Investment Success Secrets… The Magic Of Seasonality

Money Tree Investing

Money Tree Investing Podcast

Business, Investing

4.6 • 733 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to know investment success secrets? Look no further than today's discussion! The long-dominant "buy the Magnificent 7 and forget it" tech trade is fading, with sector rotation favoring energy, materials, and staples while technology and discretionary lag. Drawing on presidential cycle data, it seems markets often experience weakness and corrections in midterm years before potential strength later, though today's backdrop of sticky inflation, high debt, and constrained Federal Reserve policy could challenge historical norms. Liquidity over politics is the true market driver and power preservation incentives may shape fiscal and economic decisions and highlights opportunities in defensive sectors and fixed income if rates fall. As always, disciplined investing is the most important: avoid ego, abandon rigid outcome-based predictions, adopt scenario-based thinking, respect price action, and define in advance when you are wrong.

We discuss...

The long-standing strategy of simply buying mega-cap tech stocks is breaking down as sector leadership rotates.
Energy, materials, and staples are outperforming while technology and discretionary stocks lag, signaling possible market-top behavior.
Historical sector rotation patterns suggest markets may be transitioning from expansion toward a late-cycle phase.
Midterm presidential years historically bring volatility and frequent 10–20% corrections before potential recovery.
Liquidity is framed as the primary force driving market cycles.
Today's environment of sticky inflation, high debt, and constrained Federal Reserve policy may weaken the reliability of historical patterns.
Defensive sectors and fixed income could benefit if growth slows and interest rates decline.
Political incentives around power preservation may influence fiscal decisions and economic optics heading into elections.
Investors are warned not to blindly "buy the dip," especially in volatile assets like crypto.
The hosts stress that price action ultimately determines whether an investment thesis is right or wrong.
Ego and overconfidence are identified as major threats to long-term investing success.
Outcome-based thinking is discouraged in favor of scenario-based planning across multiple probable outcomes.
Behavioral research shows experts often double down when wrong, reinforcing the importance of flexibility.
Successful investing requires humility, adaptability, risk management, and clearly defined exit strategies.

Today's Panelists:

Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
Douglas Heagren | Mergent College Advisors

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.
0:04.0	Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.
0:10.0	Hello, Smart MoneyT Podcasts listeners. Welcome to this week's show. My name's Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host.
0:15.0	So today I'm joining with my good friend Doug Hagrin. Hey Doug.
0:18.0	Well, I'm halfway there, Kirk. Camera issues, tech issues,
0:21.9	don't know what's going on, but, you know, people didn't come from my face. So, but I am happy to say
0:27.3	that my son has just turned 13 years old. So we've got a birthday coming up. I got another
0:33.1	teenager in the house for all you out there that can relate. I've got two now. Crazy time. Well,
0:38.5	congratulations, man. You were the ghost of the machine today without a, the voice without a
0:42.7	picture. You got a face for radio, Doug. Apparently so and officially so today. So that's not
0:49.9	going to stop us. So we're going to keep rolling. As long as we can get on, we can get going.
0:54.0	We'll get started. Well, if the audio viewers, you might have missed, but I'm wearing my tinfoil hat today to start the show. Just in honor of all of these social norms and things that you think are real, I just have to point this out because we've been bombarded with all this stuff in the last 12 months, especially, you know, since the Epstein files released. But all I have to say is it sounds like
1:15.4	Alex Jones is right. I mean, like, you know, Epstein pedophile ring, Pizza Gate, globalists,
1:21.0	UFOs, global warming, lab leaks, Hunter laptop, the government not suppressing the First Amendment,
1:26.6	W.EF, eating bugs, you know, happy owning nothing, the great reset suppressing the First Amendment, W.E.F. Eating bugs,
1:28.3	you know, happy owning nothing. The Great Reset, vaccines, chemtrails, weather manipulation,
1:32.8	geoengineering, MK Ultra. Are we living on a flat earth? That's true. I don't know.
1:39.2	I think we can officially say that the simulation is real. Yeah, I think so. I think simulation had a bug and we all see it.
1:47.9	The reptilian lizard people are living on the moon that we've never visited. You know,
1:51.8	every once in a while, you know, people talk about conspiracy theorists. Everyone says, well,
1:56.3	you're just a tinfoil hatter. And you always have to wonder like, yeah, but why do people really believe that?
2:02.8	Okay, Q&A and all that stuff, great. But now when you start to see it come out with some of
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