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This chart will appeal to all contrarians in this sub: Buy XLP?
My plan of trading until the end of the year SPY
Sell puts on Consumer staples, and utilities stock.
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Consumer Staples price increases are here to stay
Alternatives sector to consider apart from XLE?
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Considering adding some consumer staples. Would it be pointless when starting out?
Why is my ticker down? Add these sectors ETF’s to your watchlist to understand the big picture
Does anyone know of a Consumer Staple (XLP) ETF but 3x leveraged???
Let's take out Citron and MuddyWaters!
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Just get calls on GLD, XLE, and XLP and thank me later.
defensive sectors XLP and XLU are up. Once they tank, SPY will be in 660s
1. 40% U.S. large-cap (VOO/SPY) and 20% international large-cap ex US (VXUS) is fine, but unless you have a proven track record with stock picking, 40% in individual stocks is high risk. Consider lowering that % until you have shown to be good at stock picking through both bull and bear markets. 2. U.S. defensive stocks (the consumer staples sector) have outperformed VOO YTD. Having narrowed your interest to stocks in that sector, also consider investing in the entire sector via an ETF, e.g. XLP. 3. Based on the last 1-month performance, now is a good time to invest in companies in the consumer staples sector. Also consider buying the entire sector or examine the companies in the consumer staples sector to find more companies of interest. 6. Yes, consider ETFs over individual stocks. The risk is much lower, the required effort is much less, and the profitably can be very good.
Consider using a sector tracker to follow the top performing sectors. Within the U.S. YTD these are ETFs like XLB, XLE, XLI, XLP, XLRE, and XLU. YTD, all of these have significantly outperformed VOO. Here is a sector tracker for S & P 500 stocks. [Sector tracker | State Street](https://www.ssga.com/us/en/intermediary/resources/sector-tracker#currentTab=ytd)
Hey there, I had a Roth IRA rolled over, and I don't quite want to disclose the amount, but it's certainly getting me excited about what to put this into. After some brief (and I mean brief) research, I was thinking about three EFTs to diversify my stocks, as I am currently leaning pretty heavy in the tech sector (NVDA, VOO) XLV (Health Care Select Sector SPDR) XLI (Industrial Select Sector SDPR) XLP (Consumer Staples Select Sector) What are we thinking, reddit? I will be honest; I know a whole lot of nothing about stocks; I am mainly just trying to load this cash into each EFT for long term investing for the next forty years.
Actually I'm doing okay with XLP, JNJ, KO, MO, CL. I also own some high flyers that have been getting their asses kicked of late, but consumer staples has evened things out a bit.
Very much defensive for last month. Look at XLP and XLRE.
The AI bubble is deflating. PE is decreasing. Shifting to defensive XLRE and XLP.
Hi Dan and Matt, you guys are my heros. Let me nag you with 2 questions: 1. I am observing a historic parabolic expansion in Staples (XLP) reaching a 96 RSI, while small caps (IWM) are fracturing. In your experience as market makers, when 'Safety Sectors' reach this level of over-travel while the broad indices lose their GEX floor, does this typically signal the 'final flush' of institutional collateral? Does the rotation out of XLP typically serve as the final fuel for the downward tunneling in the indices? 2. Given that IWM liquidity is significantly thinner than the SPX/SPY, how do dealers manage a 'Short Gamma Deep-End' scenario? Specifically, when price crosses below the Zero-Gamma flip in IWM, is there a mechanical point where your hedging velocity (∂tΔ) becomes non-linear because you’ve exhausted the available RTY (Russell 2000 Futures) liquidity? Can I ask 2 more questions?
XLP and XLRE have been headed up
XLE and XLP for when he nukes Iran and we3
from my own port: XLP +1% today LMT +2% today those were the only survivors, dunno if there are others
Spy is at 695 but qqq is slowly grinding down. Spy is not going up because of tech but because if XLP and XLE.
