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VIX options shifting to bullish and Banks really bearish all the sudden

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yet my XLF puts are fucked

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What I advise is this (I know a lot of people who have worked in finance): 1. Index - you can buy the market as this is very safe 2. Set aside a non-significant amount of money and use that to play with 3. Read the books by Peter Lynch - they are super practical and are aimed at mom and pop investor - you should be able to do this in a week 4. Start off with stock picking implementing the stuff you learnt from Peter Lynch From here you can delve deeper in financial accounting. Understanding how banks work is important to understanding the wider market. Learn to read 10Ks and 10Qs Start doing more complex Math stuff if you want to which is more trading stuff. If you want, for indexing you can fuck with the weights to boost your returns if you know what you are doing. For example, let’s say you owned the SPDR Sectors (so XLE, XLF etc all equally weighted) before the pandemic. If you knew what you were doing, you could have sold all of say energy (XLE) and bought more health (XLV) and you would’ve made a killing.

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everything pumpin but XLF not looking good. which... leads the way. weird.

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Not really. Banks don’t care about the interest and just care about the yield. Once the rate drops they can dump it off their books, take the profit from the spread increase, and plow that back into their loan operations that generate the real income or use the profit to absorb more losses (so surprise income cancels out any surprise losses). Basel III would standardize the risk models, which in turn would standardize the overall business model - since it’s all about managing risk - destroying any ability for them to offer any kind of innovation. So whether you banked with JPM or a smaller regional - there would really be no benefit since JPM couldn’t offer things beyond what the agreed upon risk model says they can, even if they can meet the capital requirements to allow for more. Personally I don’t think bank failures individually are bad. Companies should be allowed to fail in financial services and in the general marketplace overall. Even though 3 big lenders failed this year - the industry has done a good job absorbing it. At the end of the day the gov’t got all its money back and then some from the banking crisis. SVB was absorbed without any real federal dollars. FDIC is paid for by the banking industry, along with FINRA fees. Out of all the industries, they at least have invested in some kind of self regulation. You don’t see that level of organization in beef (made in the USA drama) or even in pharma (vitamins are not really regulated). KRE will underperform SPY or QQQ. XLF is probably the only thing I’d put money into directly. QQQ+XLF might perform better overall than just SPY - QQQ doesn’t have financial services.

Basel III is universally hated here. If you noticed more of JPow’s comments at the hearings were on them working on it when EWarren wasn’t whining. KRE is up the past month. So long as the rate cuts start in June, that will save the CREs. Lowering the rate will help the bond holdings. The last few long auctions have gone pretty well. Bond holdings is what killed SVB and started that mess on that squeeze. The lower rates will help all their balance sheets a bit as it’ll give them more paper cash to balance any increase in write offs. KRE is still sus but Jamie Dimon is Willy Wonka making bags. XLF is up and rightly so on that. At some point BRK is going to have to report their amassed holdings too.

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Memes aside. Frontpage OP is almost already regarded and should be inversed, but top 3 comments is usually pretty solid. Not sure if a few regards is enough to impact citi, but a hedge fund or a degen running option spreads would probably run something like buy citi puts while selling XLF covered calls to finance those puts. Citi more likely to underperform peers given their shitty practices but being a 🌈🐻 is a losing trade.

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Stock options: Fundamentals DD on the underlying stock (I like gurufocus.com for this), and some light TA on 30-60 day SMAs, using my broker's excellent built-in charting feature (Power Etrade). Index options: Macro news, like FOMC meeting dates, and more light TA. WSJ is the gold standard, but any legit financial news service is fine, from Bloomberg News to Reuters. Sector ETP options like on XLF, XLE, KRE, etc.: Sector DD, sources vary, like if I'm trading XLRE, I'm looking at NAREIT data on reit.com, or for oil I look at eia.gov and iea.org forecasting.

Thanks XLF for the green dildos

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XLF 0DTE calls at open. How regarded?

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Thoughts on XLF? Seems to be on a solid run

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XLF 1DTE calls. How regarded ?

