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XLE

XLE

State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF

ETFsPCXUSD-11.5% from ATH
Current Price

$55.36

Drawdown from ATH

-11.5%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

D

Weak

Graded against XLE's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: XLE'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.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days-6.88%
May 5Jun 16
About XLE

State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF

In seeking to track the performance of the index, the fund employs a replication strategy. It generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index. The index includes companies that have been identified as Energy companies by the GICS®, including securities of companies from the following industries: oil, gas and consumable fuels; and energy equipment and services. It is non-diversified.

The reading

How Dipsern reads XLE right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is XLE doing right now?

In plain terms: XLE is 11.5% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) sits 11.5% off its peak and is currently in a moderate correction, last printing at $55.36. A drawdown of this depth is where patient buyers start paying attention. Historically the asymmetry begins to favor accumulation here, especially when paired with structural demand.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

History at this drawdown level is well-populated for XLE — 722 confirmed observations in the 15%-to-10% band. The Dipsern engine uses these to compute a rolling median rather than a mean, because medians are robust to the kind of fat tails you find in etfs return distributions. The win rate (% of episodes that closed positive after 90 days) is shown in the segments table below.

Interpretation

What this means for XLE

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. Moderate corrections are the highest-information zone for the Dipsern signal: enough drawdown for mean-reversion to matter, not so much that fundamentals are likely broken. Watch the prediction-error column — if past signals at this level were accurate, the current one is more trustworthy.

Comparable signals

Other ETFs at similar drawdown levels

Five tickers closest to XLE's distance from all-time high. Same category, one tap away.

iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF

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-11.4% from ATH

iShares U.S. Energy ETF

-11.8% from ATH

Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF

-11.8% from ATH

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF

-11.2% from ATH

Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for XLE. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-75% to -70%2
-70% to -65%8
-65% to -60%46
-60% to -55%60
-55% to -50%121
-50% to -45%140
-45% to -40%172
-40% to -35%377
-35% to -30%627
-30% to -25%742
-25% to -20%520
-20% to -15%548
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of XLE'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

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.