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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 Teekay Tankers ($TNK), Lockheed Martin($LMT), John Deere($HD), Ralph Lauren Corporation ($RL), Unity Software($U)
VantagePoint A.I. Hot Stocks Outlook for February 20, 2026
Hello again, traders, and welcome back to the Hot Stocks Outlook for February 20th, 2026. I hope you all have had an excellent week out there in the financial markets. And as always, we’re here to highlight the most recent Vantage Point AI predicted forecast. So, if you haven’t already, be sure to go ahead and click the link down in the description below and get signed up for a live demonstration. You can learn all the specifics about how these predictive indicators and technologies are helping traders make better trading decisions out in the marketplace.
Uh, now we’ll go ahead and start out in the energy space. Seen a lot of bullish moves around energy and oil, as well as defense here with Lockheed Martin. So we’ll start there. We revisit John Deere, and then we got Ralph Lauren and Unity Software. And so it’s a really great example of how Teekay Tankers ($TNK) all of these predictive tools work together here on shares of TK Tankers.
Uh, and what we’re seeing, of course, is daily price action, so daily bars and candles, where each one of these candlesticks is going to represent a full and complete trading day. Uh, and so the first thing you’ll notice right up against all that data is that there is a black line and also a blue line value. Uh, and so what you’re seeing with the black line is actually a simple moving average, or what we refer to as the actual simple moving average. Uh, and this is a very common technical analysis tool. In this case, it would be a 10-period SMA, meaning it’s going to look back at the previous 10 close prices, add them all together, and then divide by that number.
And one of the big weaknesses with traditional technical indicators and technical analysis like this is that all the data comes from the past. So it’s always going to be lagging, has no predictive capability, and really just summarizes what’s already occurred. And this is why Vantage Point traders really want to use that as our baseline. Uh, and so what Vantage Point traders are able to do is compare that lagging moving average, or that actual moving average, to this proprietary predicted moving average. And for this number, which is essentially a price for that to get plotted and calculated on the chart, well, this is where the technology comes in of artificial neural network. So artificial intelligence, and it’s performing what we would call intermarket analysis.
And so what that means is, specifically for TK, it’s going to look at other individual stocks, and this can be positively correlated, inverse correlated, leading, or lagging relationships. This is really the benefit of artificial intelligence, is it can take in huge amounts of data, find those significant relationships, and then incorporate that into its highly accurate prediction. Uh, so we can look at a broad range of stocks. There can be ETF groups, some in the energy and oil space, maybe some not. Uh, but it’s also going to look at things like global interest rates, global currencies, uh, and even global commodities like oil, natural gas, where applicable. And certainly, that would be applicable in something like TK Tankers.
And so it takes all of that information from really dozens of markets, runs that through that neural network process to produce these highly accurate, forward-looking predictions on price. And so whenever we see that blue line, that predicted moving average, cross above the actual moving average, it helps traders identify the overall trend and identify these important trend shifts in the market. So what we see is, since that blue line moved above the black line, seen the market move up about 33%.
And what’s important about this is we have some really great features within Vantage Point called the Intelliscan. And it allows traders to identify, hey, where are these shifts occurring in the market? Where are they happening as a sector or a group? And we see a lot, again, these energy stocks starting to turn higher. This has certainly been an area where, hey, we’re moving in an uptrend. We’ve been in a strong uptrend, along with the commodities themselves. You see a very nice push in prices there over just the past 30 trading days.
Now, that’s not the entirety of the forecast, though. But you’ll see at the very bottom of the chart, you actually have this bar that goes from green to red, back to green. And this solves another problem for traders, and that being short-term strength or weakness over the next 48 hours, or we can think of that really as a couple of candles at a time, looking forward through time. And what we can do is incorporate that into the overall forecast of trend. So, whenever we see that blue line above the black line, well, if we get that conflict with the neural index going bearish, well, we should assume that, hey, we’re probably going to see some sideways price action just over the next couple of trading days.
So, you want to remember it’s only looking ahead a couple of trading days at a time, uh, and reconfiguring that predictive forecast. And so, this is what really helps traders be prepared, uh, for, again, that sideways price action in the market, not get really scared away from a particular position. And you see how, at the beginning of the trade, we get a lot of momentum, the market moving higher, gapping up day by day. But once that neural index goes bearish, you start to see the market settle down a little bit here, uh, and run sideways. Once things go back to green, we see that momentum picking up again in the market and a very strong move.
So, very helpful for traders to really identify, uh, where that momentum and strength is in the market, uh, and understand when there’s likely to be some consolidation in price. Uh, but of course, lastly, we’re even provided intraday levels, also utilizing those neural network processes. And what it does is it really takes those neural networks to solve these different problems, uh, that a trader has to face here: the overall trend direction, what to expect over the next couple of trading days, and, of course, intraday levels to buy or sell.
Uh, and so we get all of these levels before the next trading day. And, of course, the actual price and market data will fill in this blank, and we’ll see how accurate all those predictions are. Uh, but what we do have is the benefit to look back and see, well, how accurate have these signals been? So once the market moves into an uptrend, we see these moves down towards these predicted lows. I often like to point out that when you don’t have these previous predicted lows hit at all, when all the price action is very bullish, well, we see the market often revert, uh, back to those previous levels and continue on its trend.
