iShares U.S. Technology ETF
$256.87
-1.1%
Sep 19, 2026
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WeakGraded against IYW's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.
What it means: IYW's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.
What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.
The fund generally will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of its underlying index. The underlying index measures the performance of the technology sector of the U.S. equity market, as defined by FTSE Russell. The fund is non-diversified.
Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.
In plain terms: IYW is 1.1% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.
IYW (iShares U.S. Technology ETF) is 1.1% below its historical peak. Tape reads at or near all-time highs, with the last trade at $256.87. That puts IYW in a momentum regime: buyers are in control and there's no meaningful technical damage on the chart yet.
IYW reaches this drawdown band repeatedly in its history (1488 observations), which is a large sample for the segmentation engine to compute a stable median forward return. The engine uses a rolling 90-day window and gives more weight to recent years — this lets the signal adapt to regime changes (e.g., post-COVID volatility) without losing the long-run base rate.
For broad-index ETFs the historical base rate is exceptionally stable; for narrow thematic ETFs (e.g., ARKK, cannabis, leveraged), drawdowns are deeper and the sample size at each band is smaller. At this level the Dipsern signal is mostly tracking momentum, not mean reversion. Most buying-the-dip frameworks aren't relevant when there is no dip.
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Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for IYW. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.
We segment 40+ years of IYW's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.
Years of history
40+
Drawdown bands
20
Look-ahead bias
None
Data sources
4
See the Dipsern grade, median returns, win rates, prediction accuracy, 8 interactive charts, historical price paths, and a plain-English verdict for IYW.
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Signal computed Sep 19, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.