VRA Update: Nailed it. Steroid-like Move Higher, Melt-up. VRA Market/Portfolio Review. 68% Average Gain on All VRA Buy Recommendations.

VRA Update: Nailed it. Steroid-like Move Higher, Melt-up. VRA Market/Portfolio Review. 68% Average Gain on All VRA Buy Recommendations.

Good Thursday morning all. Another big green day in US and global stock markets as bears capitulate, by covering their shorts, and then add to the already surging buyside volumes by then going long themselves. This is the nature of how a big move higher in the stock market occurs…

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VRA Update: Rally Caps Engaged. Double Bottom, 800 point DJ Surge.

VRA Update: Rally Caps Engaged. Double Bottom, 800 point DJ Surge.

Fear and greed moves the markets, most certainly at extremes, and have we ever seen plenty of fear and greed over just the last few days. The MSM flipped from wall to wall coverage of “Russia Russia Russia” to “China China China”,

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VRA Market Update. January Barometer. Higher Rates Causing Concern. Investor Sentiment. Perspective.

VRA Market Update. January Barometer. Higher Rates Causing Concern. Investor Sentiment. Perspective.

At the beginning of 2018 I made the comment (to anyone that would listen pretty much) that I believed this year would our best year…possibly ever…for the VRA Portfolio and our bottom line results. If that sounded like marketing rhetoric,

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VRA Update: The Next Catalyst for stocks, DOW 40K and the Trump Infrastructure Plan

VRA Update: The Next Catalyst for stocks, DOW 40K and the Trump Infrastructure Plan

One of the advantages this week of waking at 3am has been watching the events at the annual Davos World Economic Forum (Switzerland), where the global warming/global cooling/climate change establishment billionaire elites take their fuel guzzling private jets to meet each year to remind us peons that “they got this”.

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VRA Weekly Update 12/29/17: Happy New Year! The January Effect. VRA 2018 Game Plan.

VRA Weekly Update 12/29/17: Happy New Year! The January Effect. VRA 2018 Game Plan.

Good Friday Morning All, In March of this year I predicted DJ 25,000. We’re almost there. Today, I could not be more bullish. Not on the economy, not on the markets and not on the future of our great country. How weird was it that everyone was proudly saying “Merry Christmas” again this year …

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VRA Update: Tax Bill Volatility. FED Rate Hike. Fresh All Time Highs fro 2018. Gold v Bitcoin

VRA Update: Tax Bill Volatility. FED Rate Hike. Fresh All Time Highs fro 2018. Gold v Bitcoin

Good Friday morning all. Busy week with Tax Reform and the FED Rate Hike, I will get right to it. The FED acted just as we expected, hiking rates by .25%, the 5th rate hike since December 2015. Yellen had a number of interesting comments at her presser as well.

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VRA Weekly Recap 12/8/17: Market internals and the Fed Rate Hike

VRA Weekly Recap 12/8/17: Market internals and the Fed Rate Hike

Good Friday Morning All, After running VRA System scans I can report that last weeks wild trading (from last Fridays flash crash, the market has been volatile) has significantly reduced the overbought status of each US major equity index. Again,

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VRA Update: 1 Year Election Anniversary. Bull Market to Ramp Higher Into Year End. Precious Metals and Miners.

VRA Update: 1 Year Election Anniversary. Bull Market to Ramp Higher Into Year End. Precious Metals and Miners.

Good Wednesday morning all. Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the election of #45, President Donald Trump. Love him or not, here are the bottom line investment results since 11/8/16. S&P 500: +21% Dow Jones: +28% Nasdaq: +30%

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Insider Trading and Financial Anomalies Surrounding the Las Vegas Attack

Insider Trading and Financial Anomalies Surrounding the Las Vegas Attack

Insider Trading and Financial Anomalies Surrounding the Las Vegas Attack October 7, 2017 Note: With this report, I make no claim to specific knowledge of any wrongdoing or improprieties. Instead, this report includes trading patterns, news releases and/or public record SEC filings.

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VRA Update: The Stars Are Lining up Perfectly for Precious Metals and Miners

VRA Update: The Stars Are Lining up Perfectly for Precious Metals and Miners

VRA Update: The Stars Are Lining up Perfectly for Precious Metals and Miners. Aug 10, 2017 Good Thursday morning all. First this morning, a couple of important VRA reminders...for both our LT Subscribers and especially our newbies. My investing style is hyper aggressive...if you're looking for safe, mutual fund type returns, I am probably not your guy.

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VRA Update: Something Big is Brewing in Precious Metals and Miners

VRA Update: Something Big is Brewing in Precious Metals and Miners

My love affair with gold and silver...precious metals...goes back to when I was about 16. I listened in on a meeting with my father and a financial advisor as the advisor convinced my father to buy gold at $800/ounce. As you can see in the chart below, gold then proceeded to drop to $290/ounce over just the next couple of years.

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VRA Update: Dow Theory BIG Buy Signal. Investor Sentiment Buy Signals Continue.

VRA Update: Dow Theory BIG Buy Signal. Investor Sentiment Buy Signals Continue.

VRA Update: Dow Theory BIG Buy Signal. Investor Sentiment Buy Signals Continue. The markets continue to flash buy signal after buy signal as FED Chair Yellen hints loudly that we may see only modest rate hikes going forward...looks like someone is trying to keep their job (her term ends early 2018 and the inside word is that Trump is looking to replace her).

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VRA Update: Housing is Rocking. Perma-Bears Continue to Amaze.

VRA Update: Housing is Rocking. Perma-Bears Continue to Amaze.

The Trump-mania bull market continues with no signs of slowing down. The VRA has been bullish on US markets since early 2013 and my LT targets remain in place...Dow Jones 25,000 on the low side...but what's more likely is a massive blow-off rally phase that sees the DJ top 30,000. All before the end of Trumps (first) term.

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VRA Update: VRA System Analysis. The Bubble Lives On. Dow Jones 25K

VRA Update: VRA System Analysis. The Bubble Lives On. Dow Jones 25K

Before we get to the VRA Trading & Investing System Analysis, some observations on "The Bubble" we are witness to today...a bubble that mankind has never seen the likes of...and that just a decade ago would have been too bizarre to turn into a book or movie...

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VRA Update: Trump's Pattern Change. It's Time for Insurance

Because pattern/trend analysis is such an important investing concept for active (and passive) investors, it's time that we address the politlcal elephant in the room...the possibility that the Donald Trump of the campaign trail may not be the same Donald Trump that we now have as President. The possibility that a pattern change is occuring...

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VRA Update: Wait Til May, To Sell and Go Away

VRA Update: Wait Til May, To Sell and Go Away

All week long, the markets have rallied back off of opening losses...just as we expected...with solid moves higher off of 21 dma, 50dma and 100 dma. Nothing about this market says "sell". Remember, April is historically the strongest month for stocks, with a 1.9% average gain going back to 1950…

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VRA Alert: My “Stock of the Century” Just Soared 285% in 30 Days.

I predicted that 2017 would be my best year ever. Looks like another of my predictions is coming true. But here’s what makes it that much sweeter…I so love destroying Wall Street’s shell game! My “Stock of the Century”, following a most important news release, has just rocketed 285% higher...in just the last 30 days…

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