Did you notice that the U.S. Financials Sector Index is just 3.5% away from its infamous all-time highs in 2007 before the financial crisis?

That's right, $XLF is approaching this level once again, for the 3rd time in almost 13 years. Is this finally going to be it? Are we really going to start a new bull market in Financials?

I think yes and I'm going to tell you why.

First here is the chart I'm referring to and its 3rd attempt to get through this level:

This week I hosted a Live Special Conference Call for Premium Members of All Star Charts. Premium Members can access My Presentation here.

You can also watch this entire video for just $1 by clicking this link. In this short clip below, I show you 3 specific points throughout the presentation where

1) I discuss risk management techniques and how we will know soon if we're wrong on our thesis,

2) a specific ratio that is a coincident and, often times, a leading indicator for US Stocks, and

3) how we identify specific trade ideas using the top/down approach, with 2 ideas in particular that we want to take advantage of today.

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From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Thank you to everyone who responded to this week's mystery chart.

There were a lot of people on the right track in guessing what it was...but nobody got it exactly, which serves you right for guessing.

In any case, most of you are taking a neutral or bullish approach to the chart and agreed that a potential trend reversal is in the works.

Let's take a look.

In May we wrote a post for premium members titled "Technology Issues Continue", speaking about a failed breakout and general lack of trend in Indian Technology stocks.

Our conclusion then was to be avoiding the sector on the long side and that its weakness was a drag on the broader market given its 10% weighting in the Nifty 500.

Today, not much has changed, in fact, it's arguably getting worse.

Let's take a look.

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

If you look at a list of the best-performing stock markets in the world this year and over the last few, you'll see New Zealand towards the top of that list in both local currency and US Dollar terms.

With that said, today's Chart of The Week is focused on another New Zealand chart that's NOT equities.

Don't worry, we'll talk equities too for you non-currency traders.

I'm not saying I'm bullish on Disney because my family recently signed up to send them money every month for Disney+, but it certainly has me thinking about the tremendous new source of cashflow to be streaming into their coffers. That's got to be bullish, right?

Of course, at All Star Charts, all we ever follow around here is price so none of the above really matters, it just makes a nice story. But lo and behold, the $DIS chart sure is setting up for a continuation of what already is a pretty significant run:

We just got back from 6 days in India and I think it will add some value to give you some perspective on the kinds of things we learned. Sean McLaughlin is our Chief Options Strategist and had never been to Asia before. This was an eye opening experience for him and one that reiterated a lot of important things I noticed in my prior visits to Mumbai.

We attended a CMT Conference, we filmed a documentary on Indian Options Trading, we ate some of the best food this planet has to offer, we hung out with some of the nicest and coolest people know and got to learn a ton from everything around us. I love going to Mumbai and it’s so nice to see the rest of the gang enjoyed their time there as well.

I always feel so welcomed by everyone. I can’t wait to go back! I hope this podcast helps shed some light on how much we enjoyed the trip and maybe that encourages you to make the...

What I always like to say is that Technical Analysis doesn't give us all the answers, but it certainly goes a long way in helping us ask the right questions. That's what this is all about.

Today I have 2 questions I'm asking:

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in any asset class on any timeframe on an absolute or relative basis. Maybe it's a custom index or inverted, who knows!

We do all this to put aside the biases we have associated with this specific security/the market and come to a conclusion based solely on price.

You can guess what it is if you must, but the real value comes from sharing what you would do right now. Buy, Sell, or Do Nothing?

The Nifty 50 and Nifty 500 are back at the top of their multi-year range right as we're starting to see signs of exhaustion in various global markets.

Failed breakouts and bearish momentum divergences help us to identify potential reversals in the market and we're seeing a few of them occur in India and elsewhere.

The markets may be down today, but we're as bullish today as we've been all year and we love buying dips on bullish names. Today is no different.

One of the names we've been wanting to get into is offering a tasty pullback today, so we're pulling the trigger.