S&P 500 Snapshot: Consecutive Daily Losses

The S&P ended a week of losses down 3% from last Friday. The index is up 16.96% YTD and down 0.73% from Thursday.

The U.S. Treasury puts the closing yield on the 10-year note at 1.86%, which is below the 1-month note, which is at 2.11%. The 20- and 30-year notes are at 2.16% and 2.39%, respectively.

Here's a snapshot of the index going back to October 2009.

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.