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MSOS back in the lead in terms of Sector ETF performance YTD [https://twitter.com/t3live/status/1770083526630593017](https://twitter.com/t3live/status/1770083526630593017) $MSOS +29.8% (Cannabis) $SMH +22.3% (Semiconductors) $XLE +9.6% (Energy) $XLF +9.0% (Banks) $SPY +7.6% (S&P 500) \*Note: not including cripto ETFs as that is a dift asset class all together

The financial sector ETF (XLF) behaves similarly to SPY for about $40/share or $4000/contract

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Small caps haven't run yet. XLF and construction has but that's it outside of the 7. April is going to spread to hospitality and other small caps.

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XLF chart looks like it's breaking out?

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what if this was a hedge because they are 50m short the XLF??

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$XLF is in short squeeze mode. It's unbelievable. It's as if Bitcoin were pushing the banks up, or the banks pushing Bitcoin up, go figure. I don't think anyone is trying to short the banks anymore... haha Maybe this week's news will help us make up our minds... https://preview.redd.it/504k817e74oc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e6b562e8865aab1944276c155c470950e76da71

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I’m buying/bought —XLF XLK XLY RSP SPY DIA &RJR For cash in lieu of HYSA ——SGOV @4-5% pays monthly Good luck.

All of the lagging sectors are starting to catch up. Look at the XLF

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XLF is up 25+% if bank’s disappointed after this run they could sell off.

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I have no idea but this post was three years ago. GE is up 400%. I dumped AMC last year and made 10x on a 30k investment… not a bad pay day! CCL I also sold at the 2 year mark at 2.5x roughly. AIG I’m holding and currently at 2x. BAC 1.5x and holding. NOK I sold at one year 2x payout. XLE and XLF have doubled and I’m holding. In 3-4 years with this strategy I posted I turned 100k into 780k. They can down vote all they like… I’m laughing on the way to the bank!

[https://www.etfrc.com/funds/overlap.php](https://www.etfrc.com/funds/overlap.php) # 100.0% of XLE's 23 holdings also in VOO 100.0% of **XLV**'s 64 holdings also in VOO # 100.0% of XLF's 72 holdings also in VOO # 85.0% of SCHD's 104 holdings also in VYM the number of overlap holdings may be small in percentage cause s&p500 holds 500 stocks, but if you take into account XLE + XLV + XLF than there is a big overlap. VYM has more holdings but that doesn't make it better than SCHD (quite the opposite in this case)

- VNQ is just not worth holding imo - There is a lot of overlap between SCHD and the inferior VYM, just go full SCHD - Forget about XLE, XLF and XLV, and put it all in VOO, as again, there is quite an overlap

I feel the same about Ford. I type "F" into TDA's search, and TDA suggests random three-letter tickers like XLF, FXI, FDX, WFC, etc. A few seconds later, it's like, "oh, yeah, F exists...let's throw it at the bottom of the list". Tbf, maybe their search is super smart catering to my preferences for literally anything but F.

Why do I have to choose one? There's no need to pit IWM vs. SPY, each has its place. When there is rotation by market-cap, like mega is flat but small-cap is running up, IWM can be very handy. Sector rotation is also great, but I wouldn't say I prefer XLF over SPY.

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nobody is telling you to buy XLF calls but it probably has the best upside relative to IV

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Oh just buying some puts on XLF, wyd?

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XLF: \~13.5% iirc

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I have 1 very cheap XLF put that I didn't buy for profit, but to start being careful when it is not losing its value on a daily basis. So I priced in the variance in XLF weeks ago. 

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For reference, remember XLF and regional banks last March? Yeah, might be decent for a couple day scalp or longer if way overdone but yeah monitor then strike but set good stops.

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Since Jane Fraser took over as CEO of Citi, the stock is down 27%. She just got a 6% pay raise, she's now getting 26 million a year. The XLF is up 15% in the same time period. Imagine being absolute dog shit at your job and getting paid 26 million dollars ![img](emote|t5_2th52|4271)

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SPY breaks 494 and its on like donkey kong. VIX is already above 15.5 so no resistances north XLF is holding up the market watching close

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If nvda craps then it's going to take the whole tech sector along with it as collateral. This AI bubble ATM is bigger than the TSLA frenzy of 2021/22. Loading up XLE/XLF will be a good bet here.

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I bought long term options in late 2021 and early 2022. Expiring 1/19/2024. META right before it crashed, SQ and XLF. Averaged down 2-3 times and still lost almost 100%. Nothing is guaranteed.

