It was a quiet, holiday shortened, week in the markets with the S&P 500 Index drifting slightly higher by ~0.3% toward the all-time highs of 2 years ago of ~4800 in the SPX: However, Santa could not pull us through the strong resistance at this level and we need to wonder whether he has turned […]

The first week of trading in 2024 was bearish with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) pulling back 2% from 2023 End-Of-Year highs: We are now sitting at the lower boundary of the 1 Standard Deviation bullish channel that started in October of 2023 and leading into the strong End-of-Year performance that resulted in 25% gains […]

This may be the last time that you will see my usual chart of the SPX (S&P 500 Index) since my broker is kicking me off my preferred platform for analysis (ThinkOrSwim) and migrating my account to a new platform (that I haven’t yet been able to assess). In the past week we got a […]

My apologies for being late with this post – I’ve moved to a new location and I’ve had a few problems with my new internet connection – but, this is real life and the issues we come across. Hopefully it doesn’t have a significant impact on our investments and we can survive the frustrations. In […]

It was a relatively calm but bullish week in US equity markets as the S&P 500 Index continued it’s climb above the important 4800 resistance level (that now becomes a potential support level): US equities rose a little over 1% over the past week – generally in line with international equity markets, but all of […]

US Equities continued their steady climb this week hitting new all-time highs at the close on Friday: Since we are at all-time highs, with no obvious indications of the next resistance level, the best I can do is look at the 100% Fibonacci extension from the November lows – that suggests possible resistance at~5200 if […]

US Equities were basically flat on the week with the SPX closing down slightly although still near the center of the bullish trend channel: and with the performance of the broader based VTI Fund coming in around the middle of the pack for all major asset classes: Current holdings in the Rutherford Portfolio look like […]