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VRA Alert: Buy TNA. VRA Letter: Melt-up Bull Market Continues. Bessent on “Everything”. Fox Business Interview. Xtract One Tech.

Good Wednesday morning. We’re adding TNA (3 x Russell 2000 ETF) to the VRA Portfolio this morning. While we have excellent exposure to small caps in the Portfolio (Snowline Gold, Vista Gold, Xtract One…Falcon Oil & Gas-h ...

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Good Wednesday morning. We’re adding TNA (3 x Russell 2000 ETF) to the VRA Portfolio this morning.

While we have excellent exposure to small caps in the Portfolio (Snowline Gold, Vista Gold, Xtract One…Falcon Oil & Gas-hold rating) we’ve yet to add a leveraged ETF. It’s time to change that. Small caps are trading at their widest discount to the S&P 500 in history...when small caps get going, they get red hot. Below we see IWM (even after its monster green candle yesterday) remains 7% below its ATH from last November. That means TNA would need to rally 21% (3 x 7%) just to get back to ATH.

Alert: enter a market order to buy TNA (last $38.60). Like our positions in lev ETF’s NAIL and ERX, this will be a trading position using the VRA Investing System. We think we’ll hold TNA through at least next January (strong seasonality).

Hedge funds are aggressively shorting small caps, a contrarian buy signal.

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