by Ryan Redfern | Apr 26, 2024 | Market Commentary
We are finally seeing the small pull-back or “correction” in the broad markets that we had been expecting since the year began. So far, the S&P 500 has had a fairly classic 5% pullback that started right as the month began and lasted until the 19th. What has to...
by Ryan Redfern | Mar 29, 2024 | Market Commentary
We are now 25% through 2024 and it has been a pleasant surprise so far, especially after the higher volatility market we’ve seen over the past couple of years. A calm market tends to slowly grind up. And as we’ve observed before, the upward movement in this market...
by Ryan Redfern | Feb 23, 2024 | Market Commentary
We are two months into 2024 and we’re back to a very separated market – meaning only a select few segments of the stock market are positive, while others (Small Cap stocks and much of the bond market) are negative. But that doesn’t (yet) mean that the market trend...
by Ryan Redfern | Jan 26, 2024 | Market Commentary
It’s a new year and the momentum of the stock market is attempting to carry through into the new year. The first three days of 2024 were down, but once we got through the first five days, the S&P 500 was only slightly negative (basically flat). There are...
by Ryan Redfern | Dec 29, 2023 | Market Commentary
We’re now looking at the end of 2023 and wow, what a year it was. Until the last couple of months, so much of the market had just gone nowhere. But the November run up (which was seasonally expected) and the continued run up in December (not as seasonally expected)...
by Ryan Redfern | Nov 24, 2023 | Market Commentary
After a challenging time for most stock market indexes in August and September, the seasonal October low happened a bit later than we expected. We had noticed a pattern where the market lows for the Fall season tended to happen in the first half of the month, as they...