The S&P 500 was a bit of a roller coaster this week with three days of losses and two days of gains. The index was up 0.19% from Thursday but is down 0.88% from last week. The index is up 2.19% YTD and is 4.11% below its record close.
The U.S. Treasury puts the closing yield on the 10-year note at 2.90%.
Here is a daily chart of the S&P 500. Friday’s selling puts the volume 36% above its 50-day moving average.
Here’s a snapshot of the index going back to December 2008.
A Perspective on Drawdowns
Here’s a snapshot of record highs and selloffs since the 2009 trough.
Here’s a table with the number of days of a 1% or more change in either direction and the number of days of corrections (down 10% or more from the record high) going back to 2013.
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.
