Your Wiretap: More 2026 Predictions

Welcome to the Omega Wealth Circle Wiretap — your exclusive look at what our top minds are talking about right now.

Not surprisingly, the biggest conversations have been about our predictions meeting last week.

So today, I want to share more of what the team said at our all-hands event — including the best ways to play what they see ahead.

Let’s start with what our editors and analysts predict will happen in the new year.

1. 2026 Could Have a Rough Start

As I said on Friday, Greg Guenthner has proclaimed 2026 the “Year of the Trader.”

He foresees stocks making dramatic swings, giving you excellent chances to cash in on the ups and downs.

Mason Sexton is much more bearish.

He warns that a “cosmic convergence" will occur Feb. 17–24, which could be the start of a major turning point in the major stock indices.

It might even prove to be the top of the bull market. He expects the first signs of panic to show up in early March.

But don’t start selling yet.

According to Mason’s analysis, the S&P 500 will keep gaining ground. He believes the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) will hit $800 before retreating.

Zack Scheidt also expects a major sell-off in January and February. He thinks traders are waiting until the New Year to take profits so they don’t have to count the gains in their 2025 taxes

But Zach also says it will create opportunities to buy great companies on the dips.

He’s particularly interested in businesses that will find innovative ways to use artificial intelligence. As he puts it, Wall Street’s interest will shift from the AI developers to AI implementers.

Names on his watch list include SoundHound AI Inc. (SOUN)... UiPath Inc. (PATH)... and Samsara Inc. (IOT).

Pairing these stocks with the right options could deliver 500% gains or more.

Look for his specific recommendations in Altucher’s True Alpha once we’ve cleared the pullback he foresees.

Speaking of AI…

2. The Biggest Tech Stories of 2026

We’ve talked about Enrique Abeyta OpenAIpocalypse prediction — the collapse of the company that created ChatGPT.

OpenAI is a private company, so the biggest losers will be the venture capitalists who helped prop it up.

That includes SoftBank Group Corp. (SFTBY), a private investment firm that has pledged $40 billion to fund OpenAI.

Plenty of public companies will take a hit, too. Enrique singles out Oracle Corp. (ORCL), a major OpenAI supplier, and CoreWeave Inc. (CRWV), which works closely with OpenAI.

The end of OpenAI won’t be the end of AI, of course — just like Netscape’s collapse didn’t kill the internet.

Instead, Enrique says, the remaining leaders in AI will get a lot more attention — Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)... Meta Platforms Inc. (META)... and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA).

Chris Campbell, as I also said on Friday, thinks artificial intelligence will help facilitate a massive cyberattack in 2026. The recovery will boost Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM).

But that wasn’t the only “black swan” event he sees ahead.

Chris also warns that we’re overdue for a massive solar storm, like the Carrington event in 1859 that caused telegraph wires to catch fire.

Today, a similar storm could knock out the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites we rely on for much more than just navigation. So there will be a sudden interest in building resilient satellites.

And Chris says Frequency Electronics Inc. (FEIM) is one of the few pure plays in this space.

It specializes in “ultra-stable atomic oscillators and emerging quantum sensing systems,” he tells us… which we assume is a good thing.

As for cryptocurrencies, Chris believes stable coin Tether will shift some of its reserve assets. Tether tries to keep each of its tokens’ value at $1 using a mix of things like cash, Treasury bills, even some gold.

Chris says that it will add silver to its reserves next, sending demand — and prices — for the precious metal soaring.

The silver stampede will cause “the moon metal to outperform gold six to one,” Chris predicts.

He’s also expecting the next stage of Basil III, a series of bank reforms, to create a global liquidity crisis. The best solution will be to tokenize Treasury bills on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain.

It will allow banks to “rebuild their balance sheets overnight, sending ETH surging.”

Rounding out our tech predictions, Ray Blanco expects a “Sputnik” moment in 2026. China will launch orbiting data centers, giving them another edge in the AI battle.

It will force the United States to play catch up. Millions of dollars could go to Elon Musk’s Space X, which is expected to go public next year.

Smaller satellite providers and equipment manufacturers will benefit, too.

Ray also expects what will amount to a cure for type 1 diabetes.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRTX) is working on a stem cell treatment that will help restore a person’s natural insulin production.

Test results have been positive so far… and if the numbers continue to look good, the company could seek regulatory approval next year.

But Ray is also keeping a close eye on another biotech — too small to mention here — that may have a superior treatment. (He recommended the stock in his Catalyst Trader back on July 24.)

Finally, Ray predicts that 2026 will see inflation reverse into deflation.

“Not the bad kind from demand collapse,” he says “but the good kind from technologically-driven productivity.”

In other words, AI and robots will finally deliver the cost savings we’ve been promised.

And it will trigger “the biggest growth stock rally since 2020,” Ray adds.

3. “Time Travel” Plays for the New Year

We all wish we could go back in time and buy investments when they were extremely cheap.

Now two of our analysts say you’ll have a chance to do the next best thing as we head into the New Year.

First, Chris Cimorelli dug deeper into one of his recommendations from October’s Paradigm Shift Summit — cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

BCH is a “fork” in Bitcoin’s (BTC) algorithm, meaning it started as part of Bitcoin’s blockchain, then broke off to become its own cryptocurrency.

The fork tweaked the Bitcoin code to make transactions faster. It also gave the cryptocurrency the ability to create more robust smart contracts than regular Bitcoin.

Still, the underlying principles are the same… and BCS costs a fraction of Bitcoin’s price — currently around $564.

Chris says buying BCH today would be like buying Bitcoin at 2016 prices.

The catalyst will come when Bitcoin prices start to recover — and investors start hoarding BTC again. That will send Wall Street searching for cheaper alternatives… and BCH will fit the bill nicely.

Chris says the attention could spark a 10x surge in BCH.

Alan Knuckman coined the term “Time Travel” plays when discussing his thoughts on 2026.

First on his list is Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX).

It’s primarily a copper miner, with gold a happy byproduct.

And Alan believes copper prices will rise in 2026.

He also thinks gold will continue to gain ground, especially once Americans can add precious metals to their 401(k)s starting in February 2026.

But investors still haven’t gotten the message about mining companies yet. That’s why FCX currently trades for around $48 — what they were trading for in 2022.

Alan is also very bullish on Slb Ltd. (SLB), better known as oil services company Schlumberger.

It’s another company trading at about the same level as it was in 2022, giving up nearly half its gains from its 2023 high.

But Trump is making it more and more clear that he wants Venezuela to give the United States access to its oil. Even if it doesn’t come to an armed invasion, it could lead to an agreement to let U.S. companies do business in the country.

By all reports, Venezuela’s oil infrastructure is already in bad shape. So SLB could be one of the prime companies tapped to improve it.

In fact, the company has a long connection to the country, going back 85 years. Alan tells us it still has one active rig in Venezuela, “compared to more than 80 in 2014.”

Any major thaw in tensions could see SLB quickly try to make up for lost time!

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