Below are the 20 hottest ETFs at the close of August, based on the 6 month performance. These are not 'buy' recommendations or aggregate portfolios for investment. My favorite way to use this list is as 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.
This month's list is heavy on Treasury related ETFs. If you are comfortable using your own technical analysis that is another option for using the list. 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 techniques such as those I profiled in-depth here.
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 | Performance (Half Year) | Performance (Year) | 200-Day Simple Moving Average |
| TMF | Direxion Daily 30 Yr Trs Bull 3X Shares | Here | 70.52% | 27.43% | 49.93% |
| UBT | ProShares Ultra 20+ Year Treasury | Here | 45.75% | 31.50% | |
| ZROZ | PIMCO 25+ Yr Zero Cpn U.S. Trsy Idx ETF | Here | 36.88% | 26.55% | |
| TYD | Direxion Daily 10 Yr Trs Bull 3X Shares | Here | 36.58% | 32.58% | 28.43% |
| VXZ | iPath S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures ETN | Here | 33.98% | 4.52% | 16.09% |
| EDV | Vanguard Extended Dur Trs Idx ETF | Here | 33.41% | 19.23% | 24.44% |
| DTO | PowerShares DB Crude Oil Dble Short ETN | Here | 32.73% | 2.78% | 19.98% |
| JO | iPath DJ-UBS Coffee TR Sub-Idx ETN | Here | 31.57% | 36.51% | 20.63% |
| GXG | Global X/InterBolsa FTSE Colombia 20 ETF | Here | 27.80% | 64.04% | 26.56% |
| THD | iShares MSCI Thailand Invest Mkt Index | Here | 26.36% | 49.43% | 22.34% |
| JJT | iPath DJ-UBS Tin TR Sub-Idx ETN | Here | 23.80% | 56.23% | 18.83% |
| SCO | UltraShort DJ-UBS Crude Oil ProShares | Here | 23.62% | -7.54% | 13.96% |
| UST | ProShares Ultra 7-10 Year Treasury | Here | 23.42% | 16.11% | |
| DRN | Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X Shrs | Here | 23.27% | 55.90% | 7.15% |
| ECH | iShares MSCI Chile Investable Mkt Idx | Here | 21.61% | 52.54% | 18.66% |
| TLT | iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treas Bond | Here | 21.34% | 16.58% | 16.42% |
| URE | ProShares Ultra Real Estate | Here | 19.98% | 53.98% | 9.14% |
| RXD | ProShares UltraShort Health Care | Here | 19.81% | -10.25% | 10.70% |
| BHH | B2B Internet HOLDRs | Here | 19.17% | 47.39% | 11.71% |
| REZ | iShares FTSE NAREIT Resid Plus Cp Idx | Here | 19.13% | 40.15% | 11.14% |
Disclosure: No positions
