Earnings season is set to kick into high gear at the end of the week, and amongst the swath of companies set to release their quarterly results are several major financial firms. The banking sector tends to outperform in the fourth quarter, with the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) taking second place on Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White's list of exchange-traded funds (ETF) that outperformed during the quarter over the last 10 years.With that in mind, we're going to take a quick lo ...