Week Ending: 14 August 2026

Taiwan TW Financial Services Industry

Insurance - Life

For the week ending 14 August 2026, Insurance - Life advanced 2.07% with 4 advancing, 1 declining, and 0 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.

87 technical evidence
Index2503.65 1 week2.07% Breadth80% Members5
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 14 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 24.3% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Positive across every horizon
Participation 80% 4 advancing, 1 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.

87 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Position
Trend
90
Breadth
72
Persistence
100
Relative
88
Risk quality
91
What supports the view
  • The index remains above a constructive Trend gate.
  • Participation is broad enough to support the index move.
  • Constituent trends show positive multi-horizon persistence.
  • Relative performance is improving within its parent hierarchy.
What restrains conviction
  • 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 age14 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width12.76%
Fast versus slow change-0.66 pts
Above 100% 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
37.0%
26-week
39.1%
39-week
53.4%
52-week
75.5%
Regime age37 weeks 52-week flips3 52-week boundary1426.77
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive100%
Coherent negative0%
Average horizon agreement100%
Positive horizon share100%
Weakening positives0
Repairing negatives0

5 constituents measured as of 14 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 39 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

Stage Analysis coverage is still building.

Capital rotation

Performance relative to Financial Services

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

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 index137.9
13-week trend132.2
4-week trend change3.68%
Weekly peer rank2 of 5
1 week
1.4 pts relative
4 weeks
5.0 pts relative
13 weeks
15.6 pts relative
26 weeks
13.7 pts relative
52 weeks
39.9 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Broad
Advancing
4
Declining
1
Unchanged
0
4-week average 70%
13-week average 65%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility22.4%
Drawdown from 52-week high0.0%
Positive weeks, last 1369%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm39%
Breadth impulse16.7 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

5 measured
Q1 2.0% Median 2.1% Q3 2.6%
Average winner2.7%
Average loser-0.6%
Dispersion1.6 pts
Top-five upside share100%
Top-five capital share100%
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 5 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 5 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 2905 Mercuries & Associates Holding, Ltd. TAI 18.01B 17.10 0.85 pts
4.27%
2 2883 KGI Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 537.25B 31.65 0.52 pts
2.59%
3 2882 Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 1.49T 101.50 0.42 pts
2.11%
4 2881 Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. TAI 1.77T 129.50 0.39 pts
1.97%
5 2867 Mercuries Life Insurance Company Ltd. TAI 57.52B 9.75 -0.12 pts
-0.61%

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

Evidence context