Courtesy of Doug Short’s Advisor Perspectives.
From a US equities perspective, the Brexit drama has been shifted to the back burner. Our benchmark S&P 500 hit its modest 0.47% intraday high in the first 90 minutes of trading and then drifted lower to a narrow afternoon trading range. The index closed the session with a 0.19% gain in the 12th smallest intraday range of the 126 market days so far in 2016. The flight to treasuries, however, remains in play. The yield on the 10-year note closed at 1.46%, down three BPs and only three BPs above its record closing low.
Here is a snapshot of past five sessions in the S&P 500.
Here is a daily chart of the S&P 500. Volume was light in advance of the 4th of July holiday weekend.
A Perspective on Drawdowns
Here’s a snapshot of selloffs since the 2009 trough.
Here is a more conventional log-scale chart with drawdowns highlighted.
Here is a linear scale version of the same chart with the 50- and 200-day moving averages.
A Perspective on Volatility
For a sense of the correlation between the closing price and intraday volatility, the chart below overlays the S&P 500 since 2007 with the intraday price range. We’ve also included a 20-day moving average to help identify trends in volatility.
