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	96.98	0.75	1.52	-0.54	12.92	28.90	52.78	93m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	78.65	-0.05	0.97	-2.76	4.45	21.07	24.26	39b
	WisdomTree MidCap Div	DON	72.36	0.42	3.02	-1.50	4.83	21.49	17.71	7m
	FirstTr Morningstar Dividend Leaders	FDL	71.11	0.24	3.94	0.72	6.88	20.73	10.34	30m
	Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF	VYM	70.02	0.24	2.82	-0.85	6.04	19.37	13.34	124m
	WisdomTree Total Dividend	DTD	68.17	0.15	2.44	-1.53	5.25	18.40	14.83	2m
	WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend	DLN	67.65	0.14	2.24	-1.49	5.37	18.06	14.42	8m
	WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equ	DEM	62.73	0.05	0.75	-0.79	5.59	15.04	15.22	11m
	SPDR Dow Jones Ind Avg ETF	DIA	61.81	-0.15	1.91	-2.11	2.14	17.83	15.62	2b
	Vanguard Dividend ETF	VIG	59.95	0.18	2.07	-1.84	3.07	17.01	14.97	152m
	WisdomTree Small Cap Div	DES	59.55	0.00	4.19	-0.47	2.14	19.54	15.48	4m
	iShares Select Dividend	DVY	58.90	0.58	3.93	0.41	6.16	18.86	6.52	61m
	WisdomTree High Yield	DHS	58.50	0.40	4.11	0.94	6.65	15.87	7.41	4m
	WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Div	DFJ	57.17	0.15	0.71	-3.18	2.21	14.77	14.20	2m
	WisdomTree Intl Large Cap Div	DOL	56.85	-0.33	2.20	-1.09	5.16	15.77	9.33	959k
	Invesco Div Achievers Port	PFM	56.20	0.19	1.97	-1.67	3.08	16.36	13.20	787k
	SPDR Dividend ETF	SDY	51.01	0.30	2.76	-0.05	5.63	17.30	5.77	34m
	WisdomTree Intl SmallCap Div	DLS	46.25	-0.23	1.58	-1.63	2.42	17.70	6.69	2m
	iShares Intl Select Dividend	IDV	44.52	-0.46	2.68	0.43	2.42	16.19	6.23	18m
	WisdomTree Intl MidCap Div	DIM	43.03	-0.42	1.65	-2.12	2.71	15.66	6.14	273k
	First Trust DJ STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index	FDD	41.62	-0.96	2.06	2.37	2.22	17.04	5.72	621k
	WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend	DFE	39.61	-0.17	1.64	-0.67	1.86	18.93	2.52	1m
	Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio	PEY	39.04	0.40	4.60	0.70	1.16	13.95	6.45	5m
	First Trust Value Line Dividend ETF	FVD	36.83	0.12	2.60	-0.89	3.07	14.18	3.23	51m
	iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund	PFF	36.02	-0.03	1.79	-2.41	0.49	13.50	4.68	178m
	Invesco Intl Dividend Achievers	PID	25.87	-0.44	2.90	-2.02	-0.02	13.20	1.28	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	04/24	04/17	04/10	04/03	03/26	03/19	03/12	03/05	02/27	02/20	02/12	02/05	01/29
DXJ	97.0	97.2	97.1	96.5	96.8	97.6	94.0	96.4	94.8	95.7	92.1	94.0	91.8
SPY	78.6	81.2	80.9	82.2	83.2	84.9	84.5	84.2	83.0	82.8	83.4	85.2	83.6
DON	72.4	62.6	64.7	68.6	67.7	65.4	63.5	62.2	61.9	62.4	61.8	54.6	65.9
FDL	71.1	58.4	53.6	61.9	59.2	58.7	54.9	51.0	48.1	51.9	53.4	51.0	45.8
VYM	70.0	64.8	64.4	67.1	67.2	66.3	67.0	67.1	60.6	60.7	58.9	59.6	55.1
DTD	68.2	64.2	64.2	66.6	68.0	68.9	69.0	68.3	64.1	63.2	62.2	64.0	60.8
DLN	67.6	64.8	64.3	66.4	68.9	70.4	70.1	69.9	65.3	62.9	62.0	65.6	58.8
DEM	62.7	70.2	72.9	61.5	54.2	57.9	65.6	66.6	67.3	71.1	60.9	59.5	48.2
DIA	61.8	60.1	58.5	63.7	68.7	69.9	68.8	70.4	75.4	76.5	75.1	80.3	75.5
VIG	60.0	59.3	61.2	63.8	67.0	70.0	70.4	70.1	69.0	68.2	67.5	71.1	67.7
DES	59.5	45.0	43.0	45.1	45.6	42.8	45.7	48.6	53.2	56.8	66.0	51.3	72.2
DVY	58.9	41.5	38.7	45.7	42.8	40.8	39.6	38.0	34.3	30.8	36.3	24.0	35.6
DHS	58.5	42.7	39.4	44.1	41.4	41.2	38.8	34.8	33.1	30.6	34.7	22.2	32.3
DFJ	57.2	62.6	59.8	56.6	65.2	70.9	61.2	65.4	66.0	74.4	60.7	70.5	68.5
DOL	56.8	53.2	52.7	56.9	57.0	59.4	57.6	55.4	53.6	54.3	43.8	47.6	44.5
PFM	56.2	55.9	56.5	59.5	63.5	65.0	65.5	64.3	62.3	61.8	61.9	66.7	61.8
SDY	51.0	41.7	40.6	42.1	41.9	42.5	40.8	35.2	34.5	30.7	36.9	25.7	34.2
DLS	46.3	47.7	48.5	49.7	48.1	49.6	49.8	48.2	48.5	51.3	46.1	45.4	56.4
IDV	44.5	37.1	39.0	42.6	38.7	38.1	38.4	37.7	39.1	47.4	43.5	45.8	44.5
DIM	43.0	42.4	45.1	49.0	48.8	48.5	46.3	43.5	44.8	44.9	39.3	40.8	44.4
FDD	41.6	36.1	39.2	38.6	30.8	21.2	16.4	10.7	13.9	14.9	17.9	26.4	39.7
DFE	39.6	37.7	42.3	42.8	37.8	38.3	42.6	37.1	40.9	40.1	39.3	34.9	53.6
PEY	39.0	18.5	21.3	26.1	25.5	19.3	24.3	15.0	23.7	21.5	41.3	31.4	50.1
FVD	36.8	27.8	32.2	35.9	38.0	39.0	40.4	39.2	37.7	34.5	37.8	28.9	36.3
PFF	36.0	36.5	37.5	40.3	45.3	49.0	44.3	43.8	47.0	46.6	52.3	52.2	48.8
PID	25.9	13.6	27.3	31.7	32.1	31.3	38.9	32.9	35.7	40.9	37.1	38.9	47.1