The sector rotation chart
Every S&P 500 sector, plotted against the market across two timeframes and sorted into four quadrants — leading, improving, weakening, lagging. Not a stale screenshot from a blog post: this one is computed from live data.
Vertical: 1-month outperformance vs the S&P 500. Horizontal: the longer window, time-shifted — full math on the methodology page.
Three steps from map to shortlist
Find the leaders
Start top-right. Sectors there are beating the S&P 500 both recently and over the longer window — that's where leadership currently lives.
Watch the transitions
The money is made at the edges: improving sectors drifting toward leading, and leading sectors sliding toward weakening. Rotation is visible before it's obvious in price.
Confirm with the numbers
Use the ranking table to check the size of each spread. A sector barely above zero is a different bet from one beating the market by five points.
Today's sector ranking, leaders first
The same data as the chart, as a ranked table: absolute performance over one and three months, plus the spread — how much each sector beat or trailed the S&P 500. Chart to spot, table to confirm.
Searching for a free alternative to paywalled rotation graphs? This is the same live view we cover on the free RRG alternative page. The handbook turns it into a repeatable weekly workflow, and the sector directory lists every tracked sector with its current quadrant.
Sector rotation, briefly explained
What is a sector rotation chart?
A chart that shows how each market sector performs relative to a benchmark — here, the S&P 500 — across two timeframes at once. Instead of asking whether a sector went up, it asks whether the market is rewarding it more or less than everything else, and in which direction that is moving. That movement between quadrants is the rotation.
How is this different from a sector performance table?
A performance table shows one number per sector. The rotation chart shows trajectory: a sector that lagged for months but has just turned positive looks identical to a chronic laggard in a table, while the chart places it in the improving quadrant — often the earliest visible sign of new leadership.
How often does the chart update?
The underlying analytics are recomputed hourly from daily and hourly ETF prices. This public chart is served from a snapshot refreshed daily; signed-in users get the hourly view, timeframe switching and rotation history.
Which sectors does the free chart include?
The 11 S&P 500 sector ETFs: technology, financials, health care, energy, industrials, communication services, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, utilities, real estate and materials. Premium extends the same view to 100+ industries, themes and commodities — from semiconductors to uranium.
This is one view of Zensei Edge
Edge extends the rotation map to 100+ industries and themes, drills into the stocks inside each sector, and tracks rotation history — so you see leadership change hands, not just where it stands today.