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VRA Letter: Anxiety About Trumps Economic Policies; Misplaced. How We’ve Been Beating the Markets. Big Week Ahead; NVDA & SOXL. The Root Reaction.

Good Monday morning. On Wednesday of last week we hit fresh all-time highs in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 (as our markets hit short-term overbought levels on the VRA System) which was followed up by Fridays 748 point loss in th ...

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Good Monday morning. On Wednesday of last week we hit fresh all-time highs in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 (as our markets hit short-term overbought levels on the VRA System) which was followed up by Fridays 748 point loss in the Dow Jones and 438 point loss in Nasdaq. We literally went from ATH’s to "the sky if falling" inside of two days, which is reflected in the Fear & Greed Index which sits at 35 (Fear) this AM.

Rarely do we have a market near ATH’s with fear this pervasive. This level of fear and anxiety, at this early stage of a bull market (entering just year 3), is much more indicative of action we see near the lows, rather than the highs.

The primary reason given for this fear, if you listen to the Wall Street PR machine, is that the US economy is slowing down. That Trumps "destructive firing practices from DOGE", combined with Trumps “dangerous tariff policies” will result in a broad based economic slowdown and hit to corporate earnings.

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