VRA Investment Update: The US Economy is Accelerating (thanks #45). Investor Sentiment is Heavily Bearish…and Why That's Bullish.

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VRA Investment Update: The US Economy is Accelerating (thanks #45). Investor Sentiment is Heavily Bearish…and Why That's Bullish.

This morning we learned that weekly jobless claims came in at just 190,000, another incredibly low reading which backs up a series of economic data from the last 1–2 months that show the economy is actually accelerating, rather than slowing down.

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VRA Investing Update: The Powell Pivot. Disinflation! VRA Quick Hitters; The Bullish Case.

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VRA Investing Update: The Powell Pivot. Disinflation! VRA Quick Hitters; The Bullish Case.

The Jekyll and Hyde that is Fed Chair J Powell made another appearance yesterday, but instead of the ultra-hawisk Powell from the Jackson Hole Wyoming speech of last August (which crashed the markets) we got the sweetheart J Powell that, without question IMO, wanted to see stocks and bonds rise further still.

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VRA Investment Update: From the 10/13 Capitulation Lows and Birth of a New Bull Market to 'Overbought". Repeating Pattern Buy Signals.

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VRA Investment Update: From the 10/13 Capitulation Lows and Birth of a New Bull Market to 'Overbought". Repeating Pattern Buy Signals.

Good Friday morning all. From the 10/13/22 capitulation lows we’ve been witness to a textbook “new bull market”. It’s only just the beginning of a new bull market…one that should last years…just know that we have hit heavily overbought readings on the VRA Investing System (more on this later):

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VRA Investment Update: Textbook Early Bull Market Action. Looking for 25% Move Higher

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Good Thursday morning all. Not only was yesterday's huge move higher in stocks a textbook display of a new bull market (with semis up 5%, nasdaq +4%, leading the way higher), but we saw it in the internals as well with an 88% upside volume day for NYSE and near 7:1 advance/decline. No one was buying J Powells hawkish comments…the markets know what’s coming next (rate cuts).

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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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