Larry McDonald Predictions

Founder of the Bear Traps Report

Track Larry McDonald'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.

22 forecasts 1 correct 1 wrong 20 pending
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22 forecasts
Person Subject Forecast* Source Date Deadline** Outcome
Larry McDonald Nvidia Nvidia's forward earnings estimates are overstated and the stock will underperform due to concentrated customer risk
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[0:03] The Ford earnings on Nvidia are complete baloney... Because because they're concentrated with a handful of companies, you know, think of like the forward earnings of Microsoft. that those earnings um or Google, they have like millions of counterparties that give them that revenue. The the counterparties to to Nvidia are like a handful of companies that are dependent on that.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2027-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald S&P 500 The S&P 500's tech weighting will decline from ~50% to ~30% over the next 5-10 years as hard asset companies grow their share of the index
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[26:06] I mean, it's going the opposite. It's it's not doing that. If anything, tech is eating more and more of the S&P 500... we're going to have over the next 5 years, 7 10 years, we're going to have this big transition where the S&P 500's composition goes from 50% tech to maybe 30% tech. And hard asset companies like the BHPs, like the Rio Tintos, like the Alcoas, like the the Agniko Eagles, they become a bigger part of these.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2033-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald Oil Oil will rally significantly in Q2-Q3 2026, with upside potential to $150, driven by summer driving season, AI capex demand, and Middle East supply disruptions
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[28:50] Oh, oil right here is a screaming buy. I think the your downside is maybe 70, your upside's 150. Um... that gets you like a big bounce in oil in the third, second, third quarter of this year.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2026-09-30 pending
Larry McDonald Inflation Rate A significant inflation shock will occur later in 2026, driven by supply chain disruptions, summer driving season, and the World Cup, rotating money from growth stocks to value stocks
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[9:25] the probability that we have a pretty nasty inflation shock later in the year, the summer driving season with a World Cup... you've got the summer driving season. You've got a lot of key supply chain disruptions that all around the world and like it's just that sulfuric acid situation that are going to create this like inflation bounce through the year and that's going to move money probably from growth stocks over toward value stocks.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Semiconductors Semiconductor stocks will crash and burn as the sector behaves like a commodity with oversupply dynamics
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[27:29] everyone right now is in the chips, right? The microns and the semis, which is a commodity which is going to absolutely crash and burn.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2027-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald Agnico Eagle Mines Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) is a strong buy offering attractive risk-reward, supported by $6-7 billion in annual free cash flow and a $2 billion buyback program while the stock is down 40%
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[25:23] They're buying back 2 billion of stock. The stock's down 40%. And they're producing free cash flow of six to seven billion a year... To me, that's a beautiful riskreward situation.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2027-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald Intuitive Surgical Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) will outperform as smart money recognizes the value of its proprietary surgical data for AI-driven healthcare applications
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[27:37] Nobody's Look at Intuitive Surgical. It's down like 20%. Um, beautiful business, but guess what? It missed a few quarters. They missed a few quarter, but they have the data... what the smart money is doing is they're looking at what companies have great data.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2027-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald Energy Sector North American natural gas producers including Tourmaline (TOU), Antero Resources (AR), and Range Resources (RRC) will benefit significantly as global buyers shift away from Middle Eastern supply toward safer jurisdictions
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[30:35] Think of what they just did. They just handed a huge fat check to US natural gas and oil producers and Canadian natural gas and oil oil producers... Say you're a natural gas buyer in some part of the world. You were buying from the Middle East. Now you've been wounded... So now they want safe jurisdictional risk. That's where the termines come in. That's where the anteros in the United States AR the range resources... that to me is the best AI play out there and it's a play on the war.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2027-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald Real Assets Hard assets will be bullish over the next 18 months to 3 years as financial repression via forced bank Treasury buying suppresses real interest rates
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[36:09] the Fed setup for hard assets is so bullish because essentially what they're doing is... they're forcing the banks to buy more treasuries and it's about a trillion bucks potentially over like 18 months to 3 years that suppresses interest rates relative to where they where they should be with inflation. That's bullish and that's really bullish uh hard assets

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2028-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald Copper Copper will continue rising due to structural demand from AI data centers, power grid rebuilding, robotics, and post-war reconstruction, while supply remains constrained by regulatory hurdles
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[17:53] Copper stocks, any stocks like aluminum or Alcoa. We've lightened it a little bit. We've had it for 3 years, but aluminum is going to be a bedrock of the data centers... get out of these tech stocks and you should own the First Quantums should own the BHPs, the Rio Tintos.

