$XLF Short at 30.8 Targeting 28.5 Bearish PatternBearish red candles expected to be followed by long red candleShortby WinnerTrader99Updated 115
XLF breeches ATHsWell, the market bulls finally did it... They breeched the financial sector's 2007 ATH at 30.97. In my opinion, this means the most rapid bear market scenario has been eliminated as we can no longer label the high as a 'C' wave from the 2008 bottom. Furthermore, the rise from those lows should now form a 5 wave impulse, which does not look complete yet. That said, my original bullish and super cycle 4th wave patterns are still possibilities. Ironically, I think breeching the ATHs also opens the door to an even more EXTREME bearish scenario in which we could be approaching a grand super cycle finale in the months ahead. Albeit, this would be a slower bear market, but extremely devastating as it could last for more than a decade. Time to sit back for a bit and see what might unfold. Right now it seems that that ATHs was sort of an iron wall, even though it was breeched. We shall see if the market can really push past with force soon. by supereUpdated 4
XLF v. TNXFinancials hit an all time high this week and made it back to the highs that occurred before the 2008-2009 crash. Note that ten year treasury yields have done nothing but slide over that same period of time and are now at the greatest spread they have been against XLF over the last 11 years. Many think yields are going up but the smart money seems to be telling a different story. The bounce in yields since the lows of the year looks to be a dead cat bounce. The 1.95% area has marked an area of resistance now for some time. If yields start moving down and we head into a recession this are gonna get real ugly. If Yields rise and give equities a run for their money stocks will also fall. The excesses in financial stock from 2007-2008 are finally back. Yeah people will say that they have underperformed but an over 600% gain from the bottom over an 11 year period is hardly a shabby return. Don't see how we could go much higher from here. RSI looks exhausted. Something has to give. Look out below!by BobbySpa5
Financials Could Be The Fuel Needed For Stocks to Move HigherXLF is threatening to break out above the 2007 highs and begin a new leg higher. In the short term it's safe to expect a bit of a battle up hereby grieben3
XLF- Double Top? or Breakout? SPY in Trouble?Well, isn't this interesting? After 12 years the XLF has finally managed to get back up to the old highs set back in 2007! Double top is exactly the same (to the penny) as 2007, as shown, just before the financial crisis for 2007-2009 happened. If we look at history the XLF began to crack and break down in 2007, giving us clues about the rest of the stock market a few months before the market began to collapse. The XLF diverged and led the market index down before other traders began to recognize that the market index was in jeopardy. So now the question is, will it happen again? More importantly is this a double top in the XLF and do we begin to set up a major market correction? Or- Will the XLF break through the resistance overhead at the high and still continue up? How likely is the XLF double top high to get broken next week? Well, very seldom does any chart show a breakout on the first try after touching the exact resistance line of a former high. We would expect a pullback very soon, if not immediately next week. Most breakout charts ,at a minimum, would pullback for a while and gather more energy by consolidating at lower levels before attempting a breakout (if that is in store). Think about a cup and handle pattern. Otherwise, if the double top is in play, we could see a huge sell off down to the green zones below as shown. Forecast is lower for the XLF going forward, with both bullish and bearish patterns... down to gather energy at a lower level for a future breakout in the bullish scenario, or a complete failure and falling back down to the green buy zones way below... either way, both ideas point down!Shortby whiteknightmoving2214
XLF consolidation or will bulls continue to push upTICKER: $XLF Unlike SPY and QQQ, XLF confirmed its daily bull flag. However, we did see a red candlestick on Friday 12/13 to close out the week. Could this be the first indication of consolidation for the market? Keep in mind the financial sector is one of the top three section in the market. Also keep in mind that we closed green for ten weeks straight (see weekly chart). Weekly RSI is approaching 70, but anything above daily support of $30.13 is just a higher low. Break 30.13 and it will be the start of weekly consolidation. IMPORTANT: XLF is not at its all time high. We are in the resistance zone with XLF's ALL TIME HIGH being $30.97. by DerekTradeEZ0
Super bull???I'm shaking my head in disbelief day after day. This bull market continues to defy gravity. Today, the NYA broke ATHs and this critical financial sector that I have shouted about time and time again is closer than ever to exceeding the 2007 ATHs. Crossing this high may completely change the game, igniting a super bull breakout condition in the process. The rational part of me still cannot believe this possibility with deteriorating economic conditions, growing geopolitical tensions, extreme bearish divergence and abysmal volume, yet here it looking me straight in the eye. I think we shall see in a day or two what the reality may be. Will the market continue to climb the seemingly impossible obstacles and blow straight up, or will it collide head first into an iron clad wall and completely knock itself out? K.O. Of course, there are in-between scenarios as my other dotted line scenarios depict, but I have a feeling the finale will be extremely dramatic, either up or down. Good luck, friends!by supereUpdated 115
