Ryan Detrick
Why Stocks Just Bottomed
A number of factors and causing the stock market to continue to experience high volatility, causing uncertainty for investors. With October’s correction, are there signs of a market bottom? A potential rally? In the latest episode of Facts vs Feelings, Carsons’ Chief Market Strategist, Ryan Detrick & VP, Global Macro Strategist, Sonu Varghese explain why …
Ryan Detrick
November 8, 2023
Stocks in a Correction and the Best Month of the Year Is Here
“If there were ironclad rules, we would all be following them.” -Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth Management Although we saw a late October bounce, the S&P 500 officially moved into correction territory last week. By definition, a correction is when stocks are down more than 10% from a recent peak, in this case, down more …
Ryan Detrick
November 2, 2023
10 Things You Might Not Know, but Should
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau (writer) Here are a few things that caught my attention the past week or so. A few I’m guessing a lot of people don’t even know, but they should. Profit Margins Are Increasing One of the more obvious things we’ve …
Ryan Detrick
October 26, 2023
Remembering the Crash of 1987
“It felt like the world was ending.” -Economist Chris Rupkey on the Crash of 1987. October is known for many things, with incredible market crashes likely being at the top of the list. The Crashes of 1929 and 1987 stand out for many investors and who could forget the selling and volatility of October 2008? …
Ryan Detrick
October 19, 2023
The Bull Market Turns One
“There are no gains without pains.” – Benjamin Franklin Hard to believe it, but one year ago today the vicious bear market ended. I remember it well, as the bear market saw the S&P 500 down 25.5% from the early January lows at the close on October 12, 2022. The very next day we saw …
Ryan Detrick
October 12, 2023
Four Reasons We Believe Stocks Won’t Crash in October
“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.” -Mark Twain October is known for many things, from sweaters, to leaves on the ground, to the World Series, to pumpkins, and yes, to market crashes. It …
Ryan Detrick
October 10, 2023
Why Stocks Should Rally In The Fourth Quarter
“Wake me up when September ends.” -Green Day Good riddance to what has been a very rough month for stocks. In fact, both August and September saw weakness, living up to their reputation as a potentially troublesome timeframe based on seasonality. Most might not remember it now, but the first half of 2023 was one …
Ryan Detrick
September 28, 2023
Ten Things to Know About a Government Shutdown
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” -Will Rogers As you’ve probably heard by now, the government is on the brink of shutting down unless Congress connects on a Hail Mary to pass a dozen spending bills before the September 30 funding deadline. The odds are this won’t happen …
Ryan Detrick
September 26, 2023
Excell is a Wrap
What a week last week was! Carson Group hosted Excell, our largest event of the year, in the awesome town of Nashville. If you were there, then you know how much fun it was. If you missed it, don’t worry, we’ll be back again in Orlando next year. We hope you can join us. The …
Ryan Detrick
September 20, 2023
12 Things Every College Student Should Know
The whole Carson team is in Nashville this week for our Excell Conference! This week will be a blast and we hope if you are attending you can find us and say hi. Given we are just a tad busy, today I wanted to re-share one of the most popular blogs I’ve done so far this …
Ryan Detrick
September 14, 2023