Check out these ETFs XLB VCR XLI XLP XLE Thanks Value investor
* 44 years old * Currently employed ($140,000/yr) * 401(k) that is mostly in a target date fund, with about 40% sitting in a value fund, international fund, and mid-cap fund. All new contributions go to the target date fund. * Roth IRA that is kind of a mess because I've held it forever, but can be modeled as something like 80% VTI + 20% VXUS. * Only debt is my mortgage, which is 3.75% * Fully funded emergency fund (two years) I'm trying to be better with my money. Due to a rocky upbringing, I have a lot of purely psychological roadblocks when it comes to investing. I'd like to start putting more money into my taxable brokerage account, and I'm looking for advice on what I could do in terms of an "intermediate" risk profile that sits somewhere between HYSA/SGOV combination that I've been defaulting to lately and the portfolio I have in my retirement accounts. I've considered a mix of defensive sector ETFs (XLU/XLV/XLP) and heavily "filtered" ETFs like SCHD and VIG. I've also considered bonds, but after 2022 I feel like I don't understand the underlying mechanisms well enough to buy into that. Treasuries might also be an option. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
Hijacking a bit, but yeah... let's add FOMO to to the conversation too.. but first in an attempt to be helpful XLP or VDC are consumer defensive ETF's I'd probably recommend if they market turns more risk-on again if saving for a down payment on a house. More directly to u/Fun_Set_238 you took up a position in AGV (leveraged exposure) because you we're focused on making money quickly instead of the risk of losing money quickly. You probably thought about buying as it started to take off and than got fed a bunch of the metal reddits in your feed and listened to the inane echo chamber ramblings that some/most become. It's *always* about risk/reward. Next that money you had is gone you got the risk instead of the reward, accept that. The revenge trading is teaching you that. You lost a lot of money don't chase the losses, accept that it happened. You bet on black and it was red. It's done. Yes it really did happen that quickly, get control of yourself. On to your open calls. June 125$ SLV call is just going to bleed value since you bought during extremely high volatility (valued by Vega) and are going to going to start hemorrhaging Time Value (valued by Theta) holding an OTM for long (even if bullish on SLV *it's going to bleed* without rallying beyond All Time Highs). You could hope for a relief rally next week, but be prepared to cope. HYMC 55$ DTE March, is a risky maybe imo. I might hold that one next week, I'm bullish on gold honestly and silver could surprise and is more realistic. I'd be looking for the exit even on that if I were you though. You admitted you messed up and need advice. Here is mine. Good luck, to echo the comments, stop gambling. Might as well be at a casino with this ffs.
The amount of energy needed to power AI is insane,to power bitcoin even more. This is why Venezuela and Iran have been subjects of late. Bitcoin miners are finding it more lucrative to go the AI route. Thus, Bitcoin crashes, and people move to consumer staples, utilities, energy, and materials. These 3 ETFs were up today, XLE,XLB,XLP.
Software stocks collapsed and Defensives soared. Many traders are betting on Software to bounce and Defensives to pullback. Software etf $IGV Call volume hit a new record high today, while Consumer Staples etf $XLP Put volume soared
Right, I'm done with this volatile-ass market. I aged about 40 years this week so I'm going back in with a boomer port: $BRK.B $XLP $XOM $LMT $AAPL $GOOG $TSLQ See y'all next week 👵
Check out the XLP ETF, it’s rocketing upwards after consolidating for a couple years.
Even XLP is down bloodbath coming for the defensive
XLY vs XLP not looking to hot
Consumer defensivesm sector up .7% in premarket right now (XLP)
Jobs numbers continued to be bad. If Jobs = Bad, Recession is here/coming. Also accelerated rotation into defensives. XLP and XLE flying are never good things for the economy.
Consumer defensive sector index (XLP) is up 12% YTD
I saw the XLP move the first day which was a jump 3% and I thought. Man.. I want to buy calls on this, but felt like i'd get rug pulled the next day. Nope, another 7% since. My best performing stocks have been TGT, UPS, and GIS. Who would have thought lol.
Keep these on your watch list. XLI, XLP, XLE, XLK, XLB, XLV. XLF, XLC, XLU. Seems to be going mostly into energy materials healthcare and financials
fun fact, consumer defensive stocks have never had a % day high since trump took office, this is a clear sign of trend reversal. buy GIS, CPB, XLP, SCHD now before its too late, the charts are going inverse, tech is going to start crumbling so valuation can be cheap again to be bought, but that will take years, in the meantime GIS will go up from $40 to $70, CPB from $25 to $50, look at the charts, they dont lie. ur just at the start of a consumer defensive and dividend aristocrat bullrun
Defensive sector XLP was up +2%, Tech sector XLK was down -2% Happened in 2000-2001 dot-com bust & Jan 2025 (before liberation day).
