Week Ending: 14 August 2026

Taiwan TW Financial Services Industry

Banks - Regional

For the week ending 14 August 2026, Banks - Regional declined 0.22% with 5 advancing, 11 declining, and 2 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Upward Expansion

The activity fan is positively ordered above a rising Trend Line with price accepted above it.

72 technical evidence
Index2214.90 1 week-0.22% Breadth28% Members18
Country 🇹🇼 Taiwan · TW
Sector Financial Services
Universe country-listed
Price basis Adjusted weekly close

Trend architecture

Index, activity fan and structural anchors

Rolling 156-week evidence. Trend Signal points mark weeks when price, trend and the activity fan confirmed together.

Index Value Trend Line Fair Value Activity Lines Constructive architecture Transitional architecture Defensive architecture
Current architecture Upward Expansion 9 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 12.4% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Positive across every horizon
Participation 28% 5 advancing, 11 declining

Investor positioning lens

Is the evidence ready for capital?

A rules-based technical classification using trend, breadth, persistence, relative strength and path quality.

Current posture Positioning window open

Trend, participation and relative evidence are sufficiently aligned for selective exposure.

72 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Position
Trend
90
Breadth
45
Persistence
100
Relative
28
Risk quality
96
What supports the view
  • The index remains above a constructive Trend gate.
  • Constituent trends show positive multi-horizon persistence.
What restrains conviction
  • Breadth remains too narrow or inconsistent for a high-conviction position.
  • The group is not yet delivering dependable relative outperformance.
  • The index is extended well above current Fair Value, increasing chase risk.
  • Positive contribution is concentrated in a small leadership cohort.

This is a weekly research classification, not personal investment advice. Sentiment is reported as an independent confirmation layer and does not alter the technical score.

Trend state and durability

Architecture, persistence and constituent regimes

The index path is tested against the underlying security-level trend evidence.

Index architecture Upward Expansion

The activity fan is positively ordered above a rising Trend Line with price accepted above it.

State age9 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width8.10%
Fast versus slow change-0.62 pts
Above 83% Below 0%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Positive across every horizon

100% agreement

The 13, 26, 39 and 52-week trends all point upward, giving the advance broad horizon agreement.

13-week
20.6%
26-week
20.2%
39-week
25.2%
52-week
27.9%
Regime age104 weeks 52-week flips0 52-week boundary1732.02
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive94%
Coherent negative0%
Average horizon agreement99%
Positive horizon share96%
Weakening positives0
Repairing negatives1

18 constituents measured as of 14 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 55 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing0%0 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing22%4 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution72%13 securities
Stage 4 · Declining6%1 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch1 Relative strength leaders17% Fair Value repairs0

Measured as of 14 Aug 2026. Stages summarize price, Activity Line architecture, Fair Value position and relative evidence.

Architecture breadth

How market energy is distributed

67/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
78% 14
Rotation up
6% 1
Deceleration
17% 3
Balance
0% 0
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
0% 0
Unresolved
0% 0

Architecture breadth shows the distribution of expanding, rotating, balancing and contracting securities. It is diagnostic context and is not added as a second vote in the positioning score.

Capital rotation

Performance relative to Financial Services

Weakening
Relative index 13-week relative trend Starting level
Rotation dashboard Weakening

A rising relative line means this group is compounding faster than Financial Services. A falling line means capital has done better in the parent benchmark.

Relative index99.3
13-week trend99.4
4-week trend change-0.13%
Weekly peer rank4 of 5
1 week
-0.9 pts relative
4 weeks
-1.9 pts relative
13 weeks
-0.9 pts relative
26 weeks
-5.2 pts relative
52 weeks
-7.7 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

Equal-weight index evidence with constituent-level breadth and dispersion.

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
5
Declining
11
Unchanged
2
4-week average 49%
13-week average 62%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility12.7%
Drawdown from 52-week high-1.6%
Positive weeks, last 1362%
Current directional run2 weeks
Turnover versus 13-week norm75%
Breadth impulse-36.6 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

18 measured
Q1 -2.5% Median -1.1% Q3 0.2%
Average winner4.8%
Average loser-2.6%
Dispersion4.1 pts
Top-five upside share100%
Top-five capital share63%
Capital data coverage100%

Dispersion describes how far constituent outcomes are spreading apart. Capital concentration is contextual only; the index itself is equal weighted.

Momentum cycle

30-week persistence

Positive readings show expansion. Negative readings show contraction.

Breadth cycle

Net participation

Advancers less decliners as a percentage of measured constituents.

News and narrative

Does company news confirm the market tape?

Open Sentiment Intelligence
Sentiment evidence is still developing

Qualified company-level news coverage is not yet broad enough to influence the group view.

0 qualified records across 18 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 18 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 1718 China Man-Made Fiber Corporation TAI 14.60B 10.95 0.58 pts
10.49%
2 2887 TS Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 948.09B 37.75 0.41 pts
7.40%
3 2890 SinoPac Financial Holdings Company Limited TAI 599.42B 40.55 0.23 pts
4.11%
4 2801 Chang Hwa Commercial Bank, Ltd. TAI 284.02B 23.55 0.10 pts
1.73%
5 2891 CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 1.29T 65.80 0.02 pts
0.30%
6 2812 Taichung Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. TAI 119.83B 18.65 0.00 pts
0.00%
7 2845 Far Eastern International Bank Ltd. TAI 64.22B 13.20 0.00 pts
0.00%
8 2836 Bank of Kaohsiung Co., Ltd. TAI 21.82B 11.80 -0.02 pts
-0.42%
9 2897 O-Bank Co., Ltd. TAI 27.96B 10.05 -0.05 pts
-0.99%
10 2834 Taiwan Business Bank, Ltd. TAI 169.49B 16.30 -0.07 pts
-1.21%
11 2884 E.SUN Financial Holding Company, Ltd. TAI 609.63B 37.65 -0.07 pts
-1.31%
12 2849 EnTie Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. TAI 27.99B 14.30 -0.08 pts
-1.38%
13 5880 Taiwan Cooperative Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 388.97B 24.20 -0.13 pts
-2.25%
14 5876 The Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank, Ltd. TAI 207.46B 42.35 -0.14 pts
-2.53%
15 2892 First Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 479.56B 33.35 -0.14 pts
-2.56%
16 2838 Union Bank of Taiwan TAI 91.70B 19.90 -0.19 pts
-3.40%
17 2886 Mega Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 702.36B 47.35 -0.19 pts
-3.51%
18 2880 Hua Nan Financial Holdings Co., Ltd. TAI 542.07B 38.95 -0.47 pts
-8.51%

The index uses capped equal-weight weekly constituent returns. The ledger shows uncapped security returns so outliers remain visible for research.

Evidence context