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	99.78	-1.05	9.23	16.54	41.67	46.24	72.02	78m
	VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF	GDXJ	99.52	-1.57	10.12	13.41	40.00	30.73	61.09	335m
	VanEck Vectors Gold Miners	GDX	99.37	-1.91	7.95	12.58	39.05	26.64	55.97	1b
	iShares Gold Trust	IAU	98.81	-0.48	4.71	8.90	22.20	24.56	38.62	541m
	SPDR Gold Shares	GLD	98.74	-0.44	4.71	8.90	22.15	24.48	38.38	4b
	ProShares UltraShort DJ-AIG Crude Oil	SCO	98.48	-4.71	-9.29	6.63	29.83	8.39	30.95	34m
	Invesco DB Precious Metals Fund	DBP	98.26	-0.66	4.63	6.00	16.97	19.90	32.81	3m
	Proshares UltraShort Oil & Gas	DUG	97.22	-4.64	-10.49	18.79	19.20	9.94	19.79	2m
	Direxion Energy Bear 2X Shares	ERY	97.07	-4.55	-10.65	17.18	17.89	9.01	19.11	11m
	Invesco DB Agriculture Fund	DBA	91.35	0.49	3.45	-0.74	1.18	6.73	10.65	9m
	iShares Silver Trust	SLV	91.05	-0.71	4.49	-3.90	5.39	2.93	14.53	775m
	United States Natural Gas Fund	UNG	89.72	0.00	-7.80	-23.80	-14.59	21.56	17.61	125m
	iPath DJ AIG Commodity ETN	DJP	85.34	0.50	3.69	-3.13	-0.50	7.35	5.00	3m
	ProShares Ultra Silver	AGQ	74.24	-1.57	9.25	-12.61	1.28	-3.53	7.91	106m
	Invesco S&P Global Water ETF	CGW	69.01	1.03	4.73	-0.78	3.36	-6.40	6.05	3m
	VanEck Vectors RVE Hard Assets Prod ETF	HAP	53.08	1.03	5.69	-5.24	-0.01	-5.03	-2.55	441k
	Invesco Global Water Portfolio	PIO	46.73	1.13	3.29	-4.64	-1.53	-6.67	-2.11	513k
	Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking	DBC	46.55	1.04	3.59	-3.78	-5.32	0.14	-5.06	48m
	iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Tr	GSG	46.14	1.08	4.05	-3.23	-6.66	1.84	-4.89	21m
	VanEck Vectors--Agribusiness ETF	MOO	45.17	1.07	4.38	-4.90	-1.65	-6.25	-3.48	4m
	Invesco DB Base Metals Fund	DBB	35.26	0.39	1.01	-9.84	-6.36	-7.91	-3.91	2m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	31.07	0.14	0.35	-7.18	-11.03	-9.21	5.20	53b
	First Trust ISE Water Index Fund	FIW	29.66	0.93	2.60	-5.31	-7.42	-11.30	-0.06	5m
	iShares S&P Natural Resources Index Fund	IGE	26.80	1.41	6.13	-8.00	-8.82	-7.18	-5.38	4m
	Invesco Water Resource Portfolio	PHO	26.13	0.96	2.25	-5.34	-7.81	-11.98	-1.61	5m
	Invesco DB Energy Fund	DBE	23.16	1.79	4.27	-5.25	-11.39	-0.49	-11.46	500k
	Invesco Glbl Timber Indx	CUT	19.56	1.05	2.50	-8.01	-9.13	-13.01	-5.90	150k
	iShares S&P Global Energy Index Fund	IXC	19.45	2.02	6.56	-9.84	-8.36	-9.19	-11.73	20m
	VanEck Vectors-Nuclear Energy ETF	NLR	19.12	1.22	4.47	-6.05	-12.94	-14.47	-1.05	14m
