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

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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	96.83	-3.06	-6.35	1.56	23.28	47.87	56.26	388m
	WisdomTree MidCap Div	DON	82.78	-0.70	-2.44	2.53	11.04	22.42	32.25	5m
	SPDR Dividend ETF	SDY	82.42	-0.19	-1.48	2.86	11.54	22.18	31.09	78m
	WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend	DFE	82.28	0.09	-0.45	4.86	7.06	23.05	35.21	653k
	WisdomTree Small Cap Div	DES	81.63	-0.09	-1.40	3.50	9.77	23.22	33.08	6m
	Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF	VYM	76.58	-0.02	-0.81	3.30	11.27	20.54	28.92	36m
	WisdomTree Dividend Top 100	DTN	75.65	-0.23	-1.04	2.30	10.51	20.24	30.29	6m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	74.21	-0.08	-0.98	4.28	11.44	19.92	27.83	19b
	First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund	FVD	73.49	-0.10	-1.42	2.13	10.67	20.58	27.70	4m
	SPDR Dow Jones Ind Avg ETF	DIA	73.05	0.00	-0.24	4.39	11.63	20.72	25.43	866m
	WisdomTree Total Dividend	DTD	71.90	-0.05	-1.05	3.36	10.70	19.62	27.07	2m
	WisdomTree High Yield	DHS	71.76	-0.24	-1.35	1.38	10.82	19.90	26.78	4m
	WisdomTree Intl SmallCap Div	DLS	70.97	-0.79	-3.52	-0.93	5.48	19.21	32.51	3m
	WisdomTree LargeCap Dividned	DLN	70.61	-0.02	-0.90	3.26	10.84	18.86	26.09	5m
	FirstTr Morningstar Dividend Leaders	FDL	69.74	-0.33	-1.25	0.33	11.06	18.75	25.17	6m
	iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund	DVY	69.67	-0.26	-1.66	1.49	10.56	19.06	25.02	79m
	Vanguard Dividend ETF	VIG	69.52	0.19	-0.89	3.54	9.93	18.62	25.97	84m
	PowerShares Div Achievers Port	PFM	67.51	0.16	-0.95	2.97	9.79	18.14	25.35	2m
	WisdomTree Intl MidCap Div	DIM	65.56	-0.76	-2.83	-0.85	6.37	16.93	29.48	457k
	PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio	PEY	65.27	-0.09	-1.73	0.86	8.38	19.33	24.47	1m
	Powershares Intl Dividend Achievers	PID	63.54	-0.06	-0.86	1.93	7.76	16.83	26.40	4m
	WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Div	DFJ	61.17	-0.92	-6.30	-4.98	10.01	15.67	20.57	7m
	WisdomTree Intl Large Cap Div	DOL	58.65	-1.06	-2.24	0.21	6.22	13.61	27.30	1m
	WisdomTree Intl Dividend Top 100	DOO	53.60	-0.75	-1.15	0.53	6.33	12.19	21.19	2m
	iShares Dow Jones EPAC Select Dividend Index	IDV	52.81	-1.03	-2.89	-2.48	3.80	10.10	25.44	16m
	Guggenheim Intl Muli Asset Income	HGI	51.59	-0.28	-1.35	1.80	4.22	12.31	18.11	470k
	Guggenheim/S&P Global Dividend	LVL	48.49	-0.60	-2.77	-2.20	2.84	9.97	16.47	913k
