Below are the 20 hottest ETFs (excluding leveraged funds) at the close of the year December 31st, based on the 6-month performance.
Data includes leveraged ETFs and the data source is FINVIZ.com. The unleveraged list is the second table. For real time tracking of this list, see the right hand side of the page here.
Real estate, emerging markets, and levered long ETFs are prominent themes.
Real estate, emerging markets, and levered long ETFs are prominent themes.
| Ticker | Company | INO Trend Analysis | Performance (Quarter) | Half Year | Year | 200-Day SMA |
| BDD | PowerShares DB Base Metals Dble Long ETN | Here | 55.59% | 110.99% | 228.25% | 64.48% |
| URE | Ultra Real Estate ProShares | Here | 26.42% | 110.06% | 11.49% | 47.00% |
| EDC | Direxion Daily Emrg Mkts Bull 3X Shares | Here | 26.84% | 102.76% | 205.41% | 49.46% |
| UYM | Ultra Basic Materials ProShares | Here | 28.71% | 94.16% | 126.81% | 41.19% |
| UPRO | UltraPro S&P500 ProShares | Here | 25.86% | 87.66% | 21.51% | |
| TYH | Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X Shares | Here | 25.15% | 84.58% | 189.62% | 43.94% |
| TNA | Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares | Here | 17.94% | 83.51% | 42.42% | 39.80% |
| BRF | Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF | Here | 27.35% | 78.31% | 32.68% | |
| MWJ | Direxion Daily Mid Cap Bull 3X Shares | Here | 9.23% | 78.26% | 31.02% | |
| FAS | Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares | Here | 2.11% | 78.11% | -41.46% | 21.58% |
| UVU | Ultra Russell MidCap Value ProShares | Here | 16.52% | 71.59% | 57.31% | 34.27% |
| ROM | Ultra Technology ProShares | Here | 29.38% | 69.99% | 146.39% | 42.19% |
| USD | Ultra Semiconductor ProShares | Here | 29.16% | 68.21% | 137.50% | 41.50% |
| UXI | Ultra Industrials ProShares | Here | 17.25% | 67.82% | 41.18% | 31.18% |
| BGU | Direxion Daily Large Cap Bull 3X Shares | Here | 11.49% | 67.23% | 45.82% | 27.21% |
| RTG | Rydex 2x S&P Select Sector Technology | Here | 28.63% | 66.84% | 120.99% | 40.60% |
| FAA | Claymore/NYSE Arca Airline | Here | 18.31% | 66.36% | 33.70% | |
| UCC | Ultra Consumer Services ProShares | Here | 17.10% | 65.40% | 64.67% | 30.54% |
| EET | Ultra MSCI Emerging Mkts ProShares | Here | 19.87% | 65.26% | 22.21% | |
| QLD | Ultra QQQ ProShares | Here | 23.92% | 62.87% | 121.20% |
| Ticker | Company | INO Trend Analysis | Performance (Quarter) | Half Year | Year | 200-Day SMA |
| BRF | Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF | Here | 27.35% | 78.31% | 32.68% | |
| FAA | Claymore/NYSE Arca Airline | Here | 18.31% | 66.36% | 33.70% | |
| KOL | Market Vectors Coal ETF | Here | 24.85% | 61.11% | 144.72% | 36.77% |
| FIO | iShares FTSE NAREIT Industrl/Offc Cp Idx | Here | 12.84% | 56.46% | 30.54% | 27.56% |
| ICF | iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors | Here | 14.67% | 54.65% | 25.14% | 27.55% |
| RWR | SPDR Dow Jones REIT | Here | 14.28% | 53.78% | 28.15% | 27.33% |
| FRI | First Trust S&P REIT | Here | 14.01% | 53.00% | 28.51% | 26.89% |
| RSX | Market Vectors Russia ETF | Here | 15.22% | 52.15% | 139.19% | 29.44% |
| SLX | Market Vectors Steel ETF | Here | 24.46% | 51.75% | 112.87% | 33.32% |
| PKOL | PowerShares Global Coal | 22.65% | 51.65% | 133.60% | 31.69% | |
| PSR | PowerShares Active U.S. Real Estate | 14.33% | 51.44% | 30.52% | 27.66% | |
| DNH | WisdomTree Pacific ex-Japan Equity Inc | 8.66% | 50.60% | 78.80% | 25.97% | |
| BDG | PowerShares DB Base Metals Long ETN | 24.04% | 50.44% | 88.84% | 31.30% | |
| IYR | iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate | 13.61% | 49.87% | 30.57% | 25.85% | |
| FTY | iShares FTSE NAREIT Real Estate 50 | 14.52% | 49.62% | 26.92% | 26.12% | |
| REZ | iShares FTSE NAREIT Resid Plus Cp Idx | 15.22% | 48.66% | 20.75% | 25.68% | |
| IFNA | iShares FTSE EPRA/NAREIT North America | 12.85% | 48.55% | 35.73% | 28.24% | |
| RPV | Rydex S&P 500 Pure Value | 7.60% | 47.72% | 52.38% | 23.75% | |
| EWZ | iShares MSCI Brazil Index | 16.65% | 47.57% | 121.99% | 28.83% | |
| GML | SPDR S&P Emerging Latin America | 17.67% | 47.52% | 104.13% | 28.88% |
Author's disclosures: No position.
