October often evokes fear on Wall Street as memories are stirred of crashes in 1929, 1987, the 554-point drop on October 27, 1997, back-to-back massacres in 1978 and 1979, Friday […]

In the chart below the 30 trading days before and after the last 92 Fed meetings (back to March 2008) are graphed. There are three lines, “All,” “Up,” and “Down.” […]

As of Friday’s close the market is well above historical average performance in September. DJIA was up nearly 3.1%, S&P 500 was up 2.8%, NASDAQ and Russell 1000 were up […]

September’s option expiration week is up 62.2% of the time for S&P 500 since 1982. DJIA and NASDAQ have slightly weaker track records with gains 56.8% of the time and […]

Since 1930, the S&P 500 has traded a grand total of 150 Friday 13th across all twelve months. The overall track record is 81 up days and 69 down days […]

At the end of last month we laid out the technical picture for the S&P 500. At the time, the market had settled into a range between 2815 and 2945 on […]

Prior to Labor Day we noted the tendency of small-cap stocks to outperform large-cap stocks beginning at the end of August and lasting until around mid-September. This small-cap advantage typically begins on […]

In the last 21 years, DJIA, S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000 have all registered average gains of exceeding 0.2% on the Tuesday after the long Labor Day weekend. NASDAQ […]

Technically speaking, the market has settled into a range between 2815 and 2945 on the S&P 500. S&P 2815 is a support level we have been tracking for some time […]