{"id":27878,"date":"2026-06-30T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/?p=27878"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:22:45","slug":"these-two-systems-just-flagged-americas-next-mega-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/these-two-systems-just-flagged-americas-next-mega-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"These Two Systems Just Flagged America\u2019s Next Mega Trend\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card card-body bg-light mb-4 mt-4\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Managing Editor\u2019s note: <\/strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Our colleague, Landon Swan, of\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MegaTrends\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">has spent 25 years building a system that tracks consumer behavior across<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">social media posts, search trends, and web traffic to spot market winners early.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That edge has produced 31 triple-digit wins for\u00a0subscribers over the past five years, including a 461% gain on Oklo and a 556% gain on Robinhood.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Right now, that system is flashing one of the strongest signals he\u2019s ever seen \u2013 on the companies solving America\u2019s AI energy crisis. In the essay below, Landon makes the case for why this could be his biggest opportunity yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He and\u00a0Joel Littman \u2013 a trusted financial analyst from our affiliate\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Altimetry <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2013\u00a0will name four small companies at the center of it at\u00a0<\/span><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The U.S. AI Summit<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0on July 2<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.tradesmith.com\/?cid=MKT872196&amp;eid=MKT875442&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC247608&amp;SNAID=%%SNAID%%&amp;email=%%emailaddr%%&amp;encryptedSnaid=%%ENCRYPTEDSNAID%%&amp;emailjobid=%%jobid%%&amp;emailname=%%emailname_%%\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Click here to reserve your spot<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>These Two Systems Just Flagged America\u2019s Next Mega\u00a0Trend\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY <strong>LANDON SWAN<\/strong>, COFOUNDER,\u00a0<em>MEGATRENDS<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all started when I was a kid making $2 bets at Ellis Park.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tucked into Henderson, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Evansville, Indiana, where I grew up,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;one of the oldest racetracks in America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s&nbsp;me in a winner\u2019s circle photo&nbsp;from&nbsp;July 21, 1989.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-919229\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6946160635481025;width:770px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-16.png 910w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-16-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-16-768x453.png 768w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-16-668x394.png 668w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-16-813x480.png 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s&nbsp;me in the middle, making the \u201cWe\u2019re No. 1\u201d sign for the camera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My&nbsp;older&nbsp;brother, Andy,&nbsp;is&nbsp;the tall boy to my left.&nbsp;Mom is behind&nbsp;him.&nbsp;Dad,&nbsp;in the&nbsp;striped yellow&nbsp;sports shirt, towers just off her&nbsp;right&nbsp;shoulder.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there\u2019s Grandpa Rock.&nbsp;He\u2019s&nbsp;the proud guy in the middle with the hat, suspenders, and pocket-protector. His horse,&nbsp;Rockin&nbsp;Liz Ann, had just placed first in a race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brother&nbsp;and I&nbsp;had a normal&nbsp;childhood&nbsp;with one exception:&nbsp;Grandpa Rock owned&nbsp;thoroughbreds.&nbsp;And&nbsp;some of my best boyhood memories are of the trips we took&nbsp;with him&nbsp;across the Ohio River&nbsp;to Ellis Park.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents always gave&nbsp;Andy&nbsp;and me $2&nbsp;each&nbsp;to&nbsp;make&nbsp;bets&nbsp;\u2013 with&nbsp;one&nbsp;condition.&nbsp;We could&nbsp;choose&nbsp;win, place, or show, but we&nbsp;had to bet on Grandpa\u2019s horse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My time at the racetrack&nbsp;ignited a love affair with statistics, probabilities,&nbsp;and&nbsp;forecasting that would prove&nbsp;as useful&nbsp;for&nbsp;trading&nbsp;stocks&nbsp;as&nbsp;it was for&nbsp;betting at the track.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andy&nbsp;and I went on to&nbsp;work together at TD Ameritrade before&nbsp;setting&nbsp;up our own investment research company,&nbsp;<em>LikeFolio<\/em>. And&nbsp;in&nbsp;2019,&nbsp;we partnered with leading financial technology company&nbsp;TradeSmith, where we run our&nbsp;<em>MegaTrends<\/em>&nbsp;advisory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the name suggests, we invest early on market mega&nbsp;trends \u2013 powerful, long-term shifts in technology, society, or the economy that reshape entire industries and create enormous wealth for early investors.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And our&nbsp;track record&nbsp;shows&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;a winning strategy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last five years,&nbsp;we\u2019ve&nbsp;delivered 31&nbsp;triple-digit&nbsp;wins to our subscribers. And&nbsp;over the past 12 months&nbsp;alone,&nbsp;we\u2019ve&nbsp;given them&nbsp;the chance to close out gains of:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>143%<\/strong>\u00a0on space infrastructure company\u00a0<strong>Redwire\u00a0(RDW)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>145%<\/strong>\u00a0on online learning provider\u00a0<strong>Stride (LRN)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>227%<\/strong>\u00a0on chipmaker<strong>\u00a0Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>461%<\/strong>\u00a0on under-the-radar nuclear player\u00a0<strong>Oklo (OKLO)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>556%<\/strong>\u00a0on trading platform\u00a0<strong>Robinhood Markets (HOOD)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And right now,&nbsp;our system is flagging an emerging trend that could make them look small by comparison.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll&nbsp;get to that in a moment\u2026 and how it led us to our first collaboration with Joel&nbsp;Littman&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em>Altimetry<\/em>&nbsp;team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;important you know how we find these and other big winners.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;something 99% of regular investors ignore.&nbsp;But&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;the single most important signal&nbsp;we&#8217;ve&nbsp;found in 25 years of tracking&nbsp;markets \u2013 and&nbsp;it has nothing to do with earnings&nbsp;calls, analyst upgrades, or anything Wall Street typically follows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">X-Ray View\u00a0Into\u00a0the Market\u2019s Most Profitable Trends\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Most&nbsp;of the folks on Wall Street&nbsp;look at&nbsp;earnings reports, analyst notes, and the news cycle.