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VRA Letter: Here Comes Santa Claus; Excellent Setup for a Year-End Move Higher. PM’s & Miners: Just Getting Started. Tesla: Momentum Building. Ross; 8000 SPX.

Good Monday morning. Heads up: we want to buy either TQQQ (3 x Nasdaq 100 ETF) or SOXL again (3 x Semi ETF). Futures are solidly higher this morning…not wild about buying higher opens…stay frosty throughout the day. Last Wed ...

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Good Monday morning. Heads up: we want to buy either TQQQ (3 x Nasdaq 100 ETF) or SOXL again (3 x Semi ETF). Futures are solidly higher this morning…not wild about buying higher opens…stay frosty throughout the day.

Last Wednesday we told you that we were 70/30 that the year-end move higher was “on”. Had it not been for “rumors of war with Venezuela" prior to Trumps address to the nation we would have been right. Regardless, Wednesdays trading marked the lows….the rally has been on since…and yes, Santa Claus is coming to town.  

With 10/12 VRA System Screens remaining bullish…that’s back up the truck territory...the mini-reset we had into late November (and then again last week) has left each of our major indexes and leading sectors in an excellent technical and fundamental position to ramp higher. These are the best looking charts we’ve seen in some time. We may be entering a broad-based, "melt-up" move higher into year end. In fact, we expect exactly that.

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