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July 2026 · 13 mentions
Jul 16
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 16, 2026
$XLV +2.5%. Healthcare leads. Yesterday's laggard is today's leader. $SOXX -3.8%. All four thematics red. All four macro red. $SLV -2.9%. Spread w…↗
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 14
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 14, 2026
$TAN +3.9%. $SOXX +3.0%. All four thematics green. $SLV +1.9%. $GLD +1.4%. Precious metals rally. Cool CPI. $XLV -2.0%. Healthcare laggard. Growth…↗
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 11
Michael | Hypermarkets — 1/ $SMH — VanEck Semiconductor
$10K → ~$115K (2016–2026)
27.7% annualized the single best ETF of the decade
The purest AI bet on the board. $NVDA, $AVGO, $TSM sit at top weight.…↗
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 7
Alphatica — 🚨🚨DARK POOL STARTING TO GET ACTIVE
Dark pool alert. 1:49 PM.
Five consecutive dark pool buys. Four minutes. Zero sells. All NASDAQ Carteret.
$SPY BUY $95.1M (1:46 P…↗
Jul 7
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 7, 2026
$SOXX -4.9%. Ten sessions. $TAN -4.7%. $MTUM -3.1%. Growth crushed. $USO +2.5% leads. Oil back above $70. $XBI +2.1%. $USMV only green factor. The…↗
Jul 6
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 6, 2026
$SOXX +4.18%. All four thematics green. $ARKK +3.34%. $TAN +3.46%. Staples -1.87%. Healthcare -1.35%. Utilities -1.28%. Defensives sold. The rotati…↗
Jul 2
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | July 2, 2026
$SLV +3.02%. Silver leads the scanner. First time a commodity leads. $SOXX -4.04%. The semi sell continues. Healthcare. Staples. Defense. Pure defe…↗
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Small cap Tech outperformed its large cap counterpart in both June (+8.6% vs -0.3%) and in Q3 (+53.8% vs +43.4%).
$PSCT $XLK↗
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 · 27 mentions
Jun 30
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 30, 2026
$SOXX +3.71%. Second session. The dark pool buy validated. $XLRE -1.28%. Defensives sell. Growth buys. All four thematics green. Last day of Q2.…↗
Jun 29
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 29, 2026
$SOXX +2.84%. All four thematics green. $IGV +1.86%. The split resolved. Q2 close. JPM collar day.
Leader: $SOXX (Semiconductors) +2.84%
Laggard:…↗
Jun 26
Alphatica — ROTATION SCANNER | June 26, 2026
$IGV +3.28%. Session leader. For the first time. $SOXX -4.92%. The split fully inverted. Software on top. Semis crash. 8.2% gap.
Leader: $IGV (So…↗
Alphatica — DARK POOL SCANNER | May 29, 2026 | Week 12 Ends
Net sell. $MSFT: zero dark pool sells. $TSM: zero dark pool buys. Both tapes agree on every name.
Ten names on the dark pool. Ever…↗
May 29
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…↗
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…↗
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) — 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…↗
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 26
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — US large cap Tech has been a better performing sector in the 2020s than the 2010s, but with much more volatility. Its recent 100-day underperformance is largely due to $MSFT and $…↗
Alfonso De Pablos, CMT — Here we’re looking at a base breakout followed by a continuation pattern that is resolving in the direction of the underlying trend in large-cap tech.
https://t.co/I6garocMx9
$XL…↗
Jan 27
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The dollar’s recent slump isn't a sign that the end is nigh for it, but it's a key issue for global equity investors. Dollar weakness continues to provide incremental returns to US…↗
Jan 5
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Only 3 S&P sectors outperformed last year: Tech (+23.8%), Communications (+21.6%), and Industrials (+17.7%).
$XLK $XLC $XLI↗
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The S&P 500 Health Care Sector has recently beaten Tech by +2 standard deviations (13.0 percentage points) over the prior 50 trading days. When that has happened since 2010, Te…↗
— ROTATION SCANNER | June 23, 2026
$SOXX -7.22%. The worst semi day of the series. $IGV +0.89%. The split inverted. Software up. Semis crash. The great rotation.
Leader: $XBI (Biot…
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The equal-weighted large cap Tech sector index is outpacing its market cap weighted counterpart by the widest margin since the Pandemic-fueled speculative bubble of early 2021.
$X…↗
Jun 18
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Tech's 100-day outperformance versus the S&P 500 recently hit its most extreme level since January 2000, a 3 standard deviation move.
