International ETF Portfolio for November - Scott's Investments

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International ETF Portfolio for November 0 comments

Nov 2, 2010 8:44 AM | about stocks: BRF, ECH, EPU, EWH, EWJ, EWM, GXC, GXG, HAO, IDX, PIN, THD, OVEN

Below is a table in order of the sum of the 3, 6, and 12 month returns for a diverse list of individual country ETFs. Each column represents returns for various timeframes and the percent each ETF is above (or below) the 200 day moving averages as of October's close. This list is tracked monthly on the right hand side of my blog Scott's Investments. Earlier this summer I made some additional additions so please take a moment to review the new ETFs.

To see last months list click here. Last month's top five were ECH (Chile), GXG (Colombia), THD (Thailand), EPU (Peru), and TUR (Turkey), Last month the top 5 returned 4.94% while benchmarks EFA and EEM returned 2.76% and 1.92%.

The top 5 based on the sum of the 3-6-12 month returns are below. The top 5 are GXG, EPU, THD, ECH, and IDX (Indonesia). This month there are no ETFs below the 200 day moving average (last month only EWJ was below the 200 day moving average).

One potential strategy investors could use would be to purchase the top ETFs based on the sum of their returns over 3, 6, and 12 months. Or, one could purchase ETFs based solely on 6 month returns (a strategy featured on ETF Screen). An additional twist would be to only purchase the top performing ETFs if they are also above the 200 day moving average or to use more in-depth and active trading strategies like the one I detailed here and here. Many of the strategies detailed here were inspired by Mebane Faber's The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets

The data source for the information below is Finviz, which has some of the best free financial data on the web (as well as a new elite service).
Note: This month I dropped JPP due to lack of liquidity.
No position disclosures

Ticker	Company	Trend	Performance (Quarter)	Half Year	Year	Sum	200-Day SMA
GXG	Global X/InterBolsa FTSE Colombia 20 ETF	Here	19.28%	39.96%	68.20%	127.44%	29.51%
EPU	iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index	Here	33.15%	39.98%	47.91%	121.04%	33.81%
THD	iShares MSCI Thailand Invest Mkt Index	Here	24.38%	37.12%	58.26%	119.76%	28.61%
ECH	iShares MSCI Chile Investable Mkt Idx	Here	18.24%	33.85%	53.03%	105.12%	24.27%
IDX	Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF	Here	13.59%	17.70%	55.26%	86.55%	21.00%
BRF	Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF	Here	19.19%	26.57%	40.71%	86.47%	24.95%
TUR	iShares MSCI Turkey Invest Mkt Index	Here	17.26%	20.45%	44.31%	82.02%	24.11%
EWM	iShares MSCI Malaysia Index	Here	12.38%	16.38%	32.86%	61.62%	17.11%
HAO	Guggenheim China Small Cap ETF	Here	15.20%	16.57%	27.95%	59.72%	17.53%
EWH	iShares MSCI Hong Kong Index	Here	14.91%	20.99%	22.26%	58.16%	17.50%
EWS	iShares MSCI Singapore Index	Here	7.91%	12.82%	28.92%	49.65%	14.58%
EZA	iShares MSCI South Africa Index	Here	9.40%	11.78%	27.50%	48.68%	14.78%
PIN	PowerShares India	Here	10.95%	11.24%	24.72%	46.91%	12.58%
EWW	iShares MSCI Mexico Investable Mkt Idx	Here	10.66%	7.43%	28.31%	46.40%	12.65%
PGJ	PowerShares Gldn Dragon Halter USX China	Here	11.94%	10.78%	21.71%	44.43%	14.50%
GXC	SPDR S&P China	Here	8.76%	12.56%	14.51%	35.83%	12.81%
EWD	iShares MSCI Sweden Index	Here	7.00%	8.07%	20.07%	35.14%	14.67%
EWT	iShares MSCI Taiwan Index	Here	8.68%	8.34%	18.10%	35.12%	12.09%
EWY	iShares MSCI South Korea Index	Here	7.43%	5.12%	21.27%	33.82%	10.79%
EWK	iShares MSCI Belgium Investable Mkt Idx	Here	10.84%	11.90%	8.19%	30.93%	12.64%
EWG	iShares MSCI Germany Index	Here	11.20%	10.84%	8.12%	30.16%	14.28%
EIS	iShares MSCI Israel Cap Invest Mkt Index	Here	12.52%	1.68%	14.10%	28.30%	6.68%
EWC	iShares MSCI Canada Index	Here	6.57%	1.63%	18.44%	26.64%	7.33%
EWZ	iShares MSCI Brazil Index	Here	6.88%	7.30%	10.37%	24.55%	10.09%
EWL	iShares MSCI Switzerland Index	Here	8.39%	7.40%	7.74%	23.53%	7.69%
EWA	iShares MSCI Australia Index	Here	9.93%	3.12%	9.78%	22.83%	9.78%
FXI	iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index	Here	6.09%	10.39%	5.79%	22.27%	10.29%
EWU	iShares MSCI United Kingdom Index	Here	7.03%	7.44%	7.37%	21.84%	9.55%
EWO	iShares MSCI Austria Investable Mkt Idx	Here	12.07%	5.61%	2.23%	19.91%	13.51%
RSX	Market Vectors Russia ETF	Here	4.26%	0.15%	15.14%	19.55%	7.70%
EWQ	iShares MSCI France Index	Here	8.58%	6.34%	-0.86%	14.06%	9.48%
PJO	PowerShares FTSE RAFI Japan	Here	4.60%	-1.39%	8.78%	11.99%	2.74%
EWN	iShares MSCI Netherlands Invstbl Mkt Idx	Here	3.89%	2.66%	4.09%	10.64%	7.31%
EWJ	iShares MSCI Japan Index	Here	1.83%	-3.84%	4.59%	2.58%	1.11%
EWI	iShares MSCI Italy Index	Here	5.91%	5.66%	-10.00%	1.57%	8.17%
EWP	iShares MSCI Spain Index	Here	3.90%	8.19%	-12.92%	-0.83%	8.46%

Disclosure: no positions

Stocks: BRF, ECH, EPU, EWH, EWJ, EWM, GXC, GXG, HAO, IDX, PIN, THD, OVEN

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