As we head into 2017, markets are still rallying on the back of Donald Trump’s unlikely ascendance to the White House.

The incoming Trump administration is widely expected to upend a lot of energy regulations put into place by President Obama, as well as rules that have been in place for decades.

Joining together with four other finance and Wall Street experts at a paid conference in Las Vegas, Tim Plaehn shares the ten stocks that will perform best no matter who wins the election in November.

With the world awash in cheap oil, analysts do not see an immediate rebound and expect more punishing times ahead. One needs to have an appetite for risk in order to invest in the energy sector today. But there are opportunities to earn big returns.

It has been a brutal six months for most investors in the energy sector. Thanks to the collapse in crude and weak natural gas prices many sub-sectors of the energy complex have been decimated, and their immediate return seems highly unlikely.

The rating downgrade rocked the country’s equities and currency, with the benchmark iBovespa index losing 1.5% and the real tumbling 1.3%.