Good 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.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Quite the mid-day reversal yesterday, immediately following the Coinbase IPO. Coinbase, which we will own in the VRA Portfolio at some point soon, debuted by popping to $429/share (priced at $250), giving it a first day market cap of $100 billion,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Breaking news this morning from the Bank of England, which stated flat-out “Banks should start preparations for negative rates, if needed”. My spidey senses tell me the BOE wouldn’t have made this statement…out of the blue…unless the odds of negative rates were not high.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Markets were less than enthused by what they heard from J Powell and the FED this week. On the one hand they said they would keep rates near zero through 2023…that’s been the case for all of 2 of the last 10 years…but on the other…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Another set of new ATH’s in S&P 500 and Nasdaq yesterday while the Dow jumped 454 points (+1.6%), putting it just 468 points from hitting its own ATH. And the internals finally improved yesterday…after two weeks of “blah” readings. Good to see.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Yesterdays 1800 point loss in the Dow is being met with +600 point gains in futures. I’ll be surprised if these gains hold. After a 48% 2-month move higher and then yesterdays -7% drop and the “hideous” internals (among the worst in history,
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. 7 trading days ago we were hitting all-time highs with our most overbought conditions since Trump was elected (put-call ratio, momentum oscillators and % of S&P 500 over 200 dma). Both Barrons and Forbes told us, on their covers no less,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Impeachment headed to senate…no one seems to care…as it should be. US-China phase 1 trade deal…no one seems to care…that’s a major mistake in our view. To understand just how big of an accomplishment…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Yesterday President Trump was impeached in the House. Regardless of how right or wrong it may be, get ready for non-stop never-Trump MSM coverage and political ads with “Trump is only the 2nd president in modern times to be impeached”.
Read MoreGood Thursday afternoon all. For today’s update, we want to get into PM’s and miners. PRECIOUS METALS AND MINERS For our newer VRA Readers, a quick trip down memory lane. In our second ever VRA Update (2003) we recommended gold and silver,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. As expected, the FED cut rates by .25% to a range of 1.5% — 1.75%. For us, it’s increasingly hard to take Powell and his merry band of FED Governors seriously. On the one hand, they just told us that the rate cut was motivated (in part) by “negative global developments”…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Our major U.S. indexes opened lower this morning as the U.S. administration is applying maximum pressure on China via attempts (along with US allies) to essentially shut Huawei down. Huawei is huge. As the largest telecommunications manufacturer on the planet…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. All eyes are on US-China trade talks in DC, where Trump has announced that beginning Friday, tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports will rise from 10% to 25%. Frankly, this amount is not a big concern.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Our broad market recovery move higher continued yesterday as FOMC minutes were released that showed Chairman J Powell and Fed Governors explicitly “meant to say” that their December rate hike came with dovish expectations going forward…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Hitting as many quick hitters as possible this morning. 1) One of my investing icons has always been Peter Lynch, of Fidelity Magellan fame and author of one of the best investment books you’ll ever read…
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. I’ll repeat…December ’18 will be viewed as an aberration. A perfect storm of stock market negativity…90% of it structural/political…that marked significant long term lows. And we have some hard evidence to back it up.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. As expected, J Powell’s Fed hiked rates to 2.5% yesterday. The DJ had hit an intraday high of +330 just moments earlier…then Powell started talking…. -500 DJ within 30 minutes, before closing -351. Powell said two things that sent the markets lower (850 point swing in the DJ):
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. While US markets gave up more than half of their gains yesterday, with the DJ closing +157 (from 450 pt highs), we did see a pattern change. Maybe an important one. Check out the internals from yesterday. Better than 2–1 advance/decline and a big 3–1 up/down volume.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. What a week. The Fed admits they screwed up and the DJ rallies 1000 points for the week. The 10%+ correction that should never have happened. My mentors (RIP Ted Parsons and Michael Metz) taught me so much about the psychology of investing. The emotions of money…wow.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Some quick hitters to start the day. Third quarter earnings have absolutely killed it….regardless of how the markets have responded to the results. Yes, we want to watch the “reaction” to the news rather than the news itself, but until we see a semblance of proof that the US economy is decelerating,
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