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XLF · Intrayear DD vs Full Year

XLF · Intrayear DD vs Full Year — Financials' intrayear depth

Intrayear drawdown — XLF's deepest dip within each year.

Average intrayear drawdown is close to the S&P's, but 2008, 2009, 2020 and 2023 all concentrated their volatility in this sector.

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What this page answers

Across 29 years, the deepest intrayear drawdown in XLF averaged -19.9% — yet the average full-year return was still +7.7%. In 11 of those years the index fell more than 10% intrayear and still finished positive: the dip is the norm, not the anomaly.

Average intrayear drawdown is close to the S&P's, but 2008, 2009, 2020 and 2023 all concentrated their volatility in this sector. The data is refreshed by the History of Market pipeline and published as a stable JSON endpoint for research, citation, and AI-agent use.

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XLF · Intrayear DD vs Full Year — Financials' intrayear depth-50%-25%0%25%200020052010201520202025
Plate V.5 Average intrayear drawdown is close to the S&P's, but 2008, 2009, 2020 and 2023 all concentrated their volatility in this sector. 2026-08-14

Latest Snapshot

Updated
2026-08-14
Observations
29
Average
-19.9%
Latest
+7.7%

XLF — deepest intrayear drawdown vs full-year return

XLF — deepest intrayear drawdown vs full-year return
YearDeepest intrayear drawdownFull-year return
2026-14.8%+7.3%
2025-15.5%+14.9%
2024-7.2%+30.6%
2023-16.3%+12.0%
2022-25.8%-10.6%
2021-8.4%+34.8%
2020-42.9%-1.8%
2019-9.5%+31.9%
2018-24.7%-13.1%
2017-9.0%+22.0%
2016-16.2%+22.4%
2015-12.7%-1.7%
2014-7.3%+15.0%
2013-6.9%+35.5%
2012-16.4%+28.4%
2011-33.7%-17.1%
2010-21.0%+11.9%
2009-51.2%+17.6%
2008-67.5%-54.9%
2007-24.7%-19.2%
2006-7.8%+18.9%
2005-9.1%+6.2%
2004-10.2%+10.9%
2003-17.4%+30.5%
2002-32.0%-14.7%
2001-26.7%-9.5%
2000-17.2%+25.9%
1999-22.9%+2.7%
1998-1.6%+0.5%

Showing the full record (29 rows). Raw series: https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/intrayear-dd.json

Data & Source

GET /api/fin/intrayear-dd.json — Canonical dataset endpoint.

Exchange closing prices · Company filings · Robert Shiller · FRED · NBER.

FAQ

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History of Market combines public market and macro datasets — exchange closing prices, company filings, Robert Shiller, FRED, NBER, and the UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook (Dimson–Marsh–Staunton). The exact endpoint for this panel is linked below.

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Daily-tier datasets refresh after the U.S. market close, with a broader weekly refresh on Sunday. The timestamp shown on this page comes from the JSON payload.

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