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6 Mar 2024

It has now been over a year since the S&P 500 had a one-day drop of 2%+.

- 3rd longest streak since 2000. - The S&P went 949 trading days (3.76 years!) from 5/19/03 to 2/26/07 without a one-day drop of 2%+. Source: bespoke

4 Mar 2024

6 out of the top 20 stocks in the SP500 this year are in the Semiconductor space

Nvidia once again leading everything w/ a gain of +66%. $NVDA . Source: Charlie Bilello

1 Mar 2024

The SP500 has now traded green in both January and February

When that has occurred (data going back to 1950), the $SPX finished the rest of the year higher 27/28 times with the final 10 months being higher 26/28 times. Seems pretty good for Bulls! 🐂 Source: barchart, H/T Ryan Detrick

26 Feb 2024

Despite the surge in market-cap indices, small-cap stocks remain deeply entrenched in a bear market, now down 27% from their recent peak.

Source: Bloomberg, Tavi Costa

26 Feb 2024

The Magnificent 7 are now up ~1,700% since 2015 compared to the S&P 500's ~140% gain.

Even the Nasdaq Composite Index, the largest tech index in the world, is up just ~230% since 2015. Source: DB, TME

23 Feb 2024

Market Breadth continues to look strong!

More than 72% of sp500 stocks are now trading above their 200D moving average. Source: Barchart

23 Feb 2024

S&P, NASDAQ 100 & DJIA closed at RECORD HIGH

Source: Bloomberg

23 Feb 2024

The chart is a log graph of $1 invested in the S&P 500 in the year 1950 by Personal Finance Club.

They listed all of the market crashes that were 15% or more. They removed the Y-axis, but it shows $1 growing to over $1,000! Note that there were many -10% corrections over the period but that only -15% and worse are listed below

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