The following ETF's are focused in the Natural Resources areas including gold, oil, gas, and other mineral and energy related companies. This area of investment is highly cyclical and has the reputation for boom and bust behavior.

Below you will see the Total Return for these funds over the past year. The S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has been included for reference. 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

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✓	Name	Symbol	RSf	Rtn-1d	Rtn-5d	Rtn-1mo	Rtn-3mo	Rtn-6mo	Rtn-1yr	$vol-21
	ProShares Ultra Gold	UGL	95.65	-0.23	-3.47	0.56	24.53	28.18	15.11	26m
	VanEck Vectors-Nuclear Energy ETF	NLR	94.65	0.76	4.11	2.89	4.16	19.47	53.34	2m
	Direxion Energy Bull 2X Shares	ERX	93.24	-0.24	-6.79	-9.73	22.01	17.00	32.47	39m
	Proshares Ultra Oil & Gas	DIG	93.08	0.00	-6.78	-9.61	21.95	16.68	31.68	3m
	ProShares Ultra Silver	AGQ	92.11	-1.23	-5.69	-3.56	31.67	24.17	-8.02	63m
	JPMorgan Alerian MLP ETN	AMJ	91.30	0.89	-0.63	-1.91	8.78	17.51	37.66	23m
	Invesco Water Resource Portfolio	PHO	89.81	1.10	2.32	1.57	9.88	29.85	25.53	4m
	First Trust ISE Water Index Fund	FIW	89.05	1.03	2.51	2.11	9.76	30.06	24.63	4m
	Invesco DB Base Metals Fund	DBB	88.04	0.74	0.40	7.51	16.85	18.21	15.34	6m
	Invesco Global Water Portfolio	PIO	86.84	1.43	2.14	0.10	8.06	30.94	20.11	311k
	VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF	GDXJ	86.67	-0.44	-3.92	0.57	19.79	22.55	-0.24	338m
	iShares US Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	IEO	86.63	0.36	-4.60	-6.68	14.23	8.99	33.09	22m
	SPDR Metals & Mining	XME	85.75	1.23	-0.02	-0.51	6.32	22.94	27.49	214m
	ProShares Ultra DJ-AIG Crude Oil	UCO	85.59	-0.77	-9.54	-12.15	18.62	-2.27	42.36	53m
	First Trust Natural Gas ETF	FCG	85.06	0.93	-3.74	-3.43	18.34	5.27	28.99	5m
	VanEck Vectors Gold Miners	GDX	83.70	-0.42	-3.30	2.01	19.34	20.91	-2.50	1b
	Invesco S&P Global Water ETF	CGW	83.37	1.35	2.81	3.62	10.65	26.17	16.01	2m
	iShares Gold Trust	IAU	82.77	-0.07	-1.67	0.69	13.01	16.18	12.83	450m
	SPDR Gold Shares	GLD	82.17	-0.08	-1.69	0.68	12.91	16.05	12.61	2b
	SPDR Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	XOP	81.92	0.78	-4.32	-5.60	15.50	4.97	30.41	562m
	Invesco DB Agriculture Fund	DBA	80.96	2.22	-7.95	-3.35	10.46	14.04	21.68	20m
	Invesco DB Precious Metals Fund	DBP	80.80	-0.21	-1.87	0.46	13.89	15.62	10.21	711k
	iShares S&P Natural Resources Index Fund	IGE	79.27	0.22	-2.56	-3.06	12.49	13.04	21.51	9m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	77.74	1.24	0.60	-0.35	3.75	21.84	27.12	37b
	iShares Silver Trust	SLV	75.97	-0.57	-2.69	-1.10	16.72	15.50	3.37	1b
