ETF Sector Data - Site Updates

January 2026: Site Relaunch

• Changed the site's logo.
• Scrapped the 52 week high page.
• Added the latest buy signals page.
• The ETF chart pages have been completely rebuilt. They now show a wider range of buy signals as well as four different percentage profit targets.
• Revised the content on the 52 Week Lows page and 50 Day Lows page to take account of there not always being any of these buy signals available for ETFs.
• Added the oversold strategies page.
• Added ETF trading expectancy, win rate, maximum drawdown and CAGR calculations to the ETF chart pages.
• Added a Sharpe Ratio calculation to the ETF chart pages. A higher ratio is generally considered to be better.

September 2025

• This site now has a sister site called BTFD Bot. The new site is more focused on swing trading of stocks, although it does also feature a selection of higher quality ETFs.
• ETF Sector Data will be moving away from the original focus on 52 week highs and lows. The data for 52 week highs will no longer be updated. 52 week low data will continue to be updated and a number of other indicators of oversoldness will be introduced.

July 2025

• ETFs that have been delisted from their exchange are now marked as such on this site. The data remains for historical backtesting purposes. Usually an ETF is delisted if it fails to gain enough capital inflows to make it economically viable to list the fund. The first two funds to be delisted on this site are CRUZ and KPOP. Ironically things were starting to look up for KPOP and the South Korean market in general.
• The monthly data generation has been fixed, so the US market sectors page is now working correctly.

February 2025

• I've added the FTXG US food & beverage ETF. I'm unable to buy this one in any of my accounts but I do own a number of the underlying holdings. They've been on sale a lot recently.

January 2025

• I've tweaked many of the site's features to make them more meaningful at the beginning of a new calendar year.

December 2024

• Table of recent 50 day lows has been added to the home page.
• The site is now showing data for ETFs recording 50 day lows. These could be attractive entry points into funds.
• The list of ETFs trading at 52 week lows now shows up to 64 entries.

November 2024

• Corrected colour of bullish/bearish candles... not sure why I didn't notice this before.
• Fixed an issue with some 52 week lows not displaying correctly.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the latest available week's 52 week lows and highs from appearing on the site.
• The US market sectors page now has links to each of the 11 ETFs that represent the US S&P market sectors.
• The world markets page now has links through to all of the country specific ETFs.
• Added the Global Clean Energy ETF ICLN. It just hit a new 52 week low and I added it to my own portfolio (along with the ETF for France).
• The HYDR data has been adjusted to account for the 5:1 stock split in June 2024.
• 29 more funds have been added to the site. They are mostly smaller funds in specialist energy and technology sectors.
• ETF pages now display performance for 52 week highs. The pages have also been tidied up and now use tabbed panels. From what I have seen so far, buying 52 week lows is generally more profitable than buying 52 week highs. 52 week highs can be very profitable, but it is more important to use a stop loss with this strategy. If you browse the data on this site then you'll see many instances of a new 52 week high marking a significant top. An example is Copper Miners (COPX) which recorded a new 52 week high in April 2022 and then promptly collapsed 45% in just over 3 months. If you had bought the first 52 week low that year then your maximum drawdown to the final low would have been just 15%.
• ETF pages now show a new table with the average number of days it historically took to generate a specific return after a 52 week low was recorded.
• There's a new page with data for the ETF Dogs strategy backtested 2010 - 2023.
• The PSP data has been adjusted to account for the 5:1 stock split in July 2023.
• The TIP and STIP inflation-linked treasury bond ETFs have been added to the site.
• ETF pages now show a table with CAGR calculations for the results of each trade.
• Daily stock data restored after a database mishap while creating a database for backtesting data back to 2000.
• The IJH data has been adjusted to account for the 5:1 stock split in February 2024.
• Stock charts now display backtesting results for buying the ETF at 52 week lows and how long it took to generate a profit of between 5% and 100%. The calculations exclude dividends or other distributions.

