities, but making sure that you’re looking in the right spots and really identifying some of that aggressive strength in the marketplace.

So, we’ll go ahead and leave it there for today. Once again, this has been the Hot Stocks Outlook for August 21st, 2026. Thank you all for watching. Best of luck out there and bye for now.