THE ENERGY SELECT SECTOR SPDR FUND. Every tracked FinTwit mention of $XLE, newest first. 108 mentions since the first on Aug 1, 2025. See the price chart.
July 2026 · 5 mentions
Jul 15
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 15, 2026
$XLC +1.5%. $XLY +1.4%. Consumer and comms lead. $SOXX -2.6%. $MTUM -2.6%. Semis and momentum sold. $SLV -1.9%. Spread 4.2%. Narrowing. The volati…↗
Jul 13
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 13, 2026
$SOXX -3.7%. All four thematics negative. $SLV -2.8%. $GLD -2.2%. Precious metals sell again. $USO +4.6%. $XLE +2.6%. Oil leads. Again. Same struc…↗
Jul 9
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 9, 2026
$SOXX +5.1%. After-hours alert validated. All four thematics green. $SLV +3.2%. $MTUM +3.0%. $USO -2.6%. Oil lagging. $XLE only red sector. Mirror…↗
Jul 9
Shane C. Murphy, CMT — The Energy sector is trading above a rising 200-day average on both an absolute and relative basis. One of only three sectors to do so, alongside Technology and Industrials.
$XLE…↗
Jul 8
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 8, 2026
$USO +5.2%. Second session leading. 10.1% spread. Widest of the series. All four factors negative. All four thematics negative. $SLV -4.9%. No safe…↗
June 2026 · 20 mentions
Jun 24
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 24, 2026
$XBI leads. Second session. All four thematics green. $SLV -4.84%. $USO -3.69%. $GLD -2.64%. Commodities crushed. $TLT +1.44%. Bonds rally.
Leade…↗
Jun 23
Alphatica — $MU: +$3.49B yesterday. -$1.49B today. Zero buys. Eve of earnings. The semi complex destroyed. Seven names. All zero buys.
The buyers (two names):
$XLE +$336M (14 blocks,…↗
Jun 22
Alphatica — WEEKLY DARK POOL RECAP | Week 15 · June 15-18, 2026
Week 15. 85% accuracy. Buy signals: 9/10. Through hawkish Warsh and quarterly OPEX. The algorithm improved.
Four sessions this…↗
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 29, 2026 | Week 12
$IGV +5.3%. The largest software move in our scanners history. $DELL +33%. Gold +1.5%. 7.0% spread.
Leader: $IGV (Software) +5.3%
Laggar…↗
May 28
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 28, 2026
$ARKK leads +3.0%. $IGV +2.5%. All factors green. Innovation back. The risk trade is on.
Leader: $ARKK (ARK Innovation) +3.0%
Laggard: $XLU (Utili…↗
May 27
Carolyn Boroden — $XLE key support decision here....if it does not hold...it opens the door for much lower....sp far there are NO swing trade triggers....If it does hold, then 63.12 would be target…↗
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | April 30, 2026
The mega-caps beat. The money went everywhere else.
$MSFT, $GOOGL, $AMZN all beat last night. You'd expect tech to lead today. It's the laggard.…↗
Apr 28
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | April 28, 2026
Nowhere to hide. Almost everything is red.
Previous sessions the rotation scanner showed clear themes, tech up/energy down, or financials up/sem…↗
Apr 27
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | 12:15 PM ET
The 17-day semis streak just broke. Software is leading.
SOXX (Semiconductors): −2.2%- session laggard,
IGV (Software): +1.1%- session leader,
Rota…↗
InvestmentGuru — If oil stays above $100 , this are the play to concentrate on
$XLE
$USO
$VG
$ANNA
$EONR
$USO
$OXY
$XOM
$TPET
$CVX↗
Mar 29
InvestmentGuru — Near 20% green in this market
$XLE
$SATL https://t.co/Na4ZHhfWhA↗
Mar 29
InvestmentGuru — This is what you concentrate on
$USO — direct exposure to oil price trends
$XLE — broad energy sector strength
$XOM — large-cap energy leader with strong cash flow
$PBR — high b…↗
Mar 28
Wolf Capital — Day 28 of the US-Israel war on Iran:
• Khamenei dead
• 1,750+ Iranian civilians killed
• 500+ ballistic missiles fired
• Lebanon getting flattened
• Strait of Hormuz on the brink…
February 2026 · 11 mentions
Feb 28
Alphatica — Two strikes on Iran. Two completely different institutional playbooks.
