{"id":26861,"date":"2026-04-15T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/?p=26861"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:18:27","slug":"this-ai-flags-the-days-best-trades-12-hours-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/this-ai-flags-the-days-best-trades-12-hours-in-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"This AI Flags the Day&#8217;s Best Trades 12 Hours in Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card card-body bg-light mb-4 mt-4\">\n<p><strong>Managing Editor&rsquo;s Note: <\/strong>Yesterday, Tradesmith CEO Keith Kaplan teased a game-changing approach to wealth building in  <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/a-five-point-checklist-for-this-market\/\">Market Minute<\/a>. <\/em>Today, he&rsquo;s unveiling Tradesmith&rsquo;s newest and most powerful tool.<\/p>\n<p>You can test drive it for free <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.tradesmith.com\/?cid=MKT864375&amp;eid=MKT867702&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC244322\">right here<\/a> for a full week, and make sure you read on for how this powerful system works in the most volatile market conditions&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>This AI Flags the Day&#8217;s Best Trades 12 Hours in Advance<\/h2>\n<p><strong>BY KEITH KAPLAN, CEO, TRADESMITH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;There is an entity that cannot be defeated.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s how Lee Sedol &ndash; the world&rsquo;s greatest Go player &ndash; described AI after losing a five-game contest against Google&rsquo;s AlphaGo AI model in Seoul in March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Go was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago. Two players place black and white stones on a grid, trying to capture each other&#8217;s pieces.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stones on a Go board (Source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It looks easy. But it contains more possible positions than there are atoms in the observable universe. The best players win by feel and intuition rather than brute calculation.<\/p>\n<p>So, Sedol thought he was safe. The game was too creative &ndash; too deeply human &ndash; for a machine to crack. Before the match, he predicted he&rsquo;d win every game.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Move 37 in the second game.<\/p>\n<p>AlphaGo placed a stone in a position no normal player would make &ndash; a move so strange that one commentator blurted out, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not a human move.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He was right.<\/p>\n<p>AlphaGo&rsquo;s analysis showed that a human player would make that move less than 1 in 10,000 times. But it turned the tide in AlphaGo&rsquo;s favor, and Sedol lost the game.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to lose the contest 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>The machine wasn&rsquo;t smarter. But it could see patterns no human eye could. And that was enough to defeat the world&rsquo;s best player.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a cautionary tale for investors today. AI models are way better at recognizing patterns now than they were a decade ago. And there&rsquo;s no domain richer in hidden patterns &ndash; or more ruthlessly efficient at rewarding those who spot them and punishing those who miss them &ndash; than the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why my team and I at TradeSmith have spent the last 12 months building a new application of AI for self-directed investors like you.<\/p>\n<p>It uses the same principles that defeated the world&rsquo;s greatest Go player to spot patterns that flag the day&rsquo;s most promising trades &ndash; 90 minutes <em>before <\/em>they happen.<\/p>\n<p>We just opened up a beta version so you can test drive it ahead of the April 22 launch event. I&rsquo;ll show you how it works today &ndash; and pass on the link where you can try it out for free.<\/p>\n<h2>We&rsquo;ve Gone Deeper Than Ever Before<\/h2>\n<p>TradeSmith is one of the world&rsquo;s largest financial technology firms for self-directed investors.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve invested more than $32 million to create hedge fund-level analytical systems and strategies for folks like you. But we&rsquo;ve never gone this deep.<\/p>\n<p>Our new AI-powered trading system doesn&rsquo;t look at balance sheets&hellip; read earnings reports&hellip; or follow news headlines. Instead, it detects tiny anomalies in stocks&rsquo; historical data. Then it finds statistical connections between them that a human analyst would never find.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it like a &ldquo;thumbprint.&rdquo; Every great trade has one. A unique alignment of factors &ndash; technical indicators, price patterns, market conditions &ndash; that has lined up before.<\/p>\n<p>When those factors align again, our system flags a high-probability setup. Some with historical accuracy rates of 90% or more.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s what happens when we tested it out.<\/p>\n<h2>Turning Patterns Into Profits<\/h2>\n<p>In January, our system flagged a trade in <strong>Qnity Electronics (Q)<\/strong> &ndash; a company I&rsquo;d never heard of before.<\/p>\n<p>It identified three factors that had aligned only four times over the past decade. Every time those same factors lined up for Q, the stock went up.<\/p>\n<p>On January 28, this signal fired again &ndash; and over the next 30 days Q shares jumped 26%.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131117-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-918554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131117-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131117-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131117-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131117-700x368.png 700w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131117-914x480.png 914w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131117.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Or take AI chipmaker <strong>Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)<\/strong>. On a recent signal, our system forecast an 8.4% move in 14 days, based on a pattern with 95% historical accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The result was an 8.1% gain in 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131129-1024x502.