Uh, but for the most part, on the actual day, we’re likely to move down towards that level. Uh, and you see how it works and gets a very good level within the overall range. So you see the market trades for five or six days here, really nice entries at the lower part of the range, again here down at the lower part of the range, highlighting some great opportunities to accumulate a position. And even here yesterday, we see moving down to the predicted low, closing at the high. So very exciting opportunity here within the energy space, and again about a 30% rally here, uh, now over just the past month.
And seeing a lot of tensions around, uh, Iran, international tensions, uh, and that may be why we’ve seen Lockheed Martin ($LMT) in such a strong uptrend. So, uh, this is a market that we’ve looked at really several weeks, really months ago, along with Boeing. Now Boeing started to turn lower. We highlighted that in one of these, uh, Hot Stocks Outlooks as well. But Lockheed has actually stayed in an uptrend.
Uh, and so we see here, as we look at the overall move here, very strong push in prices. Uh, but this really started now all the way back last year, about a 46% move just in the past 50 trading days. We’ve, of course, had these blips where the neural index goes bearish, get a couple of sideways days, but for the most part, a very strong trend. Notice that blue line very solidly above the black line. Uh, and what that does is allows traders to take positions, right? Understand, hey, this is a market in a strong uptrend. We should look to go long, take profits on longs. You see, we get this earnings here. The market sort of fills this gap in prices. Uh, but over the past couple of weeks, well, predicted low, predicted low, predicted low, uh, and then continuing to trend higher here.
And you see here we have a predicted low that didn’t get hit. So we may see some volatility around the weekend going into the early part of the week.
Uh, but clearly here the market still in a solid uptrend here. Uh, here shares of John Deere ($DE). So this was another market that we took a look at. And what this really allows is often to get some positioning and give you a substantial cushion going into earnings. So earnings is what caused this big gap up in the market. Uh, but you see here that this really started all the way back, uh, in January. And again, as long as that blue line remains above the black line, you know the overall trend is up.
So, you see numerous opportunities here to accumulate a position very early on in the trend. Uh, and again, what that allows is for traders to potentially take profit as the market goes higher, but really deal with that uncertainty leading into the earnings report. And in this case, you know, acting as a catalyst, uh, to drive the shares higher. So once again, we look at this overall move in shares of John Deere, market up about 40% in just the past 33 trading days.
Ralph Lauren Corporation ($RL)
Uh, more recently here, Ralph Lauren Corporation ($RL). So again, a good example. We see like Levis’s trending higher. Uh, but here we see in Ralph Lauren blue line crossing above the black line, neural index very bullish. And you see how this works for the past, you know, week and a half here. It said every day, hey, this is a strong market. You want to be buying at predicted lows, targeting predicted highs as a short-term day trader.
Uh, and again, you see here nice entry down at the predicted low. You see this really happening pretty close to the lower part of the range here. So you don’t want to get too, uh, you know, excited, sort of chasing a market down, get a really bad entry. Well, this allows you to stay patient, accumulated position down here. And even yesterday, we see again moving down to the predicted low, uh, and trading into the middle of the daily range.
Uh, not a huge percentage move here yet, but certainly, uh, a nice opportunity to get position, trail your stops, and market’s already just in the past week here of about five and a half percent.
Uh, and lastly here is Unity Software ($U). So we’ve been highlighting that a lot of these software stocks are quite weak. So you’ve seen strength in, you know, utilities, uh, consumer staples, uh, but a lot of weakness across the tech space, and specifically software. So here you see this blue line crossing below the black line. So you get these periods where, again, that neural index will go bullish in this case, and it leads to some sideways price action. But clearly, the overall trend is down.
Uh, so again, neural index gets bullish, a couple of bounces in prices moving up, uh, into earnings. But you see again very similar situation where clearly, hey, this is in a downtrend. We actually have a huge amount of separation, uh, between that prediction and the actual moving average. And you see, uh, once that catalyst of earnings comes in, the market responds negatively and goes lower still.
So, uh, great entries at the early part of this move, really highlighting, um, you know, really early on there, about $44 a share. Uh, that’s where you get a lot of clicks here that say, hey, if you want to take a position here, you’d want to be short and shorting up near these predicted highs, uh, leading to a pretty strong decline in prices. So, overall, uh, we see this move so far along with the broader software space. I mean, this is pretty huge here, 58% decline.
And so this is what’s really great about Vantage Point, is understanding, hey, where are those markets that I need to avoid that are not in uptrend, uh, that are very likely to lead to some, you know, strong bearish price action and potentially some catalyst that drive things aggressively lower. But the last thing you want to do is be involved in a 58% decline.
A great thing, though, is actually if you’re short, right, hedging the portfolio, identifying those areas of weakness, you can stay strong in those sectors that are trending well, uh, and really have that balanced portfolio here.
So, we’ll go ahead and leave it there for today. But once again, this has been the Hot Stocks Outlook for February 20th, 2026. Thank you all for watching. Best of luck out there, and bye for now.
