Earnings Season Starts Next Week. I’ve Been Waiting for It.
Publisher’s Note: Earnings season means one thing… Earnings Profit Surge time!
Nate has helped tens of thousands master profiting off this Harvard-study market phenomenon…
And the best way to get started trading the Earnings Profit Surge is by playing it one stock per week.
Read Nate’s article below so you can start targeting profits this earnings season.
— Stephen Prior, Publisher
Most people dread earnings season. I look forward to it.
Every quarter, more than 25,000 public companies are required by law to report their earnings. Each one of those reports creates a window. A short, predictable window where the right trade can double your money in days.
Q1 2026 earnings season kicks off next week. The S&P 500 is expected to report 13.2% earnings growth, the sixth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.
That means a lot of companies are about to beat expectations. And when that happens, something predictable follows.
It is called post-earnings announcement drift. Researchers at the University of Chicago first documented it in 1968. Over 100 peer-reviewed studies from Harvard, MIT, Duke, and the Federal Reserve have confirmed it since then.
When a company crushes earnings, the stock does not just jump once and settle. It keeps drifting higher for days. Sometimes weeks.
The reason is simple. Big institutions cannot just click buy. They are moving hundreds of millions of dollars into a stock. If they bought it all at once, they would spike the price against themselves. So they buy slowly. Quietly. Over days.
And that steady buying pressure keeps pushing the stock higher long after everyone else has moved on.
Most investors never see it happening. I spent years learning how to find it.
I was a construction worker. Remodeling Home Depots and McDonald’s. I started trading on the side, and I was terrible at it. I lost $15,000 on a single Apple trade.
Blew up my first account. Then my second. But I kept digging.
One night, I found the research. Decades of academic studies documenting exactly what I described above.
I spent years reverse-engineering it and eventually built a system to detect this institutional accumulation in real time. The moment it shows up, I make my trade. Then I get out.
Here is what that looks like in practice.
Last year, around the time most investors were frozen watching markets drop, my system flagged a trade. I sent the alert. The next day, the trade was up 103%.
While the market was falling.
On Amazon, after a record earnings quarter, my system stayed green for weeks. We made three trades on that one stock: 43% in 24 hours, 86% in two days, and 31% overnight. Amazon itself was up 11% that month. One stock. Three exits. Each one worth more than what most people collect in a year from a savings account.
On Netflix after earnings, the stock moved 14%. Our trade closed at 106% overnight.
Microsoft’s stock moved 6% after earnings. Our trade returned 133%.
These are real trades, published to readers in real time, timestamped and verified.
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Our system has tracked 351 closed trades. 245 are winners. That is a 70% win rate.
I started with $37,000. Four years later, that account was at $2.7 million.
Earnings season is about to start. Hundreds of companies are going to beat expectations over the next few weeks. Each one creates a new window.
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