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Salesforce, ServiceNow and Abercrombie all jumped double digits this week, and our forecasts had every one of them flagged first.
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Weekly Newsletter | August 30th, 2026


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Salesforce, ServiceNow and Abercrombie all jumped double digits this week - get this week's top stock picks, the same forecasts that had every one of them flagged first.
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  • Best Tech Stocks Based on Stock Algorithm: Returns up to 20.5% in 3 Days
  • Best Robinhood Stocks Based on Pattern Recognition: Returns up to 24.62% in 7 Days
  • High Short Interest Stocks Based on Pattern Recognition: Returns up to 41.56% in 14 Days
  • Best Tech Stocks Based on AI: Returns up to 66.82% in 1 Month
  • Hack Cybersecurity Stocks Based on Deep Learning: Returns up to 54.07% in 3 Months
  • Tech Stocks Based on Genetic Algorithms: Returns up to 479.6% in 1 Year
This Week's Article Picks: Return Since Pick Date
Adobe Inc (ADBE)
 
+41.27%
Apple Inc (AAPL)
   
+19.46%
Uber Technologies (UBER)
   
+10.35%
  • Adobe Inc (ADBE) is up 41.27% since June 15th, 2026, on Adobe's recurring subscription model and its generative AI integration across creative workflows, with a blended valuation pointing to roughly 31.7% upside and a target of $317.97 per share.
 
  • Apple Inc (AAPL) is up 19.46% since April 27th, 2026, even as our valuation work flagged Apple as a premium name at a premium price, trading near 30 times earnings against a discounted cash flow fair value of $271.78, with Services growth offset by rising memory costs and a maturing smartphone market.
 
  • Uber Technologies Inc (UBER) is up 10.35% since June 22nd, 2026, as operating margin swung from negative 22% in 2021 to 10.7% in 2025 and net margin reached 15.9% against a peer average of 6.6%, with our discounted cash flow model placing intrinsic value at $119 per share.
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Weekly Winning Forecasts

3 Days
Options Predictions21.29% Return
Best Tech Stocks20.5% Return
Best Stocks To Buy20.5% Return
7 Days
Best Robinhood Stocks24.62% Return
Quantitative Trading41.33% Return
Best Stocks To Buy24.47% Return
14 Days
High Short Interest Stocks41.56% Return
Russell 2000 Stocks36.39% Return
Best Mid Cap Stocks37.85% Return
1 Month
Best Tech Stocks66.82% Return
Best Mid Cap Stocks44.81% Return
ARK ETF Stocks Forecast Portfolio64.52% Return
3 Months
HACK Cybersecurity Stocks54.07% Return
Russell 3000 Stocks73.83% Return
Insurance Stocks31.9% Return
1 Year
Tech Stocks479.6% Return
Megacap Stocks240.35% Return
Best Stocks To Buy201.4% Return
Cryptocurrencies
3 Days: Up to 21.29% Returns
7 Days: Up to 32.02% Returns
Commodities
14 Days: Up to 15.19% Returns
1 Year: Up to 65.05% Returns
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[LIVE Webinar] AI-Recommended Stocks for September 2026: Top Picks from the US Market – September 6, 11:00 AM ET

Our next live session walks through the stocks the algorithm favors heading into September. We go through the US market names carrying the strongest signals and explain the reasoning behind each one.

  • Sunday, September 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM ET.
  • Free registration, with a limited number of seats.
  • Live walkthrough of the algorithm's top US market picks for September.
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Best Stock Predictions of the Week Based on AI: Returns up to 66.82%

The algorithm's top calls from late August span tech giants, small caps and options, with Wix leading the board at 66.82% over one month. Several of the names moved sharply within days of being flagged.

  • WIX led the 1 Month Tech Giants forecast at 66.82%, and the full 10 stock package finished 10 for 10 correct at a 26.8% average return against 4.3% for the S&P 500.
  • Enterprise software carried the week: Salesforce returned 20.5% in 3 days, ServiceNow 40.14% in 1 month and Guidewire 6.29%, all posting sharp moves this cycle.
  • Abercrombie and Fitch returned 36.39% after ranking first in the Russell 2000 forecast 12 days before a single-session jump of more than 35%.
  • MicroStrategy returned 49.89% in the Implied Volatility Options package, riding bitcoin's August rally on its 840,000-plus coin treasury position.
  • Every forecast referenced here published before the stock's move, across the 3 day, 14 day and 1 month windows.
The pattern across the board this week: positioned ahead of the event, not reacting to it.
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AI Portfolio: 3.60-Point Outperformance in the First 10 Days

Period 19 of the AI Portfolio opened August 19 and is already running well ahead of the market ten days in. It is not too late to join the current period before it closes on September 16.

