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VRA Letter: The Train is Leaving the Station. Next up: FOMO. VRA Portfolio Structuring.

Good Tuesday morning. Our call: In the not too distant future, investors will view the war as having been a bull market reset and extraordinary buying opportunity, not unlike the v-shaped bottoms of 2018, 2020, 2025 and 2026. Ea ...

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Good Tuesday morning. Our call: In the not too distant future, investors will view the war as having been a bull market reset and extraordinary buying opportunity, not unlike the v-shaped bottoms of 2018, 2020, 2025 and 2026. Each occurred with Trump as president and featured sharp declines (below the 200 dma) that lasted approximately 4 weeks (followed by melt-up moves higher). Interesting repeating pattern. Today, the train is leaving the station. Next up: FOMO. 

From the outset of the war with Iran, our views have remained unchanged:

1) We trust Trump and our military to get the job done. Trump’s earned it and our military always earns that trust.

2) If you’re up against the US and Israel in a war, surrender early…because you have no chance.

3) We’re in the early innings of a structural/generational bull market, driven by the Trump Economic Miracle, an Innovation Revolution and an absolute ocean of liquidity. Dips and corrections will remain a buying opportunity into the...

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