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In the Money 2026-06-18 2028-06-18 pending
Larry McDonald Natural Gas Natural gas will be in a great bull market over the next five years.
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[7:36] natural gas in the next five years you're going to have a real great bull market.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2031-04-01 pending
Larry McDonald US Dollar The US dollar is in a massive secular decline with only counter trend rallies.
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[33:08] the dollar just in this. You're going to have counter trend rallies, but you're just in a massive secular decline.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2031-04-01 pending
Larry McDonald S&P 500 The S&P 500 will go lower overall.
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[19:38] Yeah, I think the market overall is going lower, but there are places in the market that are that are outperforming dramatically.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Stagflation There will be real stagflation this year.
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[10:40] this year a real bounce and and a slowdown. So that's real stagflation

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Recession Recession risk will rise sharply this year and the Fed will have to cut rates.
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[14:40] then all of a sudden recession risk rises sharply this year and the Fed's going to have to cut.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Energy Sector Energy prices will remain very sticky high for at least the next 5-6 months.
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[10:23] the ability for oil to globally to come down is going to be very sticky because of all of the damage that Iran has caused across the entire ecosystem and the the and the and the supply chains of energy. So in other words really sticky inflation

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-09-01 pending
Larry McDonald Energy Sector Industrials, materials, and energy sectors will increase from current 13% to around 20-25% of S&P composition.
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[16:18] industrials, materials, and energy, those those three groups in in the 1968 to81 period, they were like 50% of the S&P's composition. 50-0. In recent years, they got to like 10, maybe even a little bit lower, 9%. Only 9% of the S&P was in industrials, energy, and materials. And now that's maybe up toward 13. Are we going back to 50? No, but we're going back to like 2025

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2031-04-01 pending
Larry McDonald Gold Miners Gold miners will decline 20-30% from their highs due to rising diesel costs
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[4:46] I think we can get a 20 to 30% draw down in the gold miners from the highs because of those diesel costs which are up 70% off the December lows

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2026-06-17

The prediction claimed a 20-30% drawdown from highs; the period low of $78.74 represents only a ~16.2% decline from the prediction date price of $93.96, falling short of the 20% threshold.

Larry McDonald Fed Funds Rate The Fed will go from three expected cuts to zero cuts and possibly rate hikes later in 2026 as inflation increases
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[8:37] We're going to go from three K uh three cuts expected to zero and maybe even hikes coming in later in the year as inflation really bounces

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Nvidia Nvidia will be down 50% one year from today
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[23:02] Nvidia a year ago, a year, a year from today probably is down 50%. Because everyone's in the same crowded, stupid trade

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2027-03-17 pending
Larry McDonald S&P 500 The S&P 500's composition in materials, industrials and energy will rise from current 14% to 25-30%
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[28:50] by 1981 49% of the S&P 500's composition was in materials industrials and energy 49%. We're right now maybe 14. We're nowhere near I Are we going back to 49? No. But are we going at 25 30? Yes.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2030-03-17 pending
Larry McDonald VIX The VIX will rise over the next 30 days due to Middle East problems despite government intervention attempts
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[34:27] next 30 days, um, Trump's going to try to bring out the fire hose, but you still have a lot of problems in the Middle East around like normalization. So, getting long the VIX, the VIX getting long volatility

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2026-04-16

The prediction was bullish on VIX (expecting it to rise), and the period high of $31.65 on trading day 8 represents a 41.5% rise from the prediction date price of $22.37, confirming VIX did rise significantly during the 30-day window despite ending lower at $18.11 by the target date.