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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 American Semiconductor($AMSC), Palantir ($PLTR), Applovin ($APP),
CarMax ($KMX), ishares Russell 2000 IDX (IWM)
VantagePoint A.I. Hot Stocks Outlook for August 8, 2025
Hello again, traders, and welcome back to the hot stocks outlook for August 8th, 2025. 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 A.I. predicted forecast.
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Uh, now we’ll go ahead and start out with a couple of tech stocks, but a pretty interesting market. We got a lot of sort of mixed signals when we look across the indices and look broadly at equity prices. Uh, but tech stocks have held up fairly well.
And so, when we look here at American Semiconductor ($AMSC), it’s a really good example of how all of these indicators work together and really produce and round out the forecast that’s provided for Vantage Point users.
Uh, and so, what we have here is daily bars and candles. So, each one of the candles on the chart there will represent a full and complete trading day.
Uh, and the first indicator that we’re going to take a look at is really displayed through this black and blue line values that you see on the chart there. And so, what Vantage Point traders are able to do is actually compare this black moving average—this is actually a very simple moving average, a 10-period simple moving average—and what we would really put in the category of traditional technical analysis, in that it only looks at one market in isolation and it only just looks at past prices.
So, it does a good job summarizing what’s already occurred and smoothing out the price action, but it has no predictive capability. And so, that really acts as Vantage Point users’ baseline to let us know where market prices have been.
But, obviously, traders want to know where prices are headed next. And so, what we’re able to do is compare that lagging moving average, or that simple moving average, to the Vantage Point proprietary predicted moving average highlighted by this blue line value.
Uh, and so, whenever that blue line—in this case, we see it move above the black line—well, it’s suggesting that average prices are expected to go higher, and we might therefore want to take a long position.
Now, what’s interesting about this is the technology that goes into generating these values for traders and really offering a very early signal as far as trend change goes. So, whenever we see that blue line cross above the black line, what’s happening is Vantage Point’s artificial neural networks are doing what we would call intermarket analysis—meaning they’re using the data from other markets.
Now, this could be things like other ETF groups within the tech space. This could be a bunch of individual stocks, but it really takes this global approach, really looking at things like currency values, interest rates, and even major commodities like gold, silver, wheat, where applicable to that specific market that you’re trading.
Uh, and so, you get about a dozen of these intermarket relationships—some of these things leading or lagging relationships, some positive or inverse correlations—and then it uses that data to generate highly accurate predictions of where these values are likely to move.
And so, rather than having that rearward-looking tool that’s just reconfiguring what’s already occurred, we have predictive capability here with these predictive indicators.
And so, whenever we see that blue line cross above the black line, again, we’d expect the market to start going higher, and traders can look to take a long position.
Now, if you’re a swing trader or day trader, it’s really all the same thing. You can use the output from these forecasts to really make an assessment of, “Okay, well, how can I execute my strategy here? Should we be on the bullish or bearish side?”
Uh, and here in American Semiconductor, you see about a 70% rally here in just the past 33 trading days. And again, a lot of opportunities throughout the tech space that are performing quite well.
…And again, a lot of opportunities throughout the tech space that are performing quite well.
But let’s take a look at some of these other supplemental indicators that really round out the entirety of these predictive forecasts and can, again, help traders really combine their trading strategy with the output and get the benefit of these predictive tools.
Uh, and so, if you look at the very bottom of the chart here, you see this bar that is going from green to red and back to green. And this is what’s called the Vantage Point predicted neural index, and this gets updated every single trading day.
What it’s doing is forecasting short-term strength or weakness over the next 48-hour period. So, you can think of it as really just a couple of candles, very short-term in the context of potentially a directional bias or bullish trend that you might be looking to exploit.
You’ll notice that whenever we see that neural index go bearish, we often get a little sideways or consolidation in the market—the uptrend sort of runs flat for a little bit. But as that neural index gets bullish, we see that momentum really kick back into the market.
You do always want to be a little careful about earnings reports, where the software isn’t going to know that an earnings report’s coming up. That’s where the trader needs to, you know, really help guide what’s going on here.
But we see really excellent entries early on in this trend, long before you get towards that earnings report. And that’s always great—getting a nice entry into the market, having plenty of cushion so you can take on that volatility, and really benefit as, you know, shares advance, responding from some of that fundamental data.
And so, lastly, we’re actually provided this predicted high and predicted low. So, this is actually getting now to intraday price action—the predicted high and predicted low for the next trading day.
And this really rounds out the forecast and helps traders know, “Hey, where’s a really premium entry price on the low end?” For day traders, maybe, “Where do I want to profit?” You know, on a profit target, as far as using the predicted high to exploit some of that strength in the market.
