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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

SLF.TO

Sun Life Financial
$112.74
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
CFL constituent · entry card
WAITWait: no confirmed weekly breakout (Oct 30 close C$113.17 vs prior-week level C$114.75). Breakout Buy Level now C$118.99.

Action levels

Buy zone (breakout retest)——no confirmed breakout, so no retest zone
Profit-Taking Zone$118.99–118.99+5.5% to +5.5%none: blue sky above the Breakout (trail the stop)
Trading stop · daily closebelow $110.36-2.1%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $107.34-4.8%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $118.99+5.5%top of R1 (ATH 07-28)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Neutral
Score 74/100. Leads TSX, in line with sector; above rising 40-wk. Raw Up this Friday, needs a 2nd to confirm.
Trading (10–20 day)
● Established Up
Above 50-day; daily RS vs S&P Est. Up.
Sluymer's view: No recent call: not named in the 15 reports reviewed (Aug 18 – Oct 13, 2026).
Watch this week: Fri Nov 6: breakout entry on a close above C$118.99 (+5.5%); a Friday close below C$107.34 (-4.8%) invalidates.
Rule-based demo inspired by Robert Sluymer's published framework; not RBC research or advice. Data: Yahoo Finance; levels computed from price data. Prepared Nov 3, 2026, 2:49 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · SLF.TO · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 74.0

RS vs TSX (20) + sector (10)15.4 + 4.0 = 19.4 / 30
Structure (6 checks)25 / 30
Score = (RS + structure) × 100/6074.0 / 100
Raw state (Up ≥ 60 · Down < 45)Up
Confirmation (2 consecutive Fridays)confirmed Neutral; Up pending 1/2
Trend (confirmed)Neutral
✔ Fri close above 40-wk SMA 6/6 · ✔ 40-wk SMA rising (4 wks) 4/4 · ✖ No lower high vs cycle high 0/5 · ✔ Fri close above 20-wk SMA 5/5 · ✔ Fri close above 200-wk (4-yr) SMA 5/5 · ✔ 4-mo SMA > 13-mo SMA (completed months, to Sep) 5/5
Weekly raw states: 09-25 Up → 10-02 Up → 10-09 Neutral → 10-16 Neutral → 10-23 Down → 10-30 Up. Coppock, band position, breadth and modifiers no longer enter the Trend score (Coppock chart below is reference only).

Scores · Trading 77.1

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)20.0 + 0.0 / 30
Structure25 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive but decelerating12.5 / 25
Band position19.6 / 20
Raw77.1 (Established Up)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final77.1 Established Up
✔ Close above 50-day SMA 5/5 · ✔ 50-day SMA rising (10 d) 3/3 · ✔ Close above 100-day SMA 4/4 · ✔ Close above 200-day SMA 5/5 · ✔ 200-day SMA rising (20 d) 3/3 · ✔ No daily lower high (last two swing highs) 5/5

Relative state (weekly RS vs 16-wk SMA + 2-wk slope; daily RS vs 15-d SMA + 3-d slope; Neutral ±0.25%; phase price = next Fri / next close, benchmark flat)

Horizon · benchmarkStateRS vs SMARS chgPhase-transition price (SLF.TO close needed)
Trend · TSX2 Early Up (+) ↑+1.41%+2.35%Est. Up ≥ 116.92 (+3.7%) · Early Up ≥ 111.61 · Est. Down < 111.02
Trend · XFN.TO3 Neutral (−) ↑+0.08%-1.36%Est. Up ≥ 113.49 (+0.7%) · Est. Down < 109.36
Trading · TSX1 Established Up (+) ↑+1.57%+0.46%Est. Up ≥ 111.29 (-1.3%) · Est. Down < 105.22
Trading · XFN.TO5 Established Down (−) →-1.01%-0.66%Est. Up ≥ 121.84 (+8.1%) · Early Up ≥ 114.04 · Est. Down < 113.44

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 112.74)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R1118.99–118.99+5.5% to +5.5%ATH 07-28 118.99
S1110.36–112.57-0.2% to -2.1%wk high 09-04 112.57 · wk high 06-19 112.05 · wk low 07-17 110.36
S2107.34–107.57-4.6% to -4.8%wk low 10-09 107.57 · wk low 09-04 107.39 · wk low 08-21 107.34
S3101.15–102.90-8.7% to -10.3%40-wk SMA 102.90 · 200-day SMA 102.15 · 50% 101.74 · wk high 05-08 101.15
ATH118.99+5.5%all-time high; Profit-Taking fallback when no 2-tool band sits above the Breakout (extensions no longer used)

Coppock, breadth and RS (reference only; not in the Trend score)

Stops & phase transitions

  • Tier 1 (trading stop): daily close < 110.36 (-2.1%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 107.34–107.57.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 107.34 (-4.8%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 101.15–102.90.
  • Trend vs TSX: Est. Up ≥ 116.92 (+3.7%) · above its 16-wk avg ≥ 111.61 · Est. Down < 111.02 (-1.5%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs TSX: Est. Up ≥ 111.29 · Est. Down < 105.22.

Sluymer context

  • Not named in the 15 reports reviewed (Aug 18 – Oct 13, 2026).

Notes & caveats

PAG Canadian Focus List holding, entry card (treated like the US Watchlist). Holdings: issuer file as of 2026-09-01 (RBC PAG "Canadian Equity Grid Fall 2026" (September 2026 – November 2026; canadian_grid_en.pdf; Focus List names and Alternatives by recommended position size), Gmail (sc.assistant80@gmail.com), "USFL and CFL equity grids" from stephen.k.chang@rbc.com, Oct 21, 2026 3:20 PM PT; Focus List weights from the Sep 1, 2026 Canadian Focus List Quarterly report (unchanged)); List weight 2.50%. Benchmarks: S&P/TSX Composite (20 pts) and XFN.TO (10 pts). Trading items and bands use the Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close; trend uses the Fri, Oct 30 week. Entry levels: Buy Zone = breakout retest zone (BUY names only: from the broken level down to the floor of the resistance band it came from, or level −2%, whichever is tighter; a weekly close below = failed breakout); Breakout Buy Level = top of R1; Trend Breakdown (invalidation) = S2 floor on a Friday close; Profit-Taking = next resistance band above the breakout. Verdict: AVOID = Trend Down (confirmed on two Fridays) or Friday close below a falling 40-wk SMA; BUY = a weekly close above a Breakout Buy Level fixed from the prior week's data with ≥2 tools within 3% (most recent such breakout in the last 4 weeks), every Friday close since and the latest close still at or above it, and Trend not Down; WAIT = otherwise. Buy Zone is reference only. Coppock = 10-bar WMA of ROC(14)+ROC(11), standard settings used as a placeholder because his are unpublished; DAS is omitted. Zone = sign + 3-yr percentile; direction = 2 bars. SMAs are simple; swings are 5-bar extremes; the channel is a 2-yr log regression ±2σ. The breadth proxy is the % of 500 current S&P 500 members with a rising weekly Coppock; it has survivorship bias, is a regime input only, and no other stock was scored. Weights are our choices (playbook §10); the state rule matched 86% / 83% of his sector states in-sample. Data: Yahoo Finance (unadjusted); weight from the Portfolio Dashboard (PIM 11/2 EOD, read-only).