Clusters of Long Winning Streaks: What They’re Telling Us

What's Behind the Brewers' Hot Streak?

The Milwaukee Brewers have been the hottest team in baseball over the past two weeks, and there’s been a glaring contrast in quality of play during this hot stretch when compared to the beginning of the season. Earlier this year, it was clear that they were searching for their identity in more ways than one. The offense was struggling mightily, the starting rotation was a revolving door of inexperienced arms getting their feet wet in the big lea…

Clusters of Long Winning Streaks: What They’re Telling Us

Recently, the S&P 500 ($SPX) has been racking up a good number of wins. Since late April, the index has logged its third winning streak of at least five: a nine-day streak from April 22–May 2 and a six-day streak from May 12–May 19. That makes for a cluster of long winning streaks, which is something that also showed up in late 2023 and mid-2024. To put it simply, these bunches of buying usually show up in uptrends. Note how there were no five-d…