Chris Irons Predictions

Author and Publisher of QTR Fringe Finance

Track Chris Irons's public market predictions and forecast accuracy. Each prediction is recorded from the date it was published to its estimated deadline, then graded correct or wrong based on the outcome.

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16 forecasts
Person Subject Forecast* Source Date Deadline** Outcome
Chris Irons Gold Gold will bottom near $3,000 during the coming deleveraging before surging to $7,500 or higher
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[27:00] who knows? Maybe maybe it bottoms at 3,000, but then from there I see it going to like 7500, probably even higher.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2029-01-23 pending
Chris Irons Gold Miners Gold miners (GDX) are attractively valued and will outperform, having overshot gold's decline to the downside
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[27:00] miners I think again look extremely attractive. I think they've come down from the GDX come down I think from like 120. It's trading at about 75 now... the miners, I think, have overshot the price of gold to the downside.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2027-07-23 pending
Chris Irons S&P 500 A sharp deleveraging in equities is coming, followed by the Fed responding with money printing, bond buying, or yield curve control
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[0:57] I think we're going to see significant pain a lot quicker than we would have seen it in years past... the outcome is going to be... a sharp deleveraging at some point and then the Fed responding by printing money and in this case probably buying bonds or doing yield curve control

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2028-07-23 pending
Chris Irons Emerging Markets Emerging markets will outperform US equities as the valuation gap closes, with US P/E multiples contracting and rest-of-world multiples expanding
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[27:53] I just think the gap is going to close between the general like rest of world price to earnings ratio in the US price to earnings ratio. Um, and for that to happen, you know, our multiple needs to contract and the rest of the world needs to expand. And I think that's what's going to happen.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2028-07-23 pending
Chris Irons Equal-Weight S&P 500 (Rsp) The equal-weighted S&P 500 (RSP) will outperform the cap-weighted S&P 500 going forward
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[16:35] I actually happen to think that the equal weighted will outperform the market cap weighted going forward here.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2027-07-23 pending
Chris Irons Crypto Market Altcoins and shitcoins (non-Bitcoin crypto) will go to zero during the coming deleveraging
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[33:48] Bitcoin's a trillion dollars. You have another trillion dollars in just absolute dog shit in the crypto market. Every other, you know, coin, every other shitcoin, altcoin, all that stuff's got to go to zero.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2028-07-23 pending
Chris Irons Fed Funds Rate The Fed under Kevin Warsh will abandon its hawkish inflation-fighting stance and ease policy at the first signs of significant equity market distress
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[34:36] they will fold immediately to the first signs of discomfort... Kevin Worsh is going to be at the epicenter of people looking for answers when this shit hits the fan. And politically his hand is going to be forced uh to act. I don't think he's going to stand idly by and allow the equity market to crash 50% or, you know, 40%.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2028-07-23 pending
Chris Irons Inflation Rate Inflation will not return to the Fed's 2% target without a crash in the equity market
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[34:36] I don't think there's a path to get inflation back down to 2% without the equity market crashing.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-07-23 2028-07-23 pending
Chris Irons Spacex SpaceX investors buying at current valuations will not see a positive return on their equity for 10 to 20 years
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[18:04] the valuation it's at now is crazy... you're going to have to fill in with 10 to 20 years of like perfect, you know, operational activity before, at least in my opinion, before this thing is going to start to have pay you any type of return on the equity that you own in it.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-23 2046-06-23 pending
Chris Irons Spacex SpaceX will not become significantly profitable within the next 5 years
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[19:22] I don't see a path where this company becomes like insanely profitable in the next 5 years. Maybe I'm wrong, but to add this to an index and to go out and buy it at this valuation now is you could very easily make the argument this is a $2 trillion trap door or $2 trillion air pocket.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-23 2031-06-23 pending
Chris Irons Gold Gold will outperform as Chris Irons positions portfolios long gold in the current environment
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[7:31] for right now, these things are, you know, probably going to be longer gold, longer government bonds, longer emerging markets, you know, and less long US AI stocks and semiconductors at this point.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-02 2026-12-31 pending
Chris Irons Treasury Market Government bonds will perform well and are worth holding long in the current market environment
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[7:31] for right now, these things are, you know, probably going to be longer gold, longer government bonds, longer emerging markets, you know, and less long US AI stocks and semiconductors at this point.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-02 2026-12-31 pending
Chris Irons Emerging Markets Emerging markets will outperform and are worth holding long in the current market environment
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[7:31] for right now, these things are, you know, probably going to be longer gold, longer government bonds, longer emerging markets, you know, and less long US AI stocks and semiconductors at this point.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-02 2026-12-31 pending
Chris Irons AI Stocks US AI stocks will underperform and are not worth holding long at this point
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[7:31] for right now, these things are, you know, probably going to be longer gold, longer government bonds, longer emerging markets, you know, and less long US AI stocks and semiconductors at this point.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-02 2026-12-31 pending
Chris Irons Semiconductors Semiconductor stocks will underperform and are not worth holding long at this point
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[7:31] for right now, these things are, you know, probably going to be longer gold, longer government bonds, longer emerging markets, you know, and less long US AI stocks and semiconductors at this point.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-02 2026-12-31 pending
Chris Irons Private Credit A credit event in private credit is imminent
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[0:00] You don't need to be a statistician or an actuary or, you know, a CFA level three to know that the front page of the Wall Street Journal is now every day showing another private credit fund under stress. And so, you know, I think we're on the doorstep of of a credit event.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-03-12 2026-12-31 pending