The S&P 500 has moved +1% up or down on almost half (46%) of trading days so far this year. That’s our fundamental benchmark of how much investors “feel” volatility, as any one-day move greater than 1% to the upside or downside is...
Excerpt from Investor’s Business Daily quoting DataTrek co-founder Jessica Rabe: ….”U.S. equities (S&P 500 index) have only compounded at a 6% rate the last 20 years,” said Jessica Rabe, co-founder of DataTrek Research....
With Q2 earnings season over (98% of S&P 500 companies have reported), we can assess how much upside there might be in 2H 2020 operating results and what Wall Street analysts see for US stock performance over the next 12 months. (Data...
Why did retail traders, especially millennials, choose the COVID Crisis to finally become interested in the stock market? As a member of that cohort, I (Jessica) can explain it: #1: Expected future returns drive investor behavior. Prior to...
Funny story to kick off “Data”, in a nerdy sort of way: When Harry Markowitz defended his dissertation on portfolio theory in front of the University of Chicago’s Economics Department in the early 1950s, no less a figure than Milton Friedman...
Back in 2009, as the Great Recession’s scope was just coming into focus, we developed an analytical toolbox we called “Off the Grid Indicators”. As is the case now, US equities were on a tear after their March lows. This move accurately...
