Trade the trend strategy - February 2025

“Trade the Trend” Strategy – February 2025 update

If you’re new to this post, please check the first post know what this is about.

Since Sector SPDR ETFs page was updated with January data, let’s update our numbers and buy more participations to our ETFs.

Since last update, here is how the portfolio looks like today:

SymbolQuantityCost PriceCost BasisClose PriceValueUnrealized P/L
XLB0.1706              89.67              15.30           89.26              15.23                  (0.07)
XLC1.3821              99.38            137.35         103.37            142.87                     5.52
XLE0.3273              93.48              30.59           91.24              29.86                  (0.73)
XLF2.1001              50.98            107.06           51.54            108.24                     1.18
XLI0.429            142.67              61.21         138.61              59.46                  (1.75)
XLK0.6323            241.20            152.51         236.33            149.43                  (3.08)
XLP1.5725              77.72            122.21           80.61            126.76                     4.55
XLRE1.1019              41.66              45.90           42.26              46.57                     0.67
XLU0.9634              79.42              76.51           79.39              76.48                  (0.03)
XLV0.6372            144.08              91.81         146.03              93.05                     1.24
XLY0.7251            231.21            167.65         223.78            162.26                  (5.39)
TOTAL        1,008.10        1,010.21                     2.11

I’ve made some changes to how I calculate the weight from a grand total. I still don’t like how it works, especially when there are negative and positive numbers. Until I will have an idea about this, I will just do nothing with the ETFs that are in negative in the previous month.

So here is January 2025 data for SPDR ETFs and the $1,000 investment into the 11 sectors that I will do now:

SymbolSectorLast MonthRankRatio of grand totalMonthly investment
XLKTechnology-0.70%1-1.74%(17.39)
XLPConsumer Staples0.55%21.37%13.66
XLREReal Estate1.83%34.55%45.45
XLEEnergy2.39%45.94%59.36
XLUUtilities2.92%57.25%72.53
XLYConsumer Discretionary3.54%68.79%87.93
XLIIndustrials5.02%712.47%124.69
XLBMaterials5.58%813.86%138.60
XLCCommunication Services5.82%914.46%144.56
XLFFinancials6.54%1016.24%162.44
XLVHealth Care6.77%1116.82%168.16

Remember, Technology will have no investment this month. Need to come up with a better idea on how to calculate the weight of each sector, even when some of them are in negative. If you have any ideas, please drop a comment.