i'm full porting XLP fuck this
Top 4 sector performances today. It looks like a market rotation to me. $XME (metals & materials) + 4.27% $XLE (energy) +2.7% $XLU (utilities) + 1.7% $XLP (cons staples) +1.9% $XLK (tech) minus - 2.57%
I can't tell you where ARKK will be in 2 years, but I can tell you that it is a high volatility etf. That means it might go up a lot or down a lot. What you're looking for is 20% in 2 years, or roughly 9.5%% per year. If you expect average returns over the next 2 years, the S&P500 and the NASDAQ would both do well enough and not expose you to a crazy amount of risk, but there is still the risk of the markets dropping substantially if things go downhill. The safest things you could put your money in would be etfs like SGOV, VRIG, and CSHI, but they're only going to return 3.5-5% per year which would result in you having closer to 275k than 300k. I think the best middle ground would be to play with housing etfs which is likely to have less beta compared to the price of the house you end up buying because it's in the same sector (Plus O has averaged around 13% per year since the year 2000). Additionally you could do something like XLP since it tends to do fairly well even when the markets pull back and also still makes around 6.5%/year on average. That being said, this is not financial advice and I am not a financial advisor. Do your own research and don't just blindly do what someone on reddit suggests.
$XLV and $XLP. Strong on Friday..should continue
Interesting. I had a look at mcap weighted staples versus discretionary (GIC classification) alongside XLY/XLP. Over the last month it confirms what you're saying (the ETFs are fairly representative). Over a year, on the other hand, mcap weighted staples seem to diverge from the ETF performance positively. I'd have to dig deeper to understand exactly why. But it would suggest that the XLP's negative performance over 12 months is not very representative of the sector. Analysis here: [https://www.sharestep.co/pub?tid=ts\_mkrfd10v](https://www.sharestep.co/pub?tid=ts_mkrfd10v)
Campbell's, CPB. Going into a 2026 late cycle/recession. Jobs numbers are NOT as good as the data is showing (Powell confirmed in his last press session). Currently at 10 year lows, and XLP has been flying. When poor, bet on soup.
Closed out my GLD options and 95% of my AGQ position. Threw some of that cash into miners, leveraged Biotech, Target, MORT, XLP, RKT, UPS, Still waiting on some other plays to cash out within the next quarter or two. Thinking of closing out SPY/QQQ when SPY gets to $700-$710 and then just buying back on a fat dip
XLP up huge today. Big boys fleeing into safety.
https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1q07m21/comment/nwz0hbm/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button XLP to 79.85.
Robotics $AMZN $SYM Defense/Aerospace $AVAV $KTOS Healthcare $OSCR $UNH Consumer Staples $XLP
Also XLY is flat and XLP isn’t even down half a percentage. “Pounded like a porn star”
That is all fine and good but the XLY is a laggard 8% for the year and the XLP is hot garbage for 2025 (which, to be fair, could just mean that investors are not seeking safety). That is not gangbusters. If there are low expectations, it is not hard to beat on earnings.
PHYS, EEM, IEFA, VEA, IWM, XLK, XLP, XLV some tech now maybe, in shares
Buy staples? XLP? This is WSB sir
Two things can be true: - Black Friday sales are at a record - Retail sales growth is moribund, based on +3% y/y Black Friday sales. Sales are **supposed** to be at a record. Not only is CPI inflation generally positive (3% this year), but population growth means we should be exceeding this at minimum to show real growth at. Here are data for the last five years for consumer facing sector ETFs (XRT, XLY, and XLP) vs. the broader index (SPY) and tech stocks (XLK and XLC), which have actually driven returns. | Total Returns | Name | 2025 YTD | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| | XRT | SPDR S&P Retail ETF | 6.66% | 11.78% | 21.54% | -31.64% | 42.63% | | XLY | Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund | 6.09% | 26.51% | 39.64% | -36.27% | 27.93% | | XLP | Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund | 2.90% | 12.19% | -0.83% | -0.83% | 17.20% | | XLK | Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund | 23.67% | 21.63% | 56.02% | -27.73% | 34.74% | | XLC | Communication Services SPDR Fund | 20.25% | 34.70% | 52.81% | -37.63% | 15.96% | | SPY | SPDR S&P 500 ETF | 17.62% | 24.89% | 26.19% | -18.17% | 30.52% | I'm not sure what investor used to historical 11% returns from the S&P 500 and recent >20% returns can see US tech stocks absolutely ripping >20% again this year, developed international markets return ~30%, and emerging markets >30% can get excited about seeing low-single digit returns from consumer-facing stocks and say "hell yes, sign me up for this shit". And unlike health care, which was beaten down recently but recovered, this is entirely driven by fundamentals, not sentiment.
