What Happens After The Correction Ends? Ultra ZEUS Plan C (My Family's Portfolio For The Next Year)

On Monday, I published what might be a rather lucky, though potentially legendary article. 10 Reasons To "Shut Up And Buy something Smart...You'll Thank Me In A Year"😉 Because in the 2025 bear market, I nailed the bottom (VIX 60 is so rare that it is a VERY high-probability bet). Back in 2025, my confidence on April 7th, expressed in a DK article, plus the chat room, plus social media, came from this table. When I saw the VIX hit 60 (by which I mean Torston Slok, Chief Equity Strategist of Apollo, posted a chart on Daily Shot😉, and I saw a table like this from Mike Zacardi, I immediately went to work with Chat GPT Deep Think to research the other VIX data points to build this table. And this data, from CBOE, is ultimately what gave me the confidence to scream from the rooftops, “Shut up and buy something smart! You’ll thank me in a year😉”. Stocks Were Down 40% When Buffett “Called His Shot.” I was lucky on April 7th, and on March 30th, the market bottomed so far. I published yet another “Shut up and buy something smart” article, and if that happens to be the bottom, then I will look like Babe Ruth calling my shot…twice. The Importance Of “Fundamentally Justified Luck” All of life (but especially Wall Street) is probability curves. I don’t have a crystal ball; I just have market history, fundamentals, and an intuitive sense (based on 27 years of investing experience and 13 years as an analyst) about when the timing might be right on something. Buffett Called His Shot…And Struck Out! Buffett wrote this after stocks were down 40%... the average decline at the peak of a recessionary bear market at the time. Stocks then fell 30% more. Bottoming at -58%, the 2nd worst market crash in history...BUT guess what? Or Did He? 😉 Can you even see where Buffett "was wrong"?😉 And that’s not measured from the market bottom on March 9th, that’s literally the returns for any buy-and-hold investor who listened to Buffett on October 16th, rode out a 30% decline, and accepted the “Unless the world is literally ending, this is going to work…Close your eyes and come back in a year” mentality that great investors have in scary markets. The point is that I’m not a genius, I’m just a disciplined financial scientist who has good models. So let me now answer the question that a lot of members have reached out to me in the chat room and private message and asked about. What Happens After The Correction Bottom? What Do Smart Investors Do Next? Remember how, in April 2025, at a VIX of 60, the historical 12-month return was 40%? Well, guess what it was on Monday, March 30th? 8% From Historical Bottom = Approximately 40% Upside Potential Over The Next 12 Months In other words, Historical Median return = fundamentally justified return Thus “Shut Up And Buy Something Smart…You’ll Thank Me In A Year😉” Because even though I expected stocks to keep falling for 1 to 3 more weeks, anyone buying on Monday would make a lot of money. Especially in MSFT, AMZN, and NVDA with 88% to 150% upside potential over the next 12 months. It’s not bravado, it’s not a crystal ball. I’m not the “Oracle of Minnesota”😉It’s just math and probabilities. That is ridiculous! EVERYONE knows I’m the smoothie king of Minnesota😂 But this brings us to the question of “Now that the correction might be over…what now?” 8.9% Pullback Peak To Trough (Not A Correction Technically) What To Expect Next The headlines yesterday that sent the market into a buying frenzy are NOT the end of the war…this isn’t the same as the “pause” of April 9th. The good news is that while the headlines are not “It’s Over!”, the worst of the market panic probably is. Note PROBABLY (I’m not implementing Plan C just yet. More on that in a second. Monday…I’m Not The Only Analyst Pointing Out The Obvious Why is Monday -8.9% PROBABLY the market bottom? Because the worst case scenario…that the US and Iran get locked into a kind of Russia/Uk