ETF Flow Monitor

Wednesday, 02 September 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	798.8	765.16	+0.44%	-1.6%	51.9	+23,859	98	1,044.0
Nasdaq 100QQQ	453.8	709.24	+0.23%	-4.9%	47.5	-26,911	1	639.9
Vanguard GrowthVUG	225.7	87.60	+0.26%	-3.0%	50.3	-926	5	2,576.5†
Vanguard ValueVTV	192.5	225.41	+0.65%	-0.9%	55.0	+110	21	854.1†
Vanguard Small-CapVB	80.5	297.68	+0.60%	-3.8%	42.6	+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	30.6	90.96	+0.26%	-2.4%	46.1	-238	22	336.2†
MSCI EMEEM	29.3	67.15	+0.57%	-5.7%	54.9	-1,505	8	436.7
MSCI KoreaEWY	24.8	178.86	+1.74%	-18.4%	52.7	-866	3	138.9
MSCI JapanEWJ	21.9	96.04	+0.86%	-2.5%	54.8	-724	6	228.4
MSCI TaiwanEWT	10.3	109.43	-0.28%	-1.9%	62.4	-1,604	0	93.8
MSCI BrazilEWZ	9.7	38.09	+4.16%	-8.7%	72.6	+55	69	253.4
MSCI IndiaINDA	6.6	49.97	+0.79%	-9.6%	55.1	-190	16	132.2
MSCI ChinaMCHI	6.3	54.54	+0.24%	-18.6%	46.1	+575	94	115.3
Latin America 40ILF	4.0	36.22	+3.31%	-4.9%	67.8	+100	80	109.6
MSCI MexicoEWW	2.0	76.22	+0.74%	-6.2%	49.3	+157	88	25.9
MSCI AustraliaEWA	1.4	30.03	+1.18%	-1.3%	54.9	-30	42	47.3
MSCI SingaporeEWS	1.1	34.20	+1.42%	-0.1%	63.1	+93	98	31.2
MSCI IndonesiaEIDO	0.5	13.00	+0.54%	-32.4%	60.8	+70	96	37.1
MSCI ThailandTHD	0.4	72.10	+0.52%	-3.9%	44.2	+18	89	5.1
MSCI MalaysiaEWM	0.3	28.09	+1.33%	-7.7%	47.2	+7	76	11.7
MSCI PhilippinesEPHE	0.1	24.22	+0.33%	-14.6%	36.1	+23	97	5.9

US & Global Sectors 17 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
Technology SelectXLK	119.6	183.60	-0.02%	-7.4%	49.4	-1,012	5	651.7
VanEck SemiconductorSMH	68.8	550.48	+0.96%	-17.7%	44.7	-5,485	1	124.9
Financials SelectXLF	54.6	57.66	+0.80%	-1.1%	52.8	-4,353	1	946.8
Health Care SelectXLV	44.8	172.95	+0.75%	-1.6%	60.7	+121	59	259.3
Energy SelectXLE	42.6	65.10	+0.51%	+0.0%	71.7	-185	53	653.7
Industrials SelectXLI	31.8	172.78	+0.03%	-7.4%	30.2	+396	74	183.9
Cons Disc SelectXLY	23.0	114.86	+0.24%	-7.8%	43.5	+322	74	200.2
Comm Svcs SelectXLC	22.7	112.42	+1.39%	-6.4%	53.8	+82	57	201.7
Utilities SelectXLU	22.1	42.67	+0.26%	-10.6%	38.3	-108	34	518.7
Cons Staples SelectXLP	14.5	85.53	+0.33%	-5.0%	50.5	-222	36	169.8
BiotechnologyIBB	9.3	213.80	+1.41%	-1.5%	64.1	-854	1	43.7
Materials SelectXLB	8.8	52.95	+1.69%	-1.3%	53.9	+212	70	165.6
Real Estate SelectXLRE	8.2	43.73	-0.70%	-5.0%	35.1	-205	8	187.4
Global HealthcareIXJ	4.1	105.70	+0.89%	-1.7%	59.1	+50	70	39.1
Global EnergyIXC	2.9	59.20	+0.03%	+0.0%	69.2	-139	11	48.9†
Global IndustrialsEXI	1.4	194.39	-0.15%	-6.0%	34.2	+66	90	7.3
Global FinancialsIXG	0.7	134.74	+1.24%	-0.2%	57.1	+112	95	5.2

Thematics 12 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
SPDR GoldGLD	132.3	402.78	+1.52%	-18.8%	50.2	-7,755	1	328.5
Roundhill MemoryDRAM	25.1	56.21	+2.09%	-30.4%	50.7	-1,729	12	446.0
Gold MinersGDX	23.4	97.63	+3.13%	-15.7%	57.8	-4,812	1	239.3
Copper MinersCOPX	7.4	89.90	+0.74%	-6.8%	53.1	-295	5	82.2
Global X Defense TechSHLD	6.9	63.11	-1.56%	-19.1%	35.9	+501	88	109.2
China InternetKWEB	5.6	25.70	+0.04%	-40.1%	36.8	+1,310	96	217.4
UraniumURA	5.5	44.32	+0.86%	-28.3%	48.8	-768	1	124.0
Robotics & AIBOTZ	3.3	35.19	+0.11%	-15.5%	41.6	-31	24	94.2
Global Clean EnergyICLN	2.3	17.37	+0.75%	-26.9%	39.7	-439	1	133.8
ROBO Global RoboticsROBO	2.0	78.86	-0.01%	-12.7%	39.6	+71	93	25.2
Lithium & BatteryLIT	1.5	74.26	-0.60%	-18.9%	48.5	-333	1	20.2
Tema Space InnovatorsNASA	—	22.85	+0.75%	-45.5%	39.6	+69	42	—

