The ETF's known as Select Sector SPDRs divide the S&P 500 stocks into nine industry sectors. Using these funds the investor and trader can target a particular industry or group of industries which they believe holds potential. Because of the dynamics of the market there are usually strong sectors and weak sectors at any point in time. This is obvious by reviewing these performance numbers.

Below you will see the Total Return for these funds over the past year. The S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has been included for reference. The default order is by Relative Strength but you can sort on any other column by clicking either the Ascending or Descending arrows. ( ).

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✓	Name	Symbol	RSf	Rtn-1d	Rtn-5d	Rtn-1mo	Rtn-3mo	Rtn-6mo	Rtn-1yr	$vol-21
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Utilities	XLU	95.32	-0.59	0.74	4.35	12.68	23.14	25.03	785m
	Select Sector SPDR - Real Estate ETF	XLRE	93.97	-0.25	-0.29	6.19	17.81	16.15	27.83	235m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Financial	XLF	91.63	1.11	2.95	4.15	10.56	10.37	33.23	2b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Industrial	XLI	86.59	1.72	3.76	5.28	9.21	8.18	30.20	934m
	Select Sector SPDR - Communication Services	XLC	86.51	1.36	3.32	1.97	5.62	9.21	32.85	331m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	79.49	1.71	2.13	2.20	4.72	10.06	30.32	27b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Staples	XLP	66.40	-0.59	-0.83	1.81	7.30	9.61	18.43	835m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Health Care	XLV	64.50	0.36	0.05	0.97	6.92	7.62	19.94	918m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Discretionary	XLY	58.87	2.28	3.12	6.44	9.10	7.81	17.53	545m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Technology	XLK	52.32	2.97	1.95	-0.29	-2.10	6.83	32.86	1b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Materials	XLB	50.97	1.51	3.14	4.49	6.20	3.97	18.90	331m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	10.19	1.19	4.52	0.32	-0.66	-2.58	0.02	1b

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The dynamics of Relative Strength are illustraded below for the past quarter. From this you can visualize which funds are improving on a relative basis and which are deteriorating.

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Symbol	09/19	09/12	09/05	08/28	08/21	08/14	08/07	07/31	07/24	07/17	07/10	07/02	06/25
XLU	95.3	96.2	97.0	91.1	86.3	93.3	96.8	75.9	80.1	66.7	70.2	68.7	75.0
XLRE	94.0	97.2	95.6	95.1	85.2	93.4	95.9	78.6	75.4	64.4	32.3	33.8	30.2
XLF	91.6	93.2	96.3	94.0	84.1	89.3	91.5	88.0	84.2	89.5	77.5	81.8	81.0
XLI	86.6	80.5	74.6	74.9	70.1	71.0	72.3	71.0	58.7	61.3	53.8	58.5	66.4
XLC	86.5	83.3	89.3	86.7	89.5	88.2	92.3	87.0	80.4	81.1	90.7	92.1	93.2
SPY	79.5	85.0	85.6	84.4	86.5	85.9	85.0	84.5	86.2	86.5	89.4	89.6	88.9
XLP	66.4	89.8	91.2	75.8	69.9	65.5	77.2	37.7	46.4	50.8	58.7	54.6	60.1
XLV	64.5	80.4	81.9	77.2	70.2	76.5	73.5	54.3	62.1	54.2	51.9	52.6	59.7
XLY	58.9	61.2	56.8	34.8	48.5	17.4	13.3	53.1	47.8	58.4	68.7	63.4	37.2
XLK	52.3	62.8	34.2	65.9	88.6	81.8	46.0	85.4	88.8	88.3	95.5	95.1	95.1
XLB	51.0	42.1	37.6	50.8	40.2	34.1	35.2	50.1	48.2	44.4	31.3	21.6	44.5
XLE	10.2	10.1	13.4	19.2	11.7	16.9	17.5	33.7	16.6	35.8	16.9	36.4	51.9