Momentum, relative strength and leadership across Indian, global and commodity ETFs — so you can see which asset class is being bought, not just which stock.
Money rotates between equities, gold, global markets and sectors. This dashboard tracks that rotation using ETFs as the measuring instrument.
The tool opens inside your BreakPoint account. If you are not signed in yet you will be asked to sign in first, and access depends on your active plan.
ETF Rotation Intelligence treats ETFs as instruments for reading the market rather than just things to buy. Because each ETF represents a defined slice — Indian equities, a specific sector, a global market, a commodity — comparing them tells you where capital is actually going.
The dashboard organises this into several views: an overview of the ranked universe, a capital flow view, a rotation view showing what is gaining and losing sponsorship, a leadership view identifying what is currently leading, and a scanner for filtering by category and region.
The relative strength columns compare each ETF against a benchmark. The important thing to understand is that the level of that comparison on any single day means very little — what matters is the direction it is moving. A ratio improving week after week means that ETF is beating the benchmark consistently, and that is the definition of leadership.
Rotation is a multi-week phenomenon. Checking it daily produces noise; checking it weekly produces signal.
Stock selection is one decision. Which market to be in at all is usually the bigger one.
Allocators
Decide between Indian equities, global exposure and commodities based on what is actually being bought.
Swing traders
Trade sector ETFs directly, or use sector leadership to guide individual stock selection.
Long-term investors
Rebalance toward strengthening asset classes rather than on a fixed calendar.
Beginners
Learn how markets relate to each other — gold rising while equities fall is a lesson best seen rather than read.
Cross-asset view
Equities, sectors, global markets and commodities compared on the same scale.
Multiple horizons
One, three and six-month returns together separate a short bounce from sustained leadership.
Relative strength direction
Ratios against a benchmark reveal which slices are consistently outperforming.
Breakout flags
Price and relative-strength breakouts show where leadership is changing right now.
Category and region filters
Narrow to India, global or commodity exposure depending on what you can actually trade.
Leadership view
A ranked answer to the single most useful question: what is leading?
Five tabs, each answering a different question about the same universe.
Tabs scroll horizontally and tables scroll sideways; the leadership view is the most useful single screen on a phone.
A weekly review, ideally at the weekend when there is no pressure to act.
Open the leadership view
Start with what is leading. It is the fastest answer to where capital is currently going.
Check across horizons
Compare one, three and six-month returns. An ETF strong on all three is in sustained leadership; strong only on one month may be a bounce.
Read the relative strength direction
A ratio that keeps improving means consistent outperformance against the benchmark. The absolute number on its own tells you nothing useful.
Look at the rotation view
Identify what is gaining and what is losing sponsorship. Rotation is a transfer, so both halves are informative.
Filter to what you can trade
Use the category and region filters. There is no point building a thesis around exposure you cannot access.
Check breakout flags
Price and relative-strength breakouts mark the moment leadership is changing, which is the best time to act on it.
Act at the allocation level
Use the conclusion to tilt exposure — more toward what is leading, less toward what is fading — rather than to time individual entries.
Every column, and how much weight to give it.
| Field | What it tells you | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Position within the ranked universe. | A quick shortlist, but always verify with the return and relative strength columns. |
| Category / Sub-Category | What the ETF represents — index, sector, commodity. | Ensures you are comparing like with like and not stacking similar exposures. |
| Region | India, USA or other geography. | Global ETFs can lead while domestic ones lag, which is itself useful information about where money is going. |
| Score | A summary ranking of current strength. | Use it to order the list, then verify with the underlying columns. |
| 1M / 3M / 6M Returns | Performance over three horizons. | Agreement across all three is sustained leadership. Disagreement usually means a short-term move rather than a trend. |
| RS Ratio | A comparison of the ETF against the benchmark. | Read its direction over time, not its level on any given day. Rising means consistent outperformance. |
| vs Benchmark | How the ETF is doing relative to the reference index. | The practical question: would you have been better off simply holding the benchmark? |
| Price B/O | Whether the ETF has broken out on price. | Confirms that leadership is showing up in actual price movement. |
| RS B/O | Whether relative strength has broken out. | Often appears before a price breakout, which makes it useful for catching leadership changes early. |
| Maturity | How far along the current move is. | Early-stage leadership offers more room than a move that has already run for months. |
Four rotation states and what each implies for allocation.
Over three weeks, a gold ETF moves up the leadership ranking, its relative strength against the equity benchmark improves steadily, and it shows a relative-strength breakout. Broad equity ETFs remain positive over six months but have weakened over one month.
