The continuing saga of absolutely nothing happening… While I haven’t confirmed it, I’ve recently heard it said that the past few months have been some of the slowest, “go-nowhere” months that the stock market has seen in approximately 15 years. If you recall our chart from last month’s newsletter, this …
One month later and we’re still experiencing a “ZZzzzzzzz…” market! This has been an exhausting year so far, with very little to show for it. Sure, we hit another all-time high on the S&P 500 recently, and that’s great, but, based on the current CAPE adjusted P/E Ratio of 27.4 …
ZZzzzzzzz….wake me up when the market decides to go somewhere…anywhere! So far 2015 has been filled with ups and downs, but with no clear direction either way. We hit a new record high on the S&P500 in late February, not long after bouncing off of lows we’ve had back as …
Better, much better. As expected (or at least hoped for), we got a bounce off of the January dip through the end of February. We also saw the NASDAQ hit 5000 for the first time since the “tech bubble” of 2000. But this time it has a much more reasonable …
We here at Shadowridge have spent much of the month of January reviewing our strategies closely, and looking for ways to be more efficient. One of the ways has been to consolidate lesser-used strategy variations into a single model. For example, we had three variations of our Defensive Allocation model. …
Happy New Year everyone! Well, that was quite an unusual December. The Market was up, then down, then even (it finally closed at a slight loss, but only by -0.25%). Oil prices keep dropping, which has been great for consumers in general. The main drawback is that low prices …
Here comes Santa Claus (rally)!! December is a time of laughter, joy and a high probability of good stock market returns. Since 1926, the average December return of the S&P 500 has been positive over 70% of the time. December also has the highest monthly average % increase, at 1.8% …
October, what a ride! For those who stuck it out in the US markets, courage was rewarded by month-end. This was in line with our expectations, not only due to the time of year, but also because the selloff seemed more in sympathy to foreign markets than based on any …
Well, as expected, September turned out to be negative (down around 1.4% for the S&P500). Thankfully, not by much. However, October started out like it wanted to be in on the action, finishing the job that September started. This is fairly typical of “spooky” October. Like a mischievous uncle, it …
September 2014 Market Commentary It has been said that “April is the cruelest month,”but historically, September has the highest odds of the S&P500 ending the month lower than it began. So far in 2014, the Big Picture still looks good for domestic equities (US stocks), barring any sudden and …