	Vanguard Energy VIPERs	VDE	75.16	0.08	-3.24	-4.48	12.15	9.71	22.89	72m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	74.36	0.01	-3.31	-4.61	11.73	10.85	21.21	2b
	iShares S&P Global Energy Index Fund	IXC	74.07	0.02	-2.72	-3.14	10.94	10.06	20.99	29m
	Invesco Glbl Timber Indx	CUT	73.99	0.72	3.13	-1.34	10.66	17.06	16.24	441k
	SPDR Oil & Gas Eqpmt & Svcs	XES	72.71	1.90	-2.59	-6.30	15.05	3.17	33.35	8m
	iShares US Energy	IYE	71.86	0.06	-3.14	-4.42	11.83	9.95	20.27	34m
	U.S. 12 Month Oil Fund	USL	57.77	-0.53	-5.04	-6.25	9.86	1.45	25.73	314k
	US Oil Fund ETF	USO	57.45	-1.05	-6.54	-8.68	11.29	0.51	24.57	393m
	VanEck Vectors RVE Hard Assets Prod ETF	HAP	53.91	0.65	-0.26	-0.60	9.31	12.47	10.37	237k
	iShares US Oil Equip & Svcs	IEZ	49.92	1.20	-3.04	-7.87	11.88	-1.15	27.76	3m
	VanEck Vectors Oil Services	OIH	41.06	0.90	-3.46	-8.70	10.17	-2.34	25.83	122m
	iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Tr	GSG	38.81	-0.05	-3.62	-4.04	7.27	1.20	16.91	16m
	Invesco DB Oil Fund	DBO	35.99	-0.26	-4.59	-5.48	8.66	-3.81	19.17	5m
	iPath DJ AIG Commodity ETN	DJP	26.57	0.57	-1.63	-0.40	7.13	-0.47	5.51	5m
	Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking	DBC	25.64	0.13	-2.32	-2.20	5.96	-1.24	7.57	31m
	Invesco DB Energy Fund	DBE	16.43	-0.33	-4.41	-6.19	4.62	-6.29	12.73	681k
	VanEck Vectors--Agribusiness ETF	MOO	5.76	0.68	1.30	-3.01	0.73	3.69	-11.17	5m
	Invesco Global Clean Energy Portfolio	PBD	4.51	1.70	4.66	0.25	2.35	6.89	-21.08	331k
	Direxion Energy Bear 2X Shares	ERY	2.01	0.26	7.02	10.61	-18.23	-15.86	-28.78	9m
	ProShares UltraShort DJ-AIG Crude Oil	SCO	1.93	0.89	10.14	13.30	-16.99	-6.41	-42.54	36m
	Proshares UltraShort Oil & Gas	DUG	1.85	0.00	6.96	10.43	-18.23	-16.46	-30.17	1m
	ProShares UltraShort Gold	GLL	1.65	0.22	3.63	-0.80	-19.91	-22.38	-13.36	5m
	ProShares UltraShort Silver	ZSL	1.21	1.18	5.59	1.96	-27.68	-27.43	-11.60	22m
	United States Natural Gas Fund	UNG	0.72	5.45	11.45	5.17	-19.06	-46.11	-37.92	111m

49 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	05/03	04/26	04/19	04/12	04/05	03/28	03/21	03/14	03/07	02/29	02/22	02/14	02/07
UGL	95.7	97.2	98.2	98.1	96.1	81.4	74.4	82.7	77.5	20.6	26.4	13.7	23.4
NLR	94.6	93.1	93.7	93.5	94.3	85.9	86.2	77.6	93.2	88.0	78.9	90.2	96.0
ERX	93.2	95.5	97.2	97.3	96.8	90.6	86.0	86.2	35.2	25.6	26.4	7.7	8.6
DIG	93.1	95.3	97.1	97.1	96.5	89.2	85.7	84.9	32.9	22.7	23.7	7.5	8.4
AGQ	92.1	95.6	98.5	98.2	96.3	26.0	29.5	56.9	21.3	3.4	5.1	5.6	4.2
AMJ	91.3	91.2	94.5	89.2	91.3	91.5	91.7	90.8	87.5	85.8	87.6	77.5	78.4
PHO	89.8	87.2	87.2	80.7	81.5	79.4	82.9	79.1	80.0	81.0	80.2	80.2	77.4
FIW	89.0	84.8	84.1	74.7	76.1	74.3	76.6	72.2	74.7	74.8	73.5	75.9	73.9
DBB	88.0	85.6	93.8	73.3	46.8	11.5	24.0	29.6	20.0	10.5	9.7	9.1	9.3
PIO	86.8	83.0	84.8	77.7	78.8	82.2	80.3	81.3	85.5	79.8	80.2	76.2	75.5
