Ryan Detrick
No, This Isn’t A Bubble
“Don’t confuse brains with a bull market.” – Humphrey Neill Stocks have picked up right where they left off in 2025, as the S&P 500 is up for the first three days of the year, and it just hit the first new high of 2026. What is interesting is that this is the first time …
Ryan Detrick
January 7, 2026
2026 Market Outlook
After a volatile first half and another year of strong headline returns, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, step back to assess what actually shaped markets in 2025 and what that foundation means heading into 2026. They revisit why early-year turbulence caught so many investors off …
Ryan Detrick
January 7, 2026
Three Timeless Lessons From 2025 To Use in 2026
2025 was a great year for investors, as stocks made new highs across the globe, bonds had their best year since 2020, and commodities gained overall with gold and silver soaring. Here are three timeless investment lessons from 2025 that we believe investors should pay close attention to in 2026. Beware When Everyone Agrees “If …
Ryan Detrick
January 2, 2026
Geeking Out On Charts with Chris Kimble and Scott Brown
Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, flies solo for this new episode of Facts vs Feelings, joined by longtime chart-watchers Chris Kimble, former CEO of Kimble Charting Solutions, and Scott Brown, Founder of Brown Technical Insights, for a wide-ranging conversation on what the market is signaling as 2025 comes to a close. They …
Ryan Detrick
December 31, 2025
Wrapping Up 2025 with Art Hogan, the Boston GOAT
2025 kept investors off balance, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, and Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group turned to Art Hogan, Chief Market Strategist at B. Riley Wealth Management, to make sense of what actually drove the year. They dig into the gap between perception and reality on market breadth, why …
Ryan Detrick
December 24, 2025
It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s the Santa Claus Rally🎅❄🎄🎁🦌
“If Santa should fail to call, bears may come to Broad and Wall.” —Yale Hirsh One of the little-known facts about the Santa Claus Rally (SCR) is that it isn’t the entire month of December; it’s actually only seven days. Discovered in 1972 by Yale Hirsch, creator of the Stock Trader’s Almanac (carried on now …
Ryan Detrick
December 23, 2025
The Fed Comes Bearing Gifts
A rare split is opening inside the Federal Reserve. Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, and Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Wealth, dig into what that tension really means as growth projections move higher and rate cuts keep coming. They break down the widening gap between market expectations and the Fed’s own outlook, …
Ryan Detrick
December 17, 2025
Don’t Stop Believing
“Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world. She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere… Don’t stop believin’, hold on to that feelin’.” Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin’” After peaking on October 28 and seeing a more than 5% mild pullback into late November, the S&P 500 moved back to new all-time highs on …
Ryan Detrick
December 16, 2025
10 Years Ago
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill 10 years ago yesterday I was doing some work at home in our basement and suddenly heard a large crash in our garage. I ran upstairs to see what it was and saw that the entire ceiling had collapsed. Parts of the ceiling were hanging …
Ryan Detrick
December 10, 2025
Is Reacceleration in the Cards?
In this week’s episode of Facts vs Feelings, Ryan Detrick and Sonu Varghese dig into the market’s latest shift toward a potential economic reacceleration, looking at rising global yields, what the renewed steepening of the yield curve may signal, and how broadening market leadership is shaping their outlook. They go through the rebound in tech, …
Ryan Detrick
December 10, 2025