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Every broker should have a screener that can do that. But I'll tip you off to a trick I use that will make this easier. First, look up all the SPDR X*** sector funds. They have an ETF for each sector, as well as some sub-sectors, like defense industry (XAR) within industrials (XLI). You could just stop there, as most of the X*** funds have decent options, but Wheeling on ETPs isn't usually that good, since volatility is averaged out. Proceed if you want individual stocks. Look at the market-cap weighted constituents of each sector fund, from highest to lowest. If the top stock has liquid options, you've found your options ticker for that sector. If it doesn't, check the second highest, and so-forth, until you find a stock that has liquid options. Here are two examples, XLF (Financials) and XLV (Health care): https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/XLF/holding Top stock is: BRK.B. It has options, but you could probably do better. Next one is JPM. That's a winner. https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/XLV/holding Top stock is: UNH. It has liquid options, so you can stop there, though I fucking hate that company, so if you want to keep looking, the next would be LLY, which is making news recently and is pretty hot right now. You can just change the ticker in the zacks.com URL links above to get the other sector constituents. For example, to get the Tech sector, change XLV to XLK: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/XLK/holding List of SPDR sector funds: https://www.sectorspdrs.com/

I keep hearing that this is a narrow rally, but look at the XLI, XLV, and XLF. I guess it's not as narrow as being portrayed.

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Priced out of SMCI, deleted the ticker from my watchlist. AMZN puts, SPY puts and entered a small ANF put lotto. games aside, the OG four (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG, AMZN) are all under the weekly expected move come friday. [VIX is holding a support level on the daily](https://imgur.com/EwTXcHU) . XLE XLF and IWM are curling over EOD on the micro timeframes. There can be a quick turnaround friday in the morning folks.

XLK is the ticker for the technology select sector for Spy if you wanna check it out for yourself. XLV is healthcare, XLF financials, XOP for oil.

Not according to the XLF

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$XLF and $XLE are underbought

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XLF has outperformed SPY since SVB fell

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aaaaand XLF is green

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XLF V'ing like a mf, and still negative

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XLF seems flat , where do u see this ?

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SPY 483 strong support. Reopen shorts around the 5EMA Daily (487.5). Recapture of 487.5 and the bull run continues, else trend change likely. If SPY cannot print a price above 486 then trend reversal confirmed. QQQ and IWM (what a headfake) weak, XLF the strongest but topping market, XLE high interest. TLT looking bullish.

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VOO & QQQ 🙂 if you wanna diversify just a little more Check into adding XLF to your portfolio.

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May affect the stock prices of small, regional banks, and may have an impact on ETFs like XLF, but definitely doesn't represent a bearish signal for all stocks. But nice find OP... interesting.

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I did very well on financials because of that ‘crisis’. XLF calls and some buy-write swing trades. It might go down as the most obvious set up I’ll ever see.

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I see Visa in the financial services sector, at least if you look at the XLF and XLK top holdings. Like most companies now, it uses a lot of technology, but "Tech" to me is AMD, NVDA, CSCO, etc. In fast food soda and fries have massive margins of about 90%. I know this firsthand from my teenage years at Burger King. This was eons ago, but the end-of-day waste assessments were eye-opening. Again, my only point is to caution folks on here from going too heavy on tech, or tech-adjacent (Visa). Especially traders. For long-term investors probably less important.

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>now admitting I have a gambling addiction playing 0dte options, I don't know what to do It sucks when you get into this rut and think you can just make it back on a big winner when you see SPX 0DTE contracts going 30-100x depending on the day and entry/exit. What will help you is switching to weeklies, or even swinging monthlies (OpEx preferred for liquidity) on "boomer" stocks. Trust me when I say you can catch some pretty unreal gains on tickers that don't actually move a ton on a percentage level. Other than that, if you feel investing is bringing you more heartache than joy, then DCAing into passive funds or sector-specific allocation is the way to go. You can apply a rotation strategy and re-weight your holdings periodically between the major SPDRs, such as XLE (energy), XLF (financials), XLI (industrials), XLK (technology), XLV (healthcare), etc. Don't forget that these ETFs still have options and catching a move pays off huge because you can swing contracts without having the IV of something like an NVDA that requires you to constantly watch the underlying to time your entry and exit. Good luck fren!

