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Financials Sector: News Highlight, Sentiment and Fundamentals
Tue. Oct 28, 2025

The price action of Financials (XLF) sector is shaped by numerous forces, ranging from broad macroeconomic trends to company-specific performance and market structure. The overall sentiment for Financials sector is very positive (overall 2.8, positive 3.3, negative -0.5) on 20251028. The forces of Sentiment towards Fundamentals (2.5), Price Level (2), Option Speculation (1.5), Broad Market Trend (0.5), Sector Price Trend (0.1), and Valuation Sentiment (-1) will drive up the price. The forces of and Market Risk Prefrence (0) will drive down the price.

'Buy the dips' is the preferred trading strategy. Hourly SMA 20 trend line is likely to provide a support from any pullbacks. The swing to upside will be significant considering the high positive sentiment forces (3.3). The extreme bullish overall sentiment (2.8) may signal the top of this uptrend.

The sentiment for Broad Market Trend is calculated based on SPY trend. The sentiment for Sector Price Trend is calculated based on XLF trend. The sentiment for Option Speculation is calculated from put/call ratio. The Risk Prefrence is calculated from Bitcoin price trend. Price Level sentiment is positive when oversold, and negative when overbought. Valuation Sentiment, and Sentimentals towards Fundamentals are extracted from headlines and market commentary. All sentiment scores are normalized on a -10 - +10 scale.


DateAttentionAverage
Attention
PricePrice
Level
ChangeSMA10
Trend
Market
Sentiment
Trend
Sentiment
FundamentalsNews
Sentiment
2025-10-281%      0.7%      52.99      49      -0.61%      0%      2      0.1      2.5      3.7     
2025-10-270%      0.6%      53.31      63      0.34%      0%      1.9      0.1      2.5      7     
2025-10-261%      0.6%      1.8      0.3      2.6      2.3     
2025-10-250%      0.6%      2      0.3      3      6     
2025-10-241%      0.9%      53.13      51      1.12%      0.19%      2.1      0.3      3.3      6.4     
2025-10-231%      1.3%      52.54      28      0.23%      -0.19%      1.9      0.3      3      3.3     
2025-10-221%      1.4%      52.42      20      -0.57%      -0.19%      1.5      -0.2      2.7      3.3     
2025-10-210%      1.7%      52.72      31      -0.11%      -0.19%      1.6      -0.2      2.8      5     
2025-10-200%      2%      52.78      29      1.15%      -0.19%      1.3      -0.1      2.5      7     
2025-10-191%      2.1%      1.7      -0.1      2.5      4.5     
 
Both emotion scores and sentiment scores are calculated in a -10 - +10 scale.
The price level reaches 100 at Bollinger upper band, and zero at lower band.

 
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