Year to Date Performers At this time of the year, it is always a good time to reflect on the performance of the US market. With 19 days left in 2024 the $.SPX(.SPX)$ is up 27.6 YTD while the NASDAQ is up 33.5% with later breaching 20000 this morning closing at a record high of 20035. The five best performing stocks in the S&P 500 are $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ (+322%), $Vistra Energy Corp.(VST)$ (+279%), $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$ (+181%), $Axon Enterprise, Inc.(AXON)$ (+148%) and $GE Vernova Inc.(GEV)$ (+140). Another measure is to