This sub and the wider investing public is (understandably) fixated on tech/AI, myself included. I'm buying META, CRM, RDDT, and a biotech penny (unnamed - rule 7). But keep in mind $100 made in a boring ass legacy company is the same as $100 made in MAG7. [XLP](https://www.google.com/search?q=xlp+stock&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS984US984&oq=xlp&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDggAEEUYJxg7GIAEGIoFMg4IABBFGCcYOxiABBiKBTINCAEQABiDARixAxiABDIOCAIQRRgnGDkYgAQYigUyEwgDEC4YxwEYkQIY0QMYgAQYigUyDQgEEAAYkQIYgAQYigUyDQgFEAAYgwEYsQMYgAQyBggGEEUYPDIGCAcQRRg80gEIMTU5OGowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) Consumer Staples is a good buy. I bought 2,000 shares of boring old Campbell's (CPB). PG has had a big pullback but reliably makes $80B/yr in revenue. Just something to keep in mind during the latest tumult.
Up 24,000% on a XLP $70 put I bought like a month ago. Markets crazy! I figured with the orange man taking all Walmarts money errbody gonna be hurtin. Damn ole mighty if I would have just PUT a couple hundred more!!!
Any non tech defensive buys people are eyeing? I have some soup stock (CPB). XLP Consumer Staples in green today.
PG. consumer staples are going nowhere. But I only buy ETFs so it’d be XLP all day long.
The most boring company in the history of the world - Campbell's (CPB) - throwing me some green in a sea of red and still paying me a fat dividend. XLP possible safe haven for those who don't want to hold cash (SWVXX paying over 4% though - ahead of inflation).
consumer defensive sector, ie $XLP
I’ve done the same, but through sector etf’s XLK,XLE,PRNT,XLP. As long as you’ve put thought into it and rebalance regularly enough you’ll be in good shape
When you say you trade only the top 1% of companies, what does that mean? Like for example XLP is only 40 companies, the top 1% means only trading Walmart or Costco? I'm not understanding that part - what I'd rather do is see overall sector rotation patterns, and then find individual stocks that might not be part of the ETF basket that are good heavy hitting outlyers, but digging through that data takes a long time.
Maybe a pay day loan type company or consumer lending so long as it’s an asset light model with minimal retained credit risk. You could just buy puts…. Or short… or buy a short etf…. Or buy defensives like XLP and XLU. Or you can make a bet against me and I’ll give you $100 for every $1 drop in SPY and you give me $100 for every $1 gain. We can settle once a month. You can close the trade anytime at month end.
SCHD – 22.8% VWRA – 22.6% SHLD – 13.4% XLP – 12.2% BMRN – 11.1% VTI – 9.1% QQQ – 8.7% This is my attempt to reduce AI exposure to protect against a potential bubble.
True; all stocks will drop!! If you can decrease the % of high risk stocks in portfolio (sell), you can then be in dividend or mega caps that buy you time (days) —to then get all out! But it all depends on what crashes first of course. The 60/40 funds are safer. WMT is safe. There are safe plays ya just need to do homework and diversify. Healthcare, XLv, Gold, TLT, XLP, WMT, Euro, XLI
Changing sector weights to underweight sectors you think are more volatile probably won't be as helpful as you think. XLK (S&P 500 Technology) and XLC (S&P 500 Communications) have better 3 year alpha and Sharpe ratio than all the other S&P 500 sectors even though tech and communications are supposed to be riskier. XLP (S&P 500 Consumer Staples/Defensive) has worse returns and risk adjusted returns than IUSB (total USD bond market) over the past 3 years. Healthcare is another sector that's supposed to be safer, but the performance has been abysmal this year because of UnitedHealth. You thought DIA would be safer because it's supposed to be more spread across sectors, but UnitedHealth has noticeably dragged it down. DIA's limited holdings make it somewhat riskier than other index funds since it depends more on individual stocks. the DJIA is also weighted by price, which is a pretty nonsensical way to weight an index in the first place. If BRK-A was in DIA, it would be 99% of the portfolio. Ultimately, choosing to overweight a "safer" sector doesn't necessarily mean the value of your investment is safer, especially when adjusted for inflation. This also applies to asset classes, but at least a rate cutting cycle is beneficial for bond prices. Even foreign bonds are somewhat affected by rates in the US because foreign bonds are compared with US bonds. I used 3 year measurements because that's what my brokerage's app shows. Over the past 5 years, XLP has clearly outperformed IUSB.
REITs: VNQ, USRT, XLRE, et, Staples: VDC, FSTA or XLP
XLP (consumer staples) was flat on Friday. I heard that rare earths like MP (+8%) did well.
