Lessons from the Rare Earth Trade

Sean Brodrick, Editor of Wealth Megatrends, Supercycle Investor, Resource Trader, and contributing analyst to Weiss Ratings Daily, joins us to outline strategies for portfolio management in lieu of the underlying trends in gold, silver, copper, oil, nat gas, rare earths, antimony, tech stocks, AI stocks, and robotics stocks. He also highlights some of the trades in individual resource stocks in his portfolio.

We start off noting the strong V-shaped recovery in gold and silver and the precious metals equities since our last conversation in late October.  After the sector corrected down sharply from mid-October into early November, it then rallied strongly back up through present in mid-December.  

• Silver breaking up decisively through the October highs in late November had Sean communicating with his subscribers to get positioned into even more silver stocks over the last couple weeks.
• In the larger silver stocks Sean got repositioned in both Pan American Silver and Hecla Mining again in 2 of his respective publications and portfolios.
• He is more animated by the recent outperformance of some of his junior mining stocks, flagging the outperformance in Heliostar Metals, Vizsla Silver, and Avino Silver and Gold.

Sean makes the case for both gold and silver running much higher in the year to come.

• His medium-term target for gold is at $4,500 and then a run over $5,000 is quite doable. Longer-term he still has an upside target for gold around $6,930.
• With silver he sees an eventual run to $100 as quite possible next year, and longer-term even a move to $200 would simply bring the metal up to it’s inflation-adjusted highs.
• “I don’t think most generalist investors are going to wake up until silver gets to $100, and then they may say ‘Oh, I should add some to my portfolio.’ ”
• “It’s not too late really to buy any of the silver miners. Heck, look at our Avino Silver and Gold… it’s up 58% already and we didn’t add it that long ago.”

From there we broaden out the discussion to the whole commodity complex, which Sean believes will stay in momentum overall.

• He points to the strength in copper and copper stocks, and advises looking for domestic opportunities to participate in that megatrend as it continues to develop.
• He feels many of the metals are moving higher in sympathy with the breakout in the precious metals.
• Sean believes this commodities super-cycle will even begin to drag the lagging traditional energy sector higher once again next year, pointing to the recent strength in natural gas, and the eventual catch-up trade in oil and oil stocks.

Shifting over into some of the niche’ elements of the critical minerals sector, we discuss the outsized move higher in rare earths, antimony, and tungsten stocks in the summer into the early fall, but then the harsh correction back lower again, with many equities down 50-70% off their recent highs.

• Sean reiterates the importance of pulling partial profits when people have outsized gains in their portfolios.
• He outlined that he advised subscribers to reduce down positions in some of his big winners in rare earths, like MP Materials, and antimony like United States Antimony a couple of months ago. He also trimmed back most of those positions over the last few weeks to still lock in 106% and 85% gains respectively in the remaining portions, highlighting the importance of getting into trends early on at low prices and buying when the trends were in motion but less obvious to the broader markets.
• While he acknowledged some of these critical minerals sectors may be one of the few areas experiencing tax-loss selling this season, he still thinks investors can pick their spots and get re-positioned as these trends are not over, and China is still back to increasing their export controls on these important commodities.

Wrapping up we looked back at 2025 more big picture, and summarized a great year overall for investors, but marked with extreme moves of volatility in both directions.

• Sean pointed back to mixed start to the year, the severe market dislocations in most sectors during the April tariff tantrum lows, the strength and rebound of the precious metals, general US equities, and in particular the tech stocks.
• Sean anticipates the tech stocks continuing to garner a bid in 2026, and highlighted companies that can utilize AI to reduce headcount and improve efficiencies as big future winners.
• He also flagged the integration of AI into robotics to spur a “robot revolution” in 2026 and moving forward, noting how it takes them from stupid to thinking machines with more utility.
• He also notes that if we want to build out future robotic workforces for utilization that it is going to take quite a bit more of many commodities including copper, silver, and select rare earths.
• On the geopolitical front, all the global conflict and rearming of nations militaries are going to keep a bid in defense metals like antimony and next generation defense stocks.

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