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...
by Ryan Redfern | Oct 27, 2023 | Market Commentary
The month of October can often be a challenge. At some point in this “spooky” month, major seasonal bottoms tend to happen. October also signals the end of the “Sell in May…” part of the year. Historically, mid-October to late-April is the strong half of the year...
by Ryan Redfern | Sep 29, 2023 | Market Commentary
Seasonality strikes again! It should be no surprise that September has been a weak month across most of the stock market, as historically it has the highest probability of any month to see losses. And this year is no different. However, what this does do is set up...
by Ryan Redfern | Aug 25, 2023 | Market Commentary
As August began, it wasn’t much of a surprise to see the market start to pull back a bit from its over-stretched and over-bought conditions. The stock market can only run up (or down) like that for so long before it needs to take a break. It often reverts back to an...
