Ryan Detrick
The Last Hike?
By the time most of you read this, there’s a good chance the Fed hiked rates by 25 basis points to 5.25%, the 10th consecutive hike from a low of 0.5% during the depths of COVID. We have no clue if this is their last hike, but odds are we are getting quite close. Let’s …
Ryan Detrick
May 3, 2023
Why This Stock Market is Like The Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan One of the big knocks we keep hearing about …
Ryan Detrick
May 2, 2023
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sell In May
Buckle up, as one of the most well-known investment axioms is nearly here, the ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ period, otherwise known as Sell in May. This gets a ton of play in the media, as these six months are indeed the worst six-month combo out of all scenarios, while stocks also did quite …
Ryan Detrick
April 28, 2023
Is Anyone Bullish? (Part 2)
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” -John Maynard Keynes Stocks have had a great start to 2023 and the economy continues to surprise to the upside, with China specifically showing a turn for the better. If one of the largest economies in the world …
Ryan Detrick
April 25, 2023
Volatility Is The Toll We Pay
“It’s a proprietary strategy. I can’t go into it in great detail.” – Bernie Madoff Although Bernie Madoff was quite vague when asked how he had a strategy that printed money month after month when no one else could match it, as investors we know one thing and that is markets don’t always go straight …
Ryan Detrick
April 18, 2023
Three More Bullish Signals The Bears Don’t Want To See
“If you don’t know where you want to get to….it doesn’t matter which way you go.” -The Cheshire Cat to Alice in Alice in Wonderland. Stocks have continued to stage an impressive rally off the mid-March lows, so much so that we have now seen multiple rare and potentially bullish signals trigger. Today, I’ll take …
Ryan Detrick
April 14, 2023
Cautiously Optimistic with Sam Ro
Sam Ro, the founder of TKer, joined Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, for a really fun and interesting discussion on the recent Facts vs Feelings podcast. The Carson Investment Research team is a huge fan of Sam, as we’ve followed him for years, starting back at BusinessInsider and …
Ryan Detrick
April 11, 2023
Burt White and The New Currency
An interview with Burt White on Where This Industry, and Carson, Are Headed Carson Group’s Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer Burt White recently joined Carson Partner Lawrence Sprung on Larry’s podcast called the Mitlin Money Mindset. If you are an Advisor in our industry and you want to see where the industry as a …
Ryan Detrick
April 6, 2023
A Big Win for the Bulls
“We may not know where we are going, but we better know where we stand.” Howard Marks, Co-Founder of Oaktree Capital Management A little-known technical indicator triggered in the first quarter, and it could bring smiles to the bulls. This one is known as the December Low indicator, and it is fairly straightforward: when the …
Ryan Detrick
April 5, 2023
Here Come the April Flowers
It was anything but smooth, but stocks are set to begin 2023 with a solid start, with the S&P 500 up more than 5% for the year with one day to go in the first quarter. Although we continue to hear how bad things are, we’d like to note that these gains came on the …
Ryan Detrick
March 31, 2023