ETF Flow Monitor

Thursday, 27 August 2026 · US$ creation / redemption flows over 20 sessions · 5 markets, no cross-market aggregate · methodology

Click any column header to sort. † = value unchanged >3 sessions (stale feed or low-turnover fund). % 52w Hi = price vs its highest close in the trailing 52 weeks. Percentile ranks each ETF's 20-day flow against its own history since 31 Dec 2020 (or the fund's inception, if later). Green = creation / near 52w high / RSI oversold; red = redemption / deep drawdown / RSI overbought.

US 5 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
SPDR S&P 500SPY	800.5	771.10	+0.66%	-0.9%	58.6	-24,689	0	1,038.2
Nasdaq 100QQQ	459.0	721.11	+1.37%	-3.4%	54.8	-73,980	0	636.5
Vanguard GrowthVUG	229.0	88.90	+1.70%	-1.5%	58.3	-926	5	2,576.5†
Vanguard ValueVTV	192.6	225.45	-0.61%	-0.9%	55.9	+110	21	854.1†
Vanguard Small-CapVB	82.2	304.28	+0.11%	-1.6%	53.6	+330	58	270.3†

International 16 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
FTSE EuropeVGK	31.0	92.28	-0.45%	-1.0%	56.9	-238	22	336.2†
MSCI EMEEM	29.4	67.61	+0.66%	-5.1%	57.7	-4,073	0	434.1
MSCI KoreaEWY	24.8	182.14	+1.65%	-16.9%	55.8	-5,704	0	136.3
MSCI JapanEWJ	21.8	95.84	+0.43%	-2.7%	54.3	-2,071	0	227.9
MSCI TaiwanEWT	10.5	108.63	+2.11%	-2.6%	62.0	-2,816	0	96.8
MSCI BrazilEWZ	9.3	35.76	+0.11%	-14.3%	57.3	+116	76	259.4
MSCI IndiaINDA	6.5	49.53	-0.44%	-10.4%	49.2	-401	8	131.8
MSCI ChinaMCHI	6.3	54.90	-0.36%	-18.0%	49.3	+388	86	113.9
Latin America 40ILF	3.8	34.95	-0.23%	-8.3%	57.1	+17	54	109.7
MSCI MexicoEWW	1.9	77.16	-0.50%	-5.0%	55.2	+72	77	25.3
MSCI AustraliaEWA	1.4	30.11	-0.13%	-1.1%	57.4	-102	10	46.6
MSCI SingaporeEWS	1.0	33.98	-0.56%	-0.8%	64.5	+72	96	30.8
MSCI IndonesiaEIDO	0.5	12.64	+1.12%	-34.2%	52.6	+63	95	38.4
MSCI ThailandTHD	0.4	73.73	-0.03%	-1.8%	53.8	-1	48	5.0
MSCI MalaysiaEWM	0.3	28.83	-0.59%	-5.2%	62.5	-14	15	11.2
MSCI PhilippinesEPHE	0.1	24.02	-2.44%	-15.3%	26.4	+18	96	5.7

US & Global Sectors 17 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
Technology SelectXLK	123.1	188.61	+3.16%	-4.8%	57.8	-813	7	652.7
VanEck SemiconductorSMH	70.2	573.00	+3.10%	-14.3%	51.3	-17,290	0	122.5
Financials SelectXLF	55.7	57.88	-0.65%	-0.7%	56.4	-3,658	2	963.2
Health Care SelectXLV	44.1	171.58	-1.13%	-2.3%	58.4	-79	47	256.9
Energy SelectXLE	40.2	62.29	-0.22%	-2.3%	60.1	-543	33	645.5
Industrials SelectXLI	33.2	178.80	-0.85%	-4.1%	41.5	+587	82	185.5†
Cons Disc SelectXLY	22.6	115.88	-1.09%	-6.9%	46.1	+176	64	195.3
Comm Svcs SelectXLC	22.3	111.41	-1.07%	-7.2%	51.0	-213	27	200.2
Utilities SelectXLU	22.3	43.18	-0.76%	-9.5%	39.7	-103	34	515.7
Cons Staples SelectXLP	14.5	85.08	-1.38%	-5.5%	48.0	-501	21	170.5
BiotechnologyIBB	9.2	214.80	-0.20%	-1.0%	68.9	-1,122	0	42.8
Materials SelectXLB	8.8	53.23	-0.82%	-0.8%	57.4	+67	58	165.3
Real Estate SelectXLRE	8.4	44.66	-0.95%	-2.9%	45.5	-190	9	187.9
Global HealthcareIXJ	4.0	105.17	-1.07%	-2.1%	57.9	+88	80	38.5
Global EnergyIXC	2.8	56.98	-0.18%	-2.7%	57.6	-64	22	48.9†
Global IndustrialsEXI	1.4	201.11	-0.45%	-2.8%	49.1	-75	7	7.1
Global FinancialsIXG	0.7	133.98	-0.63%	-0.8%	55.2	+89	94	5.1

