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

Data Timeliness Current Last Close

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✓	Name	Symbol	RSf	Rtn-1d	Rtn-5d	Rtn-1mo	Rtn-3mo	Rtn-6mo	Rtn-1yr	$vol-21
	WisdomTree High Yield	DHS	87.86	0.27	0.50	2.73	8.76	16.19	30.73	2m
	iShares Select Dividend	DVY	85.61	0.32	0.55	2.80	7.69	13.83	30.91	44m
	WisdomTree MidCap Div	DON	84.21	0.39	-0.19	4.26	9.51	12.24	30.41	6m
	WisdomTree Small Cap Div	DES	83.70	-0.12	-1.10	5.03	9.60	14.36	27.30	4m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	79.09	0.03	-1.12	1.23	6.49	12.15	31.75	26b
	FirstTr Morningstar Dividend Leaders	FDL	77.24	0.38	0.45	0.59	5.11	12.18	30.85	15m
	WisdomTree Total Dividend	DTD	77.02	0.10	-0.87	0.79	6.33	12.43	29.39	2m
	WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend	DLN	75.29	0.05	-0.79	0.28	5.60	12.31	29.23	10m
	SPDR Dow Jones Ind Avg ETF	DIA	69.72	0.33	-1.26	1.16	6.93	10.24	25.49	1b
	Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF	VYM	69.61	0.06	-0.75	0.53	5.35	9.46	27.06	108m
	Invesco Div Achievers Port	PFM	66.47	0.10	-1.14	-0.11	4.62	10.18	25.08	793k
	Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio	PEY	64.59	0.23	-0.34	1.28	4.92	11.04	19.33	5m
	Vanguard Dividend ETF	VIG	61.12	0.05	-1.42	-0.45	3.52	8.85	23.77	165m
	First Trust Value Line Dividend ETF	FVD	60.31	0.13	-0.98	0.15	4.04	8.89	20.68	21m
	SPDR Dividend ETF	SDY	57.54	-0.07	-0.82	-1.27	2.40	7.55	21.35	29m
	WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity	DXJ	52.86	-0.16	-0.42	2.43	3.95	1.18	24.00	54m
	iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund	PFF	45.44	-0.49	-0.98	-2.25	2.11	5.85	14.15	134m
	Invesco Intl Dividend Achievers	PID	40.80	-0.13	0.32	-3.94	-0.43	3.88	14.09	1m
	iShares Intl Select Dividend	IDV	33.90	0.11	2.23	-2.91	-1.71	-0.28	13.58	11m
	WisdomTree Intl MidCap Div	DIM	23.98	-0.41	0.55	-2.99	-2.32	0.32	10.97	314k
	WisdomTree Intl SmallCap Div	DLS	17.00	-0.38	0.11	-3.32	-4.17	-0.64	11.65	2m
	WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equ	DEM	16.89	-0.22	0.76	-4.39	-2.53	-3.14	10.87	10m
	WisdomTree Intl Large Cap Div	DOL	14.90	-0.30	0.52	-4.07	-4.26	-2.10	10.56	1m
	WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Div	DFJ	14.79	-0.14	-0.15	-1.10	-3.96	0.78	9.67	1m
	First Trust DJ STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index	FDD	14.68	-0.21	2.34	-3.36	-5.15	-3.59	8.87	457k
	WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend	DFE	7.64	-0.73	0.01	-5.89	-7.84	-6.33	7.99	572k

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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	11/20	11/13	11/06	10/30	10/23	10/16	10/09	10/02	09/25	09/18	09/11	09/04	08/27
DHS	87.9	83.9	82.5	75.4	77.3	81.9	82.5	84.7	82.7	90.0	87.7	92.6	86.6
DVY	85.6	82.1	77.5	73.2	79.2	85.1	83.6	88.8	87.5	91.7	91.4	93.0	87.0
DON	84.2	82.5	79.8	71.0	67.9	73.8	69.8	71.5	70.4	74.9	61.6	69.0	67.4
DES	83.7	84.3	87.1	60.8	52.6	69.6	65.2	63.9	71.7	88.2	66.9	74.0	78.0
SPY	79.1	80.0	78.0	83.2	83.5	81.0	82.3	77.2	81.7	78.5	84.3	85.0	85.0
FDL	77.2	72.5	74.0	73.8	78.5	83.7	88.2	88.7	87.3	92.1	93.1	94.6	90.9
DTD	77.0	76.6	74.8	76.1	78.7	82.3	82.8	81.2	79.9	83.5	86.0	89.6	84.4
DLN	75.3	74.7	73.9	76.9	81.4	82.5	85.2	82.4	81.3	83.9	87.3	90.8	85.9
DIA	69.7	70.4	67.8	61.7	68.6	66.4	74.3	69.3	67.5	71.0	72.9	73.6	65.7
VYM	69.6	69.5	69.0	65.4	71.0	72.2	74.7	70.4	67.8	76.1	78.6	84.6	76.2
PFM	66.5	68.0	66.7	69.1	74.9	76.3	82.0	80.4	79.3	84.0	87.8	89.4	79.0
PEY	64.6	63.5	60.7	48.7	54.7	67.5	60.0	62.7	61.3	75.1	68.7	72.7	70.1
VIG	61.1	64.3	64.0	66.7	71.5	72.4	79.3	75.6	76.9	80.4	86.0	88.6	77.9
FVD	60.3	62.0	58.5	57.6	68.6	68.0	72.1	82.1	74.4	82.2	79.2	79.8	65.5
SDY	57.5	60.0	56.8	58.0	71.9	75.0	77.6	84.8	78.9	85.0	85.0	86.2	73.8
DXJ	52.9	50.9	63.8	52.6	33.5	30.6	40.1	26.4	21.6	15.6	16.5	27.1	33.9
PFF	45.4	48.4	44.6	48.0	52.6	55.5	54.8	53.3	53.9	61.2	65.4	44.5	41.3
PID	40.8	41.9	43.3	50.8	61.7	62.4	60.5	71.8	69.8	80.3	76.9	71.7	62.3
IDV	33.9	25.8	38.1	46.3	50.8	55.2	55.9	66.7	74.9	80.3	77.8	70.7	69.7
DIM	24.0	28.2	36.4	42.7	41.5	46.9	50.7	60.0	63.2	65.6	66.4	58.6	55.6
DLS	17.0	22.4	30.7	33.4	35.2	44.3	49.0	56.6	56.8	63.6	62.0	60.3	64.3
DEM	16.9	17.3	34.7	40.4	52.8	51.9	42.4	61.0	60.6	29.0	32.9	48.5	52.7
DOL	14.9	16.1	33.2	40.7	39.6	40.7	44.1	49.9	55.6	59.7	59.7	63.2	61.7
DFJ	14.8	17.8	26.7	10.6	9.7	31.5	37.6	44.2	42.4	52.9	50.5	50.4	60.0
FDD	14.7	11.1	29.9	35.6	33.6	33.7	29.7	39.8	52.7	64.6	63.2	64.2	64.9
DFE	7.6	9.6	20.0	30.2	33.4	34.0	36.6	46.6	50.8	59.5	53.2	56.1	65.6