Straight from the Desk

Syz the moment

Live feeds, charts, breaking stories, all day long.

12 Oct 2023

$100k invested in the S&P 500 ETF 30 years ago would be worth over $1.7 million today

Was the road to 17x growth a straight line? Far from it... Source: Charlie Bilello

10 Oct 2023

The KBW Bank Index is underperforming the S&P 500 by 37% year-to-date, on pace for the widest annual gap on record

(note: data via Dow Jones going back to 1993). Source: Charlie Bilello

9 Oct 2023

Equal Weighted S&P 500 is currently trading under its 200 Day moving average by 4.2%, the most this year

Source: Barchart

9 Oct 2023

The drawdown for the long-term Treasury ETF $TLT is now more extreme that the S&P’s drawdown during the Dot Com Crash:

Source: Bespoke

9 Oct 2023

A big intra-day reversal yesterday...

The SP500 just made a near 100 point reversal in 2 hours, adding +$660 billion in market cap... After jobs report numbers nearly doubled expectations, we saw a sharp move lower Friday morning. Expectations of a more hawkish Fed grew which pressured equities. But later in teh session, markets started buying the news on hopes of downward revisions and adjustments in the numbers... Source: Barchart, The Kobeissi Letter Activate to view larger image,

5 Oct 2023

You are here...October and November alone have the highest average monthly return relative to any other months of the year

Source: TME, Equity Clock

3 Oct 2023

Q4 has easily been the strongest quarter of the year with an average gain that is more than twice the average of Q1 and Q2

Source: Bespoke

3 Oct 2023

On a growth-adjusted basis, the mega caps trade at the largest discount to the median S&P 500 stock in over six years

Source: TME, Goldman Sachs

Thinking out loud

Sign up for our weekly email highlighting the most popular posts.

Follow us

Thinking out loud

Investing with intelligence

Our latest research, commentary and market outlooks