Week Ending: 14 August 2026

Taiwan TW Industrials Industry

Business Equipment & Supplies

For the week ending 14 August 2026, Business Equipment & Supplies declined 1.17% with 3 advancing, 4 declining, and 1 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Balance

Directional pressure is compressed and neither side has durable control.

35 technical evidence
Index2003.45 1 week-1.17% Breadth38% Members8
Country 🇹🇼 Taiwan · TW
Sector Industrials
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 Balance 3 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 0.1% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 50% Negative regime, shorter trend repairing
Participation 38% 3 advancing, 4 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 Reduce exposure into strength

Counter-trend rallies may occur, but primary structure and persistence do not yet support adding risk.

35 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Reduce
Trend
43
Breadth
42
Persistence
11
Relative
6
Risk quality
81
What supports the view
  • No major confirming factor has secured control.
What restrains conviction
  • Index trend architecture has not delivered a durable upward expansion.
  • Breadth remains too narrow or inconsistent for a high-conviction position.
  • Constituent persistence remains divided or predominantly negative.
  • The group is not yet delivering dependable relative outperformance.
  • Stage 4 declining constituents exceed Stage 2 advancing constituents by 62 percentage points.
  • 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 Balance

Directional pressure is compressed and neither side has durable control.

State age3 weeks
Trend gateMixed
Fan width0.99%
Fast versus slow change-0.26 pts
Above 50% Below 17%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Negative regime, shorter trend repairing

50% agreement

The long trend remains negative, but shorter-horizon repair is now visible.

13-week
2.7%
26-week
0.0%
39-week
-7.9%
52-week
-14.1%
Regime age72 weeks 52-week flips0 52-week boundary2332.06
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive0%
Coherent negative50%
Average horizon agreement84%
Positive horizon share22%
Weakening positives0
Repairing negatives2

8 constituents measured as of 14 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 28 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing25%2 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing0%0 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution13%1 securities
Stage 4 · Declining63%5 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch2 Relative strength leaders0% Fair Value repairs1

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
0% 0
Rotation up
0% 0
Deceleration
12% 1
Balance
62% 5
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
25% 2
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 Industrials

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

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

Relative index62.6
13-week trend62.9
4-week trend change0.59%
Weekly peer rank16 of 17
1 week
-2.7 pts relative
4 weeks
-2.3 pts relative
13 weeks
-2.0 pts relative
26 weeks
-7.3 pts relative
52 weeks
-24.6 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
3
Declining
4
Unchanged
1
4-week average 47%
13-week average 46%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility16.7%
Drawdown from 52-week high-16.6%
Positive weeks, last 1346%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm53%
Breadth impulse-9.4 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

8 measured
Q1 -2.7% Median -0.1% Q3 1.7%
Average winner2.9%
Average loser-4.5%
Dispersion4.5 pts
Top-five upside share100%
Top-five capital share90%
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 8 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 8 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 2427 Mercuries Data Systems Ltd. TAI 4.52B 22.85 0.60 pts
4.82%
2 6128 General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. TAI 2.62B 20.50 0.31 pts
2.50%
3 1324 Globe Industries Corporation TAI 766.24M 10.20 0.19 pts
1.49%
4 6914 PSS Co.,Ltd. TAI 9.77B 147.50 0.00 pts
0.00%
5 2433 Huxen Corporation TAI 6.05B 41.85 -0.03 pts
-0.24%
6 2482 Uniform Industrial Corporation TAI 1.25B 16.00 -0.15 pts
-1.23%
7 5258 Castles Technology Co., Ltd. TAI 5.27B 48.10 -0.89 pts
-7.14%
8 8114 Posiflex Technology, Inc. TAI 15.56B 204.00 -1.19 pts
-9.53%

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

Evidence context