	First Trust DJ STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index	FDD	46.97	-0.16	-0.41	-0.65	4.46	7.34	15.71	530k
	iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund	PFF	44.88	0.20	-0.22	1.12	2.88	5.72	12.86	77m
	WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equ	DEM	40.71	-0.56	-2.15	-0.09	0.70	6.14	10.17	39m

30 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	05/24	05/17	05/10	05/03	04/26	04/19	04/12	04/05	03/28	03/21	03/14	03/07	02/28
DXJ	96.8	98.1	98.1	98.0	98.0	98.3	97.6	97.3	95.7	97.5	96.8	96.5	96.0
DON	82.8	86.3	84.8	86.1	84.8	85.4	88.8	88.9	88.5	85.5	83.7	79.8	80.6
SDY	82.4	84.1	84.9	86.6	86.2	88.6	88.5	88.7	86.9	82.8	78.4	75.6	76.5
DFE	82.3	76.6	76.9	73.1	71.9	67.8	74.9	70.0	64.9	78.1	85.5	89.5	93.3
DES	81.6	83.0	82.1	80.9	78.6	76.4	82.3	80.3	86.2	87.8	86.7	85.0	86.4
VYM	76.6	74.8	70.5	75.0	78.0	80.8	77.2	77.9	73.4	71.6	69.8	67.8	69.6
DTN	75.7	74.5	71.9	78.6	80.3	81.4	79.5	81.9	78.6	73.3	69.2	64.7	68.7
SPY	74.2	71.9	69.4	68.5	67.3	70.8	68.7	69.3	68.1	65.8	67.0	64.9	61.7
FVD	73.5	75.0	75.3	82.6	82.0	84.7	81.1	81.1	78.4	74.5	65.8	63.9	67.4
DIA	73.1	67.8	66.4	65.6	65.9	74.7	74.5	75.6	66.9	66.9	65.0	62.7	59.2
DTD	71.9	70.1	67.1	69.0	72.5	74.8	73.0	72.8	69.7	67.4	64.0	63.4	61.9
DHS	71.8	73.6	73.5	79.9	83.5	85.8	80.8	82.2	74.7	70.5	62.1	61.9	65.3
DLS	71.0	82.7	88.0	89.6	87.9	84.6	84.5	83.1	82.5	87.7	86.5	88.0	90.5
DLN	70.6	67.5	64.7	66.7	70.4	73.9	69.4	71.6	66.3	64.9	60.3	60.0	58.4
FDL	69.7	69.0	71.2	77.8	85.6	89.5	82.6	83.9	74.6	70.8	58.9	55.7	58.2
DVY	69.7	70.6	71.5	76.8	77.9	82.1	77.8	79.3	74.3	71.5	60.4	56.9	59.3
VIG	69.5	66.9	66.3	68.7	65.5	74.3	73.5	75.9	72.3	67.4	65.8	62.6	63.6
PFM	67.5	65.5	65.4	68.5	68.6	78.0	74.5	77.0	72.3	68.5	62.7	60.5	62.0
DIM	65.6	71.9	75.1	81.3	82.5	70.6	70.3	63.7	63.3	71.0	74.5	78.1	83.3
PEY	65.3	69.1	72.5	75.9	81.4	81.9	78.1	79.6	75.8	73.6	64.2	60.9	66.4
PID	63.5	59.5	61.0	61.2	63.2	63.4	62.0	63.1	64.9	65.6	60.3	59.4	60.9
DFJ	61.2	88.9	92.0	93.3	91.2	89.1	66.8	77.0	75.3	79.8	59.6	53.3	52.1
DOL	58.7	60.9	61.5	67.0	68.0	61.7	63.8	60.2	57.1	60.4	61.7	61.0	63.8
DOO	53.6	53.4	54.4	55.6	56.1	48.9	54.9	48.0	47.7	50.5	51.2	48.7	49.2
IDV	52.8	54.3	57.9	62.5	64.5	59.7	64.9	58.8	56.5	60.1	62.9	65.3	68.5
HGI	51.6	50.9	49.4	48.7	48.2	39.3	49.3	43.1	49.4	49.0	50.1	48.2	47.9
LVL	48.5	50.4	53.5	52.6	54.1	50.4	53.3	49.0	52.0	51.1	52.7	50.1	48.9
FDD	47.0	43.5	42.2	43.3	45.2	31.2	44.8	28.9	22.9	34.6	41.7	36.9	39.0
PFF	44.9	44.7	46.3	46.9	46.5	50.8	46.2	51.4	49.0	50.7	43.5	40.1	41.9
DEM	40.7	41.6	41.5	38.3	32.3	27.5	28.5	25.0	34.6	27.7	41.0	43.7	44.5