If the aim of President Trump's proposed health care plan, deregulation on businesses, tax cuts, and tax reform is to help small business owners, market players don't seem to be buying into that because of their rejection of small-cap stocks, so far, this year, as also depicted on the Year-to-date graph of the 9 Major Indices below.
In fact, money flowed out of small caps this week (along with most of the 9 Major Indices, as shown on the 1-week graph below.
Furthermore, if the economy is doing so well and the Fed is busy raising interest rates (with the promise of more to come this year), why is the Financials sector flat this year, as shown on the following Year-to-date graph of the 9 Major Sectors?
In fact, money flowed out of Financials this week (along with most of the 9 Major Sectors, as depicted on the 1-week graph below.)
We'll see if the coming weeks present any buying opportunities for small-cap stocks and for the Financials Sector. Further weakening of these could negatively impact medium and large-caps stocks. However, Technology still holds the key to overall equity strength, in my opinion, as I described in my post of April 30.
At the moment, the Financials ETF (XLF) is threatening to break below the neckline of a Head & Shoulders pattern, as shown on the Weekly chart below. A drop and hold below 23.00 could see a swift plunge down to major support at 20.00, or lower.
P.S. May 21...
I've added the following Daily ratio chart of the XLF:SPX.
Price closed on Friday right on short-term major price and 200-day moving average support at 0.0098.
A break and hold above near-term resistance at 0.0100 could see price retest prior highs, while a break and hold below current support could see price retest longer-term major support at 0.0094.
A ratio chart worth watching...
P.S. May 23...
The following end-of-day heatmap of U.S. Sectors shows that money flowed into the Financials Sector and stocks today. We'll see if this is the beginning of a new trend or just a short-term round of possible short covering.
