VRA Investment Letter: The Comeback Kids America-Saving, Landslide Election. It's Morning in America, Again. The Trump Economic Miracle Meets The Roaring 2020's "Innovation Revolution".

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VRA Investment Letter: The Comeback Kids America-Saving, Landslide Election. It's Morning in America, Again. The Trump Economic Miracle Meets The Roaring 2020's "Innovation Revolution".

Are You Kidding Me!

Like many of you, we’re operating on no sleep and still half-shocked. President Trump (45, 47) delivered an epic, superhero-like election comeback bombshell that will go down as the greatest political story in modern history. It’s morning in America, again. God just blessed us, again. And yes, Americas best days are directly ahead.

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VRA Investment Letter: The Feds Rate Cutting Cycle Has Arrived…and the Markets Like It.

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VRA Investment Letter: The Feds Rate Cutting Cycle Has Arrived…and the Markets Like It.

Good Thursday morning. The Feds rate cutting cycle has arrived. Going against 90% of economists predictions…who predicted a .25% rate cut…J Powell and the Fed actually got this one right by cutting by .50%.

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Did you catch Kip's Latest Interview?

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Did you catch Kip's Latest Interview?

Check out Kip’s latest interview on The Root Reaction with Wayne Root.

As we see it, too many remain in the dark about the generational bull market underway, featuring soaring corporate earnings, led by consumers & companies in their best shape in decades.

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VRA Investment Update: Fox Business; When The Generals Lead, the Troops Fall in Line. Inflation Does Have An Upside.

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VRA Investment Update: Fox Business; When The Generals Lead, the Troops Fall in Line. Inflation Does Have An Upside.

Good Thursday morning. Charles Payne of Fox Business had me back on his show ‘Making Money’ yesterday and the events surrounding it were interesting. Here’s how it works: First, one of Charles producers emails you a day or two before and ask if you’re available for the show. Second, they ask you to send over your latest “hit” (VRA Letter). I’m assuming they do this so they can see whether or not what you’re saying is interesting and/or worthy of being on air. Third, they let you know whether or not you’re officially invited onto the show.

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VRA Investment Update: Textbook Front-Running Liftoff into April. Semis Are Breaking Out (again). New Buy Signal for Precious Metals and Miners.

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VRA Investment Update: Textbook Front-Running Liftoff into April. Semis Are Breaking Out (again). New Buy Signal for Precious Metals and Miners.

Good Thursday morning all. A major investing theme, as taught to me in my 20’s by both of my mentors (Ted Parsons and Mike Metz, RIP gentlemen) goes like this;

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VRA Investment Update: Shock & Awe. 10/13 Was THE day. Time for a Proper Bear Mkt Rally. Banana Republic.

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Good Friday morning all. “Shock and awe” might be the best way to describe the short covering melt-up yesterday as stocks had their best day since the end of coronavirus insanity.

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VRA Investment Update: J Powell, the Embarrassment. Is The Bear Market Over? R's Are Surging!

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Good Thursday morning all. If you were as confused as 99% of Wall Street and the English speaking people of the world were by Fed Chair J Powells presser yesterday, where he reverted to previous form and crushed the stock market, I encourage you to listen to Tylers podcast from yesterday afternoon:

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VRA Investment Update: Bear Market Ending as We Climb a BIG Wall of Worry?

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VRA Investment Update: Bear Market Ending as We Climb a BIG Wall of Worry?

Good Friday morning all. As we’ve covered over the last year, the current bear market…the 3rd in 4 years…actually started in February 2021. That’s when groups such as SPACs, meme stocks, China, biotechnology, etc hit a top and started to decline.

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VRA Investment Update: Sentiment & Seasonality Flashing Buy Signals. Q4 Rally, Here We Go.

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VRA Investment Update: Sentiment & Seasonality Flashing Buy Signals. Q4 Rally, Here We Go.

Good Thursday morning all. After solid back to back days our markets gave a bit of it back yesterday but we remain buyers into what we expect to be a solid move higher into the midterms and year end. Sentiment, seasonality and analytics are combining to make a strong case for a significant bear market rally.

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VRA Investment Update: Is This The Pivot?

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VRA Investment Update: Is This The Pivot?

The short-covering move higher to start the week marked the best start to a 4th quarter since 1938. The move may have been fueled by short covering and the extreme oversold (on steroid) conditions that we’ve been pointing out.

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Ugly Action, Seeking Capitulation - Quick Hitters

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Ugly Action, Seeking Capitulation - Quick Hitters

Good Friday morning all. After Wednesday’s 2–3% ramp higher (S&P 500, Nasdaq, R2K) it sure felt like the lows were in as we had a 90% up-volume day in NYSE with 7:1 advance/decline and as S&P 500 put in an outside day (technical buy signal).

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VRA Investment Update: The Rubber Band, Stretched Too Far. Semis; Extreme Oversold on Steroids.

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VRA Investment Update: The Rubber Band, Stretched Too Far. Semis; Extreme Oversold on Steroids.

Good Thursday morning all. Following last Friday's jobs report the markets moved sharply higher, only to give up all of its gains and then close lower by 1% across the board on concerns that Russia would cut off European gas supplies (which happened).

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The day has finally arrived...

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18 months ago, my oldest son Tyler and I set out on a labor of love. We knew it wouldn’t be easy. We figured there’d be people against us. We were right, the bannings from Twitter, Medium, PayPal and YouTube, etc proved it.

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VRA Investment Update: Q2; JP Morgan Misses, Taiwan Semi Beats. Team Lockstep. "Quite Frankly" Interview.

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Good Thursday afternoon all. Yesterday's recovery move higher, on the backs of that horrendous CPI report, was intriguing. Yes, each index finished lower but “well” off of their lows as the semis actually finished up nearly 1% with internals that were only slightly negative.

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VRA Investment Update: Smart Money Hour, New Pattern? No Recession."Insane EU Energy Agenda."

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VRA Investment Update: Smart Money Hour, New Pattern? No Recession."Insane EU Energy Agenda."

Good Thursday morning all. Tuesdays afternoon comeback was impressive (coming off of a near no-bid open…real fear) led by Nasdaq’s 400 point swing higher, and we got a glimpse of that yesterday as the Dow went from -150 to +220 in less than an hour, marking back-to-back afternoon reversals higher.

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