And, as we do each week, we take a look at all of these predictions relative to the actual market data. And so, you see here, as the trend gets started, really moving quickly up towards those predicted highs, you see how the market responds intraday at these levels—often some very advantageous levels to take action here.
Things like this are a great example: all the price action is up here—well, you know, you want to wait, be patient—and that’s really where that premium entry is before we get that advance in shares.
You see numerous entries here as the market just does its thing day-to-day. And this is where Vantage Point traders have an edge. We’ve got these tools updating every single trading day, making these adjustments based on those intermarket relationships found within the data here.
And so, again, even after earnings, we get that big move. The software does a great job of just getting back online, looking at the closed prices here, but also, again, those intermarkets, and helping round out those forecasts for traders.
So, really nice opportunity there in American Semiconductor.
Here’s Palantir Technologies, obviously a very popular stock. Very strong prediction here as far as the blue line crossing above the black line. We got these little consolidation phases where the market sort of pulls back for a little bit here—a little bit of noise going into earnings—but overall a very strong trend when we look broadly across, you know, all the potential options.
Palantir in a very strong uptrend here—about a 30% rally now just in the past 22 trading days—so really exciting stuff there. You know, even 100 shares having about \$4,000, 500 shares about \$20–21,000 move. So, really exciting opportunity.
And whether you trade the shares or whether you trade options, it’s really all the same thing—understanding, “Okay, well, where are prices likely to start moving higher?”
You can look down that options chain, really find some opportunities there if that’s where you like to trade.
Next, we have Applovin here, and this is a really great example again of how, you know, the predicted moving average does a great job of maintaining whether the overall trend is bullish or bearish.
We see here it’s very clearly above that black line—doesn’t really even get close to crossing to the bearish side. But notice that after the neural index was bullish and the trend started moving higher, you get this move that says, “Hey, expect some weakness over the next couple of trading days,” but you’re actually getting more and more separation between these values.
And that predicted moving average is actually slanting up through this time period. Again, indicating that, look, the overall trend is up—there may be some volatility here, but don’t get too excited as far as your positioning goes.
And again, we can use those Vantage Point predicted levels. So, even after this trading day, saying, “Alright, we’ll expect the market to trade down towards these levels,” sure enough, excellent entries, and the market continues on here.
Just numerous opportunities where we’re clanking up against these predicted lows—a little volatility here, but notice, very next trading day, moving up towards the predicted high.
So, pretty much within a 48 hours, or a couple of trading days, you’re typically going to see that move play out as far as your analysis goes with the software.
You see a lot of just jumpiness around this time period here—you gap up, you gap down—you know, it’s just sort of filling these overall predicted ranges. But clearly that neural index and that predicted moving average here are very, very bullish going into earnings and then getting that catalyst, strong move higher.
Now, I just wanted to bring in some of the conflict that we’re seeing in markets. And this is where traders, you know, you want to know when to be aggressive and identify some strong opportunities, but also want to maybe pump the brakes, maybe balance the portfolio out.
And this is where Vantage Point predictive indicators are really helpful.
ishares Russell 2000 IDX (IWM)
Last week we looked at IWM, really highlighting that, yeah, the tech space is strong—there are some opportunities there—but in these smaller cap stocks, we do see a lot of these markets in downtrend.
So, here in IWM, the ETF that models these smaller cap stocks, you see this blue line crossing below the black line, and it really opened up an excellent opportunity to potentially short or hedge some of your long positions from the predicted high.
We had a value of about 224 up here, and you see, we get just a lot of noise, especially in downtrends, as you’re filling this gap going into the beginning of the week.
But notice here how we’re moving up towards these predicted highs, moving a little bit lower, and our predicted moving average is actually still bearish here.
So again, just highlighting broadly that not all stocks are hitting new highs like the tech space, and we want to be a little bit careful—especially if we’re picking stocks and trying to identify select markets where we think there’s some opportunity.
Good example here: shares of CarMax. Clearly here, blue line crossing below the black line, neural index very bearish. You get this little spat in here where we sort of run sideways—the market consolidates—but very clearly that blue line predicted moving average is well below the actual moving average.
And of course, you want to get really nice entries early on in a trend.
So again, here we see this market start to move lower—some really nice opportunities to short up at these predicted levels. Sometimes you get these days that remove that previous predicted high level, but very clearly here an area where you do not want to be long.
Short, take profits on shorts, and potentially balance out some of the portfolio where, again, across the tech space, there are really phenomenal opportunities. But again, some of these smaller cap stocks are showing some difficulty.
And so, you know, you get these periods where even a small number of stocks in focus in the market can keep driving up the indices and keep things elevated. But that doesn’t mean that every stock out there is potentially a great opportunity and running up against new highs.
So, we’ll go ahead and leave it there for today. Once again, this has been the hot stocks outlook for August 8th, 2025.
Thank you all for watching. Best of luck out there, and bye for now.
