It may not be the best year of the century, but it's close. As the chart below shows, the YTD performance of the S&P is 26%, just 0.5% where the index performance was in 2021, the best year for stocks this millennium.

And if seasonals have anything to say about the performance of the S&P in the last 5 weeks of the presidential election year, then we are likely set for another record year.