For some perspective on the current state of the stock market, today’s chart presents the long-term trend of the Russell 2000 (small-cap stocks). As the chart illustrates, the Russell 2000 rallied from late 2002 into the mid-2007 and then effectively gave all of that back during the financial crisis. The seesaw continued during the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis with the Russell 2000 recovering all losses incurred during the financial crisis in a little over two years. Since mid-2011, the Russell 2000 has traded in a rather choppy fashion which has helped define its current wedge-shaped trading range (see the red and green trendlines). More recently, the Russell 2000 has started the new year in a positive fashion by both breaking above resistance (red line) and making a new record high.
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