Utility names are basing out, keep an eye out for a breakout movUtility names are basing out, keep an eye out for a breakout move higher in the short term
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About Vanguard Utilities ETF
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Inception date
Jan 26, 2004
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Qualified dividends
VPU is designed to track an all-cap index of US electric, gas, and water utility companies. The index is market-cap weighted index and subject to capping limitations. The capping is designed to ensure diversity among its portfolio by limiting the weight of a single issuer to 25% of the funds assets. The fund may also hold independent power producers, energy traders and companies engaged in electricity using renewable sources. VPU attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the Index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index. The index is rebalanced quarterly.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Utilities
Stock breakdown by region
VPU $VPU Initial ShortVPU $VPU Initial Short. TP and SL on chart. Move SL on TP. After TP2, trail with 0.5ATR step and 1.5ATR offset.
VPU starting to pull back? VPU tracks a broad-based, market-cap-weighted index of US utilities companies.
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Utilities trading rangeUtilities have been trading in a tight range since the pandemic. Buy when it gets to the bottom of the range, sell/trim or write covered calls when it gets to the top of the range.
VPU weekly chart - might be ready to plunge - 5/17/2016I want to be very cautious about VPU as a correction might be underway.
VPU weekly - similar to June 2008? - 2/28/2016Looks similar but uncertain. But the real deal is if it will ever break the red support. We will see.
VPU weekly - had a golden cross - 2/12/2016VPU had a golden cross last week but this week was down hard. So far on the weekly it is still bullish.
VPU update - short term bullish - 3/16/2015Strong rebound for the past 4 trading days due to oversold.
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