YTD through the end of October, the S&P 500 was up 10.66% with the Magnificent 7 (MSFT, NVDA, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, META, TSLA) making up more than 100% of the YTD return, meaning the other 493 companies combined were DOWN for the year.
Then November happened... the S&P 500 rose