US Retail stocks have been on a strong upward swing. The holiday season starting with Black Friday is very important to retail, so let’s look at the US Retail industry price index and Sharpe ratio using R rCharts and the PerformanceAnalytics R package + javascript dygraphs. The data set is courtesy of Kenneth French, Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. You can play with the interactive graphs HERE.