October 2024

• Added a couple new tech ETFs: BITQ for the Crypto industry and BWEB for the Web 3.0.
• Sitemap added to site.
• ETF detail pages now display proper stock charts. 52 week highs and lows are now displayed on the charts.
• There's a new page that explores the rotation strategy of buying ETFs at 52 week lows.
• The Dogs of the ETF Universe tool now has an option to exclude commodities from the calculations.
• A few Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs) have been added to the site. Just beware they don't appear particularly suitable for the Dogs of the ETF Universe strategy or buying at 52 week lows.
• The UNG data has been adjusted to account for the 4:1 stock split in January 2024.
• 11 more ETFs have been added to the site.
• If anyone reads this I've backtested buying ETFs at 52 week lows... it's an incredibly profitable trading strategy hint hint.
• Tweaked the data processing so that the latest week's data will now appear on the site.
• On the home page there's a new panel listing ETFs setting new 52 week highs.
• The home page now displays a random quote from a famous investor. I hope you find them inspiring.
• I've added a fear gauge to the home page. This shows how bullish or bearish ETF investors are. Hint: it's generally better to buy when others are fearful!
• There's a new page that lists ETFs trading at 52 week lows. There's also a summary table of them on the home page.
• Added an inverse dogs mode option to the Dogs of the ETF universe tool.
• The dropdown menu is now visible on mobile devices.
• The Dogs of the Universe ETF page has been split into the information page and a new interactive Dogs of the ETF Universe tool. I hope you find it useful!
• The data for IHE now reflects the July 2021 6 for 1 stock split.
• There's a new alerts panel on the home page.
• There's a new page about buying the ETF dogs - does it actually work as a sector rotation strategy? The results may surprise you!
• The top menu has been updated and should now work on mobile devices.
• I have been doing a bit of quantitative analysis on the ETF data from the site. The initial results are summarised on the new rotation strategies page.
• More information about specialist technology ETFs has been added to the sectors page.
• The home page has been revamped with simplified winner and loser tables and a new country ETF performance map.
• I had to remove the Global X MSCI ETF for Portugal, as it's now been delisted. With just 5.39M of assets under management, this ETF was apparently just too small to be commercially viable.
• There is now an ETF search facility, accessible from the top right side of the navigation bar.
• I've added a contact page. Let me know if you spot any errors with the data on the site. I'm also interested in knowing about any additional US listed ETFs I should add to the site.
• IHE and IYT now displaying correctly following their respective 1:3 and 4:1 stock splits.
• Stock data is now being updated on a weekly basis. The data update will be performed on Saturdays. This will also update annual, monthly and weekly ETF performance data.
• Fixed a data feed issue which affected ticker data for both WCLD and WCBR.
• I've added a lot more niche ETFs, including ones for Gaming & ESports, Defence, Healthcare and Home Building.
• There's a new world markets page. This will be a dashboard for region and country specific ETFs. These can be a good way to add diversification to a portfolio. Some countries' performances are also uncoupled from the rest of the world. For example, at the time of writing Chinese stocks are soaring while most of the rest of the world is mostly flat.

September 2024

• I've now worked out how to account for stock splits. The data for the semiconductors ETF (SOXX) has now been adjusted accordingly following the 3 for 1 stock split in March 2024. If any of the other charts look wrong then let me know and I'll take a look.
• There's a new monthly reports page. I'll add observations here about what investment sectors look hot and which ones are falling out of favour.
• The data has now been updated back to January 2021 for all ETFs.
• There's a new US market sectors page. This shows the relative performance of the 11 sub-sectors within the broader US major indices.
• There's now an about the site page. This helps build the case for using a sector rotation investment strategy.
• The algorithm to calculate ETF YTD performance now avoids any ETF that doesn't have the full year's data available.
• A number of new sector-specific ETFs have been added to the site.
• The home page now displays tables of the current year's winners and losers. Most ETFs (except for the inverse ETFs) are significantly up this year, so I didn't find a whole lot of losing funds. I expect this to change in 2025.