$XLK https://t.co/tblqsgS0Ju↗
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…↗
Jun 17
Alphatica — 🚨🚨🚨🚨 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'…↗
Jun 17
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 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 — DARK POOL SCANNER | June 9, 2026
Lit tape: -$5.14B. Dark pool: +$82M. Nearly flat. The dark pool is buying indexes again. Same pattern as Friday, they are buying the dip.
153 of…↗
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…↗
Jun 4
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The S&P 500 currently trades +1.3 PE points rich to its 5-year average. This is not due to Tech, where multiples are lower (-0.5 pts) than the longer run mean. The largest cont…↗
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…↗
Jun 2
Alphatica — DARK POOL SCANNER | June 2, 2026
$NVDA: zero dark pool buys. $MSFT: zero dark pool buys. The $SPY divergence is back. One day after it resolved.
Yesterday both tapes agreed on $S…↗
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Large cap Tech was one of just 3 S&P sectors to post a positive return last month (+19.8%). The other 2 were Consumer Discretionary (+2.1%, thanks to Tesla’s +14.2% advance) a…↗
Jun 1
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 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
Nezih Gökay — ABD FON YATIRIM SERİSİ - 7
Teknoloji Devlerine Tek Hamleyle Ortak Olmak $XLK
Tek bir hamleyle NVIDIA, Apple ve Microsoft gibi devlerin büyüme hızına ortak olmak mümkün mü? Eğer A…↗
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
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — At the end of 2019, the Tech sector was 23% of the S&P 500, and that doesn’t include $AMZN (Consumer Disc) or $GOOG/ $Meta (Communications).
Now, Tech is 35% of the index and,…↗
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…
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The US large cap Tech sector closed at another new all-time high today and is widely outperforming the S&P 500 since the March 30th lows (+21.3% vs +11.4%). So where does it go…↗
Mo — Weekly RRG rotation snapshot - structure > noise. ✅
🔵 CYCLICALS - early leadership, now cooling
🔥 $XLE (Energy) → still leading but momentum rolling over
✅ $XLB (Materials) → f…↗
Apr 11
The Future Investors — Anthropic’s launches and the effect on different parts of the markets 👀👇
$SMH Semiconductors | +19.5% 📈
$SPY S&P 500 | +0.3% 📈
$XLK Tech | -1.3% 📉
$QQQ Nasdaq 100 | -1.…↗
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…↗
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…↗
Alfonso De Pablos, CMT — 135 for Tech $XLK is one of the most important levels in the market right now.
Check it out 👇
https://t.co/YAmmrik4lf https://t.co/7noFM27z46↗
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 — ALPHATICA — SECTOR FLOW UPDATE: ACCUMULATION INTO THE DECLINE
The market is declining. Institutions are buying.
We scanned 138,968 institutional trades across all 11 SPDR sector…↗
Alphatica — One week into the Iran strikes. Here's what sector flow looks like now.
We classified 35,579 institutional trades across all 11 SPDR sector ETFs.
8 of 11 sectors: institutions BU…↗
— @KobeissiLetter Our data confirms this at the sector level.
We classified 108M trades across all 11 S&P 500 sector ETFs over the last 90 days.
The result:
Institutional net: +$82…
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — S&P 500 revenues in Q4 2025 registered the strongest year over year growth (+9.0 pct) since Q3 2022 (+11.0 pct). Tech, Communications, and Health Care drove this strong comp.…↗
Feb 20
Alphatica — 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…↗
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The year has begun right where 2025 left off, with 2 key differences. 1: US large cap Tech is posting outright losses vs muddling through. 2: Japan/EM have replaced Europe as ROW l…↗
Feb 17
The AI Investor — Interesting, a tech stock short-squeeze is coming:
Short interest in the technology sector ETF, $XLK, is up to a 1.8%, the highest in at least 6 years. This percentage has DOUB…↗
Shane C. Murphy, CMT — Smallcap Tech x Largecap Tech:
Indexed to 100 from the April lows.
Very different price paths from Oct '25 onward.
$PSCT $XLK https://t.co/d1wJ8yIdXZ↗
Feb 4
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Tech was a laggard in Q1 2025 (down -11.1% vs the S&P 500’s -4.6%) but was still the best performing group for the year (+23.8% vs +16.4%).
$XLK↗
Feb 3
Lawrence McDonald — Alert -- a rare defensive signal...
$XLP Consumer Staples - up over 1.5% --- while $XLK Technology was down over -3% at one point today.
Only the SECOND time that's happened sin…↗
Feb 3
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — Current US large cap Tech sector valuations are lower than their 5-year average. Concerns about the group’s sustainable return on capital are to blame, but we think these are overb…↗
Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) — The S&P 500 Technology sector is the worst performing group since it peaked on October 29th, down -6.4%. Investors have rotated out of Tech and into Health Care (+8.4%) and Fin…↗