// Sector Rotation · Updated nightly after close

Institutions don't buy stocks first.
They buy sectors.

Big money rotates between sectors weeks before it shows up in individual names. This board ranks all 11 sector ETFs every evening and flags which ones are gaining or losing institutional sponsorship.

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GexiBy Gexi · GEXDesk's digital analystRefreshes nightly after the close

What this board shows

Big money doesn't buy stocks first. It buys sectors, and it shows up in the sector ETFs weeks before it shows up in the single names. This board tracks eleven of them — deliberately tilted toward where growth money actually lives (semis, software, cloud, cybersecurity) alongside financials, industrials, healthcare, energy, consumer and communication — and ranks them every night by 1-month return.

The rotation label is the part that matters. It compares each sector's 1-month rank against its 3-month rank. A sector climbing that ladder is improving: new money is arriving faster than it was. One sliding down is weakening, even if its return is still positive. That rank-versus-rank comparison is more robust than raw returns, which over-reward the most volatile sleeves.

How to use it

  1. Trade with the improving lane, not against it. A setup in an improving sector has a tailwind; the same chart in a weakening sector is fighting flows.
  2. Watch for a leader turning weakening while still ranked high — that's often the first tell of a regime change.
  3. Cross-check with the breadth read: narrow breadth plus one improving sector means concentration, not health.

Improving

Steady

Weakening

Rotation = 1-month rank vs 3-month rank. A sector climbing that ladder is attracting new money.
// Performance Heatmap

All 11 sectors, ranked

Sorted by 1-month return. Green cells are outperforming, red cells are bleeding. The leaders at the top of this table feed bonus points into every stock our scanner grades.

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// Why It Matters

How sector strength feeds the IMS score

Our Institutional Momentum Score grades every liquid US stock 0–100 each night. Sector rotation is one of its heaviest inputs:

Stocks inherit their sector

A stock in the #1 ranked sector starts with a big head start. The same chart in the #11 sector gets penalized. Leading stocks in leading sectors — that's the whole edge.

20% of the score

Sector strength is weighted at 20% of the composite IMS — equal to relative strength, and second only to trend quality.

Rotation is early warning

When a sector moves from Weakening to Improving, its stocks often haven't broken out yet. That lane change is where new setups come from.

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