Below are the 20 hottest ETFs (excluding leveraged funds) at the close of the year January 31st, 2009, based on their 6 month performance. These are not 'buy' recommendations or aggregate portfolios for investment. My favorite way to use this list is: a) to get a sense for the biggest intermediate trends and b) as potential short-term trading opportunities. If you are comfortable using your own technical analysis that is the preferred way.
Trend lines and support/resistance levels are some of the simplest and most powerful tools for analyzing price charts. An investor could also use proprietary trading signals from companies such as Marketclub. For example, the top unleveraged ETF SGG was on a monthly Marketclub sell signal on 9/15/08 at 46.60 and then a buy on 2/26/09 at 46.38 and has been a buy since that date (SGG closed at 83.10 on 2/2/10).
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 my blog.
| Ticker | Company | Free Trend Analysis | Performance (Half Year) | Year | 200-Day SMA | Price |
| DRN | Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X Shrs | Here | 51.14% | 0.95% | 118.9 | |
| SGG | iPath DJ AIG Sugar TR Sub-Idx ETN | Here | 46.40% | 89.49% | 35.18% | 83.11 |
| URE | Ultra Real Estate ProShares | Here | 44.13% | 40.18% | 21.18% | 6.14 |
| FAA | Claymore/NYSE Arca Airline | Here | 40.54% | 23.75% | 29.92 | |
| RSX | Market Vectors Russia ETF | Here | 38.50% | 182.29% | 20.76% | 31.08 |
| BDD | PowerShares DB Base Metals Dble Long ETN | Here | 32.94% | 182.01% | 14.61% | 13.48 |
| AGQ | Ultra Silver ProShares | Here | 31.02% | 38.70% | -1.95% | 51.32 |
| BHH | B2B Internet HOLDRs | Here | 30.28% | 95.42% | 20.86% | 0.47 |
| UVU | Ultra Russell MidCap Value ProShares | Here | 29.91% | 75.78% | 17.88% | 23.34 |
| UGL | Ultra Gold ProShares | Here | 29.85% | 29.46% | 10.91% | 43.37 |
| DGP | PowerShares DB Gold Double Long ETN | Here | 29.50% | 31.29% | 10.56% | 25.68 |
| UXI | Ultra Industrials ProShares | Here | 28.53% | 60.19% | 15.42% | 29.33 |
| RPV | Rydex S&P 500 Pure Value | Here | 27.58% | 72.15% | 16.94% | 23.7 |
| UCC | Ultra Consumer Services ProShares | Here | 27.31% | 79.08% | 16.94% | 31.93 |
| FIO | iShares FTSE NAREIT Industrl/Offc Cp Idx | Here | 26.91% | 33.55% | 14.39% | 22.45 |
| UPRO | UltraPro S&P500 ProShares | Here | 26.87% | 4.57% | 133.81 | |
| BRF | Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF | Here | 26.76% | 8.99% | 41.83 | |
| CSD | Claymore/Beacon Spin-Off | Here | 26.41% | 62.69% | 16.65% | 18.6 |
| RHM | Rydex 2x S&P Select Sector Health Care | Here | 26.38% | 36.22% | 24.20% | 68.22 |
| ICF | iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors | Here | 26.33% | 38.85% | 13.75% | 49.32 |
Unleveraged top 20:
| Ticker | Company | Free Trend Analysis | Performance (Half Year) | Year | 200-Day SMA | Price |
| SGG | iPath DJ AIG Sugar TR Sub-Idx ETN | Here | 46.40% | 89.49% | 35.18% | 83.11 |
| FAA | Claymore/NYSE Arca Airline | Here | 40.54% | 23.75% | 29.92 | |
| RSX | Market Vectors Russia ETF | Here | 38.50% | 182.29% | 20.76% | 31.08 |
| BHH | B2B Internet HOLDRs | Here | 30.28% | 95.42% | 20.86% | 0.47 |
| RPV | Rydex S&P 500 Pure Value | Here | 27.58% | 72.15% | 16.94% | 23.7 |
| FIO | iShares FTSE NAREIT Industrl/Offc Cp Idx | Here | 26.91% | 33.55% | 14.39% | 22.45 |
| BRF | Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF | Here | 26.76% | 8.99% | 41.83 | |
| CSD | Claymore/Beacon Spin-Off | Here | 26.41% | 62.69% | 16.65% | 18.6 |
| ICF | iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors | Here | 26.33% | 38.85% | 13.75% | 49.32 |
| RWR | SPDR Dow Jones REIT | Here | 26.01% | 41.52% | 13.83% | 46.32 |
| PTM | UBS E-TRACS Long Platinum TR ETN | Here | 25.82% | 50.97% | 13.69% | 17.98 |
| VNQ | Vanguard REIT Index ETF | Here | 25.77% | 40.67% | 13.83% | 42.27 |
| PGM | iPath DJ AIG Platinum TR Sub-Idx ETN | Here | 25.45% | 50.09% | 10.61% | 35.99 |
| IFNA | iShares FTSE EPRA/NAREIT North America | Here | 25.39% | 41.16% | 14.95% | 31.31 |
| FRI | First Trust S&P REIT | Here | 24.94% | 33.70% | 13.88% | 11.07 |
| TUR | iShares MSCI Turkey Invest Mkt Index | Here | 24.74% | 134.01% | 24.26% | 55.67 |
| PSR | PowerShares Active U.S. Real Estate | Here | 24.33% | 36.12% | 13.48% | 34.89 |
| GXG | Global X/InterBolsa FTSE Colombia 20 ETF | Here | 24.05% | 17.00% | 29.25 | |
| IYR | iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate | Here | 23.66% | 42.02% | 13.28% | 43.43 |
| GUR | SPDR S&P Emerging Europe | Here | 23.64% | 108.74% | 14.24% | 42.73 |
Disclosure: No Positions
