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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

XLF

Ss Financial Select Sector
$57.19
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
Thematic ETF · entry card
AVOIDAvoid for now: Trend Down. Re-check when the trend repairs.

Action levels

Buy zone (breakout retest)——no confirmed breakout, so no retest zone
Profit-Taking Zone$58.60–58.60+2.5% to +2.5%none: blue sky above the Breakout (trail the stop)
Trading stop · daily closebelow $55.45-3.0%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $53.27-6.9%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $58.60+2.5%top of R1 (wk high 08-07, ATH 09-03)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Down
Score 100/100. Leads S&P and 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 $58.60 (+2.5%); a Friday close below $53.27 (-6.9%) 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, 2:52 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · XLF · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 100.0

RS vs S&P (20) + sector (10)20.0 + 10.0 = 30.0 / 30
Structure (6 checks)30 / 30
Score = (RS + structure) × 100/60100.0 / 100
Raw state (Up ≥ 60 · Down < 45)Up
Confirmation (2 consecutive Fridays)confirmed Down; Up pending 1/2
Trend (confirmed)Down
✔ Fri close above 40-wk SMA 6/6 · ✔ 40-wk SMA rising (4 wks) 4/4 · ✔ No lower high vs cycle high 5/5 · ✔ 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 Neutral → 10-02 Down → 10-09 Down → 10-16 Down → 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 94.3

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)20.0 + 10.0 / 30
Structure22 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive & rising25.0 / 25
Band position17.3 / 20
Raw94.3 (Established Up)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final94.3 Established Up
✔ Close above 50-day SMA 5/5 · ✖ 50-day SMA rising (10 d) 0/3 · ✔ 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 (XLF close needed)
Trend · S&P1 Established Up (+) ↑+1.07%+2.85%Est. Up ≥ 56.42 (-1.3%) · Early Up ≥ 55.98 · Est. Down < 55.68
Trend · ^GSPC1 Established Up (+) ↑+1.07%+2.85%Est. Up ≥ 56.42 (-1.3%) · Early Up ≥ 55.98 · Est. Down < 55.68
Trading · S&P1 Established Up (+) →+3.43%+2.45%Est. Up ≥ 55.58 (-2.8%) · Est. Down < 45.03
Trading · ^GSPC1 Established Up (+) →+3.43%+2.45%Est. Up ≥ 55.58 (-2.8%) · Est. Down < 45.03

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 57.19)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R158.41–58.60+2.1% to +2.5%wk high 08-07 58.41 · ATH 09-03 58.60
S155.45–56.94-0.4% to -3.0%wk high 07-17 56.94 · wk low 08-21 56.91 · wk high 01-09 56.52 · wk high ’25-12-26 55.89 · wk low 07-24 55.45
S253.27–54.89-4.0% to -6.9%wk high 06-19 54.89 · wk high ’25-09-19 54.50 · wk high 02-13 54.39 · wk low 01-02 54.34 · wk high ’25-09-05 54.25 · … +1 more · 200-day SMA 53.75 · 40-wk SMA 53.72 · wk high ’25-07-25 53.49 · wk high ’25-10-31 53.43 · wk high ’25-07-04 53.27
S351.62–53.20-7.0% to -9.7%wk low 06-26 53.20 · wk high 04-24 53.19 · 50% 53.13 · wk low ’25-09-12 52.84 · wk low 10-02 52.81 · … +2 more · wk high ’25-02-07 52.26 · 61.8% 51.85 · wk high ’25-05-23 51.77 · wk low ’25-11-07 51.65 · wk high 2024-11-29 51.62
ATH58.60+2.5%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 < 55.45 (-3.0%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 53.27–54.89.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 53.27 (-6.9%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 51.62–53.20.
  • Trend vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 56.42 (-1.3%) · above its 16-wk avg ≥ 55.98 · Est. Down < 55.68 (-2.6%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 55.58 · Est. Down < 45.03.

Sluymer context

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

Notes & caveats

Thematic ETFs holding, entry card (treated like the US Watchlist). Holdings: issuer file as of 2026-10-20 (Thematic ETFs bot list: /home/box/thematic-etf-scorecard/latest.json (built 2026-10-21 07:51 PT, from PortfolioDashboardBBG.xlsx MASTER!CK6 'THEMATIC ETFS' block; live at https://skc-thematic-etfs.pages.dev/)); Theme: Financials. Sector RS dropped (no distinct sector ETF), Trend score rescaled from 50 to 100. Benchmarks: S&P 500 (20 pts) and ^GSPC (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).