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IMO banks are still slightly above a price I'm willing to pay, but not so high I want to be short. i'm mostly looking at KRE, BAC, C, SCHW, and at a lesser extent XLF. another 10% discount and I'm interested in a small long position by selling naked puts, or buying bullish debit spreads based on the IVR. in contrast I am short QQQ, long VIX. My overall account is about 15% utilization in options. not a very interesting market at this time. most of my capital is sitting in bonds, treasuries, and dividend instruments. keep size in check. size kills. 2-3% per trade, and with VIX so depressed options are a less attractive instrument.

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XLF 37.5 p 1/19 ![img](emote|t5_2th52|18630)

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XLF puts for next week locked and loaded with today's call gains.

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I'm gonna wait until after the 10year today, then I'm looking at taking a 35p 1/12-19 cal spread on the XLF.

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itchy butthole tells me XLF calls?

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XLF calls, lets go banks!

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XLF?

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Hope so, got XLF lotto calls for 01/19.

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Closed both my COIN and QQQ shorts, 20% and 3% gains, respectively. Due to position sizing sheer $ amount on QQQ is higher though. Replaced those positions with XLF short, though not expecting a massive drawdown there. I think we’re due for sideways action. But we shall seeee!

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There’s a few different types of assets/investments, I’ll go through them briefly and the biggest things abt them but please research past this, it’s just a starting point to just know what you’re researching for; Stocks: shares of a company, look at revenue, net earnings, different types of cash flows and the growth of each. Some pay dividends but that’s really one of the last things you wan to look at, in fact, if the div yield is pretty high take caution cause the stock might be cheap for a reason. Some vocabulary is; PE, EPS, PEG, Market Cap, volume, div yield, book value, various financial metrics, liquidity, etc ETF: “exchange traded fund”, (usually) an index of stocks compiled into a single purchasable product just like a mutual fund but much more like stocks when managing and to buy/sell. Think of it as buying into a (usually) diversified portfolio at a fraction of the cost and more proportional than buying each individual stock. Most notable is SPY or VOO which is the S&P 500 as a purchasable product, but there’s many niche ones. Some ones are like XLE or XLF which is I believe energy sector & financial sector funds, respectively Options: if you ever get into them there’s a few things to know, one they’re different from most assets because they’re highly “customizable” in a sense. It gives you the option to buy (a call option) or sell (a put option) the underlying stock at an agreed upon price before an agreed upon expiration. Theres 2 main vocabularies; 1 is the actual set values of the option which are strike, call/put, expiration, & underlying stock. The other vocabulary is properties of it which more or less describe how sensitive the price of said option is to x variable, these are implied volatility, the “greeks” (delta, gamma, Vega, Rho, theta etc), etc, ITM, ATM, OTM (In the money, at “””, Out “””), and Spreads (combinations of different options to arrive at a desired exposure), *it’s important to know ALL of these and what their values are for the specific option you’re looking at before purchasing or selling any option*. There are some strategies that are very conservative like selling covered Bonds: it’s like giving a loan to x party. Could be a company or the US treasury, etc. basic vocabulary is Yield, Par/face value, maturity date, coupon rate, bond/credit rating. In the same regard as dividends, if the yield is very high take caution. Commodities: these include physical assets, things like gold, silver, oil, corn, wheat, soy, lumber, etc. you usually trade futures for these products unless you’re an actual farm or business, although even those guys use futures sometimes to hedge Real estate: not real estate funds like REITS, actual physical real estate.

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It’s not a terrible idea. I have a LEAP on $XLF expiring in 2026. I’m expecting a rebound in banks as rates lower over time. All I’d say is — define your risk. I wouldn’t have a LEAP be more than 1%-2.5% of your overall portfolio. They can be risky

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Winners: Swing trades on financials and BROS, mostly using buy-writes. 56% over about 2 months on XLF calls, 16% on BROS buy-writes over a couple months, 14% on MS + covered calls over 4 months, etc. Losers: Holding SCHD from start of year to May put me -5% vs the index in that account as of May. By end of year, my brokerage and IRA are each beating the S&P 500. Should be about +30% and +34%, respectively. Predictions: I’ve been suggesting a roll off from the excitement over rate cut expectation, which I expect around Q1 earnings. Small caps, financials, etc should roll off, with people returning to the comfort of mag 7 until earnings growth makes those other areas more sticky destinations in the second half of the year. I expect Q3 and Q4 to outperform Q1 and probably Q2. I’m eyeing opportunities around financials as the roll off occurs. Should be a strong window between mega bank and big tech earnings.

