The funds listed below are those funds that focus on dividend paying stocks. Because of the cash dividends these stocks pay they are typically lower volatility and are considered defensive in nature. This page also includes SPY and DIA for reference.

Below you will see the Total Return for these funds over the past year. The default order is by Relative Strength but you can sort on any other column by clicking either the Ascending or Descending arrows. ( ).

Include: Short Funds yes --- yes no only Leveraged Funds yes ---- yes no only

Volume Filter dolVol21 ----- dolVol21 Vol60 > < 0 ----- 0 100,000 500,000 1,000,000 5,000,000 10,000,000 Right Column:      default ----- default Price Volume cGroup $vol-21 Rtn-10d Rtn-2mo Rtn-4mo Rtn-5mo Rtn-3-6-12 Rtn-YTD RRS-21 RRS-42 RRS-63 RRS-126 RRS-189 RRS-252 1stDate

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✓	Name	Symbol	RSf	Rtn-1d	Rtn-5d	Rtn-1mo	Rtn-3mo	Rtn-6mo	Rtn-1yr	$vol-21
	WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity	DXJ	95.98	-0.85	0.13	0.59	12.71	22.39	52.88	104m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	78.63	0.11	3.02	-0.30	5.01	19.82	27.14	36b
	WisdomTree MidCap Div	DON	74.93	0.17	3.27	-0.75	8.24	17.19	22.21	6m
	WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equ	DEM	68.41	-0.35	2.82	1.01	6.19	14.71	18.36	10m
	WisdomTree Total Dividend	DTD	62.41	0.42	2.08	-0.51	5.14	15.59	17.89	968k
	FirstTr Morningstar Dividend Leaders	FDL	62.21	-0.08	2.05	-0.18	6.06	15.96	15.08	31m
	First Trust DJ STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index	FDD	61.49	0.65	3.88	1.76	8.56	16.03	9.82	753k
	Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF	VYM	61.21	0.31	1.49	-0.94	5.46	15.64	16.64	107m
	WisdomTree Intl Large Cap Div	DOL	60.60	0.47	3.06	0.99	6.95	14.68	12.07	894k
	iShares Select Dividend	DVY	60.24	0.41	2.55	0.49	8.50	14.40	11.70	58m
	WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend	DLN	59.28	0.33	1.91	-0.63	4.62	15.30	16.84	8m
	WisdomTree Small Cap Div	DES	55.17	-0.03	3.25	-0.62	4.92	13.19	19.87	4m
	Vanguard Dividend ETF	VIG	52.92	0.44	2.14	-0.35	3.18	14.46	16.66	140m
	iShares Intl Select Dividend	IDV	51.87	0.33	3.37	1.68	5.23	14.16	9.17	17m
	SPDR Dow Jones Ind Avg ETF	DIA	51.43	0.07	2.81	-0.04	1.41	15.20	17.61	2b
	Invesco Div Achievers Port	PFM	51.07	0.44	2.29	-0.23	3.34	14.00	15.32	804k
	WisdomTree Intl SmallCap Div	DLS	49.74	0.23	2.52	0.23	5.33	14.44	8.99	2m
	WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend	DFE	49.70	0.39	2.86	0.80	6.36	16.64	5.27	1m
	WisdomTree High Yield	DHS	49.13	0.26	1.91	-0.21	6.62	11.49	11.39	3m
	WisdomTree Intl MidCap Div	DIM	45.47	0.10	3.01	-0.14	5.58	12.23	8.61	198k
	SPDR Dividend ETF	SDY	45.15	0.53	2.07	0.49	6.15	13.86	7.89	30m
	WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Div	DFJ	44.55	-0.45	1.93	-1.24	2.36	9.38	15.10	1m
	iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund	PFF	35.45	-0.38	2.43	-0.90	1.13	8.71	11.94	158m
	First Trust Value Line Dividend ETF	FVD	33.72	0.53	1.81	0.17	3.68	10.48	4.72	48m
	Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio	PEY	31.15	-0.15	1.10	-0.39	2.42	7.78	9.26	5m
	Invesco Intl Dividend Achievers	PID	30.06	-0.11	3.01	0.14	2.44	9.77	3.62	3m

26 symbols listed

The dynamics of Relative Strength are illustraded below for the past quarter. From this you can visualize which funds are improving on a relative basis and which are deteriorating.

