A Note From Stephen Prior, Publisher:
A massive shift is already underway in the market. Money is pouring out of the AI and tech names that led for three years and into sectors most investors forgot they owned. Energy is up 21% this year. Materials up 17%. Consumer Staples up 15%.
Meanwhile, tech is stalling out and the Dow is printing records the Nasdaq can’t touch.
That’s a rotation, and if your portfolio is still loaded with last year’s winners, you could be standing on the wrong side of the swing. This week’s earnings reports are about to pour fuel on the fire.
Nate Bear has built his whole strategy around catching moves like this one, and on Wednesday, July 15 at 2 p.m. ET, he’s going live for free to show you exactly where the money’s heading next.
Read his note below, then save your seat.
The busiest week of the summer for traders starts tomorrow, and most of them are about to watch the wrong screen.
Banks kick it off Tuesday. The big chip names go later in the week. Toss in the inflation numbers and you’ve got headlines firing off every couple hours, with stocks jumping around on every one of them.
That’s earnings season. It’s a circus. And the circus is exactly where I used to lose my money.
I’d see a stock rip on its report, get that itch that I was missing the move, and jump in right at the top.
Did it enough times to blow up a small account. Then did it again and blew up a bigger one. Turns out the pop you’re jumping on is the tail end of a move that already happened, and you’re the one left holding the bag for the folks who got in early.
So I flipped how I work. I quit swinging at the circus and put all my attention on one thing: the trigger.
That one rule is the whole difference between the guy who blew up two accounts and the guy who turned a $37,000 stake into a couple million over the next four years. I just aimed my energy at the right thing.
Here’s why I’m telling you this the week earnings season starts.
The bank prints, the chip guidance, the inflation reads… they’re the shove that kicks big money out of last year’s winners and into the next leaders. When an entire sector starts getting that shove, that’s my trigger.
That’s my whole game in Sector Strike.
Forget guessing which stock pops on Tuesday. I’m tracking which sectors the big money is bailing out of and which ones it’s piling into, and I wait for the signal that says it’s for real.
Has it worked? So far, yeah. In real money I’m hitting on 86% of the sector trades I’ve taken this year, and the average one, winners and losers thrown in together, comes back around 53%.
Call it five normal years of the S&P stuffed into one hour of work a month.
I’ll be square with you on the flashier figures too.
Back when my team and I stress-tested this against years of old data, the best-case setups came out to 260%, 435%, even 723%. That’s on paper, perfectly timed, no real-world friction.
But I’d never ask you to bank on the paper stuff.
The live 86% is the number I stand behind.
If you want to see the sectors I’ve got flagged right now, that’s what Wednesday is for. More on that in a second.
The point is, don’t burn this week on the circus. You don’t have to nail a single earnings pop to win here. The move that pays isn’t the one flashing on CNBC Tuesday morning.
It’s the bigger one shifting underneath it, and it takes months to fully play out, so there’s still time to get in front of it if you’re watching the right screen.
But the biggest gains tend to come in the first few weeks after a rotation starts, so “there’s still time” doesn’t mean all the time in the world.
That’s what I want to walk you through.
This Wednesday, July 15, at 2 p.m. ET, I’m hosting a free, live briefing. I’ll lay out where I think the money’s headed through the back half of 2026, the sectors I’d be running from, and how I play the whole rotation without ever chasing a headline.
It costs you nothing. Show up live and I’ll hand you the sectors and names I’m watching right now.