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I bought calls on XLF around late May and sold to close at the July high, made a bunch on BROS + covered calls, then bought MS at $83.90 on 8/28, added shares/averaged down with covered calls & dividends, sold out at $91.86/share. That’s 3 examples. There were a couple small positions. The MS move was 60% of that account.

Mentions:#XLF#BROS#MS
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I get the sense that what $XLY and $XLF do here at their largest dark pools on record is gonna be huge for $Spy. $Spy volume looked toppy but if those ETF’s clear resistance I think we blast past ATH’s.

Mentions:#XLY#XLF
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Mentions:#XLF
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I would say you should choose a combination of VOO (big caps), QQQ (tech heavy, overvalued), VNQ (real estate, significantly undervalued but benefit the most when interest rate drops next year), XLF (finance), XLE (energy, high dividend, good for diversified), XLI (industrial), BIL (short-term government bond, no risk, 5.2% annual return guaranteed). Basically, instead of choosing individual stocks, you should invest sector ETFs that you believe will benefit the most given the macroeconomic conditions. Given interest rate will drop next year, tech and real estate will benefit the most. But tech sector is already priced in to some extent, so real estate is the best place to invest. Ideal portfolio: 50% QQQ, 50% VNQ *Disclaimer: this is my personal insight of the market based on my investing experience over the last 7 years. This is not a financial advise. You should invest based on your own market research.

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KRE and XLF could be good in this environment.

Mentions:#KRE#XLF
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I mean if Semis slow down your portfolio is screwed. You need more defensive and cylical sectors. XLE, XLU, XLF, and probably some cash on treasuries for if the market dips.

Mentions:#XLE#XLU#XLF
r/wallstreetbetsSee Comment

XOP, XLV, XLK and XLF if you wanna take a look at spy by sector

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XLF

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XTN and XLF are solid green. That’s a false drop trust me.

Mentions:#XTN#XLF
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Hi! My investment timeline is 25-35 years. I plan to retire with this. I am 25 years old. - 31.7% BTC - 26.2% SPY - 11.2% QQQ - 10.2% DIA - 6.5% VTI - 5.1% KO - 4.9% PEP - 2.1% SCHD - 2.0% XLF I have some overlap, don't I? Should I change something?

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interesting that spy is holding its gain much better than qqq - i guess blame it on nvda? though XLE and XLF are poppin also, guess i should check in on the 'not clownishly volatile megacap tech' sectors more often

Mentions:#XLE#XLF
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XLF is just like nah I’m going to just chill.

Mentions:#XLF
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Right? I have no clue what people see in other sectors. XLV, XLF, XLE, XLU, XLI, etc. don’t come anywhere close to the returns of VGT, XLK, or even QQQ over the last five or ten years.

r/wallstreetbetsSee Comment

Yikes the open interest on XLF 01/24 is insane

Mentions:#XLF
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Financials are loving this in pre-market (XLF +0.81%, KRE +1.69%), 10Y yield is 4.57% as I type this.

Mentions:#XLF#KRE
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Can you be more obtuse, lol? Without big tech, the S&P’s returns would’ve been similar to FTSE’s over the last 15 years. Other industries are mostly dumpster fires these days. They have their winners, of course, but no other major industry has come even close to the tech industry in terms of returns since the GFC. Just look at the chart of VGT vs the chart of something like XLF or XLV or XLE. Now you can attribute that to low interest rates, but low interest rates were for everyone, not just tech.

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I've had puts on XLF (sold last week) for a couple months. And I've never heard of this guy

Mentions:#XLF
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Hahahah you wish. once XLF is at the 10-15 range, then banks have hit bottom. Too soon Junior

Mentions:#XLF
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Just buy more XLF and go to bed. Banks are scary in this environment.

