ROTATION — Sector Leadership Matrix

11 SPDR sectors vs SPY across 1d / 5d / 1mo / 3mo / 6mo.

1. STEP 01 / 04

   Sector rows + horizon columns

   Eleven SPDR sector ETFs (XLK / XLF / XLV / XLY / XLI / XLE / XLP / XLU / XLB / XLRE / XLC) along the rows. Performance vs SPY across five horizons in the columns. Steel diverging gradient — green outperform, red underperform.

2. STEP 02 / 04

   Hero regime chip — RISK ON / DEFENSIVE / MIXED

   Top-left chip aggregates the leadership pattern. Cyclical sectors (XLI/XLY/XLF/XLB) leading + defensives (XLU/XLP/XLV) lagging = RISK ON. Reverse = DEFENSIVE. Mixed = transitional.

3. STEP 03 / 04

   Defensive leadership = late cycle

   When XLU + XLP + XLV cluster at the top of performance leadership, the cycle is late. Historically precedes rate-hike pauses, growth fears, and recession concerns. Cyclical leadership returning = early-cycle inflection.

4. STEP 04 / 04

   Cross-check with credit + curve

   Defensive sector leadership + widening credit spreads + yield-curve steepening from inversion = textbook late-cycle macro setup. Type CSP / GC for those panels.

   PaletteCSP

Tabular matrix of all 11 SPDR sector ETFs benchmarked against SPY. Each row is a sector; columns show price change at 1-day, 5-day, 1-month, 3-month, and 6-month horizons, plus the 1-month relative strength versus SPY (sector return − SPY return).

Sectors are tagged CYC (cyclical: Technology, Financials, Industrials, Discretionary, Energy, Materials, Comm Services) or DEF (defensive: Staples, Utilities, Health Care, Real Estate). The hero regime chip reads which side dominates the top half of the 1-month RS ranking.

• Palette: add rotation or add sectors.
• Mnemonics: rotation, sectorrotation, sectors, spdrs, rs.
• Symbol-agnostic — the panel surveys the full sector universe regardless of the active chart symbol.

• TKR — sector ETF ticker (XLK, XLF, …).
• NAME — sector name.
• TYPE — CYC (cyclical, green) or DEF (defensive, amber).
• 1D / 5D / 1MO / 3MO / 6MO — % price change at each horizon. Color-coded green (gain) / red (loss); intensity scales with magnitude. Caps at ±5%.
• RS 1MO — 1-month relative strength vs SPY (sector return − SPY return). Positive = outperforming; negative = lagging. Color-coded same as above.

Rows are sorted by RS 1MO descending — the top of the list is the current 1-month leader.

Hero chip categorizes the top half of the RS-1mo ranking:

• RISK ON — cyclicals dominate (≥ 2 more cyclicals than defensives in the top half). Tech / Financials / Discretionary leading typically pairs with a healthy bull tape.
• DEFENSIVE — defensives dominate. Staples / Utilities / Health Care leading typically pairs with risk-off, late-cycle, or recessionary regime.
• MIXED — split. Often the regime is in transition (last bull-cycle melt-up, early-cycle rotation, or rotation between growth and value).

• Daily-driver leadership read. Open at session start. Top 3 leaders + top 3 laggers tell you which areas of the market have the bid and which are offered. Trade the leaders for momentum, fade the laggers (or stay away).
• Regime-change detection. When the chip flips from RISK ON to DEFENSIVE (or vice-versa) and stays there for > 3 consecutive sessions, regime is changing. Position sizing should adapt accordingly.
• Sector ETF basis trade. Strong RS 1mo on a sector ETF where the index leader is weak suggests a specific stock-picking story inside that sector — drill into the chart for the leader.

Server fetches daily aggregates for SPY and all 11 SPDR sector ETFs in parallel from the licensed market-data feed. Computes 1-day / 5-day / 1-month / 3-month / 6-month price changes from adjusted close prices, and the RS-1mo as the difference between sector and SPY 1-month returns. 5-minute server cache — sector rotation is a daily phenomenon, not intraday.

• Chart — drill into the leading sector's top names.