THE FINANCIAL SELECT SECTOR SPDR FUND. Every tracked FinTwit mention of $XLF, newest first. 77 mentions since the first on Feb 8, 2026. See the price chart.
July 2026 · 5 mentions
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 8
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Earnings growth drove S&P 500 gains in 1H 2026. Valuation improvement needs to take over now. Industrials look richly valued here, while Financials appear attractively cheap.…↗
Jul 7
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Earnings growth drove S&P 500 gains in 1H 2026. Valuation improvement needs to take over now. Industrials look richly valued here, while Financials appear attractively cheap.…↗
Jul 1
Alphatica — DARK POOL SCANNER | July 1, 2026
$SPY +$2.61B dark pool. The pattern reversed. $MSFT +$988M. Zero sells. The 17-week distribution broke. $MU -$289M. $TSM -$287M. Both agree sell.…↗
Jul 1
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 1, 2026
$IGV +4.30%. Largest software move of the series. $SOXX -5.31%. 9.6% spread. Widest of the series. The split inverted on Q3 day one.
Leader: $IGV…↗
June 2026 · 22 mentions
Jun 30
Alfonso De Pablos, CMT — The last two times Financials $XLF traded near current levels relative to the S&P 500 — at the GFC lows and the post-Covid lows — the sector went on to become one of the market…↗
Jun 23
Alphatica — DARK POOL SCANNER | June 23, 2026
Dark pool still buys $SPY. Lit: -$1.68B. Dark: +$640M. $MU both tapes sell. Zero buys. Eve of earnings. The pattern holds through the great rotat…↗
Jun 18
Alphatica — 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 | 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 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…↗
Apr 24
Shane C. Murphy, CMT — The relative weakness of Financials continues to pain me. More fuel for bull market skeptics..
$XLF $SPY↗
Apr 24
Alphatica — 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…
March 2026 · 11 mentions
Mar 20
Antonio Costa — March Madness 2026
$INDU Dowjones index -6.94%
$SPX SP500 -5.41%
$NDX Nasdaq 100 -4.25%
$SOX Semicondutor Index -5.28%
$IWM Small Cap Index -7.18%
$XLF Financial Sector -4.57%
$…↗
Mar 17
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The S&P 500 is cheaper now than at the start of the year (20.9x forward earnings vs 22.2x). That is solely due to PE contraction in Tech, Financials, and Big Tech-heavy Consume…↗
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 27
Alphatica — We scanned 43,000+ institutional trades across all 11 SPDR sector ETFs over the last 30 days.
$110 billion in dark pool notional. Here's where institutions are positioning:
ACCUM…↗
Feb 27
amit — @SayNoToTrading Have seriously starting looking at $XLF in general today based on the selloff
It is basic but $JPM is always very attractive when banks selloff
I think I would st…↗
— 🚨🚨🚨🚨 INTRADAY DARK POOL | 12:15 PM ET | FOMC Special
We don't do intraday dark pool posts. This is the exception. The first time a new Fed Chair speaks changes the regime. We'…
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — US large cap Financials are the second cheapest sector in the S&P 500 and have recently underperformed by +2 standard deviations. We therefore believe the group should benefit…↗
Jun 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 7
Shane C. Murphy, CMT — 3) Technology $XLK vs. Financials $XLF
3yr Z-score reached it's highest level on record in May. A near 5-sigma event.. https://t.co/dFd148ePRd↗
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…↗
— 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…
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…↗
Mo — Weekly RRG rotation snapshot - structure > noise. ✅
🔵 CYCLICALS - early leadership, now cooling
🔥 $XLE (Energy) → still leading but momentum rolling over
✅ $XLB (Materials) → f…↗
Apr 3
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…↗
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…↗
Alphatica — Where the money went during the selloff.
The Alphatica Industry Rotation Radar tracks 113 industries against SPY. Here's how sectors rotated over the last 20 days — through the Ir…↗
Mar 13
Alphatica — @Barchart Hartnett's parallel is specific: oil doubled to $140 by August 2008 from $70 in July 2007, and subprime tremors were already shaking Northern Rock and Bear Stearns. He's…↗
Mar 13
Alphatica — @TheLongInvest Respectfully, defining “resilient” depends on where you’re looking. The S&P 500 peaked at 6,979 and closed today at 6,673 — that’s a 4.4% drawdown from highs. Modest…↗
Mar 12
Alphatica — @desireefixler The Archegos comparison is sharp and the first-mover framework is the right lens. JPMorgan’s markdowns were preemptive — they reserved the right to revalue private c…↗
Alphatica — @zerohedge First BlackRock. Now Morgan Stanley. Two of the largest asset managers in the world limiting withdrawals from private credit funds in the same month. KKR and Apollo are…↗
— We scanned 108 MILLION trades across all 11 S&P 500 sector ETFs over the last 90 days.
Here's what institutions are actually doing with your money:
WHERE INSTITUTIONS ARE BUYING…
The AI Investor — Druckenmiller's latest Duquesne moves scream macro rotation:
- heavy into financials ($XLF)
- equal-weight S&P ($RSP), Brazil/emerging ex-China plays ($EWZ calls),
- adds in $GOO…↗
Feb 17
unusual_whales — BREAKING: Stanley Druckenmiller, Duquesne Family Office, has updated their portfolio:
Added:
$XLF, $RSP, $EWX calls, $AMZN Amazon calls, $EZ, increased $GOOGL, $CPNG, $NAMS, $AA,…↗