1-28-25: Catch a Wave and You’re Sitting on Top of the World

by Jason Bodner

January 28, 2025

In December 2004, I was in Thailand on vacation with my wife and 3-month-old son. Then the unthinkable happened. The Boxing Day Tsunami hit, killing over 300,000 people. We were fortunate enough to head for higher ground as soon as we heard the silence of the birds around us, so we escaped unharmed, but it taught me a permanent lesson about the power of nature, in this case the power of waves.

Waves often cancel each other out. For noise cancelling technology, small microphones listen for steady waves and pump inverted waves into your earphones. The crests and troughs offset, cancelling the noise.

But what happens when the crests and troughs are added, or multiplied? The noise gets louder! This is the concept of amplification. A wave amplified is correlated to the square… for instance, a wave amplified by double yields four times more energy. A wave amplified three-fold yields nine times the energy.

Imagine then, a bull market for stocks encountering a triple-amplified wave – or a bear market doing the same, as when the housing crisis was linked with failing derivatives and low yields in 2008.

But what about when three very positive forces come together? What will happen to stocks then? Is a nine-fold increase in market energy possible?  I think so, and I don’t like to fight the laws of science.

What I see already happening is the perfect alignment of three powerful market moving waves, which makes it possible that we will see a 9x event in the stock market starting in 2025. Either way, something huge is coming, or is already here, a rare alignment of three powerful market forces aligning perfectly.

The tsunami stems from the fact that Trump is back and has learned from his prior mistakes. His pen is already swiping faster than the eye can see with new executive orders. He is pro-small business, anti-tax, and will pressure for lower rates, so here are the three events that could propel stocks higher.