This dashboard answers one question: where is institutional money flowing right now?
Use it as the second step in the pre-market sequence — after the Market Sentiment Dashboard tells you the broad regime, the Sector ETF Dashboard tells you which corners of the market are showing the most relative strength. That output feeds directly into the Industry ETF Dashboard, which drills into the specific industries driving each sector and generates the stock screener recipes.
Two badges at the top right summarize the day in a single glance before you read a single row of the scan table.
The overall market regime derived from the day's sector composite scores. Risk-On means growth and cyclical sectors are leading — Technology, Consumer Discretionary, Financials. Risk-Off means defensive sectors are leading — Utilities, Consumer Staples, Health Care. Neutral means no clear directional tilt; the market is rotating without conviction.
The highest-ranked sector by composite score for the day. This is where the screener should be focused first. The score ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 — a score above 0.75 indicates strong, broad-based leadership in that sector. A score below 0.50 at the top of the table means no sector has a meaningful edge; treat the rankings with lower conviction.
All 11 SPDR sector ETFs ranked from strongest to weakest by composite score. Each row is a sector. Read left to right — the columns move from backward-looking momentum (RS scores) to current positioning (MA, distance from SMAs) to forward-looking signals (Expected Return, Prob Gain, Timing, Flow).
Summary pills — read these before the table
Above the table, four pills give you the aggregate picture: how many sectors are MA-aligned vs. misaligned, the average probability of gain across all sectors, and the top sector ticker. If 8 or more sectors are MA-aligned, the broad market has structural support. If 5 or fewer are aligned, rotation is fragmented and sector-specific conviction should be lower.
The Timing chip is the dashboard's most actionable column. A high composite score tells you which sector is leading — the Timing chip tells you whether right now is a good moment to act on it.
Price is near but above key moving averages — not extended, not broken. The trend is intact and there is room to run. This is the highest-conviction entry signal. A Good Entry timing in a top-3 ranked sector with Inflow is the clearest setup on the dashboard.
Price has moved significantly above its moving averages — momentum is strong but entry risk is elevated. The sector is leading but stretched. Preferred approach: wait for a pullback toward the 50D SMA before entering individual names from this sector. Chasing an extended sector increases drawdown risk on a reversal.
Price has retraced but the longer-term trend structure remains intact. The sector is setting up a potential re-entry after a controlled correction. Combine with the RS score — if 63D RS is still positive, the pullback is likely to attract buyers at the moving average. This is the "buy the dip" signal.
Momentum is deteriorating — recent RS is weakening and the sector is losing its relative edge. A Fading sector in the top half of the rankings may be rotating out of leadership. Avoid new entries; if already positioned, monitor for exit signals. A Fading read in the bottom half of the table confirms avoidance.
No meaningful timing signal. The sector is in a holding pattern — neither extended nor pulling back, neither accelerating nor fading. Treat as a no-action signal unless another column (Flow, Prob Gain) provides a directional nudge.
Below the main table, the top-ranked sector gets its own deep-dive card. This is the sector you'll focus the your stock screener on first — the snapshot tells you whether its current internals support acting on it today.
RSI (14)
Standard 14-period RSI. Above 70 is overbought — extension risk is high. Below 30 is oversold — potential reversal zone. The ideal entry zone for a trending sector is 50–65: enough momentum to confirm trend, not so extreme that the sector is due a correction.
MACD Histogram
Positive and growing means momentum is accelerating bullishly. Positive but shrinking means momentum is peaking. Negative and deepening means bearish acceleration. Use this alongside the Timing chip — an Extended sector with a shrinking MACD histogram is a stronger fade signal than either alone.
BB %B
Bollinger Band %B — where price sits within the bands. Above 0.80 is near the upper band (extended). Below 0.20 is near the lower band (potential reversal). Combined with RSI, a %B above 0.90 alongside RSI above 70 is a strong signal to wait for a pullback before entering.
Volume Ratio
Same as the Vol Ratio column in the main table but shown here with a sub-label context. Below-average volume on a high-RS sector means the move lacks institutional backing — treat any near-term signal as lower conviction.
Money Flow (CMF)
Chaikin Money Flow — positive (accumulation) or negative (distribution). The OBV (On Balance Volume) trend is shown alongside it. Both rising together is the strongest accumulation confirmation. CMF positive with OBV flat means only recent-session inflow, not sustained institutional buying.
GBM 20D Range
The model's estimated 5th–95th percentile price range for the sector ETF over the next 20 trading days. This is the expected trading envelope — not a prediction, but a probability range. Use it to sanity-check whether the current price has room to run within the expected distribution.
Alert box. Below the snapshot metrics, a color-coded alert summarizes the key risk or opportunity in plain language. It distills all six metrics into a single actionable sentence. An amber alert (e.g., "RSI 79 — extended, wait for a pullback") overrides an otherwise strong ranking and should carry forward as context when you open the Industry ETF Dashboard.
Two charts sit below the snapshot card. They are not needed every day — use them when the table rankings are compressed (sectors clustered near similar composite scores) or when you want to understand the rotation story behind the current rankings.
GBM Price Range Chart
A horizontal bar chart showing the 5th–95th percentile expected price range for each sector ETF over the next 20 days. The red vertical line marks the current price. When the current price sits near the upper bound of its range, the ETF has less expected upside and more downside cushion — a natural extension warning. When the current price is near the lower bound, there is more upside in the model's distribution. Use this to compare extension risk across sectors at a glance.
Sector Performance Chart
A normalized line chart showing the percentage return of each sector ETF over the selected window (15D, 30D, or 60D), anchored to zero at the start. This is the visual rotation map — which sectors led, which lagged, and how recently the leadership shifted. Toggle between the 15D, 30D, and 60D windows: 15D reveals the most recent momentum; 60D shows the sustained leaders that match the RS (63D) column. Look for divergences between the windows — a sector leading on 60D but flattening on 15D is the chart version of a Fading timing signal.
A complete pre-market sector read takes about three minutes. Work through the dashboard in this order:
Check the regime badge and top sector — two seconds, one sentence: "risk-on, led by XLK" or "neutral, no clear leader."
Scan the table for the top 3 sectors by composite score. Check their MA alignment dots, Timing chips, and Flow column. Note which have all three favorable — these are the sectors to carry forward.
Open the top sector snapshot. If the alert box warns of extension (RSI overbought, BB %B near 1.0), downgrade your conviction and carry the second-ranked sector forward instead.
Open the Industry ETF Dashboard — it shows which specific industry within the leading sectors is driving the move, and generates the stock screener recipes at industry precision.