VTI and VTV: A Study in Contrasts

Let us examine their vital statistics, though numbers often lie like diplomats at a banquet.

Let us examine their vital statistics, though numbers often lie like diplomats at a banquet.
This triumph ended a seven-day outflow streak-a veritable financial exodus of £1.12 billion-that had left investors clutching their portfolios like a Victorian maiden clutching her pearls. A welcome respite, if you’ll pardon the pun.

VEA’s got more assets than a widow’s inheritance – $260 billion to SPDW’s $33.5. Same 0.03% fee, but VEA’s yield’s higher, if you’re into that sort of thing. Both funds twitched like corpses in a morgue when the market coughed – betas of 1.03 and 1.06. Five years back, they’d both taken bullets: SPDW down 30.23%, VEA 29.71%. Close enough to call it a tie in a knife fight.

Lo! The venerable Mr. Crypto Whale, a sage of the digital realm, unveils a logarithmic chart-a sacred scroll-foretelling a $210,000 peak in 2026. “Cycles don’t lie!” he proclaims, as if the market were a fickle lover who always keeps her promises. 🧙♂️✨

On September 30, Hood River’s portfolio acquired 1.51 million shares of Tower Semiconductor (TSEM 2.07%), a transaction that crystallized into $109.22 million of marketable intent. This 1.29% stake in their $8.47 billion constellation of American equities elevates their holdings to 152 celestial bodies-a cosmic portfolio where Tower now orbits as a bright, if peculiar, star.

On a day when the sun burned low over Hong Kong’s skyline and the tides of capital ebbed and flowed like the restless sea, Oxbow Capital Management, a fund as old as the cobblestone streets of its birthplace, filed a report with the SEC that would echo through the halls of financial folklore. In the third quarter, the fund had acquired 1.98 million shares of Wolverine World Wide, staking a claim worth $54.43 million-9.5% of its reported U.S. equity assets-like a gambler placing bets on a horse whose hooves had grown slick with doubt.

As the tale unfolds-according to that same SEC missive-Valiant Capital has now amassed a grand total of 6.48 million shares of our dear friend Core Scientific, culminating in a market value of $116.31 million as of the 30th of September. To add a sprinkle of intrigue, the fund has also secured call options tied to approximately 4.21 million shares; one can only assume they have their eyes firmly set on the future.

Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average purchase price ($23.33).
CoinGlass, that digital oracle of trading chaos, reveals a $300,110 purge of short positions in a single hour-proof that even the most bullish of bears can’t outdance a sudden price spike. Alas, these traders mistook past dips for a permanent bear market, a miscalculation as quaint as a typewriter in the age of quantum computing. 🐻📉