What can we infer from the information on this chart and how does it affect your investments?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nBased on historical periods similar to the current market, it would be normal for stocks to continue to be flat or down over the next 45-day trading period, given the size of the rally we saw from March 24 \u2013 April 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While predicting the future is impossible, we can gain insight from historical periods. We don\u2019t know for sure what will happen next, but it makes sense for us to consider all the possibilities, as well as what we may do as the future unfolds. If the market does experience negative returns over the next few months, this chart shows that it will probably be an attractive buying opportunity for longer-term investors, for both the likelihood of positive returns and the size of those returns. In other words, if the market dips in the next few weeks, we may be encouraging clients to invest additional cash on hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please reach out to me if you would like to discuss this further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We hope this finds you well, and exploring more outside your home, or at least the sunny outdoors. This week, the S&P 500 declined, and bigger picture: has continued to move sideways over the trailing month, from the middle of April until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"post_statement":"","post_description":"","post_cta":"","post_button":"Read More","post_button_url":"","compliance_id":"","post_disclaimer":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[100],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}