In today’s episode, Kip recaps a remarkable day for the markets, especially for the bulls. He explores the power of pattern recognition in trading, drawing on decades of market experience to discuss the importance of repeating market cycles—particularly during periods of volatility and correction. Kip shares his optimism about the structural strength of the U.S. economy, the bullish signals from semiconductors and tech stocks, and why he believes we’re at the dawn of a once-in-a-generation bull market fueled by technological innovation. Plus, he dives into actionable ideas, including opportunities in undervalued sectors and momentum plays, highlights from the semiconductor rally, and thoughts on Tesla and crypto as risk-on assets. Stay tuned for a deep dive into market cycles, investment themes, and where Kip Herriage thinks the market is headed next. Tune into today&#x27;s podcast to learn more.

VRA Podcast: Pattern Recognition and the Generational Bull Market - Kip Herriage - April 15, 2026

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Don't look back, the market is closed. Good Wednesday afternoon everyone, Kip Herriage here with the WVR Investing Podcast. Hope you had a good day today. If you're bullish, you had a very good day. Listen, I gotta be honest with you. These shakeouts, they're brutal. They just rob you of your energy. And I don't know about you, but this is kind of how I'm built. I don't sleep a lot. I get up really early, work out every morning, and ready to rock and roll.

But when these three to four week mini crashes take place, we've been covering this with you. We now have four of these in Trump's two terms. And they're almost identical. I'll walk you through that again today. I find this fast. I love repeating patterns. You find a repeating pattern that holds up, you can make a lot of money from that pattern.

And I think that's probably what I do best, is pattern recognition. And I'm not trying to pat myself on the back. I'm just saying, it's not enough to recognize a pattern. You have to take a bold move, right? And you have to execute the best trade for that pattern. And I think that's the one thing I've gotten pretty good about. I'm bad at a lot of things. I'm a very simple Texas redneck.

But I know that about myself. I don't pretend to be anything else. But I do recognize patterns because I've spent 40 years, you know, a lot of that time getting things wrong. And I just got tired of making the same mistake again, right? Definition of insanity. And so that's what we're seeing. We're seeing a lot of repeating patterns that are taking place here that are very playable. We'll talk about that a little bit more today. Just so much going on.

Our view from the beginning of this whole thing with the war has been that it was a short-term issue. We trusted Trump. We trusted the military. And we just knew the reality is that, and I've said this a bunch of times, I actually got some pushback on this from people. I don't really know why. But if you're going up against the United States and Israel in any kind of a military confrontation, just quit.

Be France. Just surrender early. Save yourself a lot of time, trouble, money, and deaths because you're going to lose. And that's what's happened here. What Trump has executed with this blockade against Iran and the strait, not the entire strait. That's what the media is reporting, you know, for the first 40 hours, right? And then they're like, oh, wait a minute. You mean he's just blocking Iran's imports and exports? Yeah, that's what he's doing. Just absolute genius. I think we'll find out that was probably the plan all along.

And now we've got China trapped. Iran, clearly this is over. They're begging for help now. They want this to end yesterday. And so that was our view from the beginning, that this would end. It would end in our favor. And that because of the moats that we have around the United States and in every economic area that there is, ...

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