  • Period 19 return so far: +3.64% against +0.05% for the S&P 500, an outperformance of 3.60 percentage points.
  • The period covers August 19 through September 16, 2026.
  • The algorithm selects ten fresh positions each cycle, with no carryover from the previous period.
  • Joining mid-period still means holding the same ten names as investors who joined on day one.
  • The next rebalance follows on September 16, 2026.
This is a live and documented record, not a backtest.
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Are Stock Markets as Unpredictable as We Think?

Skeptics argue AI cannot consistently beat markets because the data is noisy and constantly shifting. We make the case that reinforcement learning combined with chaos theory can still find reliable signal underneath that noise.

  • Our models reconfigure daily as new market data arrives, learning from what worked and what didn't rather than overfitting to history.
  • Reliable market records go back roughly 118 years, but for time series prediction, capturing seasonal patterns matters more than raw dataset size.
  • Stock markets show fat-tailed distributions where extreme moves happen more often than standard statistical models expect, and fractal analysis filters that noise better than classical methods.
  • Humans bring causality and judgment to a decision; AI brings pattern recognition and speed. The strongest results combine both rather than removing the human entirely.
  • We address the counterargument directly: recent criticism holds that nonstationary data and market complexity are still too large a barrier for near-term AI outperformance.
Our position: markets are largely predictable, even if no model reaches 100% accuracy.
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MELI Stock Forecast: Commerce and Fintech Scale

MercadoLibre's second quarter showed exceptional volume growth across commerce and fintech, though profitability stays pressured by aggressive reinvestment. Our discounted cash flow work puts fair value at $1,884.81 per share, a narrow 3.3% above the current price.

  • Q2 2026 net revenue reached $10.17 billion, up 50% year over year, with GMV of $21.9 billion and 89 million unique active buyers.
  • Fair value of $1,884.81 per share sits just 3.3% above the $1,824.34 closing price, a thin margin of safety.
  • The model assumes EBIT margin expands from 10% in fiscal 2026 to 18% by fiscal 2030, a recovery that continued shipping subsidies could delay.
  • 81.8% of enterprise value comes from terminal value, which makes the estimate highly sensitive to discount rate and growth assumptions.
  • Our separate ARK ETF forecast package also carries MELI, and that package returned up to 64.52% over the past month.
Rating: Hold, cautious accumulate on a 12 to 24 month horizon.
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CEO Weekly Letter

Dear Fellow Investors,

The S&P 500 rose 0.49% this week to close at 7,711.76. The Nasdaq gained 0.85% to 26,402.42, and the Dow added 0.53% to 53,559.99. The Russell 2000 was the outlier, falling 1.51% to 2,972.37 while the large cap indices climbed.

The story underneath those numbers was a handful of sharp individual moves, and our forecasts had them flagged first.

Salesforce, ServiceNow and Abercrombie, Called Before the Jump

Our Best Tech Stocks package covering the three sessions from August 24 to August 27 was in subscribers' hands before that window opened, and Salesforce topped it with a 20.5% return. The stock itself moved from $205.62 to $252.05 in a single session on August 27.

ServiceNow moved the same day, from $125.80 to $138.43, a 10.0% jump, then extended to $144.71 by August 28. Our forecasts had ServiceNow up to 40.14% over the trailing month, part of the same enterprise software group that moved sharply this cycle.

And twelve days before any of that, our Russell 2000 Stocks package ranked Abercrombie & Fitch first with a 36.39% return over the 14-day window. The stock jumped from $108.90 to $147.75 on August 26, a 35.7% single day move.

Three names, three different packages, three different horizons. All three were published ahead of the print, not after it, which is the only version of this that means anything.

Nvidia and Adobe Moved With the Group

Our Best Tech Stocks Based on AI package, covering the trailing month, returned up to 66.82% led by Wix, with all ten names in the package finishing correct at a 26.8% average return against 4.3% for the S&P 500. Nvidia sits inside that same ten-name package. The stock itself moved from $209.66 to $227.98 on August 27, an 8.7% single-session gain, before easing back to $217.55 the next day.

