The Chart du Jour
J.P. Morgan has fallen over 12% in the past six trading sessions; Morgan Stanley is down slightly more than 10%; and GE had fallen approximately 5% over the same period of time into Monday's close, only to launch a fairly mean outside-day reversal higher Tuesday.
Is Tuesday's GE reversal sustainable? Looking at other financial sector chart patterns (yes, GE is a financial stock in our opinion since they have more than 50% of their income derived from GE Finance), we find the chart of Bank of America. Looking at its current formation, we doubt any stock within the financial sector will find long lasting upward sea legs at present.
But wait a minute, you might say, despite financial sector weakness elsewhere, Bank of America has recently been rallying. Yes it has -- to date. But in the chart above, we see a stock bumping up against strong overhead resistence in the form of its 200-week moving average. We also see a Fibonacci rhythm that suggests $31 as a longer term target here.
Now B of A may not have a derivatives book the size of JP Morgan's to worry about, but I would hazard to guess the bank certainly has a bigger exposure than Morgan to residential and commercial California real estate -- another knock-on dominoe just starting to fall apart after last year's tech wreck.
Some people may be attracted to B of A because of its relatively modest 13.8 p/e ratio, but for our money it's a trading sale with a stop loss set on a weekly close above $62.
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