skwealthacademy CEO J. Kim's Top 9 Trends for 2023

1. The Rise of Silver

Last year, I predicted the exact bottom range of silver, stating that synthetic silver futures prices between $17.00 and $17.55 would mark the bottom price for accompanying higher physical silver prices at that time on 2 September 2022.  The synthetic silver price of $17.40 set the prior day marked the bottom price for silver in 2022.

In 2023, I’m predicting at least one spurt higher in silver prices (both synthetic and physical), of 20%, that catches the majority of “analysts” completely off-guard but will continue to reward all those that followed my guidance in 2022 with silver quite handsomely.

2. Cyberattacks Against Corporations, Federal Agencies and Specifically Power Substations Increase

Given my very extensively researched 2-part series I published about global cybersecurity risk issues this year, and given that many global companies had a bad revenue year due to recessionary conditions, consequently laid off large segments of their employee population, and also skimped on adequately shoring up their cybersecurity systems in 2022, I expect major corporate/government cybersecurity attacks to proliferate in 2023 (yes, the recession already started way prior to any admission by the mass media as if you have any intelligence at all, you know not to trust mass financial media declarations about “official” events). Though corporations will feel the negative impact of ignoring a vital element of their continued viability, the disruptions that will affect us the most will be a ramp up of cyberattacks against government run entities, especially utility architecture vital in delivering services like electricity, functioning stock markets, clean water, and energy necessary for daily comforts and daily activities.

I believe that even the string of physical attacks against US power substations at the end of 2022 have made cyberattacks against them more likely in 2023. Why? One factor that keeps power substations safe from cyberattacks is their air gapped status. However, often when substations are temporarily taken offline, as happened during the string of attacks that ended 2023, air gapping status is temporarily sacrificed as part of the re-starting procedure. This provides hackers with an opportunity, when substations are temporarily connected to the world wide web, to infect energy software architecture with zero day exploits that can then lay dormant and remain undetected until they are activated to compromise hardware functionality.

So, I expect, more sustained and devastating attacks against power substations to materialize in 2023 moving forward, as this will also compromise daily business activities, and stymie economies, which also fits the narrative of the Great Reset. So, remember my five cybersecurity stock picks. Even though one of my rules for massive repeated sustained profits over time is to stick to your area of expertise, and cybersecurity, though I’ve researched this topic heavily, is not an area of expertise, we may revisit these five stocks as they’ve cratered in share price into the end of the year, with very tight exit strategies.

3. Dozens of Hedge Funds Suspend Withdrawals, Angering Clients

The number of hedge funds that suspend withdrawals, in response to a crashing US stock market, surpasses the dozens that did so during the 2008 global financial crisis, angering clients and forcing massive losses upon their clients by the time they allow withdrawals. I’ve spoken numerous times about a crashing US stock market before, including warnings to sell the US S&P500 to start 2021, so I’m not going to rehash that prediction again. The trend already started at the end of 2022, with the massively hypocritical mass media giving, for the most part, Blackrock a pass for losing $1.7 trillion of its clients’ investments in just six months, while relentlessly labeling Sam Bankman-Fried a fraud for losing $10B of his clients’ investments. In any event, Blackrock’s massive losses in its investment funds led to its decision to start limiting client withdrawals at the end of 2022. This is a trend that will not only grow more restrictive in my opinion for Blackrock in 2023 but that will manifest among dozens of funds.