Recent analyses show a varied performance in retail sales, particularly during the holiday shopping season. After Thanksgiving, sales trends reflect both positive consumer behavior and challenges such as inflation impacting certain retailers. Articles highlight the successes of major chains like Costco while also noting difficulties faced by others, like Macy's. Overall, the sentiment around retail is mixed, with significant interest in consumer spending patterns. The price action of Retail (XRT) sector is shaped by numerous forces, ranging from broad macroeconomic trends to company-specific performance and market structure. The trend sentiment at 0.9 is bullish. The market sentiment at 0.3 is modestly bullish. Trend sentiment measures the current trend of the stock price, and market sentiment reflects what market participants collectively think where the price will move next.XRT is likely to move up since both trend sentiment and market sentiment are positive. The positive sentiment force for Retail sector is at 0.6, and the negative at -0.3 on 2025-12-03. The forces of Option Sentiment (1.5), Sector Price Trend (0.9), Market Risk Appetite (0.6), and Broad Market Trend (0.5) will drive up the price. The forces of Price Level Sentiment (-0.5), Valuation Sentiment (-0.5), and Sentiment towards Fundamentals (-1) will drive down the price. The sentiment for Broad Market Trend is calculated based on SPY trend. The sentiment for Sector Price Trend is calculated based on XRT trend. The sentiment for Option Speculation is calculated from put/call ratio. The Risk Prefrence is calculated from Bitcoin price trend. Price Level sentiment is positive when oversold, and negative when overbought. Valuation Sentiment, and Sentimentals towards Fundamentals are extracted from headlines and market commentary. All sentiment scores are normalized on a -10 - +10 scale. The price level reaches 100 at Bollinger upper band, and zero at lower band.

XRT
Date	Attention	Price	Price Level	Change	SMA10 Trend	Trend Sentiment	Hourly Trend	Hourly StdDev	Market Sentiment	Action	P	Fund.	News Sentiment
2025-12-03	0%(0%)	85.47	96	1.41%	0.74%	0.9	0.23%	0.7%	0.3	Wait	50%	-1	-0.5
2025-12-02	0%(0%)	84.28	90	-0.41%	0.74%	1.8	0.45%	0.2%	0.4	Long	60%	-1	-0.5
2025-12-01	0%(0.1%)	84.63	98	0.33%	0.5%	1.3	0.33%	0.1%	0.1	Long	65%	-1	-0.5