The Canadian Technician

The Canadian Banks - Dashboard view

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

The Canadian banks are very interesting here. 

Well, here is the dashboard.

$SPTFS 20120324


Lets start at the top.

The Financial services sector has been rising nicely. You may remember I compared the $SPTFS to the $SPX and we still underperform the $SPX with our financial sector, but it doesn't mean there isn't some money to be made.

The BNS.TO chart finally broke above the $54-$55 level that has been a ceiling for 9 months. Good news.

BMO.TO looks to be hanging just below that $60 resistance level.Can it finally break out?

CM.TO finally broke through $75, Consolidated at $75 to $77 and recently moved above that. Bullish.

RY.TO has been doing even better. It is testing last years highs. It sits about 5% below $61 level.

TD.TO is testing the 2011 highs right now. Bullish!

They are all trying to move higher. 

But here is one more chart. Check out this bullish action. Higher highs, higher lows, already through the 2011 highs and has been up there for 2 weeks.Notice the SPURS are keeping pace with the $SPX.  Really outperforming!

NA.TO 20120324

Now that's a leader!

Good Trading,

Greg Schnelll, CMT

Greg Schnell
About the author: , CMT, MFTA is Chief Technical Analyst at Osprey Strategic specializing in intermarket and commodities analysis. He is also the co-author of Stock Charts For Dummies (Wiley, 2018). Based in Calgary, Greg is a board member of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and the chairman of the CSTA Calgary chapter. He is an active member of both the CMT Association and the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). Learn More