We ran our flow scanner on every SPDR sector ETF for the 30 days before the June 2025 strikes — then compare…↗
Feb 28
Serenity — Here's my read on the market:
The US/Israel Regime Change + Strike on Iran has already been front-run by institutions.
Buying Defense/Oil at ATHs and selling risk-assets may be…↗
Feb 28
Serenity — News for the last month: "War with Iran is Imminent"
Retail on X: "Nobody expected this to happen! Everyone time to panic!"
So yes a lot of it has been priced in with Energy ETF…↗
Rock Bottom Entries — Crude oil has confirmed a major cycle bottom.
Energy is back.
$XLE https://t.co/7ZwfTkNhhA↗
Jan 26
Rock Bottom Entries — The US dollar just cracked.
A decisive breakdown from a 14-year uptrend.
This is a regime change that ignites multi-year commodity bull markets.
$DXY $GLD $SLV $URA $LIT $XLE ht…↗
Jan 24
InvestmentGuru — Stocks to Watch — Across the Energy Transition
Nuclear & Baseload Energy
$CEG
•Leader in U.S. nuclear generation with a massive reactor fleet and growing service agreements with…↗
Jan 5
Rock Bottom Entries — Venezuela news baited traders into shorting the bottom.
Crude oil might be ready to run.
$XLE https://t.co/a6K9H3dORm
August 2025 · 1 mention
Aug 1
Leveraged Cat — Pretty clear bullish RSI divergence on $XLE / $QQQ
While everyone is suddenly fearful of a hard landing, imagine the irony of "recession-proof" tech selling off and pure cyclicals…↗
— ROTATION SCANNER | June 18, 2026
$SOXX +6.3%. Quarterly OPEX. $IGV -0.4%. The split at its widest. 6.7% gap. Gamma concentrates in semis.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +6.3%
Lag…
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 17, 2026
$XBI +4.6%. Biotech leads on FOMC day. The rate-sensitive trade. $SOXX +3.5%. $IGV flat. Software waits for Warsh.
Leader: $XBI (Biotech) +4.6%
L…↗
Jun 16
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 16, 2026
$XLU +1.6%. Utilities lead. First time. $SOXX -3.5%. $IGV -1.4%. Yesterday reversed. FOMC eve. Full defensive.
Leader: $XLU (Utilities) +1.6%
Lag…↗
Jun 15
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 15, 2026
$ARKK +5.6%. $SOXX +5.0%. $IGV +3.0%. Software is back. The split resolved. $USO -4.6%. 10.2% spread.
Leader: $ARKK (Innovation) +5.6%
Laggard: $…↗
Jun 14
InvestmentGuru — 10 ETFs to Track Market Pulse & Sector Rotation
One-glance dashboard for where capital is flowing across the AI supercycle
AI Infrastructure Core
$DRAM — memory cycle (Micron, S…↗
Jun 12
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 12, 2026
4.3% spread. The narrowest of the series. Nearly everything green. $XLB leads. $IGV still red. SpaceX IPO day.
Leader: $XLB (Materials) +1.6%
Lag…↗
Jun 11
Alphatica — INTERNALS UPDATE | 2:30 PM ET
Trump says there is an Iran peace deal. The internals flipped in three hours. The roller coaster continues.
This morning at 11:30 AM we published t…↗
Jun 11
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 11, 2026
$SOXX +3.9%. All factors green. $XBI +2.0%. $IGV -1.5%. Software alone on the sell side. The split returns.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +3.9%…↗
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 9, 2026
$XLRE +1.9%. Real estate leads. $SOXX -3.0%. $IGV -2.9%. Oil crashing. The market is pricing lower rates.
Leader: $XLRE (Real Estate) +1.9%
Laggar…↗
Jun 8
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 8, 2026
$SOXX +7.1%. The largest semiconductor move in this series history. Friday: -6.5%. A 13.6% swing.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +7.1%
Laggard: $X…↗
Jun 5
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 5, 2026
$SOXX -6.5%. $SLV -7.1%. $TAN -7.3%. $XLP +1.7%. Consumer staples leads. The market hides in cereal and toothpaste.
Leader: $XLP (Consumer Staples…↗
Jun 4
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 4, 2026
$XBI +3.0%. $XLF +2.5%. $SOXX -2.9%. $XLK -2.0%. The great rotation. Out of tech. Into everything else.
