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 - Financial	XLF	88.31	0.41	3.91	9.45	-0.89	5.23	24.04	2b
	Select Sector SPDR - Communication Services	XLC	83.51	0.98	2.60	9.75	-3.10	3.91	23.67	359m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Discretionary	XLY	82.87	1.32	8.97	13.47	-3.80	1.69	20.96	687m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Industrial	XLI	80.08	0.70	5.85	12.42	1.93	1.00	13.82	929m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Utilities	XLU	76.32	-0.14	-1.08	4.36	0.33	3.37	14.25	737m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Technology	XLK	69.17	2.16	8.87	17.28	-1.57	-1.86	14.19	963m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	60.91	0.66	5.02	9.91	-3.05	-1.47	13.53	34b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Staples	XLP	46.02	-1.35	-1.73	-0.51	-0.83	0.87	5.71	1b
	Select Sector SPDR - Real Estate ETF	XLRE	39.20	-1.34	-1.20	5.58	-2.15	-3.18	12.04	194m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Materials	XLB	11.80	-0.50	2.87	6.94	-3.55	-9.23	-4.79	361m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	9.98	1.41	6.52	8.72	-6.00	-7.13	-6.83	1b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Health Care	XLV	5.44	-3.01	-1.83	-3.65	-9.70	-11.16	-6.85	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	05/13	05/06	04/29	04/22	04/14	04/07	03/31	03/24	03/17	03/10	03/03	02/24	02/14
XLF	88.3	84.1	82.1	81.6	91.1	75.9	94.3	94.3	92.1	90.4	95.6	93.1	90.5
XLC	83.5	82.0	84.3	69.2	82.8	66.4	87.6	91.2	89.0	94.1	95.6	95.4	93.7
XLY	82.9	30.9	40.0	25.5	29.7	32.5	22.0	37.1	20.5	48.5	89.4	91.4	91.6
XLI	80.1	72.4	44.2	35.2	52.0	41.5	56.9	73.8	70.9	63.0	57.2	56.6	59.7
XLU	76.3	85.5	88.3	87.2	93.7	83.4	91.9	90.8	92.5	90.9	89.0	86.8	80.7
XLK	69.2	31.7	19.4	10.1	12.9	8.3	7.8	11.5	13.9	15.7	22.6	64.4	75.7
SPY	60.9	40.6	36.3	30.6	36.7	32.3	33.6	54.4	42.7	44.7	74.3	81.1	79.8
XLP	46.0	77.6	80.5	89.4	92.3	82.2	81.9	39.4	67.0	86.2	82.9	66.9	44.9
XLRE	39.2	75.2	73.2	71.4	74.9	64.6	84.7	78.0	73.1	74.3	83.5	60.6	51.1
XLB	11.8	13.8	15.5	18.6	20.0	24.1	24.7	15.1	18.5	17.4	13.6	12.2	20.2
XLE	10.0	8.5	12.8	15.4	9.1	22.2	90.5	86.2	78.4	41.5	19.0	21.7	18.3
XLV	5.4	11.3	23.3	33.6	38.2	58.0	58.2	61.8	54.2	53.3	52.0	39.9	12.6