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The Year-End Moves No One’s Watching

Markets don’t wait — and year-end waits even less.

In the final stretch, money rotates, funds window-dress, tax-loss selling meets bottom-fishing, and “Santa Rally” chatter turns into real tape. Most people notice after the move.

Elite Trade Club is your morning shortcut: a curated selection of the setups that still matter this year — the headlines that move stocks, catalysts on deck, and where smart money is positioning before New Year’s. One read. Five minutes. Actionable clarity.

If you want to start 2026 from a stronger spot, finish 2025 prepared. Join 200K+ traders who open our premarket briefing, place their plan, and let the open come to them.

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How to Stay Profitable in Any Market

The investors who win aren’t the ones who predict the market — they’re the ones who adjust to it.

Most people approach real estate like they approach the weather: they check the forecast, argue about the forecast, and then act surprised when it rains. Market shifts send inexperienced investors into panic or paralysis. Seasoned investors simply tilt the umbrella, keep walking, and maybe buy the building next door while everyone else runs for cover.

There’s a secret here:

The money isn’t made by avoiding market shifts—it’s made by understanding them.

Let’s break down how to profit when the ground moves.

1. When Prices Rise: Become the Seller, Not the Shopper

If you’re in the middle of a price surge, your smartest move may be to sell the inventory that’s ready and bank the spread. Buyers become emotional in rising markets — FOMO is a powerful force. Plato warned that emotion clouds judgment; he wasn’t talking about the 2021 housing market, but he could have been.

This is not the time to chase new acquisitions that barely pencil out.

This is the time to realize gains.

A Word of Warning: Don’t Ignore Depreciation Recapture

If you’ve been holding rentals and you decide to sell during a price surge, don’t forget one of the IRS’s favorite revenue generators: depreciation recapture.

Too many investors celebrate their “profit” only to discover that a large chunk of it was already claimed. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sell — only that professionals model recapture before listing, not after closing.

2. When Prices Stall: Shift to Cash Flow

Flat markets make wealthy professionals.

Why? Because leverage returns, competition widens, and reasonable sellers once again walk the earth.

This is the time to build the portfolio — not chase unicorns.

3. When Inventory Rises: Buy Value, Not Headlines

High inventory means rationality has returned. Buy the ugly houses, the stale listings, the homes with solvable problems. Forget the news cycle; opportunity lives in the details.

4. When Rates Rise: Get Creative

Rate hikes thin the herd, leaving motivated sellers and flexible opportunities:

• Seller financing

• Sub-to and wraps

• Lease options

• Rate buydowns

• Combo structures

Creativity isn’t flair — it’s profit.

5. When Markets Drop: Buy Courageously, Hold Patiently

Downturns are when wealth transfers from the impatient to the prepared.

In the words of Warren Buffett: “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

Buy quality.

Wait.

Let time do its work.

6. Build a Playbook for Each Market Type

Your strategy should adjust as the market does. Predicting is optional; adapting is mandatory.

Smart investors don’t guess the future.

They prepare for every version of it.

The Bottom Line

Markets shift.

They always have.

They always will.

The investors who thrive aren’t prophets — they’re practitioners. They follow the movement, stay flexible, and capitalize on the shape the opportunity takes.

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