5-day Intervals 21-day Intervals

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Symbol	05/07	04/30	04/23	04/16	04/09	04/02	03/25	03/18	03/11	03/04	02/26	02/16	02/09
DXJ	96.0	97.3	96.4	97.3	96.6	96.6	96.7	97.2	94.3	95.3	95.1	94.8	92.8
SPY	78.6	79.7	79.8	82.1	80.5	83.7	83.6	84.9	84.3	83.3	83.4	83.0	84.3
DON	74.9	65.6	69.0	64.8	70.2	69.8	70.7	59.3	64.6	63.7	60.9	60.5	58.2
DEM	68.4	71.0	67.5	63.6	68.8	60.4	55.0	61.2	66.0	65.0	65.8	64.8	60.6
DTD	62.4	64.1	65.6	64.0	64.1	69.9	70.2	68.7	68.9	67.2	66.1	62.2	62.2
FDL	62.2	58.6	68.4	56.4	57.2	68.0	62.4	57.3	55.3	47.7	47.8	53.3	49.4
FDD	61.5	48.0	50.4	30.4	36.8	29.9	24.9	16.7	15.5	10.7	15.6	13.2	16.0
VYM	61.2	65.6	67.2	65.1	64.9	71.2	68.7	65.9	68.5	64.5	61.8	59.2	57.7
DOL	60.6	55.2	61.7	48.3	51.4	53.3	55.0	58.8	56.8	51.7	54.0	49.7	46.5
DVY	60.2	49.0	51.9	38.9	44.9	50.5	48.0	36.0	41.8	38.2	31.1	31.1	28.3
DLN	59.3	62.9	65.4	64.4	64.1	70.2	70.4	70.1	69.9	68.0	66.9	62.3	62.6
DES	55.2	42.5	57.1	48.6	55.0	47.3	50.0	36.2	46.5	54.5	51.1	57.5	59.7
VIG	52.9	56.4	57.9	61.3	61.4	66.6	66.9	69.9	70.3	69.5	71.2	67.8	70.1
IDV	51.9	44.7	50.7	30.4	40.1	40.5	37.9	36.4	39.3	38.5	40.3	46.9	42.5
DIA	51.4	50.6	61.9	61.7	58.6	66.9	67.7	68.9	69.0	70.9	77.1	75.8	76.6
PFM	51.1	52.3	53.1	57.1	57.8	63.7	63.6	65.1	64.8	63.7	64.7	61.0	63.1
DLS	49.7	52.7	50.9	45.2	48.5	44.8	46.1	49.2	49.5	46.9	49.1	46.5	47.2
DFE	49.7	48.1	44.0	37.1	41.5	35.3	35.4	37.3	44.9	36.9	42.2	37.1	41.2
DHS	49.1	44.6	53.9	40.6	43.7	49.2	46.1	37.4	39.5	35.1	32.0	31.0	25.8
DIM	45.5	43.2	47.9	40.9	45.0	44.2	46.4	46.5	45.3	42.3	45.1	41.2	39.9
SDY	45.2	43.6	45.3	40.4	43.8	47.2	44.6	39.5	39.9	38.0	34.2	30.8	32.7
DFJ	44.5	51.1	56.6	63.1	58.0	54.9	64.5	71.4	57.6	59.3	64.9	66.0	65.6
PFF	35.5	28.8	37.1	33.4	39.8	41.7	45.2	47.4	42.2	40.3	48.2	45.9	51.1
FVD	33.7	34.5	33.2	28.7	34.5	39.4	39.5	35.6	41.1	41.7	37.7	35.5	36.1
PEY	31.1	31.1	32.9	20.3	29.1	29.1	29.3	14.6	24.2	21.7	18.8	19.7	29.4
PID	30.1	21.9	27.4	13.5	28.6	31.0	32.6	31.1	41.6	34.1	35.9	41.4	36.2