XLE, XLF, and XLK by month: the H1 2026 rotation at month grain

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-07-26, from Sector Scorecard H1 2026: Winners and Losers.

Rows × columns

18 × 3

Period covered

2026-01-01 to 2026-06-01

Computed

2026-07-26

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT toString(toStartOfMonth(toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')))) AS month, ticker,
    round((argMaxIf(toFloat64(close), window_start, (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959)
         / argMinIf(toFloat64(open), window_start, (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60 + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959) - 1) * 100, 1) AS month_return_pct
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('XLE', 'XLF', 'XLK')
  AND window_start >= toDateTime('2026-01-01 00:00:00') AND window_start < toDateTime('2026-07-01 00:00:00')
GROUP BY month, ticker
ORDER BY month, ticker