Adobe moved with the same group, from $273.47 to $289.15 on August 27, a 5.7% gain that carried through to $291.52 by August 28. We don't have a standalone published forecast on Adobe this week, but our daily signal on the name is positive across every one of the six horizons we track, consistent with a stock still finding a bid alongside the rest of software.

The Divergence We Flagged Back in July

Both names were called out in our piece on building a trading process around the algorithm for a specific pattern: a signal trending down for a stretch, then flipping and climbing into positive territory while the stock itself barely moves. That gap between signal and price is the setup worth watching.

Adobe (ADBE) one year signal climbing while price lags, June to July 2026
Adobe was down more than 70% from its 2024 highs when this pattern started. On June 14th the one year signal sat at 43. Less than a month later it was at 126, even though the stock itself was down 1.35% over that span. HSBC then upgraded Adobe from hold to buy with a $308 price target, roughly 40% upside from where it traded at the time, and the signal climbed further to 197. Since that July 6th reading, Adobe is up 33.68%.

ServiceNow (NOW) one year signal climbing while price lags, June to July 2026
ServiceNow showed the same gap. On June 11th the signal was at 174. It has since climbed to well over 500, while the stock itself was up only about 5% over that same stretch. Since that July 6th reading, ServiceNow is up 34.08%.

Both names are still on our watchlist as an ongoing setup, and both are also this week's biggest movers among the group covered above.

Most Notable Forecasts This Week

Best Tech Stocks – 3 Days: Up to 20.5% Return
Salesforce topped this package days before the stock moved more than 20% in a single session.

Best Robinhood Stocks – 7 Days: Up to 24.62% Return
Pattern recognition on the retail favourites, up to 24.62% over the week.

High Short Interest Stocks – 14 Days: Up to 41.56% Return
Up to 41.56% over two weeks in the most heavily shorted names.

Best Tech Stocks Based on AI – 1 Month: Up to 66.82% Return
Ten for ten correct, led by Wix, with Nvidia among the names in the package.

HACK Cybersecurity Stocks – 3 Months: Up to 54.07% Return
Up to 54.07% across the quarter as security spending stays resilient.

Tech Stocks Based on Genetic Algorithms – 1 Year: Up to 479.6% Return
The single largest figure across all six horizons this week, led by Western Digital.

Top Signals This Cycle
Best Tech Stocks (3 Days)
   
+20.5%
Best Robinhood Stocks (7 Days)
   
+24.62%
High Short Interest Stocks (14 Days)
   
+41.56%
Best Tech Stocks Based on AI (1 Month)
   
+66.82%
HACK Cybersecurity Stocks (3 Months)
   
+54.07%
Tech Stocks Based on Genetic Algorithms (1 Year)
 
+479.6%
Bar lengths are drawn on a square-root scale so the shorter horizons remain readable alongside the 1-year figure.

Look at the composition. Four of the six packages this week are technology names in one form or another, and three of the individual stocks behind those returns, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Nvidia, posted real one-day price moves of 8% or more this week. The algorithm was positioned in that corner of the market before the prints, not after them.

AI Portfolio Period 19 Is Already Ahead
AI Portfolio (Period 19, to date)
 
+3.64%
S&P 500 (Same Period)
   
+0.05%
Our AI-Powered Portfolio opened Period 19 on August 19 and runs through September 16. Ten trading days in, the period is running 3.60 percentage points ahead of the S&P 500. This is a live and documented record, not a backtest.

Because the algorithm rebuilds the ten holdings from scratch each cycle, joining now still means holding the same names as someone who joined on day one. The next rebalance follows on September 16.

Join Us Live on September 6

Our next webinar, AI-Recommended Stocks for September 2026: Top Picks from the US Market, runs Sunday, September 6 at 11:00 AM Eastern. We will go through the US market names carrying the strongest signals into September and explain the reasoning behind each one, then take questions. Registration is free and seats are limited.

Two Ways to Stay Engaged
1. Get Daily AI Forecasts : new picks across 6 time frames, every morning.
2. AI Monthly Portfolio : 10 stocks and ETFs, rebalanced every 4 weeks. The current period opened Wednesday, August 19.

The algorithm is speaking again. Are you listening?

Warm regards,
Yaron Golgher CEO and Co-Founder, I Know First


Past performance is not indicative of future results. All investments involve risk. Short selling and options trading carry significant risks and are not suitable for all investors. I Know First forecasts are algorithmic signals intended to supplement, not replace, independent investment analysis and professional financial guidance.

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