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VRA Letter: 50.26% Gains for VRA Portfolio in 2023. Key Investing Notes for 2024. Latest From Rich Ross. Buy the Dip in the Miners.

Good Thursday morning. 2023 marked 17/20 years that the VRA has outperformed the markets. The VRA Portfolio finished the year with gains of 50.26%, beating each US equity index (S&P 500, Dow Jones, Nasdaq, Russell 2000) with ...

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Good Thursday morning. 2023 marked 17/20 years that the VRA has outperformed the markets. The VRA Portfolio finished the year with gains of 50.26%, beating each US equity index (S&P 500, Dow Jones, Nasdaq, Russell 2000) with the Nasdaq as our closest competitor (+43.7%). Our comp each year is the Russell 2000 (similar risk profiles), which finished 2023 with gains of 15.1%.

Our top performers included:

1) NAIL (3 x Housing ETF) with gains of 262%

2) SOXL (3 x Semi ETF) with gains of 225%

3) Palantir (PLTR) with gains of 167%

4) Galaxy Digital (BRPHF) with gains of 174%

5) Multiple VRA positions with gains in the 40-50% range (TESLA, URA, XTRAF, Bitcoin)

VRA Bottom Line: it remains our (strong) view that we are in the Roaring 2020’s, powered by our “5 Big Bribe Megatrends”. This bull market will ultimately rival the 1995-2000 dot-com melt-up. As Tyler covered in his podcast yesterday, we are coming off of extreme overbought readings on the VRA Investing System, ...

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