S&P 500 Snapshot: Up 20.8% YTD, 3/5 Days of Losses

Despite 3 days of losses out of 5, the S&P 500 is still up 20.83% YTD and is just 3.5% below its record close. Week over week, the index is down just 1.22%.

The U.S. Treasury puts the closing yield on the 10-year note as of December 3 at 1.35% which is above its record low (0.52% on 8/4/2020). The 2-year note is at 0.60%.

Here's a snapshot of the index going back to 2011.

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.