Fixed Income 4 ETFs

ETF	AUM $bn	Price $	1d Chg	% 52w Hi	RSI 14d	Flow 20d $m	Pctile	Sh out m
Total BondBND	396.9	71.83	+0.06%	-4.4%	37.7	+2,367	84	5,525.5
Total Intl BondBNDX	122.5	47.25	-0.04%	-5.3%	31.9	+1,031	72	2,592.0
0-3M TreasurySGOV	100.0	100.42	+0.01%	-0.3%	33.7	+4,078	92	995.4
10-20Y TreasuryTLH	10.8	96.33	+0.10%	-8.6%	42.1	-308	9	112.6

Commentary

Here is your Wednesday, 02 September 2026 cross-asset ETF flow briefing:

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## Cross-Asset ETF Flow Briefing — Wed 2 Sep 2026

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1. Tape
US equities are split: SPY is hoovering up cash at a near-record pace while QQQ and the Nasdaq ecosystem bleed. International flows are similarly bifurcated — ASEAN and China internet are attracting capital while broader EM, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan funds all face heavy redemptions.

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2. Strongest Creations

- SPY (+$23.9bn, p98): Dominant broad-market beta buying; institutions adding vanilla S&P exposure while avoiding growth/tech specifically. Likely index rebalance and defensive rotation combined.
- MCHI (+$575m, p94) / KWEB (+$1.31bn, p96): A coordinated China re-entry — both the equity wrapper and the internet play drawing fresh money simultaneously. Hard to read as noise.
- EWS / EPHE / EIDO (p98 / p97 / p96): Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia all hitting top-percentile inflows together. ASEAN is the international "flow of the day."

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3. Heaviest Redemptions

- EWT (–$1.6bn, p0): Taiwan at the absolute floor of its own redemption history, even as prices barely moved (–0.28%). Structural position unwinding, not a panic — but severe.
- GLD + GDX (–$7.8bn & –$4.8bn, both p1): Gold surging +1.5% while ETF holders exit — strong gold price but paper-gold redemptions suggest physical or futures rotation, or profit-taking after a big run.
- SMH + XLF (–$5.5bn p1 & –$4.4bn p1): Semis and domestic financials at historic outflow extremes. XLF is hemorrhaging despite the stock rising +0.8% — very likely a tactical hedge unwind or large block redemption.

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4. Overbought / Oversold

- Overbought: EWZ RSI 73, XLE RSI 72 — Brazil and energy both elevated after large price moves; EWT RSI 62 and EWS RSI 63 are approaching territory.
- Oversold: XLI RSI 30 (right at the line), XLRE RSI 35, EXI RSI 34, XLU RSI 38, SHLD RSI 36, KWEB RSI 37, EPHE RSI 36, BNDX RSI 32.

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5. Theme of the Day
"Sell the sophisticated, buy the simple." Across all five markets, complex or momentum-driven wrappers (QQQ, SMH, XLF, GLD, URA, LIT, ICLN, EWT, EEM) are seeing historic redemptions, while the broadest, plainest vehicles (SPY, SGOV, BND) and hyper-targeted EM country funds (MCHI, KWEB, ASEAN) attract strong creations. This is an institutional de-risking and rotation day, not a risk-off day — equities are mostly green but the plumbing underneath is being heavily reshuffled.

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6. New ETF Launches

Defiance ETFs filed for a 2X short TSM product on August 26, and just one day later, on September 1, launched the Defiance Global Foundries ETF (AIFR) — a long fund tracking the global semiconductor foundry industry, with a 0.71% expense ratio.
It directly overlaps with EWT's dominant holding and lands as Taiwan redemptions hit an all-time low percentile.
BlackRock also filed a delay to push the effectiveness of the iShares Future Robotics and Related Technologies Active ETF to September 10, 2026.

Separately, Tema ETF Trust updated registration for five semis/AI funds — including the Tema Power Semiconductor ETF, Tema Semiconductor Packaging ETF, Tema Semiconductor Supply Chain ETF, Tema Neocloud ETF, and Tema AI Token Economy ETF — with filings dated August 17.

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7. Watchlist
Watch whether EWT redemptions (p0) force index-level selling in Taiwan semis that then ricochets into SMH pricing Thursday — if AIFR's launch attracts day-one creations, it could actually partially offset the EWT unwind and give you a read on whether the foundry-specific narrative has legs separate from the broad Taiwan de-risking.

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*Under 350 words. Data as of US close Wed 02 Sep 2026.*

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 03 Sep 2026 06:00 SGT. Market-monitoring tool, not investment advice.