Despite a pullback on Friday it was a bullish week in US equities with prices closing ~2.7% higher than last week’s close and still sitting at the upper 1 SD boundary of the uptrend channel with volatility at it’s lowese level in the past 12 months: Deespite this nice performance, US equities did not make […]

It was a relatively quiet week in the US equity markets with little change from where we were last week and still sitting at resistance near the upper 1 SD boundary of the uptrend channel US equities was not the only major asset class with little action: Commodities, at the top, and Emerging Market equities, […]

A quiet week in US equities with the only excitent comming on Thursday with the Fed announcements – but then we settled back down and finished the week very close to last weel’s close and still at the top of the 1 SD bounary of the bullish trend channel: Note how, over the past ~2 […]

This week we saw an inevitable pullback in the prices of US equities after 2 weeks of finding resistance at the upper boundary of the 1 SD bullish trend channel: the question now is how deep the pullback may be – will we just maybe pullback to the centre of the channel or will the […]

US equities showed continued weakness as prices pulled back from the highs of 2 weeks ago: This weakness was reflected in other markets: with only US Real Estate showing gains on the week Holdings in the Rutherford Portfolio look like this: with Tranche 3 (the focus of this week’s review) holding positions in VTI, VWO, […]

It was another week of poor performance in US equity markets, with a little relief coming later in the day on Friday: however, we have now crossed below the centre line of the bullish channel, testing the 61.8% Fibonnacci retracement line that could provide support, but may be preparing to test the lower boundary of […]

It was a rather confusing week in US equity markets with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) closing up ~0.8% over last week’s close: However, Thursday was a strong down day and it may be that the apparent early week strength was a bit of a “head fake”.  A bullish day on Friday following Thursday’s weakness […]

The past week was a bullish week for US equities: with SPX showing a  2.5% gain on the week. We have bounced nicely off the lower 1 SD boundary of the bullish channel and the 4300 support area and headed for the centre line – that is encouraging. However, the bearish candles of the past […]