Larry McDonald Predictions

Founder of the Bear Traps Report

Track Larry McDonald's public market predictions and forecast accuracy. Each prediction is recorded from the date it was published to its estimated deadline, then graded correct or wrong based on the outcome.

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12 forecasts
Person Subject Forecast* Source Date Deadline** Outcome
Larry McDonald Natural Gas Natural gas will be in a great bull market over the next five years.
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[7:36] natural gas in the next five years you're going to have a real great bull market.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2031-04-01 pending
Larry McDonald US Dollar The US dollar is in a massive secular decline with only counter trend rallies.
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[33:08] the dollar just in this. You're going to have counter trend rallies, but you're just in a massive secular decline.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2031-04-01 pending
Larry McDonald S&P 500 The S&P 500 will go lower overall.
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[19:38] Yeah, I think the market overall is going lower, but there are places in the market that are that are outperforming dramatically.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Stagflation There will be real stagflation this year.
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[10:40] this year a real bounce and and a slowdown. So that's real stagflation

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Recession Recession risk will rise sharply this year and the Fed will have to cut rates.
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[14:40] then all of a sudden recession risk rises sharply this year and the Fed's going to have to cut.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Energy Sector Energy prices will remain very sticky high for at least the next 5-6 months.
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[10:23] the ability for oil to globally to come down is going to be very sticky because of all of the damage that Iran has caused across the entire ecosystem and the the and the and the supply chains of energy. So in other words really sticky inflation

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2026-09-01 pending
Larry McDonald Industrials Industrials, materials, and energy sectors will increase from current 13% to around 20-25% of S&P composition.
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[16:18] industrials, materials, and energy, those those three groups in in the 1968 to81 period, they were like 50% of the S&P's composition. 50-0. In recent years, they got to like 10, maybe even a little bit lower, 9%. Only 9% of the S&P was in industrials, energy, and materials. And now that's maybe up toward 13. Are we going back to 50? No, but we're going back to like 2025

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-04-01 2031-04-01 pending
Larry McDonald Gold Miners Gold miners will decline 20-30% from their highs due to rising diesel costs
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[4:46] I think we can get a 20 to 30% draw down in the gold miners from the highs because of those diesel costs which are up 70% off the December lows

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2026-06-17 pending
Larry McDonald Fed Funds Rate The Fed will go from three expected cuts to zero cuts and possibly rate hikes later in 2026 as inflation increases
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[8:37] We're going to go from three K uh three cuts expected to zero and maybe even hikes coming in later in the year as inflation really bounces

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2026-12-31 pending
Larry McDonald Nvidia Nvidia will be down 50% one year from today
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[23:02] Nvidia a year ago, a year, a year from today probably is down 50%. Because everyone's in the same crowded, stupid trade

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2027-03-17 pending
Larry McDonald S&P 500 The S&P 500's composition in materials, industrials and energy will rise from current 14% to 25-30%
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[28:50] by 1981 49% of the S&P 500's composition was in materials industrials and energy 49%. We're right now maybe 14. We're nowhere near I Are we going back to 49? No. But are we going at 25 30? Yes.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2030-03-17 pending
Larry McDonald VIX The VIX will rise over the next 30 days due to Middle East problems despite government intervention attempts
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[34:27] next 30 days, um, Trump's going to try to bring out the fire hose, but you still have a lot of problems in the Middle East around like normalization. So, getting long the VIX, the VIX getting long volatility

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Kitco NEWS 2026-03-17 2026-04-16 pending