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 - Communication Services	XLC	88.85	1.01	1.81	-4.15	3.82	23.27	36.29	546m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Financial	XLF	86.43	0.25	-1.03	-2.86	4.62	26.12	27.37	2b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Industrial	XLI	84.42	0.58	-0.44	-2.50	6.52	25.02	24.60	1b
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	77.86	0.94	0.31	-2.77	3.56	21.63	24.71	37b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	77.54	0.58	-4.21	-4.68	11.88	10.58	18.91	2b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Technology	XLK	74.24	1.44	-0.27	-4.98	-1.39	20.62	32.87	1b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Materials	XLB	62.76	-0.52	-0.38	-4.58	6.42	17.76	13.44	470m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Discretionary	XLY	55.43	1.26	1.37	-1.80	1.66	16.65	21.53	874m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Utilities	XLU	53.42	0.53	1.42	4.25	9.28	15.72	2.83	964m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Health Care	XLV	32.73	-0.07	0.40	-2.46	-0.85	13.71	6.84	1b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Staples	XLP	29.87	0.84	-0.13	1.50	2.42	13.15	0.73	1b
	Select Sector SPDR - Real Estate ETF	XLRE	13.97	1.44	0.82	-4.42	-4.69	12.91	3.46	354m

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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	05/02	04/25	04/18	04/11	04/04	03/27	03/20	03/13	03/06	02/28	02/21	02/13	02/06
XLC	88.8	84.7	93.5	92.1	92.8	92.4	93.4	93.5	91.8	91.6	94.5	93.3	93.6
XLF	86.4	89.7	87.4	83.5	89.0	90.4	89.0	87.8	83.5	85.5	85.2	80.9	81.8
XLI	84.4	87.3	86.4	83.9	84.5	84.8	83.7	79.9	80.9	82.9	81.4	79.1	80.8
SPY	77.9	79.0	81.5	82.1	81.2	83.9	84.1	83.9	83.5	83.4	84.4	83.7	85.6
XLE	77.5	88.4	88.8	86.2	77.4	65.9	67.4	49.8	28.0	27.6	31.7	13.6	13.8
XLK	74.2	77.4	81.2	90.1	88.8	89.3	90.7	92.2	92.7	91.7	92.6	94.1	95.2
XLB	62.8	73.2	76.2	71.6	70.1	69.1	69.5	70.5	56.7	56.3	51.6	42.8	28.6
XLY	55.4	57.4	36.6	52.6	45.8	60.9	53.1	53.8	63.8	77.0	72.3	73.9	75.0
XLU	53.4	54.2	41.7	23.5	27.2	27.8	11.9	9.9	11.3	9.9	9.6	8.1	8.4
XLV	32.7	37.7	36.3	36.2	40.8	64.6	60.5	64.6	68.8	71.0	73.8	66.9	72.5
XLP	29.9	42.4	37.3	33.6	29.1	41.7	40.0	41.8	40.7	36.5	34.1	23.4	31.3
XLRE	14.0	14.4	9.9	19.1	28.2	40.1	32.5	42.7	46.3	47.6	48.6	42.3	40.8