XLF Strong compared to other sectorsTicker: $XLF Huge gap up open and bulls ran with it. The only reason why SPY was so strong is because of the financial sector. XLF closed above the All time high (30.33)! We need more bull volume to confirm it is a clear break or else I would still consider it a double top with 30.33 if we reject. If we consolidate pre market and bulls open with fire, that would be ideal for bulls. If we consolidate hard, expect a 4 hour high low to form because retesting the All time high of 30.46. by DerekTradeEZ3
Poised for critical failureMirror mirror on the wall? Who is the fairest of them all? NOT THIS CHART. Sudden two day breakdown from perfect channel resistance with incredible RSI strength and spiking volume. Did not make it to previous ATHs. What will the rest of the mirror image look like I wonder? My guess is it will be very red, but we shall see...Shortby supere3
Is there a serious turning point?S&P 500 was down 27.11 points with a 0.86% drop in yesterday's trading session. In the past few weeks SPY straightened up almost every day since the beginning of October, and during this period SPY smoothly waved inside of the expected move which indicated by options chain. However, yesterday SPY edged downside of this range and people started questioning if it was a turning point for the market. So today, I am going to detail some things that you may need to be aware of if the market actually is going down seriously. As we start to look at the SPY, yesterday's session caught some sell-side activities, but it's was not took place in SPY first, it's started with the QQQ and then affected on various parts of the broader market. Yet, some capitals are still finding its best rotation in the products like MO. For further details, what you really need to consider is the financials, and XLF was down 0.63% yesterday. Why should detail XLF? Because XLF as the market's fundamentals, that led the market to the rally in the past two months with an 11.13% gain while SPY had up 7.31%, on a YTD basis, it has increased roughly 25%. So if you want to see a major sell-off activity to take place in the market that has to be led by the financials, currently it just remained solid in the market place. With some sell-side activity still on holds, what do traders do, they simply just flip over to the bond markets. Since we are seeing that TLT is still in the downtrend with lower highs and lower lows, XLF would not necessarily lead the market to the downside. People always mention about the technology, but for now you should forget about the tech sector, the tech sector may be could step into some sell-side activities but it ain't gonna get things done. If the market is going to get hammered it has to be done by financials. Besides if you try to take look at BAC, BAC is still up in the last trading session. With the big bets detected from yesterday's options chain, BAC got over 1 million valued long calls scheduled in December which also could signal people seems to be quite bullish on these banks for moving forward. by Khabilan7
Extremely important junctionThanksgiving 2019: Next week's financial index movement shall perhaps be the single most important of the entire US market. Although we are in a short term state of bullish exhilaration, bearishness has been a prevalent theme of the entire bull run since 2008 with crash theories surrounding every juncture. XLF is perhaps the only remaining index that clearly still shows why, because it still has not exceeded the 2007 highs. However, we are ticks away from exceeding that high now. My theory is that if XLF fails to exceed that high of 30.87, then the most bearish theories that exist suggesting near complete destruction of the financial system as we know it and eventual market crash back toward the 2008 lows are still valid. However, if we shoot past this value, then I doubt that any such crash will come to pass in the decades ahead and the central banks will at least have succeeded in protecting America's financial system and the market lows of 666. I do not know what will pass, but I think we are at a very important juncture.by supere1110
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COMPRA PUT EN 0.45$ A 29$ CON ACCION EN PRECIO 29.81$ VENCIMIECOMPRA PUT EN 0.45$ A 29$ CON ACCION EN PRECIO 29.81$ VENCIMIENTO 2 MESES ENERO 17 2020 ...Shortby juancmata3
XLF island reversal Unless there is a big enough gap up tomorrow looks like an island reversal. Relative weakness today considering XLF barely caught a rally and did not fill the gap.Shortby Yogigolf4
Bearish ButterflyFinancials are on a solid run after trade dispute worries fade and interest rates are coming back up. I think it's a little overdone with this exhaustive looking move today, Thursday. I find this harmonic pattern to be an interesting trade and will start to ease into small put spread positions looking for a reversal point.Shortby Audacity6181110
XLF Forms Bullish Ascending Triangle In Daily ChartWhen you see the SPY forming a bullish ascending triangle that is great! But when you also see the XLF forming an ascending triangle, you know that the likelihood of the market going higher is good.Longby Stephenlks3
SPY struggling why ?Banks XLF, KBE,and IWM they are lagging but we can go 302 easy by manipulation but lets watch we break 302 I will go long until then I am staying shortShort08:22by john123
Financials; Dead MoneyThis has got to be the tightest range on a monthly chart for any sector. The direction it goes is crucial for the market. by RHTrading5
$XLF ... (BEARISH!)Liquidity keeps drying up and the feds have decided they'll get back in the market (officially) soon, maybe they will solve everything. If someone knows how banks can survive this environment of negative rate that we're heading toward, please... ***Let's talk about it...***by PartTimeGenius2