Mentions:#XLF
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C and KRE breaking 40, XLF 32.5

Mentions:#KRE#XLF
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$XLF 32.5 vs the weight of the treasurey market

Mentions:#XLF

[SPY](https://imgur.com/uHSE99W) Options Ex week whips this bitch all over the place. MACD and Stochs are wanting price to goto south, so a break of 434 will see selling pressure. Bull case is staying above 436 and getting the indicators to start to move north. Both Daily and weekly reversals are at 432.5 area so candle closes below that area and the bottom falls out of the market. Don't expect the remaining up gap to provide much support. Bulls did well to close the down gap @ 438, (there is a little left but consider it closed) pretty much they need to rally as there is no resistance left to go to nullify the Head and Shoulder pattern above 440 which then should send the market to 445. [QQQ](https://imgur.com/undefined) Bearish and indicators are wanting to pull it south, needs to get above 370 in a hurry. TSLA and NFLX will probably dictate where QQQ is going. [IWM](https://imgur.com/undefined) Rejected off the weekly reversal, a close below 172 and you should get a flush. 177.5 is going to be tough nut to crack. [XLF](https://imgur.com/undefined) Expect 33.5 to be like a magnet, XLF was rejected off its 200SMA. Bearish Divergence says this chart should consolidate around 33.5 and then violently break lower. [XLE](https://imgur.com/BOYNHNs) XLE is embedded and can ride the upper BBand if it chooses, Basically stay above 90 and its bullish.

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Except thats not reality right now, and is just a basic normal risk of bank investment. Yes, you should not invest in companies losing customers. But the big money center banks are gaining deposits not losing them, they are gaining total loan revenue not losing them, they are decreasing long term maturities not increasing them. All of this negativity is so focused on banks despite the reality that keeps being hammered into the markets brains that this fear is unrealized and ESPECIALLY not true at big banks under the purview of regulatory requirements via stress testing. If your point is that KRE is a bad investment, then sure yes, of course. But the contagion selling has occurred in XLF (larger banks and financials such as credit cards and berkshire) none of which have the same risks that KRE has. In otherwords, take the fear, and buy XLF because the reality is these companies will make a lot of money, especially the large money center banks; and they are being priced like they are about to lose a lot of money in the immediate term (which they arent).

Mentions:#KRE#XLF
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I would recomend looking for an ETF of banks (like XLF), but if you want to pick a stock I will definitely concentrate in the ones that have more exposure to comercial banking like: Welllsfargo, Bank of America and JPM (with chase). Other ETF I will recomend is KRE (regional banks) who were strongly affected by SBV crisis as a contaigous effect, but many of them shouldn't have been affected.

Mentions:#XLF#JPM#KRE
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I would probably keep a quarter of it BIL. I would start selling puts on XLRE and XLF. 15% of my capital on XLRE and 10% on XLF. 25% would be used to sell puts on SPX. 25% would be used to my own trading positions on mREITs and BDC common and preferred positions.

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XLF too

Mentions:#XLF
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Go for it. I've got puts on the XLF

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todays earnings for banks were pretty bad. if BAC is bad maybe the sector will yank. puts on XLF?

Mentions:#BAC#XLF
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My XLF puts hope so

Mentions:#XLF
r/investingSee Comment

I vote things that appear to be resilient (not financial or trading advice, direct or indirect ;-0 which we all know. SPYD/ XLF/ FCLD/ FCNTX/ ITOT. and he can pick some high volume long term weight add ins. Does what he has ultimately pay dividends? Cheers

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You're kinda underestimating how good the Nasdaq is at hiding stuff here when it's on as it is uhhh...hiding a lot. From January 6th in some of the major large cap sector ETFs: XLI: about flat XLF: -6.6% XLE: -2.1% XLB (materials): -3% S&P: up 10.6% because the NDX is still up nearly 36% since then. Probably less than half of the S&P is up since January 6th with the correction that's occurred, it hasn't mattered since the Nasdaq has been on fire. Any rally is going to have to be tech stock led until we flip the calendar...it's been the story of this year and frankly if 4200 holds through the rest of the year for the S&P, it's going to be because QQQ refused to die more than anything else because value names have kinda been ravaged.