Leader: $XBI (Biotech) +3.0%
Laggard: $USO…↗
Jun 3
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 3, 2026
$IGV -4.0%. Four days. The $DELL rally is gone. $SOXX +1.3%. $AVGO reports tonight.
Leader: $USO (Oil) +2.4%
Laggard: $IGV (Software) -4.0%
Spread…↗
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Almost every S&P 500 sector was higher in April (Health Care/Energy the exceptions). In May, only 4 groups were up, with Tech the standout performer (+19.8%). The other two sectors…↗
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 26, 2026 | S&P All-Time High
$SOXX +5.8%. $MTUM +3.3%. Oil only red. 8.3% spread. The greenest scanner since this series began.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconducto…↗
May 24
PhotonBull — Only just saw this but @GMHikaru made a new YouTube video focused on stocks yesterday
He showed a mock portfolio and provided his reasoning for each move he made
Here is the ful…↗
May 22
Alphatica — DARK POOL SCANNER | May 22, 2026 | Warsh Day 1 | Memorial Day Weekend
$9.6B in off-exchange flow. 293 prints ≥$5M. Net: -$2.69B sell.
Both tapes agree heading into the three-day…↗
May 22
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 22, 2026 | Warsh Day 1
$SOXX +2.6%. All sectors green. All factors green. The scanner wakes up.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +2.6%
Laggard: $SLV (Silver)…↗
May 21
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 21, 2026 | Post $NVDA
3.3% spread. The quietest scanner in weeks. The market is digesting.
Leader: $TAN (Solar) +1.7%
Laggard: $XLP (Consumer Staples) -1.6…↗
May 20
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 20, 2026 | $NVDA Day
$SOXX +4.3%. All sectors green. All factors green. Oil only red. $NVDA tonight.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +4.3%
Laggard: $USO (Oi…↗
May 19
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 19, 2026 | $NVDA Eve
All tech red. Semis, software, solar. Healthcare and oil only green. $NVDA tomorrow.
Leader: $USO (Oil) +1.9%
Laggard: $SLV (Silver) -…↗
May 18
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 18, 2026
Tech sells into $NVDA earnings. Energy and financials lead. Two days.
Leader: $USO (Oil) +1.7%
Laggard: $TAN (Solar) -3.5%
Spread: 5.2%
The marke…↗
May 15
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 15, 2026 | OPEX Day
11.5% spread. All-time record. $SLV -8.5%. Oil the only green. OPEX destruction.
Leader: $USO (Oil) +3.1%
Laggard: $SLV (Silver) -8.5%…↗
May 14
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 14, 2026
Software leads. Every sector green. Every factor green. The broadening is real.
Leader: $IGV (Software) +2.6%
Laggard: $SLV (Silver) -3.3%
Spread:…↗
May 13
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Expectations for Q2 2026 S&P earnings growth are up since the end of Q1 (from +18.6 to +19.9 pct), but solely due to upward revisions for Energy/Materials, Tech, and Real Estat…↗
May 13
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 13, 2026 | 12:00 PM ET
Solar leads +3.7%. Software lags again. PPI 6.0% and the market shrugs.
Leader: $TAN (Solar) +3.7%
Laggard: $IGV (Software) -1.8%
Sp…↗
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 11, 2026 | 12:10 PM ET
Silver explodes +6.3%. Oil surges +3.5%. New record spread: 7.8%.
Leader: $SLV (Silver) +6.3%
Laggard: $XLP (Consumer Staples) -1.4%…↗
May 8
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 8, 2026 | 12:12 PM ET
Semis rip +3.9%. Value surges +3.3%. Tech leadership returns.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +3.9%
Laggard: $XLV (Healthcare) -0.6%
S…↗
May 7
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 7, 2026
$IGV explodes +3.9%. Record spread. The software trade is back.
Leader: $IGV (Software) +3.9%
Laggard: $XBI (Biotech) -3.1%
Spread: 7.0%
The wides…↗
May 6
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 6, 2026
Innovation leads. Oil crashes. The possible Iran deal is repricing everything.
Leader: $ARKK (Innovation) +1.5%
Laggard: $USO (Oil) -1.4%
Spread: 2…↗
May 5
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 5, 2026
Semis explode +3%. Value surges +2.4%. Widest spread of the series.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +3.0%
Laggard: $ARKK (Innovation) -2.1%
Spread:…↗
May 4
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 4, 2026 | 3:00 PM ET
Oil surges. Semis break. Biotech leads. Every factor red.
