Good Thursday morning all. Garlic strong day yesterday, as word broke out that Ukraine President Zelensky was backing away from his requests to join NATO. Yes folks, the entirety of Russia’s invasion was due to this issue.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. As we start trading today the VRA Portfolio is up 17.6% in 2022. That compares to losses of 10-14% in our broad markets. Folks, this feels like on of those years for our stocks. I remember this feeling, similar to the years we’ve put up 100-200% + net gains.
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While everyone was panicking yesterday morning, we were buyers. We never forget the people in our lives that made the biggest impressions. Professionally, that’s my first mentor Ted Parsons (RIP Ted). Ted’s mentor worked on Wall Street during the crash….
Read MoreEven as countries all over the world adopted elements of fascism (most all but Sweden, really), for those that still couldn’t see CV insanity as the “plandemic” that it is, after Canada’s invocation of the Emergency Act…full-on hard-core fascism from our northern neighbor…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. The much awaited CPI data is out and its a hot number, with inflation hitting a 40 year high as the CPI posts a 7.5% annual gain in January. Honestly, don’t most of us look at this number and say “what do you mean it only rose 7.5% year over year…based on what I’m paying for stuff it feels much more….
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Following another wild day in the markets, here’s what looks to matter most. The last 3 days have brought severe intraday weakness…Powell made sure of that yesterday…but on each of the 3 days the smart money hour was “bullish”.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. A big about-face in the markets yesterday, as another weak smart money hour brought steady selling pressures, with each index finishing right at their lows of the day. Nasdaq has now fallen into correction territory, down 10.7%
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. After a solid open, following the worst inflation data in the US in almost 40 years, the markets traded listlessly throughout the rest of the day but importantly, the internals do continue to show improvement.It’s not the news that matters most, it’s the markets reaction to that news.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. The good news? Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones hit (intraday) all-time highs yesterday. The bad news? It didn’t last long. Following the FOMC minutes, with news that several on the Fed say they want to have “multiple rate hikes,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Back to back excellent days, with strong smart money hours and market internals to match. In addition, tech/semis are leading the way, with seasonally bullish small caps charging higher. If you’re a market timer, these are the short term, heavily bullish signals you look for.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. From +518 to -461 at the close, the Dow Jones had a near 1000 point reversal lower yesterday. An even larger percentage decline occurred in Nasdaq, which had a near 600 point swing.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all and hope everyone in the states had a great Thanksgiving. Half day of trading in the US today. We went to bed last night with Dow futures -300 on fears of a new CV variant out of South Africa (uh-huh) and we woke up to losses of -800.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Rather ugly day yesterday with a sell-off throughout the smart money hour into the close. And it was the 3rd day in a row with negative A/D for NYSE. It’s been a couple months since we’ve seen that. Weak internals across the board; 2:1 losses in both A/D and volume.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Yesterdays trading…actually the last 2 days of trading…have served as an important reminder that until we break the pattern of market sell-offs/pauses that’s been in place from March (once reaching extreme OB on VRA System momentum oscillators), we must continue to respect this pattern.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Yesterday brought massive intraday reversals higher, with the Dow Jones gaining 560 points off the lows to finish +102. Seeing follow through this AM with Dow futures + 280. Real fear started coming into the market yesterday morning. Music to a contrarians ears.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. It has been a mixed week for our markets as higher interest rates and our leadership tech/growth stocks tend not to be besties. As we are wrapping up the worst 30 day period for the markets but also as we prepare to enter the best 7 months for the markets (October- May, going back some 70 years) …
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Following yesterday's ramp higher US markets (DJ, SPX) are sporting gains of 40% from their 3/23 lows, with internals that continue to point to strength but also with our markets hitting extreme overbought.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Not only was yesterday a big up day across the board, with gains of 1% to 1.5% in each of our broad market indexes (small caps led the way, +1.51%. Importantly we had confirmation from the internals, namely in NYSE up-volume,
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Some interesting data here; for the last 6 months the markets have sold off into today’s options expiration, with those Friday lows marking THE lows into months end. And here’s MORE bullishly compelling data from our investor sentiment surveys.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. As we welcome new VRA Members it’s important that we’re all on the same page. That means understanding the VRA Investing System, ensuring that we are positioned to crush Mr. Market. As we begin trading today, the VRA System sits at 9/12 Screens Bullish.
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