GDXJ	86.7	92.9	94.0	85.1	82.3	34.4	10.4	28.6	10.8	4.6	6.1	6.2	6.3
IEO	86.6	92.4	94.6	94.3	93.8	83.4	80.9	79.2	47.7	45.7	41.3	19.5	20.7
XME	85.7	85.5	89.4	80.8	75.2	51.2	44.8	46.2	63.6	54.4	54.2	64.9	61.9
UCO	85.6	85.3	92.7	95.8	95.5	85.7	77.8	92.0	44.4	37.1	35.3	13.3	8.3
FCG	85.1	90.2	90.9	87.6	86.5	72.1	69.7	69.1	38.2	37.2	27.9	8.4	8.0
GDX	83.7	90.6	91.7	76.1	73.6	30.1	9.1	26.9	12.7	5.1	6.4	6.2	6.4
CGW	83.4	74.1	74.6	52.2	59.0	55.5	58.4	53.6	55.6	50.8	51.4	53.5	49.6
IAU	82.8	89.0	95.2	90.1	79.6	59.1	53.8	61.1	55.2	30.1	31.8	24.8	33.9
GLD	82.2	88.6	95.1	89.9	79.1	58.9	53.1	60.7	54.8	29.6	31.3	24.6	33.7
XOP	81.9	90.4	91.9	90.8	89.2	72.7	72.1	71.0	36.6	36.7	28.4	11.4	11.0
DBA	81.0	95.0	97.4	95.9	90.5	87.6	75.7	69.0	49.8	52.7	48.0	47.4	48.7
DBP	80.8	87.8	95.5	90.0	78.9	51.7	48.2	55.7	48.1	15.5	21.1	17.1	18.0
IGE	79.3	84.5	89.0	83.9	81.9	65.2	62.2	62.0	38.0	32.0	29.6	12.5	13.3
SPY	77.7	79.5	79.2	82.7	80.7	82.9	83.9	84.7	83.8	82.6	84.7	82.9	85.5
SLV	76.0	85.8	96.0	92.0	84.0	33.0	36.9	50.5	32.5	7.4	9.4	10.5	8.7
VDE	75.2	83.0	90.4	86.9	83.8	66.5	64.7	65.0	33.8	32.5	32.2	12.6	13.8
XLE	74.4	82.8	91.0	87.1	83.9	66.6	65.1	63.7	33.6	32.6	32.3	12.8	14.2
IXC	74.1	80.8	88.6	83.0	77.3	59.2	56.8	56.6	35.1	30.5	29.7	13.5	16.9
CUT	74.0	48.4	63.2	56.0	63.2	63.6	57.9	51.2	45.6	44.2	38.7	22.9	15.0
XES	72.7	66.3	73.9	81.6	87.3	57.4	64.4	58.7	17.7	11.3	19.8	8.2	7.6
IYE	71.9	79.6	88.7	84.9	79.2	63.5	58.2	57.3	30.4	27.7	26.2	11.6	12.8
USL	57.8	66.0	81.6	82.4	77.4	61.7	57.2	71.0	38.2	36.1	34.8	25.1	14.5
USO	57.4	70.4	84.3	86.6	84.9	67.8	63.6	77.8	43.6	40.9	38.8	20.3	11.4
HAP	53.9	58.4	66.3	54.4	50.3	37.4	31.6	30.2	19.7	13.3	12.2	10.9	11.5
IEZ	49.9	51.6	59.4	72.0	79.4	53.0	56.4	51.9	12.0	9.4	10.7	7.3	6.6
OIH	41.1	44.2	59.3	70.4	78.3	53.0	58.3	53.2	12.8	9.9	11.0	7.2	6.7
GSG	38.8	48.8	67.5	66.7	59.7	40.7	38.4	48.1	29.0	25.2	21.4	14.1	12.7
DBO	36.0	42.3	56.0	67.4	59.6	39.8	36.6	45.3	13.0	12.2	11.4	10.4	9.3
DJP	26.6	29.7	39.3	35.9	30.5	9.6	9.7	12.6	8.5	7.9	7.6	6.8	7.3
DBC	25.6	29.0	36.8	42.8	36.3	17.4	13.4	18.8	8.6	8.4	8.5	8.3	9.0
DBE	16.4	23.2	28.4	46.5	41.9	25.3	19.3	31.3	9.0	8.8	9.2	8.3	8.5
MOO	5.8	6.0	5.8	6.0	7.2	7.2	7.0	6.6	6.7	7.3	7.2	6.4	6.2
PBD	4.5	3.7	3.2	3.3	3.8	3.6	3.2	3.2	3.6	3.8	3.6	4.7	3.5
ERY	2.0	1.6	1.6	1.8	1.7	2.3	2.7	2.5	5.2	6.6	6.8	16.6	14.4
SCO	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.3	1.3	2.1	2.2	1.7	3.1	3.8	4.1	4.9	7.6
DUG	1.9	1.4	1.5	1.7	1.5	2.1	2.4	2.3	4.7	6.3	6.3	13.1	12.9
GLL	1.7	1.3	1.0	1.7	1.9	3.5	4.1	3.4	3.6	8.8	8.3	12.1	10.7
ZSL	1.2	0.9	0.6	0.9	1.1	4.1	4.1	2.4	4.2	50.7	12.6	12.2	52.6
UNG	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.7	0.8	1.1	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.4	0.9