Leader: USO (Oil) +2.8%
Laggard: TAN (Solar) -1.4%
Spread: 4.1%
The Iran mi…↗
May 3
InvestmentGuru — These are 10 of the strongest and most liquid sector ETFs in market right now—good for long-term exposure and sector rotation:
1. Technology
$XLK – Technology Select Sector SPDR
B…↗
May 1
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | May 1, 2026
Yesterday's leaders are today's laggards. Complete reversal.
Yesterday: XLE (Energy) +2.4% led. XLK (Tech) -0.7% lagged. Gold sold off.
Today: XLK…↗
— Where the money is going.
We track 37 proxy ETFs in real time across sectors, factors, thematic, and macro. Every session, the rotation scanner shows you exactly where the institu…
Mo — Weekly RRG rotation snapshot - structure > noise. ✅
🔵 CYCLICALS - early leadership, now cooling
🔥 $XLE (Energy) → still leading but momentum rolling over
✅ $XLB (Materials) → f…↗
Apr 14
Alphatica — Friday: −$3.49 billion.
Monday: +$4.5 billion.
Tuesday: +$11.0 billion.
The institutional tape just printed the biggest buy day since we started sharing this data.
$14.1B in buy…↗
Apr 8
Rock Bottom Entries — The mother of all breakouts is setting up in the TSX Venture.
Commodities.
Junior Miners.
Generational opportunities.
$GLD $SLV $XLE $GDX $SIL $URA $LIT https://t.co/4YGtitxwml↗
Alphatica — Two weeks ago: 9 of 11 sectors were aligned bull. The broadening was underway. We said institutions were repositioning cautiously.
EVERY MAJOR SECTOR IS A HANDOFF:
$XLK: −$152M i…↗
Tradable Astronaut — $XLE GEX/dark pool:Price at $58.97, down 3.74%.
Massive green call GEX stacked from $60 all the way to $75. Heavy dealer resistance above. 7.19m dark pool bar right at $60 to $61.…↗
Apr 1
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Six of the S&P’s eleven sectors are still up on the year, with Energy (+37.0%) and Materials (+10.2%) at the top of the heap.
Financials are still in the cellar (-9.9%), follo…↗
Apr 1
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Energy was the only US large cap sector to show a gain (+9.5%) in March. Outperformance was otherwise limited to Utilities (-3.9%), Financials (-4.0%), and Tech (-4.2%).
$XLE $XLF…↗
InvestmentGuru — Energy Stocks — Building Momentum for Upside . Energy is quietly becoming one of the most important sectors to watch if inflation, yields, and geopolitical risks stay elevated.
Ke…↗
Mar 25
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — 2/2 ...weighed down by its AI CapEx uncertainty, with Big Energy, with its strong capital discipline and high dividend payouts. The end result is that both groups now sport similar…↗
Mar 25
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — 2/2 ...Put another way, Energy investors will receive dividend checks amounting to more than half of their companies’ net income in 2026. Tech investors will get just 11%.
$XLE $X…↗
Mar 25
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — 1/2 Given high oil prices, the Energy sector’s dividends are virtually assured and, at a current 2.5% average yield (using the $XLE ETF as a proxy), the group’s payout is more than…↗
Mar 25
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Exxon Mobil’s forward 12-month Price/Earnings ratio is now higher than Nvidia’s, at 21.4x versus 21.1x. Moreover, the gap widens dramatically if we use 2027 expected earnings, with…↗
Mar 25
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Structurally higher Energy valuations are partly due to investors consciously choosing a sector w/ historically strong capital discipline. For ex, the top US Energy names will pay…↗
Mar 25
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — $XOM now has a higher 12-month forward PE than $NVDA (21.4x vs 21.1x), and the largest US Energy names trade for an average of 20.0x, not far from the S&P 500’s 20.7x.
$XLE↗
Mar 24
Mo — 14 weekly consecutive higher highs in $XLE.
RSI at 98.
That’s not strength.
That’s exhaustion.
Late money chases here.
Smart money prepares for rotation.
Leaders don’t die quie…↗
Mar 24
Alphatica — @KobeissiLetter This is the data behind why PMI came in at 52.4 this morning when everyone expected contraction.