&nbsp;And that\u2019s part of the picture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But before a company reports a great quarter, people are already out there buying its products, telling their friends, and searching for it online.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The earnings report just confirms what was already happening. We wanted to measure that momentum while it was still building \u2013 before it showed up in the numbers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;Andy&nbsp;and I built a&nbsp;quantitative engine&nbsp;that tracks millions of data points every day across social media, search trends, and web traffic.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It spots the products, brands, and companies gaining momentum on Main Street\u202f<em>before<\/em>\u202fthey become news on Wall Street. And it does that by capturing and analyzing millions of consumer data points from across the web\u202fevery single day. This includes:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Posts on X, Reddit,\u00a0and\u00a0YouTube\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Company-level web traffic trends and app usage\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Search trends and AI queries\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In one day, it crunches millions of data points from all over the web.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine what it can learn about consumer behavior from everything&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;people are posting, searching, and sharing across the entire internet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, some of America&#8217;s top hedge funds and institutions pay as much as $750,000 a year for access to the research it produces. It gives them an X-ray view into profitable trends related to hundreds of publicly traded companies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We even received an endorsement from Georgetown University with a study that proved our technology could help predict future outcomes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;when&nbsp;Andy&nbsp;and I&nbsp;met Joel at a recent conference in&nbsp;Washington, D.C. and&nbsp;found&nbsp;that his&nbsp;system&nbsp;was&nbsp;flagging&nbsp;the same emerging theme that was lighting up our Social Heat Score, we knew it&nbsp;was a big deal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because&nbsp;here&#8217;s&nbsp;the thing about Joel\u2019s system. It has nothing to do with social media or consumer trends.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His&nbsp;True&nbsp;Blue&nbsp;framework forensically rebuilds company financial statements from&nbsp;scratch \u2013 stripping&nbsp;out the accounting tricks that hide a stock&#8217;s real earnings power from the rest of Wall Street.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;the kind of work&nbsp;that&#8217;s&nbsp;made him a go-to resource for 150 of the world&#8217;s top 300 money managers, including every single one of the top 10.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our&nbsp;system looks up from the street. His looks down from the boardroom. And&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;both pointing at the same stocks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time Joel&#8217;s True Blue lit up this strongly on a theme, the stocks he flagged went on to return 230%&#8230; 247%&#8230; and 859%.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what both&nbsp;our systems are pointing to&nbsp;is one of the most urgent infrastructure crises America has ever faced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>100X Spike in Blackouts?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;been reading Joel\u2019s research, you already know this story.&nbsp;He&#8217;s&nbsp;been making the case for months.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One large data center consumes as much electricity as 2 million homes. Hundreds more are in the pipeline and&nbsp;can&#8217;t&nbsp;yet get a grid connection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s&nbsp;why the Department of Energy is projecting a 100x spike in blackouts by 2030.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;why President Trump declared it a national emergency and launched what he called a Manhattan Project-scale initiative to fix it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s&nbsp;also why&nbsp;I&#8217;m&nbsp;writing to you today.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The companies solving America\u2019s AI energy problem&nbsp;aren&#8217;t&nbsp;just lighting up on Joel&#8217;s radar.&nbsp;They\u2019re&nbsp;also showing up in the consumer trends data we track online. And compared to what&nbsp;we&#8217;re&nbsp;seeing now, the Oklo trade looks like a warm-up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My system has been tracking the surge in consumer and investor attention around AI energy infrastructure for months. Joel\u2019s system has been running the financial statements of every microcap in that sector. Together,&nbsp;we&#8217;ve&nbsp;homed in on four small,&nbsp;largely unknown&nbsp;companies sitting right at the center of this buildout \u2013 companies with massive earnings distortions and the kind of catalysts that have historically sent stocks up 10x, 20x, and beyond.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re&nbsp;revealing all on&nbsp;<strong>July&nbsp;2&nbsp;at 10:00 a.m. ET<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three powerful market catalysts are set to converge around that date. We believe the window to get positioned ahead of them is open right now \u2013 and\u00a0won&#8217;t\u00a0be for long.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.tradesmith.com\/?cid=MKT872196&amp;eid=MKT875442&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC247607&amp;SNAID=%%SNAID%%&amp;email=%%emailaddr%%&amp;encryptedSnaid=%%ENCRYPTEDSNAID%%&amp;emailjobid=%%jobid%%&amp;emailname=%%emailname_%%\">Reserve your spot for\u00a0<em>The\u00a0U.S. A.I.\u00a0Summit<\/em>\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0you&#8217;ll\u00a0be among the first to hear everything Joel and I have found.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope&nbsp;you&#8217;ll&nbsp;join us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-919232\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.4045197740112996;width:206px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-17.png 339w, https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-17-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Landon&nbsp;Swan&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cofounder,&nbsp;<em>MegaTrends<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And how its discovery inspired a new collaboration with the Altimetry team\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"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":[164],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-27878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-landon-swan"],"acf":[],"ai_tts_audio_outdated":false,"ai_tts_content_changed_during_generation":false,"ai_tts_legacy_post":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878","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\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27878"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27902,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878\/revisions\/27902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=27878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}