As shown on the two charts below (weekly closing prices), high yield corporate bond funds HYG (ETF) and NHINX (MUTF) appear to be breaking (or attempting to break) above another longer-term line (solid green, reaction points circled in blue) that has acted as support and resistance in the past. We may have a clearer picture of this apparent/attempted breakout after next week.
These charts also show that these two funds have cleared the descending price channel/wedge that defined a shorter-term downward trend that began last summer.
Currently the Relative Strength Index ("RSI", upper part of chart) indicates overbought/oversold conditions in the neutral range. The current rally beginning in mid-December 2014 off a longer-term support line began from the most oversold conditions (per weekly RSI) since the 2008-9 market "crash".
Investors who purchased corporate high yield bond funds in mid-December 2014 at long-term support have done relatively well so far in terms of capital gains and dividends with total return approaching 6 percent (last chart)
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The author/publisher has positions in several corporate high yield bond mutual funds at the time this article was written
Financial Disclosure:
The author/publisher has positions in several corporate high yield bond mutual funds at the time this article was written
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