Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

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Market cap $757B

Wall Street's biggest financiers say the economy remains healthy.

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The three major US indices all look to recover in the early hours of Wednesday, as we continue to see a lot of volatility out there.

You can catch Trader Talk on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is the market rally running out of steam?

With the market sitting near all-time highs, a lot of investors may be waiting for a pullback before putting money to work, but that's typically a bad idea. J.P. Morgan found that since 1950, the S&P 500 has hit a new high on 7% of all trading days, so it's actually not that uncommon.

The three major indices in the US all look a bit soft in the premarket hours of Tuesday, and as a result, we could have a bit of buying opportunity presenting itself with just a bit of help.

Professional money managers are some of the brightest minds on Wall Street. Top investment funds can demand some pretty hefty fees to compensate those managers and their teams of analysts, plus pay for all the marketing that goes behind selling their services.

There's no question about it -- there are better times to buy stocks and there are worse times to buy stocks. That's because the stock market goes through very distinct bull and bear cycles.

Is past and present stock market performance a good predictor of how the market will perform in the future? It can be sometimes.

The U.S. stock market has been abnormally volatile this year. The S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.56%) crashed when President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs in April, falling 10.5% to record its fifth biggest two-day drop in history.