We are all conscious of the fact that US Equity markets have been in a strong bullish trend since the financial crisis of 2008. With the exception of the 2020 Covid-19 correction – a ~20% pullback in prices from which we recovered very quickly – we have not seen a draw-down of greater than 18% […]
Learning More About Options
This post is a follow-up to comments/requests made in response to my recent post on “Protecting Portfolio Performance” (https://itawealth.com/protecting-portfolio-performance/). Understanding Options can be a difficult subject – but understanding Options is nowhere near as difficult as learning how to make money trading Options – and this is difficult to teach. After discussions with Lowell, I […]
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 7 February 2025
Another rather volatile week in US equity markets with no clear indication of a short-term trend: ….. although we remain in the longer term uptrend channel that started last May. We have now been churning sideways for the past 3 months. US equities remained relatively unchanged over the past week although SPY (the S&P 500 […]
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 14 February 2025
It was another week of choppy sideways movement in US equities although the SPX did close higher by ~1.5% and close to the all-time highs that have been providing strong resistance over the past 3 months: However, we remain well within the bullish uptrend channel so we will watch to see where we might go […]
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 21 February 2025
After hitting new all-time highs on Wednesday, US Equities collapsed on Friday with prices now sitting on the lower boundary of the longer-term uptrend channel: Thus, we remain in the choppy sideways consolidation range that we have been in for the past 3 months. Now we might ask whether Wednesday’s high was a triple top […]
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 28 February 2025
It was another volatile week in the US Equity markets with the bears beating the bulls by ~1%: with Friday’s bounce off the ~5840-5880 zone that is providing strong support we are back into the sideways consolidation channel that we have been in for the past ~4 months but are now ouside the upward trend […]
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 7 March 2025
It was a volatile week in the US Equity markets with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) closing down ~3% on the week once the dust had settled on Friday: Markets are looking a little weak here as we had been in a consolidation range between 5840 and 6160 for ~4 months and have now broken […]
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 14 March 2025
This week saw an official “correction” in the trend of US Equities with a 10% pullback from the mid-February highs. This pullback also coincided with a test of resistance at the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level at 5520:
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