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-918557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131129-1024x502.png 1024w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131129-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131129-768x377.png 768w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131129-700x343.png 700w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131129-979x480.png 979w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131129.png 1262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Or take another popular AI stock, <strong>Palantir (PLTR)<\/strong>. Our system signaled a 5.8% move in nine days, again with a historical accuracy rate of 95%. The result was a 15.1% gain in seven days &ndash; nearly three times the forecasted return.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131140-1024x504.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-918560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131140-1024x504.png 1024w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131140-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131140-768x378.png 768w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131140-700x344.png 700w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131140-976x480.png 976w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-131140.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>These returns are from trading our signals with stocks. Here&rsquo;s what those same signals produced using options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Caterpillar (CAT):<\/strong> 126% in 72 hours<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nvidia (NVDA):<\/strong> 129% in 5 days<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lockheed Martin (LMT):<\/strong> 365% in 30 days<\/li>\n<li><strong>HCA Healthcare (HCA):<\/strong> 461% in 13 days<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generac (GNRC):<\/strong> 1,082% in 33 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, you&rsquo;ve seen some of what the signals can do. Let&rsquo;s look at what&rsquo;s happening under the hood.<\/p>\n<h2>Finding the What, Not the Why<\/h2>\n<p>The technology behind this new trading system is similar to what powers ChatGPT and other AI models.<\/p>\n<p>They soak up massive samples of language, find statistical relationships between words, and predict what comes next. Our system uses the same principle &ndash; but for numbers.<\/p>\n<p>We fed it data on 2,467 stocks going back 10 years &ndash; including interest rates, Treasury yields, Relative Strength Index readings, Bollinger Bands, and intraday trading ranges.<\/p>\n<p>It also looks at indicators most traders have never heard of. Things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kaufman Efficiency Ratio<\/strong>: It measures how cleanly a stock is trending versus how much it&rsquo;s just drifting sideways.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Williams %R<\/strong>: It&rsquo;s a momentum oscillator that measures where price sits relative to its recent high-low range.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DMI+\/DMI-<\/strong>: They measure the strength of upward versus downward movement independently, rather than just looking at price direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No one knows exactly why each signal works so well. Frankly, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Like AlphaGo, our AI finds the <em>what<\/em>&hellip; not the <em>why<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It runs each stock through 847 individual calculations daily, compiling more than 2 million trade evaluations every 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s looking for combinations that have worked before &ndash; regardless of whether there&#8217;s an obvious reason why.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a trading system that doesn&rsquo;t care whether we&#8217;re in a bull or a bear market. It doesn&rsquo;t need a strong economy or a calm geopolitical environment. It just needs the ingredients to align.<\/p>\n<p>Given what we&rsquo;ve seen in 2026 &ndash; a wipeout in software stocks, oil above $100 a barrel, and our own market health indicators flashing red &ndash; that kind of neutrality matters more than ever.<\/p>\n<h2>Now You Can Try This Breakthrough for Yourself<\/h2>\n<p>This is unlike anything we&rsquo;ve released in our firm&rsquo;s 21-year history.<\/p>\n<p>The 30,000 (and counting) signals our system has discovered gives you the kind of edge that would otherwise be off-limits for most investors.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about it at my <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.tradesmith.com\/?cid=MKT864375&amp;eid=MKT867702&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC244322\">AI Signals Trading Event on Wednesday, April 22, at 10 a.m. Eastern.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll walk you through how it works in more detail &ndash; including the signals it&rsquo;s tracking right now and the trades it&rsquo;s flagging for the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.tradesmith.com\/?cid=MKT864375&amp;eid=MKT867702&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC244322\">Use this link to register your interest<\/a>, and you&rsquo;ll get immediate access to a beta version of our software ahead of the event.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see you there.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Kaplan <br \/> CEO, TradeSmith<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Our chief developer, Mike Carr, agreed to put real money into whatever stock our signals system flagged one morning &ndash; without looking up the company, checking the news, or reading a single earnings report. He just followed the signal.<\/p>\n<p>We recorded the whole thing. You&rsquo;ll see how it played out when you join us on April 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.tradesmith.com\/?cid=MKT864375&amp;eid=MKT867702&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC244322\">Here&#8217;s that link again to secure your spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing hedge-fund-level research unlike anything we&#8217;ve released in Tradesmith\u2019s 21-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[118],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-26861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-keith-kaplan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26870,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861\/revisions\/26870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26861"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=26861"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=26861"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=26861"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=26861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}