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 - Industrial	XLI	87.73	0.54	1.42	4.69	22.29	13.70	24.89	2b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Technology	XLK	85.70	-0.08	0.28	6.37	31.52	9.30	7.93	1b
	Select Sector SPDR - Communication Services	XLC	84.27	0.98	0.05	2.46	18.29	10.07	22.63	590m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Financial	XLF	80.07	0.75	-0.25	3.04	14.46	8.37	26.38	2b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Discretionary	XLY	68.51	0.37	1.76	3.51	18.28	-0.34	16.55	901m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	67.34	0.19	0.67	3.90	19.11	5.99	11.65	43b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Utilities	XLU	58.15	0.40	0.94	2.31	9.79	8.91	20.96	1b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Materials	XLB	42.49	-0.56	0.57	3.37	16.41	8.14	3.92	501m
	Select Sector SPDR - Real Estate ETF	XLRE	35.85	0.67	0.89	-0.36	9.04	4.90	10.86	278m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	32.24	-1.10	2.27	2.16	14.51	0.14	0.30	2b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Staples	XLP	26.20	0.09	-1.50	-0.74	1.93	4.52	5.85	1b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Health Care	XLV	4.58	-0.12	0.50	-0.53	0.10	-3.85	-6.95	2b

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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	07/14	07/07	06/27	06/20	06/12	06/05	05/29	05/21	05/14	05/07	04/30	04/23	04/15
XLI	87.7	86.0	82.9	83.6	80.1	82.5	82.3	82.6	78.3	74.5	52.0	36.1	43.5
XLK	85.7	90.6	85.6	80.6	83.5	79.5	66.3	42.1	71.9	32.7	21.4	10.9	14.5
XLC	84.3	86.4	89.7	88.3	86.9	84.0	84.2	84.9	85.1	83.6	81.8	76.2	83.9
XLF	80.1	81.8	79.3	81.2	79.6	77.0	80.1	81.2	87.3	86.3	83.4	84.0	89.0
XLY	68.5	64.9	66.3	69.3	72.8	67.6	81.7	73.9	83.4	38.7	30.1	30.5	29.3
SPY	67.3	71.6	67.2	62.7	66.7	63.2	62.8	50.8	61.8	43.6	36.7	31.5	36.2
XLU	58.1	52.1	64.9	74.7	67.3	73.2	77.0	81.4	71.2	87.6	88.5	88.2	93.4
XLB	42.5	38.4	16.8	14.8	22.9	15.5	13.8	16.4	11.2	13.2	17.3	16.3	17.9
XLRE	35.8	30.8	24.8	42.2	41.0	39.7	42.3	34.7	33.9	74.7	77.9	72.8	72.3
XLE	32.2	10.5	7.4	26.4	14.0	6.8	6.1	5.8	10.3	8.7	9.4	13.6	8.8
XLP	26.2	32.1	24.4	42.7	37.7	31.4	52.6	66.9	37.9	78.4	82.6	88.8	90.7
XLV	4.6	4.8	4.5	4.7	5.2	4.3	5.7	7.2	4.4	12.1	28.5	30.5	38.8