	SPDR Metals & Mining	XME	15.55	-0.05	5.72	-6.78	-8.48	-14.64	-10.40	96m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	15.37	2.26	5.87	-12.21	-12.59	-8.46	-11.52	2b
	iShares US Energy	IYE	15.14	2.35	6.04	-11.06	-12.89	-8.44	-11.13	26m
	Vanguard Energy VIPERs	VDE	14.92	2.38	6.30	-11.41	-13.34	-8.01	-11.02	80m
	U.S. 12 Month Oil Fund	USL	11.73	2.31	4.84	-4.98	-13.61	-6.82	-16.59	683k
	US Oil Fund ETF	USO	11.66	2.55	6.37	-4.06	-16.23	-4.51	-14.57	318m
	Invesco DB Oil Fund	DBO	9.99	2.21	4.77	-5.26	-16.91	-6.03	-15.54	6m
	iShares US Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	IEO	5.75	2.58	6.49	-13.80	-18.06	-12.31	-23.42	7m
	ProShares UltraShort Silver	ZSL	5.61	1.55	-9.23	6.76	-10.27	-13.60	-37.85	16m
	Invesco Global Clean Energy Portfolio	PBD	5.53	0.19	5.86	-12.46	-11.75	-21.62	-20.59	367k
	First Trust Natural Gas ETF	FCG	5.27	2.40	7.93	-14.56	-21.15	-11.15	-20.04	10m
	SPDR Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	XOP	4.42	2.79	7.22	-16.07	-23.27	-15.59	-26.03	490m
	iShares US Oil Equip & Svcs	IEZ	3.93	3.38	7.98	-15.06	-23.86	-18.24	-27.35	3m
	Proshares Ultra Oil & Gas	DIG	3.19	4.37	11.81	-24.83	-26.90	-21.83	-30.55	2m
	Direxion Energy Bull 2X Shares	ERX	3.12	4.46	11.69	-24.87	-26.92	-21.87	-30.67	24m
	VanEck Vectors Oil Services	OIH	2.93	3.56	7.97	-16.11	-25.56	-21.31	-31.31	140m
	ProShares Ultra DJ-AIG Crude Oil	UCO	2.71	4.39	9.72	-10.48	-27.70	-16.93	-37.27	49m
	SPDR Oil & Gas Eqpmt & Svcs	XES	2.04	3.96	8.02	-17.67	-31.78	-26.45	-34.16	5m
	ProShares UltraShort Gold	GLL	1.45	0.99	-9.02	-15.73	-30.91	-34.04	-44.69	26m

48 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	04/17	04/10	04/03	03/27	03/20	03/13	03/06	02/27	02/20	02/12	02/05	01/29	01/22
UGL	99.8	99.6	99.6	99.7	99.6	99.6	99.5	99.5	98.8	98.3	96.9	95.9	94.6
GDXJ	99.5	99.2	99.4	99.6	99.3	99.2	98.4	96.0	96.9	96.3	93.2	70.4	59.3
GDX	99.4	99.3	99.4	99.4	99.2	98.9	98.0	95.9	96.2	95.3	89.7	57.0	47.6
IAU	98.8	98.7	98.4	98.1	98.2	98.1	97.5	97.3	95.2	93.5	87.8	86.1	82.7
GLD	98.7	98.6	98.4	98.1	98.0	98.0	97.4	97.1	95.0	93.4	87.7	85.8	82.3
SCO	98.5	99.4	95.6	37.0	75.5	79.4	74.8	25.3	3.1	8.0	4.7	9.2	3.1
DBP	98.3	98.2	97.9	97.9	97.7	97.8	96.8	96.6	94.3	93.2	87.3	85.0	79.8
DUG	97.2	98.6	69.4	3.9	4.2	80.8	92.8	81.1	8.1	43.9	5.0	16.8	6.8
ERY	97.1	98.5	64.9	3.7	4.4	82.3	93.4	81.9	8.3	45.8	5.2	18.7	7.2
DBA	91.4	92.0	92.3	84.0	87.9	93.8	91.3	93.2	93.8	94.4	91.9	94.2	88.7
SLV	91.1	91.4	93.4	96.9	95.5	96.8	95.1	88.5	87.8	88.7	83.7	60.1	52.6
