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6 Feb 2025

There has been significant rotation happening beneath the surface of the markets.

Tech is the only sector down year-to-date, while every other sector has climbed—some quite substantially already. Source: Otavio (Tavi) Costa

5 Feb 2025

With deepSeek and tariffs, we almost forgot that we are in the middle of the earnings season.

FactSet notes that beats are being rewarded above average and misses are being punished around average.

30 Jan 2025

Why does a strong January matter?

Here's a chart shared last year (so it isn't updated for 2024 yet), but it shows a clear trend starts early in the year. Source: Carson, Ryan Detrick

30 Jan 2025

S&P 500 ETF $SPY short interest has fallen near its lowest level in the last 14 years 🚨

Source: Barchart

27 Jan 2025

The S&P 500 reached a record $54.3 trillion in market cap last week, adding $1.1 trillion in 1 week.

Since the August low, the index's market cap is up a massive $8.5 trillion. Furthermore, the index has added $12.4 trillion in value since the beginning of 2024. The S&P 500 has added 78% of Europe's market cap and DOUBLE the size of the Japanese market in 1 year. As a result, the US market cap to GDP ratio has reached an all-time high of 209%. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

24 Jan 2025

“Far more money has been lost by investors in preparing for corrections, or anticipating corrections, than has been lost in the corrections themselves.” - Peter Lynch

Source: J-C Parets

23 Jan 2025

Bear markets pale in comparison to bull markets, both in market movement and duration.

Remember this chart during the next - and inevitable - correction or bear market. Source: Peter Mallouk

22 Jan 2025

Record strong breadth!

Yesterday was the 6th consecutive day that more than 2/3 of the S&P advanced. First time this has happened in 30+ years. h/t @FrankCappelleri

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