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The best market opportunities are visible before they appear in the news headlines
He was trailing in the fourth quarter. Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning ran to the line of scrimmage and sat behind center. Eighty thousand fans were screaming. The hour of play was almost over.
Most people were on the field, and at home, staring at the football.
Manning was already looking at something else. He told receiver Brandon Stockley that if the San Diego Chargers gave him a certain look at the defense, it would give him the signal to change his path.
Before the ball was snapped, he had a game plan. When the Chargers were set up as Manning expected, he read the defense and gave Stokley the signal.
A few seconds later, the ball was in the air. The receiver broke free exactly where Manning expected. Landing.
The audience watched the play develop. SportsCenter showed the highlights and talked about the outcome.
But play ended long before the ball crossed the goal line. Manning knew a touchdown was waiting to happen because he recognized the setup that made it possible.
Credit: Philip Hubley
This is the difference between watching the play and understanding the circumstances that created the play.
Most investors watch the play, focusing on what actually happened
They see a stock going up, or hear analysts talking about it.
They read glowing headlines. Nowadays, they might ask ChatGPT or Claude if this is a good buy.
But this is a lot like watching a re-landing.
The real question is what happened before the play began? Who was buying before the headlines?
The trick, of course, is to land on the right stocks before the crowd grabs them.
Investing legend Louis Navellier made his reputation by reading the industry and acting before the rest of the market. Here’s a great example of his Accelerating profits Service with celestica (CLS).
Celestica started out building computers, but has expanded into aerospace, healthcare and renewable energy technology. Today, it plays a key role in the manufacturing of complex electronics, including components for electric vehicles, cloud computing and AI-driven technology.
Here’s Lewis explaining why he chose this small company as a future player in the AI revolution:
Celestica plays a key role in the AI Boom by helping companies design, manufacture and optimize the hardware that powers AI systems such as data centers.
The company builds high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, as well as products such as switches, data storage products, processors, and more.
The company also created Photonic Fabric, a fabric solution for optical computing and memory that can help augment AI infrastructure. It has the potential to create, scale, and sustain future AI models.
Lewis recommended this stock to him Accelerating profits Readers in December 2023, when it was trading at $27.70. As you can see below, the stock has seen some volatility, but is up more than 800% since the recommendation, and is now trading at over $350.
Better yet, even with this gain, because Celestica continues to grow its dividend, CLS remains below Lewis’ buy limitSo this stock still has more upside.
How Louis continues to read the market in front of the crowds
Lewis finds winners with his screening tool, Stock grader. If you’re not familiar, Stock Grader grades over 5,000 stocks each week in terms of fundamental quality and institutional buying pressure (Lewis Quantitative Score).
Finding quality companies is one thing, but discovering institutional buyers who are piling into a stock is another thing. This is the signal that Lewis sees that tells him how the market is moving. While retail investors and new AI systems focus on the headlines and watch the play unfold, Lewis has already seen what is coming and has drawn his readers into the trade.
The challenge facing investors today is that everyone has access to the same information.
Aside from Wall Street analysts and financial TV speakers, AI systems now have access to information and can process it in seconds.
But information alone does not create large investments.
The best opportunities often appear before the story becomes clear. Even before AI systems started recommending stocks after scanning online market headlines.
That’s why Lewis recently sat down to explain what he believes is one of the biggest changes to ever happen in financial markets: the rise of Agentic AI.
The AI challenge you haven’t heard about
According to Lewis, millions of investors increasingly rely on the same AI systems, the same data sources, and the same recommendations.
This creates a simple question:
What happens when everyone starts running the same play?
More importantly, how do you read cues to position yourself before the audience sees what’s happening?
In his new showLewis explains why he believes institutional buying pressure remains one of the most important clues in the market – the setup that tells how the game will end – and how he uses it to identify opportunities long before they become obvious to everyone.
He also reveals the stocks he believes are most at risk as investors increasingly follow recommendations from AI, along with several opportunities he sees institutional money moving into today.
Peyton Manning didn’t wait for the touchdown to know the play would work.
He recognized the opportunity before the ball was snapped.
Lewis believes investing is entering a similar era where reading the market correctly is crucial.
As millions of investors begin to rely on the same AI tools and recommendations, the public may become increasingly focused on the same stocks at the same time.
The question is whether you will react to what everyone already sees – or Identify opportunities before they become obvious.
If you’d like to see how Lewis identifies institutional buying pressure before it becomes obvious to everyone, I encourage you Watch his new show here.
Enjoy your weekend,
Luis Hernandez
Editor-in-Chief, InvestorPlace
