Despite global tensions and the Russia-Ukraine war (and global war of words), the S&P Aerospace and Defense Sector ETF (XAR) has mirrored the broad market, falling around 30 percent from last years high.
Some of the bear market rallies have been quite strong which tells me that when the market finally recovers, XAR will do well.
Today we look at a “weekly” chart of the Defense Sector ETF $XAR and highlight how price is entering an important support area.
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$XAR Aerospace and Defense ETF “weekly” Chart
Here we can see the ETF is trading just above falling price support. The longer the downtrend goes on, the lower this support goes. That said price has also entered the upper end of a “gap fill” are from the late 2020 gap. Should price fail to stabilize in the low 90’s / upper 80’s, the the low 80’s may be calling, where another open gap resides from early 2020.
In any event, as mentioned earlier tensions are high around the globe. So when the market does recover, Defense stocks should be movers.
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