Below are the 20 hottest ETFs at the close on May 28th, based on the 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 intermediate trends and b) as potential short-term trading opportunities (long or short), although I tend not to use leveraged funds.
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 combined with risk management techiniques such as those I profiled in-depth here. Despite the market pullback last month, the list still has some levered long equity based ETFs in the small cap and real estate realm along with short ETFs, primarily focused on Europe. It will be interesting to see the list at the start of next month...
Data includes leveraged ETFs and the data source is FINVIZ.com. For real time tracking of this list see the right hand side of my blog.
| Ticker | Company | Free Trend Analysis | Perform-ance (Half Year) | Year | 200-Day SMA | Price |
| DRN | Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X Shrs | Here | 51.08% | 20.28% | 42.83 | |
| DRR | Market Vectors Double Short Euro ETN | Here | 49.32% | 27.96% | 28.08% | 55.65 |
| EUO | ProShares UltraShort Euro | Here | 48.89% | 26.96% | 27.87% | 24.91 |
| AGA | PowerShares DB Agriculture Dble Shrt ETN | Here | 42.35% | 47.92% | 25.47% | 50.96 |
| BHH | B2B Internet HOLDRs | Here | 37.25% | 77.10% | 24.19% | 0.55 |
| IIH | Internet Infrastructure HOLDRs | Here | 36.40% | 40.52% | 23.55% | 3.26 |
| FAA | Claymore/NYSE Arca Airline | Here | 34.30% | 75.45% | 11.86% | 33.44 |
| URE | ProShares Ultra Real Estate | Here | 34.11% | 113.09% | 17.96% | 39.87 |
| JFT | KEYnotes First Trust Enh 130/30 LgCp ETN | Here | 33.73% | 22.98% | 2.88% | 28.9 |
| TNA | Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares | Here | 31.29% | 102.10% | 7.58% | 48.04 |
| DPK | Direxion Daily Dev Mkts Bear 3X Shrs | Here | 27.81% | -41.19% | 15.58% | 18.89 |
| EPV | ProShares UltraShort MSCI Europe | Here | 27.59% | 13.00% | 26.5 | |
| UVT | ProShares Ultra Russell2000 Value | Here | 25.24% | 74.09% | 8.67% | 24.86 |
| SAA | ProShares Ultra SmallCap600 | Here | 25.08% | 70.27% | 9.21% | 34.36 |
| REZ | iShares FTSE NAREIT Resid Plus Cp Idx | Here | 23.00% | 60.82% | 16.87% | 35.3 |
| UWM | ProShares Ultra Russell2000 | Here | 22.32% | 67.42% | 7.71% | 31.24 |
| JJN | iPath DJ-UBS Nickel TR Sub-Idx ETN | Here | 22.16% | 50.65% | 5.69% | 31.26 |
| FRI | First Trust S&P REIT Idx | Here | 21.14% | 61.98% | 13.18% | 13.12 |
| ICF | iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors | Here | 21.02% | 59.86% | 13.55% | 58.43 |
| EFU | ProShares UltraShort MSCI EAFE | Here | 20.59% | -27.48% | 12.75% | 45.33 |
Disclosure: No positions
