Best free US/JP sector rotation dashboards (2026)

Sector rotation — money moving from one part of the market to another as the cycle turns — is one of the few signals a retail investor can actually watch for free. The catch is that most "sector dashboards" are either US-only, buried behind a brokerage login, or quietly upsell you the moment you want more than a heatmap. This is an honest roundup of what's genuinely free in 2026, split by how you like to look at rotation.

Disclosure: Stack Picks is operated by TechAthletes, which makes one of the tools below (Sector Pulse). It's marked, and we've listed the established alternatives we'd point a friend to first.

What a sector rotation dashboard should give you

• Breadth in one view — all 11 GICS sectors ranked or mapped, not one chart at a time.
• A time dimension — today's leaders vs the last month/quarter, because rotation is about change, not a snapshot.
• Both markets, ideally — US and Japan rotate on different clocks; watching only one hides half the picture.
• Free to look — you shouldn't need an account just to see what's leading.

The established free options (US)

• Finviz — the classic free sector/industry heatmap. Fast, dense, US-focused. Best for a 5-second "what's red, what's green" read. Deeper history and screening are paid.
• TradingView (free tier) — heatmaps and the closest thing to a proper sector view without paying, plus community scripts. The free tier has ads and limited saved layouts, but it's the most flexible free canvas.
• StockCharts (partial) — the home of Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG), the most "rotation-native" visual there is. The RRG itself is largely a paid feature, but worth knowing it exists if rotation is your whole thesis.
• Your broker (Fidelity/Schwab) — free with an account and genuinely good sector drill-downs, but US-only and gated behind login.

The established free options (Japan)

• Kabutan (株探) — free Japanese sector/theme rankings and news, the go-to for JP retail. Japanese-language, JP-only.
• TradingView JP / Yahoo Finance Japan — sector rankings and heatmaps for the TSE, free tier. Solid for a quick JP read.

Most people who care about both US and JP end up with two tabs open in two languages. That gap is small but real.

Where Sector Pulse fits (ours)

Sector Pulse is our attempt at the "both markets, one view, free to look" corner. It ranks US and Japanese sectors and individual names (700+) side by side, adds basic metrics and news, and generates a plain-language AI pick per sector. It's a free, installable PWA in English and Japanese.

Honestly: it is newer and lighter than TradingView, and it won't replace Finviz for raw screening speed or StockCharts for RRG depth. What it does that those don't is put US and JP rotation in one bilingual screen without a login — which is the specific thing that annoyed us into building it. If you only trade US names, Finviz + TradingView is probably all you need.

How we'd choose

• Just US, fastest glance: Finviz.
• Flexible, one market, willing to tinker: TradingView free tier.
• Rotation as your core method: learn RRG (StockCharts).
• US and Japan, no login, bilingual: Sector Pulse.

No tool here predicts the next rotation — they help you see it a little earlier than the headlines. Pick the one that matches the market you actually trade, and don't pay until a free tool has clearly hit its ceiling for you.