Its a rotation into consumer goods and staples in general, if anyone's gonna buy calls id go with XLP and PM.
The China news isn’t going to resolve in a week. The pop on the 20 year was telling. I expect bonds and gold to push at least in the short term. XLP would be something to keep on eye on.
Make them shut up before they dick over XLP too
rotation into tobacco and consumer goods and staples. calls on PM and XLP
IAU, XLP, OUNZ all green portfolio down 0.22%
Went long XLP instead of shorting, not working out well
XLP is great for this. add in DBC for commodities
pity those who keep buying defensive stocks on the dip PG, COST, KO, KMB, CPB, XLP etc took me a loss to realise no one buys defensives anymore, defensives in this era is GOLD and CRYPTO. im a victim, so anyone who is considering buying these to hedge be careful, zoom out and see for example KO trendline is going down to $45 over the next year
XLP calls tempting me, it's finally time
If you plot AZO %-off-high vs. SPY %-off-high, the only real difference is that AZO didn't tank hard during the great financial crisis. If you plot the Consumer Staples sector ETF vs SPY, they're basically the same chart. The max drawdowns are slightly smaller, but I doubt it justifies the relative long-term underperformance. (That being said, SPY's outperformance vs. XLP has come entirely due to post-COVID fiscal stimulus. Prior to 2020, the lifetime total return of XLP and SPY were virtually identical.)
I feel like consumer staples are due for a run soon. I’ve been taking some profits moving into XLP.
Steadily rotating my winners into XLP. Think that might be a good one to hold for a while.
PSA: I went long XLP just now. I have a 100% loss ratio the last two months and I'm down 20k. Do with this information as you will. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
With you broski think we will see a decent move here soon, powell speaks Tuesday aswell but I think may come sooner. Charts XLP IYK CAR squeezing hard really hard & as someone who trades these type of setups plenty in the past, they only come when the indexes are about to move strong.
I’ve been steadily taking profits out of big winners like Shopify and the quantum computing stocks and moving it into lagging ETFs like XLP and XLV.
Not UPS. A correction generally means econ contraction, and UPS gets hit hard. You want consumer staples -- XLP.
XLP is cheap today for those looking for a safer option that'll give them 2-3% in the next few weeks.
XLP is always a safe investment, probably yielding sub market returns but almost never yields negative returns on any meaningful timeline.
Hence why I’ve been loading up on XLP. And a little XLV. They’re very reasonably priced right now and their time will come, and in the meantime I see them flat at worst case, they will never significantly drop in value
XLK is up 13%YTD XLP is up 1%YTD The tech trade is still on.
Can we get an XLP rotation pleeeaaaassseeee
XLP is right on the cusp of either gapping up or dumping, WMT earnings tomorrow will decide. Might be a good play as its safe boomer stock index and the market looks shaky.
HTZ is going to keep running here. XLP calls are the other half of my port for safety
XLP is the perfect play, its consumer staples AKA “safe” stocks. It’s broken above huge resistance and is being talked about by Will Meade on X. WMT is biggest holding and they have earnings tomorrow. Stars are aligning
XLP curling back up after breaking through resistance, WMT earnings tomorrow, if good could make XLP calls 10 baggers
I guess all in HTZ and XLP Whose with me? XLP for boomer safety flocking and HTZ for the amazon news rip
Its time to embrace your inner boomer and still be a degen. XLP weeklies will/ are printing
Theres currently flocking to safety stocks, consumer staples funds type stuff. Lot of call outs on XLP yesterday that it was breaking resistance for a huge breakout. Load on calls, check it out.
Did you hear me? I said XLP calls and we are going to print all the way to the bank.
XLP calls, consumer staples, Will Meade called them out yesterday, chart calling for a huge breakout and investors are most likely going to flock to safer stocks at this point too. Calls printing
XLP/IWM its not too late. Oct. And Dec exp. R2k has the highest recorded short interest in history. Today was the start of deleveraging. Any dip here is a fucking blessing take it. Yeah I know its all small caps garbage and only 10 stocks matter Yada Yada. But there is still excess liquidity in the system and the market is pricing in fed easing and credit conditions as loose as they are, getting looser. Russel stocks balance sheets will bolster and risk will be sought out the curve. New ath by eoy.
XLP sept monthly and dec monthly calls. 82$ and 84$ strike respectively.
Look again. It just moved back above it. If we start moving down significantly, I’ll be allocating some to XLP