Capital is shifting toward a defensive asset while equities lose short-term momentum but retain their longer-term trend. That is a rotation in progress rather than a market top. The practical response is a tilt — some exposure moved toward the strengthening asset — not an abandonment of equities, whose longer-horizon trend has not broken.
Rotation signals are about proportion, not switching everything. Acting on them in size is how a useful observation becomes an expensive one.
This is an allocation tool. Treated as a trading signal generator it will frustrate you.
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Reading the relative strength number as if the level itself meant something. It is a comparison, and comparisons only become informative when they change. A ratio sitting at any particular value tells you nothing; the same ratio rising for six straight weeks tells you a great deal.
Rotation is capital moving between asset classes or sectors — from equities into gold, from domestic into global, from one sector into another. ETFs make that movement visible because each one represents a defined slice of the market.
It compares an ETF's performance against a benchmark. If the comparison improves over time, that ETF is consistently outperforming, which is what leadership actually means in practice.
The level depends on the starting point of the comparison and the two instruments' price scales, so it is not meaningful on its own. Change over time removes that problem and is what reveals genuine outperformance.
Meaningful rotation unfolds over weeks to months. Daily fluctuations are mostly noise, which is why a weekly review captures the signal without generating unnecessary activity.
No. Rotation informs the proportions of a portfolio, not wholesale switching. Concentrating everything in whatever recently led is a common and expensive mistake.
Typically increased caution — capital seeking safety while remaining invested. It does not automatically mean equities will fall, but it does mean confidence has weakened somewhere.
The point at which an ETF's comparison against the benchmark breaks out of its recent range. It often appears before an obvious price breakout, which makes it useful for spotting leadership changes early.
Indirectly and effectively. If a sector ETF is showing clear leadership, the individual stocks in that sector generally have a tailwind, and stock scanners will produce better results within it.
A broad domestic equity reference. The point of a benchmark is to answer the question every allocation decision comes back to: would simply holding the market have done better?
Yes. Relative performance between domestic and global exposure signals where capital is flowing, and is useful context even if you only ever invest domestically.
How far along the current move is. Early-stage leadership offers more remaining upside than a move that has already been in place for months.
The ETF Dashboard is about accumulating specific ETFs using planned levels. This tool is about deciding which ETFs deserve capital in the first place, by comparing them against each other and a benchmark.
Every technical term above, written for someone who has never traded before.
A basket of assets that trades like a single stock.
An ETF holds an index, a sector, or a commodity such as gold, and its units trade on the exchange all day. Because you own a basket rather than one company, single-stock disasters cannot wipe you out, which makes ETFs a common first step for people learning to swing trade.
Money moving from one part of the market to another.
Capital rarely leaves the market entirely — it moves. When banks cool off and metals begin to lead, that is rotation. Spotting it early puts you in the group of stocks with a tailwind instead of fighting a sector that has just lost its sponsorship.
How a stock is performing compared to the index.
A stock can rise 1% on a day the index rises 2% — it went up, but it lagged. Relative strength measures that comparison directly. Rising relative strength means money is choosing this stock over the broader market, which is exactly what you want in a swing position, especially when the index itself is flat or falling.
The tendency of strong stocks to keep being strong.
Momentum is the observation that recent winners tend to keep outperforming for a while. It is the engine behind most scanners: instead of hunting for hidden value, you sort the market by what is already working and look for the cleanest way to join it.
Price pushing past a level that had been holding it back.
A breakout is the moment supply at a level runs out and price moves into open space above it. The quality of a breakout depends on what comes with it — volume, a strong close near the high, and a market that is not falling apart around it. Breakouts on thin volume are the most common trap for new traders.
Trading in the direction the market is already going.
Rather than predicting turns, trend following waits for direction to establish itself and then joins it. Entries are less exciting and often feel late, but the approach avoids the most expensive habit in trading: repeatedly buying something because it looks cheap while it continues to fall.
The fall from a peak to the following trough.
Drawdown measures the pain in a strategy — how far your account fell from its high point before recovering. Two strategies with the same annual return are not equivalent if one of them got there through a 15% dip and the other through a 45% one.
How closely two price series move together.
Correlation runs from +1 (moving in lockstep) through 0 (unrelated) to −1 (moving in opposite directions). It is used both to find stocks behaving like a reference chart and to avoid accidentally holding five positions that are really the same bet.
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