In this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan welcomes Greg Diamond back to the show. Greg is the editor of Ten Stock Trader, an advisory focused on trading using market analysis to find the best opportunities based on previous market patterns.

Greg kicks things off by sharing his theme for 2026: time. He looked at the inflection points in January and is looking at the upcoming ones in April and May. January saw both technology and financial stocks peak before declining. And while Greg believes these sectors are oversold and will correct themselves slightly, the decline will continue. He says that AI taking over is part of this trend, and unlike other "creative destruction" (like the transition from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles) trends in the past, this one is developing much faster. Greg says looking at time cycles and understanding them is essential to prepare for where the market could be heading next...

These cycles that I look at... [they] repeat. There are multiple cycles that you have to focus on at various times throughout the year, throughout a five-year move or a two-year move, whatever you might be looking at. But there's repetition in it. And then you interpret price... [and] price is nothing more than a reflection of all the investors' actions expressed on a chart. And when you study that again and again and again and again, you can see those patterns.

Next, Greg discusses his thoughts on various commodities. He recently traded several positions in silver for wins before the metal's crash and is currently watching to see where it goes from here. He's not as optimistic on oil and natural gas due to the lack of information that investors have outside of OPEC, but he is looking for breakthroughs that could have an impact on the wider market. Copper is another resource that he's interested in, and there are several plays that he believes folks can make. But he says understanding what fuels these movements is more important than why they're occurring...

I stick away from the "why" and focus on what [commodities] are doing... We just talked about silver. We just talked about copper. Oil is kind of wildly going to be in a range. The demand is going to be there. Does this all end in some type of "all the chips are on one side of the table" [setup] and we have this catastrophic financial event? Of course it's going to happen, absolutely, because it always happens. So it's just a matter of [figuring out] "what's the catalyst for that?" And to me, it seems to be AI.

Finally, Greg lists his current trades and where he thinks market volatility is heading. He can't delve too deeply to be fair to his subscribers, but he's preparing to be extremely aggressive in his trades over the next few months. Greg then states that he does his best trading when he ignores what everyone else is saying. He'd rather focus on his monitors and charts than allow himself to be persuaded by outside voices...

[When you're getting fed constant information,] everyone thinks that's a good thing. I hated it. Because essentially what it did is, if I had conviction in a position and I would make my move on it, and then I have 15 other people telling me the opposite, that would sway you a little bit. And after so many times... I said, "I'm done with this." I'd rather be wrong on my own conviction... but to be right and be swayed by this headline or this bobblehead on TV or whomever, and then that gets you out of this position and you end up being right and they were wrong, that just made my blood boil.

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This Week's Guest

Greg Diamond is the editor of Ten Stock Trader – a trading service based on technical analysis. He monitors the global macro environment, including equities, currencies, commodities, futures, interest rates, and more. He publishes a weekly market outlook every Monday and posts daily updates, technical analysis supporting his strategies, and trade alerts through his live online feed.

With 20-plus years of trading and portfolio experience, Greg has traded for a multibillion-dollar hedge fund and a multibillion-dollar pension fund. He has managed multimillion-dollar portfolios across various asset classes and has spoken at business schools on trading and technical analysis. Greg is also a member of the Market Technicians Association and holds the Chartered Market Technician designation.