UNG	89.7	97.5	99.3	99.0	99.5	99.7	99.8	99.7	99.5	98.0	95.7	83.4	96.2
DJP	85.3	86.2	91.0	92.2	93.0	94.7	93.2	89.5	88.7	82.4	69.1	58.3	67.1
AGQ	74.2	47.7	92.4	99.4	97.9	99.0	98.1	91.0	95.6	95.9	94.2	72.7	49.6
CGW	69.0	59.7	64.0	40.0	28.5	27.2	20.9	12.7	8.4	11.3	11.8	11.0	9.1
HAP	53.1	37.8	59.4	81.1	81.0	54.8	26.7	17.1	26.6	15.7	12.1	10.6	11.4
PIO	46.7	41.7	39.9	43.7	33.0	26.1	26.1	18.0	15.4	21.1	23.4	18.2	21.2
DBC	46.5	43.8	56.5	77.0	77.5	85.6	74.6	60.1	72.4	50.0	41.7	31.1	50.6
GSG	46.1	41.8	57.5	77.6	76.4	86.0	75.4	63.3	74.2	61.4	54.8	50.4	63.5
MOO	45.2	39.3	41.2	51.3	41.9	26.6	23.2	15.3	10.6	10.1	9.8	16.6	10.9
DBB	35.3	40.5	39.6	76.3	82.5	91.6	86.0	43.1	54.9	55.0	30.9	25.1	42.0
SPY	31.1	35.1	30.2	38.7	35.8	40.4	66.1	77.2	80.5	79.7	80.0	82.2	82.4
FIW	29.7	33.7	32.5	26.5	21.3	21.2	20.7	17.1	13.3	16.3	35.3	40.5	46.2
IGE	26.8	18.3	45.4	81.3	80.4	40.7	16.8	16.0	37.3	29.9	48.3	32.3	50.3
PHO	26.1	31.5	27.8	22.9	16.9	17.2	19.0	15.2	12.5	14.7	29.1	39.9	43.5
DBE	23.2	20.8	47.7	74.6	68.8	81.9	74.5	58.6	74.8	49.7	43.3	30.1	61.7
CUT	19.6	18.8	18.8	14.5	20.9	19.5	21.9	18.0	29.9	22.8	33.4	39.7	37.7
IXC	19.5	12.0	46.3	83.3	78.3	30.5	11.3	10.5	11.1	9.8	12.9	8.9	16.7
NLR	19.1	12.0	11.3	8.5	42.3	17.0	7.6	8.2	62.0	86.5	78.7	64.4	79.3
XME	15.6	12.7	8.4	32.5	28.0	12.6	6.0	6.1	11.5	13.0	19.9	9.8	10.1
XLE	15.4	12.3	42.6	85.2	87.1	46.8	16.7	19.0	32.8	17.9	44.3	27.4	50.5
IYE	15.1	11.5	39.8	82.4	81.4	37.1	13.6	15.4	30.2	15.6	44.1	26.5	50.6
VDE	14.9	11.1	39.5	84.5	84.1	38.4	14.2	16.1	34.4	20.5	48.6	35.9	54.2
USL	11.7	8.5	18.1	26.2	20.3	32.8	18.8	19.3	47.7	25.3	30.6	16.5	54.3
USO	11.7	8.5	23.8	39.9	26.7	56.1	27.2	27.9	63.7	41.4	49.0	45.0	73.3
DBO	10.0	9.0	19.5	29.3	24.4	42.6	23.0	25.1	54.3	29.3	40.0	38.2	67.2
IEO	5.8	5.3	12.8	45.1	50.3	15.8	5.4	7.4	13.5	9.3	32.9	15.6	40.0
ZSL	5.6	13.9	3.3	0.8	1.0	1.0	1.1	2.1	1.1	1.1	1.5	2.0	3.0
PBD	5.5	4.5	4.8	3.4	6.0	4.9	3.8	4.2	4.1	2.9	2.7	2.8	2.9
FCG	5.3	4.7	13.2	38.8	61.2	16.2	4.9	8.3	36.3	26.2	53.2	43.8	63.8
XOP	4.4	4.0	6.8	19.8	26.4	8.1	3.8	5.5	12.1	10.4	40.2	17.8	48.6
IEZ	3.9	3.5	5.3	10.9	9.7	7.1	4.2	5.9	9.3	11.4	48.1	9.2	41.6
DIG	3.2	2.8	15.1	90.4	90.6	16.2	4.4	6.4	12.6	6.2	39.7	10.3	47.8
ERX	3.1	2.7	15.0	90.7	90.5	15.9	4.3	6.3	12.2	6.0	40.4	10.5	46.8
OIH	2.9	2.7	4.5	7.2	6.6	4.8	3.2	4.0	6.0	6.9	24.2	6.2	20.4
UCO	2.7	2.0	4.4	7.0	5.3	9.3	5.5	6.8	46.4	8.6	12.0	6.6	56.0
XES	2.0	1.7	2.6	4.1	4.0	3.1	1.9	3.0	5.2	5.7	26.3	8.2	38.7
GLL	1.4	2.1	1.4	0.9	0.8	1.1	1.4	1.5	1.0	1.2	1.7	1.9	2.3