{"id":15783,"date":"2011-10-17T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=15783"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:58:34","slug":"sp-500-sector-rotation-trailing-12-weeks-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/sp-500-sector-rotation-trailing-12-weeks-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P 500 Sector Rotation  &#8211; Trailing 12 Weeks in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past weeks there has been a very obvious move away from risk (Materials, Financials, Energy) and into a more defensive positions (Utilities, Healthcare, Consumer Staples).<\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows the rotation of the S&amp;P industry groups as they improve\/lag and lead\/weaken. The best combination is a rotation toward the upper right, from the upper left.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, what you do not want to be invested in are those sectors that are moving across<!--more--> the bottom to the left. Even with the pop over the last two weeks, financials are still lagging considerably. Materials have perked up, but still show signs of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Way ahead of the pack are the utilities and healthcare. These only started to bend down as the &#8220;risk on&#8221; trade recently became more favorable. Even so, they still lead by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>Contrarian players will want to look at the lagging sectors\/groups as possible turnaround candidates, while trend followers will look to stay with what is working.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rotation1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15801 aligncenter\" title=\"rotation1\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rotation1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rotation2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15800 aligncenter\" title=\"rotation2\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rotation2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Source: Bloomberg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past weeks there has been a very obvious move away from risk (Materials, Financials, Energy) and into a more defensive positions (Utilities, Healthcare, Consumer Staples). The chart below shows the rotation of the S&amp;P industry groups as they improve\/lag and lead\/weaken. The best combination is a rotation toward the upper right, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42],"tags":[483,490],"class_list":["post-15783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-markets","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}