Thematics 12 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
SPDR GoldGLD	130.7	422.60	+0.30%	-14.8%	66.7	-16,602	0	309.3
Roundhill MemoryDRAM	24.7	56.83	+0.78%	-29.6%	51.8	-7,868	0	435.4
Gold MinersGDX	22.9	103.69	+1.24%	-10.5%	71.3	-7,922	0	221.2
Copper MinersCOPX	7.4	96.45	+0.95%	+0.0%	70.7	-1,513	0	76.8
Global X Defense TechSHLD	7.1	66.88	+1.15%	-14.3%	51.9	-310	4	105.9
China InternetKWEB	5.5	26.10	-0.68%	-39.2%	39.3	+994	92	212.5
UraniumURA	5.5	48.37	+0.67%	-21.7%	65.4	-2,012	0	113.4
Robotics & AIBOTZ	3.4	36.14	+1.43%	-13.2%	48.4	-421	0	93.0
Global Clean EnergyICLN	2.3	17.83	+0.85%	-24.9%	44.9	-759	0	130.4
ROBO Global RoboticsROBO	2.0	82.19	+1.24%	-9.0%	51.1	-211	0	24.5
Lithium & BatteryLIT	1.5	77.13	+1.59%	-15.8%	60.7	-486	0	19.9
Tema Space InnovatorsNASA	—	24.08	+1.86%	-42.5%	45.4	-13	27	—

Fixed Income 4 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
Total BondBND	396.5	72.54	-0.06%	-3.5%	51.8	-2,301	0	5,465.4
Total Intl BondBNDX	122.3	47.70	-0.17%	-4.4%	45.2	-694	1	2,564.3
0-3M TreasurySGOV	100.0	100.66	+0.01%	-0.1%	65.4	+4,077	92	993.0
10-20Y TreasuryTLH	10.8	97.61	-0.17%	-7.4%	52.1	-497	5	110.8

Commentary

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## Cross-Asset ETF Flow Briefing — Thursday 27 August 2026

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1. Tape
Tech and semis put on a strong bid (SMH +3.1%, XLK +3.2%, EWT +2.1%, EWY +1.7%), but the gains are narrow and defensive — staples, utilities, real estate, financials, and industrials all closed red. Fixed income is leaking alongside equities: BND and BNDX are both being redeemed at historic-low percentiles, suggesting investors aren't rotating into bonds either — a risk-off-but-not-flight-to-quality tape.

2. Strongest Creations
- EWS (Singapore, p96) — Tiny AUM move but 96th-percentile inflow; ASEAN defensives catching quiet bids.
- EIDO (Indonesia, p95) / EPHE (Philippines, p96) — Southeast Asia ex-China seeing genuine accumulation; EM capital rotating away from the Northeast Asia semis complex.
- MCHI (China, p86) — Dip-buyers at work despite flat price action; contrarian positioning ahead of potential stimulus catalysts.

3. Heaviest Redemptions
- EWY / EWT (Korea p0, Taiwan p0) — Massive outflows from the semis-proxy pair despite strong price gains; classic "sell the rip" in a high-beta, high-momentum trade.
- SMH / DRAM / GLD / GDX (all p0) — Every single major thematic (semis, memory, gold, gold miners) is at the 0th percentile of its own flow history simultaneously — a historically unusual wall of redemptions across the hard-asset and AI-hardware complex.
- QQQ / SPY (both p0) — Core US equity wrappers being structurally unwound; the rally is not attracting new money.

4. Overbought / Oversold
- Overbought (RSI >70): GDX (71), COPX (71). Gold miners and copper miners are stretched on momentum even as money exits.
- IBB (RSI 69) — Biotech knocking on overbought with p0 outflows; divergence risk.
- Oversold (RSI <30): EPHE (RSI 26) — Philippines is deeply oversold even as it sees 96th-percentile creations; a sharp mean-reversion setup.

5. Theme of the Day
"Buy the story, sell the wrapper." Semis, AI, gold, and copper are all printing strong price gains today, yet every major ETF covering these themes sits at the 0th percentile of its own redemption history. Investors appear to be harvesting gains through ETF redemptions while maintaining (or rotating into) individual stock or derivative exposure — a tax-efficient or tactical de-ETF-ization of the most crowded 2025–26 themes.

6. New ETF Launches
Several relevant filings this week:
The Defiance Memory & Photonics ETF received Cboe BZX listing approval on August 26 — directly in the DRAM/semis theme.

EMXETF launched August 19 as a new brand from EMQQ Global, focused on AI opportunities across Emerging Markets
— squarely on the EM-AI intersection.
Harbor ETF Trust registered shares of the Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceX AI Lab Ecosystem ETFs
(effective Aug 7).
BlackRock's iShares Future Robotics and Related Technologies Active ETF delayed effectiveness to September 10, 2026.

7. Watchlist
Watch whether EWY/EWT outflows continue Friday despite price strength — if redemption pressure persists into the weekend, it signals institutional distribution is outpacing retail FOMO in the semis trade, and SMH could see a sharper unwind on any negative macro headline.

ETF Flow Monitor · Flow 20d = Σ Δ(units)×avg(price) over 20 sessions, US$m · Percentile = PERCENTRANK.INC vs each ETF's own history since 31 Dec 2020 (or inception) · RSI 14d Wilder (Bloomberg-consistent) · AUM = shares×price.
Generated 28 Aug 2026 06:00 SGT. Market-monitoring tool, not investment advice.