We finally got that inevitable breakout from the pendant pattern that has been setting up for a month or so – resulting in a 3% downside move in US equities over the past week and leaving us sitting at ~4300 in the

It was a relatively quiet week in US equity markets with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) closing down slightly on the week after an end of week selloff on Friday: This still leaves us within the boundaries of the pendant pattern defined

It was a weak performance in the US equity markets after the Labor Day week-end with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) down ~1.5% from last week’s close: This leaves prices in a pendant pattern bounded by the upper 2 SD

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

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

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

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 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