Here's Why These Markets Won't Go Down... Yet

The Nasdaq winning streak we broke on Thursday, July 20 - 10 straight "up" days - was the longest streak in more than two years. It was the 20th time the Nasdaq had pulled such a feat since 1980. 

Over those 20 instances, after one month, the index was up 80% of time with an average gain of 2.6%.

What this is, is more potent fuel for the "market that just won't go down" theme.

Lots of forces have come together to provide us with the grinding bull market. And one characteristic of this market has been that pullbacks have been very small.

For all of 2017, now more than half over with, the biggest pullback we've had in the S&P 500 has been a miniscule 2.8%.

While there's still a lot of time left in this year, an intra-year drawdown this small is almost unprecedented.

In 1995, as that long-term bull market was hitting its stride, the drawdown was 2.5%.

Dating back to 1928, there has only been one other year with a sub-4% drop.

That was 1964 with a 3.5% drawdown.