The US isn't experiencing an energy shortage. It's experiencing an…↗
Mar 24
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — 2/2 ..., and the clock is ticking if we are to avoid a double-digit S&P loss in 2026. Read our full analysis by signing up for a 2-week free trial on https://t.co/pkogxvctiT!…↗
InvestmentGuru — $XLE one to keep on your watchlist for next few weeks to months.↗
Mar 20
Alphatica — Goldman Sachs just published what might be the most important oil research note of the year. The title says it all: "Higher Prices for Longer?"
The key findings:
Brent is likely…↗
Mar 17
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — 1/2 US large cap Energy (the $XLE ETF) have now outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 2 standard deviations over the last 100 days. Since 2010, that has happened 3 other times.…↗
Mar 13
Alphatica — BREAKING: Kharg Island — Why This Changes Everything
Trump just announced US Central Command obliterated every military target on Iran's Kharg Island. He deliberately spared the o…↗
Mar 13
Alphatica — @spectatorindex $2 trillion in equity value erased. Meanwhile gold is up, oil is up and defense stocks hit all-time highs. The money didn’t disappear — it rotated. The S&P 500 is d…↗
Mar 13
Alphatica — @KobeissiLetter They haven't lost control. They never had it. Oil started the year at $60. The US launched strikes on Iran on February 28 that effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz…↗
Mar 12
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — In last night's report: "The fact that Energy stocks haven't stared to roll over is a sign that markets are starting to see higher oil prices as more than just a passing problem fo…↗
Mar 12
Alphatica — JPMorgan says long energy, short the market until Hormuz reopens. The trade has worked. But when a major bank publishes the trade, it's no longer early — it's crowded.
Two days ag…↗
Mar 12
Alphatica — @WatcherGuru That's been the trade for two weeks. Energy is the only sector in the S&P that's green since the conflict started. The question isn't whether the trade works — it's wh…↗
Mar 8
Alphatica — Everyone thinks "war with Iran = buy energy."
We scanned 23,008 institutional trades across 6 energy ETFs over 90 days.
10-day basket institutional buy rate: 18%.
90-day cumulati…↗
Mar 7
Raging Capital Ventures — U.S. thinks it can sufficiently degrade the Iranian military in the next 7-10 days to allow for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen, according to a private briefing.
So far, the oil ma…↗
Mar 4
amit — @Olympicmonkey Very possible. Oil was slowly beginning to price in the conflict weeks before it happened, $XLE (energy index) up 25% YTD so the severity of bad news was priced in t…↗
Mar 2
Tradable Astronaut — $AEHR was caught on the Terminal Leaderboard 2 days ago!
Entry was at $38.32 in common shares, and we are now up 14%! 📈
Last chance to use our free trial (ends tonight!).
It wa…↗
Mar 2
Tradable Astronaut — I hate this tool sometimes
It makes me question my trading because I think.
“There’s no way this happens right??”
Proceeds to happen every single time
Energy has been #1 on th…↗
— Hope you all hedged with Pistachios.
Israel is now airstriking Iran.
Immediate Beneficiaries:
Oil (Energy) - $XLE, $CVX, $XOM,
Defense - $AVAV, $NOC, $LASR, $LPTH, $RTX, $AVAV…
Serenity — @Yeah_Dave I don't do your hold for dear life strategy with a few individual stocks and hedge along the way.
I personally hedge by shifting portfolio concentration by doing secto…↗
Feb 19
Serenity — @platochi Haven’t looked into $WTI, unfortunately oil is not my area of expertise. But if I do expect the sector to go up going index directional longs like $XLE are much easier.…↗
Feb 18
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — After being flat or down over the last 3 calendar years, WTI crude is up +8.6% YTD, the last major commodity to participate in a typical late-cycle rally.
$XLE↗
Feb 15
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — 2/2 ...Even if it doesn't, Energy is the one S&P 500 group we will never recommend underweighting. During geopolitical/oil shocks, it is often the only sector to rally. That “i…↗
Lawrence McDonald — 2026
Oil Services $OIH +29%
Oil Majors $XLE +19%
Industrials $VIS +12%
Natural Gas $FCG +12%
Nasdaq 100 $QQQ -1%
Mag7 $MAGS -4%
*Last time industrials were > 16% better than b…↗
Feb 2
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Higher oil prices on geopolitical concerns made Energy the best performing US large cap sector in January (+14.4%). We always recommend maintaining an index weight to the group, an…↗