Wealth manager: S&P 500 roaring ahead

The strongest signs that stocks have farther to climb are in second-quarter earnings results, Mary Ann Bartels of Bank of America Merrill Lynch said Friday.

"They're actually not that bad, and what I really liked about going into earnings season, if you looked at the three-month revisions in earnings for the financials sector, they were the strongest in the S&P," she said.

"And, voila, the banks reported really good earnings. And we have the banks breaking out with stronger earnings, and I thought that was a really good sign that the markets could go higher."

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On CNBC's "Fast Money," Bartels identified the level that keeps the market in bullish territory.

"As long as you're above 1,650, I think the market's fine," she said.

The S&P 500 closed at 1,691.65, up 1.4 points.

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Bartels also said that a rotation was happening from bonds back into equities and out of bonds in the broader market, as well as within her portfolio's holdings.

Gold miners, she added, held upside potential.

"If you actually look at where the gold miners are, they're not that far off from their 2008 lows," Bartels said.

"And if you really believe the metal's going higher, the most depressed part would be the actual stock. So, at this stage, I would rather buy the mining stocks than actually go into gold."

Bartels said that she would still recommend the precious metal as being a hedge within a portfolio.

"But we don't recommend a lot," she added. "Maybe around 2 or 3 percent."

Energy stocks, too, were compelling, Bartels said.

"There's a lot of exciting things going on at the theme level," she added.

— By CNBC's Bruno J. Navarro. Follow him on Twitter @Bruno_J_Navarro.

— CNBC's Torrey Kleinman contributed research to this report.

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