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The stock market is increasingly being driven by Trump and his agenda for his second term. If you’re looking to make money in this market, focusing on these items has been working well.

Consider what has taken place with Meta (META).

Historically, META’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been left leaning in his political views. He wasn’t just verbal in his politics either: he spent $400 million helping the Democrats defeat Trump in 2020.

With this in mind, one of the biggest “tells” that Trump would win the election was when Zuckerberg pivoted politically away from the left. In late August, he penned a letter to Congress claiming that he didn’t want to suppress right wing views on META but had done so due to pressure from the Biden administration. This was quite a move as polls had Harris leading at the time.

However, polls are quite inaccurate (as we’ve discovered this election cycle). But Zuckerberg had/has access to one of the greatest databases for voter behavior in the world via META. Americans might not tell pollsters who they intend to vote for, but you better believe they’re revealing that in private to their family and friends on social media. In this sense, Zuckerberg’s political pivot had less to do with true repentance for prior transgressions and more to do with pragmatism: he saw voters were going to deliver a landslide victory to Trump and was positioning himself and his company accordingly.

Having said that, once Trump won on November 5th, META shares lagged as investors were uncertain whether Trump would seek vengeance for Zuckerberg’s prior political actions. While the overall market exploded higher on election night (red line in the chart below), META shares (black line in the chart below) failed to participate.

Then Zuckerberg had dinner with Trump on November 27th, and META shares EXPLODED higher. They’re now up 6% since that date, having broken through critical overhead resistance (red line in the chart below) and soaring to new all-time highs.

Bear in mind, literally NOTHING changed about META’s business during this time other than Zuckerberg cozying up to Trump and publicly stating that he’d love to have a role in Trump’s new administration. But as you can see for yourself, those developments had a MAJOR impact on META’s share price action.

So again, as I stated at the beginning of this article, The stock market is increasingly being driven by Trump and his agenda for his second term. If you’re looking to make money in this market, focusing on these items has been working well.

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