Tag: xlf

Financials and the fear of missing out... Below is another chart fusing together the technical backdrop for the Financial Sector (chart by my partner Arun Chopra)...

Possible interest rate hikes? No hurricanes? No problem. Insurance stocks are breaking out and new all-time highs may just be the start. We’ve heard about the...

Chart patterns are no more than probability... sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t.  As a chart pattern recognition guy, I use them to...

Is The worst over for the Financial Sector?  After a good bounce, more work needs to be done. On Friday morning, I provided a brief...

We have yet to see much of an aftershock to market's after yesterday's tragic terror incident in France. The STOXX 600 has rebounded from early...

The correlation between financial stocks (via $XLF here) and the 2 year Treasury yield is tight.  The latter tends to be sensitive to Fed...

The bull case for US Equities involves Financial stocks (including banks stocks and broker dealers) gaining traction as a group and leading to the...

The financial sector has been one of the notable disappointments in the market over the last several years. The hype was that many of...

A few months ago I wrote an article here on how yearly pivots tend track the major market reversals each year. So far in...

Perhaps one of the biggest surprises of the 2016 correction has been the overall depressing price action in bank stocks, financial services, and financial...