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
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	82.24	-0.45	-0.76	0.08	3.93	10.81	24.64	29b
	SPDR Dow Jones Ind Avg ETF	DIA	81.31	-0.27	1.34	3.22	6.18	10.73	18.86	1b
	Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF	VYM	74.90	0.03	-0.10	1.96	3.47	8.49	20.10	184m
	WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend	DLN	74.27	-0.15	0.59	1.74	1.96	8.33	21.28	18m
	WisdomTree Total Dividend	DTD	72.86	-0.23	0.28	1.64	1.94	7.90	20.45	3m
	WisdomTree High Yield	DHS	72.45	-0.07	1.38	1.83	1.80	7.12	20.65	3m
	Invesco Div Achievers Port	PFM	71.38	-0.38	0.04	0.92	2.41	7.61	18.52	3m
	Vanguard Dividend ETF	VIG	70.97	-0.18	-0.01	0.69	2.57	7.67	18.26	234m
	WisdomTree MidCap Div	DON	69.97	-0.40	-0.30	1.97	3.31	6.54	17.85	7m
	WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity	DXJ	66.26	-0.40	0.36	-0.52	6.19	3.13	20.14	50m
	iShares Select Dividend	DVY	63.77	-0.23	0.48	1.51	0.75	5.28	18.60	83m
	FirstTr Morningstar Dividend Leaders	FDL	57.81	-0.12	1.81	2.67	-0.31	3.84	17.82	24m
	WisdomTree Small Cap Div	DES	55.58	-0.83	-0.43	-0.35	2.32	1.43	12.61	6m
	Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio	PEY	53.02	-0.27	1.11	1.49	1.32	3.35	10.17	5m
	First Trust Value Line Dividend ETF	FVD	49.35	-0.31	0.43	0.79	-1.27	3.80	11.66	28m
	WisdomTree Intl MidCap Div	DIM	43.79	0.09	1.17	2.93	-0.04	2.10	8.52	378k
	WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Div	DFJ	42.83	0.24	2.22	1.22	3.44	0.01	4.63	1m
	WisdomTree Intl Large Cap Div	DOL	41.94	0.12	1.86	4.30	-0.07	1.36	9.58	1m
	Invesco Intl Dividend Achievers	PID	36.23	-0.11	1.34	2.99	-2.85	1.98	7.60	2m
	First Trust DJ STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index	FDD	34.74	0.08	2.04	6.03	0.04	-1.14	7.57	938k
	WisdomTree Intl SmallCap Div	DLS	32.11	0.11	1.09	1.27	-0.06	-0.55	6.32	3m
	iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund	PFF	28.36	-0.41	-0.25	1.59	-2.78	2.65	5.01	148m
	SPDR Dividend ETF	SDY	26.29	-0.53	0.31	0.07	-4.22	0.45	9.88	47m
	iShares Intl Select Dividend	IDV	26.07	0.20	1.60	3.23	-2.42	-0.43	7.57	18m
	WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equ	DEM	18.91	-0.31	0.34	0.44	-3.57	-0.43	8.13	14m
	WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend	DFE	15.17	0.18	1.58	1.79	-1.91	-4.36	3.84	787k

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	01/29	01/22	01/14	01/06	12/27	12/19	12/12	12/05	11/27	11/20	11/13	11/06	10/30
SPY	82.2	82.4	82.1	84.0	85.5	83.9	79.4	80.8	76.4	79.1	80.0	78.0	83.2
DIA	81.3	71.3	71.6	69.6	74.5	72.2	70.1	73.2	74.0	69.7	70.4	67.8	61.7
VYM	74.9	71.5	77.4	70.2	75.5	68.7	65.7	67.7	70.7	69.6	69.5	69.0	65.4
DLN	74.3	67.9	72.8	70.1	75.2	71.3	68.9	71.3	75.4	75.3	74.7	73.9	76.9
DTD	72.9	68.0	72.9	69.1	74.2	70.9	69.8	72.4	77.4	77.0	76.6	74.8	76.1
DHS	72.5	64.3	79.4	72.8	77.6	76.2	76.5	78.2	88.5	87.9	83.9	82.5	75.4
PFM	71.4	67.0	70.9	66.5	74.9	69.0	62.3	64.4	68.2	66.5	68.0	66.7	69.1
VIG	71.0	66.5	69.5	66.9	75.1	68.0	60.9	63.2	64.4	61.1	64.3	64.0	66.7
DON	70.0	68.3	75.4	66.3	66.8	66.6	77.3	79.3	87.1	84.2	82.5	79.8	71.0
DXJ	66.3	56.5	59.1	70.7	85.4	80.2	70.8	59.1	40.5	52.9	50.9	63.8	52.6
DVY	63.8	59.1	69.7	62.5	66.7	62.6	71.6	74.6	87.6	85.6	82.1	77.5	73.2
FDL	57.8	50.7	59.9	56.9	60.0	54.2	64.7	68.7	84.2	77.2	72.5	74.0	73.8
DES	55.6	55.3	68.0	67.7	65.4	69.3	82.3	79.9	85.9	83.7	84.3	87.1	60.8
PEY	53.0	48.1	60.2	54.8	56.3	53.3	61.2	60.7	71.2	64.6	63.5	60.7	48.7
FVD	49.4	45.7	48.3	48.2	52.7	51.4	55.1	56.6	63.2	60.3	62.0	58.5	57.6
DIM	43.8	30.4	22.9	25.3	22.1	20.5	27.9	34.5	21.4	24.0	28.2	36.4	42.7
DFJ	42.8	14.5	15.7	24.0	27.5	25.4	30.7	34.1	14.1	14.8	17.8	26.7	10.6
DOL	41.9	24.4	22.6	21.3	19.2	17.5	14.3	19.8	10.8	14.9	16.1	33.2	40.7
PID	36.2	25.2	30.9	35.7	27.1	25.0	38.3	43.8	45.8	40.8	41.9	43.3	50.8
FDD	34.7	17.6	15.5	14.0	11.9	10.7	20.8	27.3	11.0	14.7	11.1	29.9	35.6
DLS	32.1	18.5	17.2	24.6	23.7	21.4	29.4	32.0	15.3	17.0	22.4	30.7	33.4
PFF	28.4	32.6	28.0	40.7	29.1	32.4	36.3	39.0	46.2	45.4	48.4	44.6	48.0
SDY	26.3	22.2	33.8	28.7	37.9	38.5	49.0	52.2	62.5	57.5	60.0	56.8	58.0
IDV	26.1	18.0	22.0	20.7	17.8	18.5	33.3	36.6	30.7	33.9	25.8	38.1	46.3
DEM	18.9	20.2	15.6	13.2	19.8	26.1	36.5	30.3	13.8	16.9	17.3	34.7	40.4
DFE	15.2	10.7	9.4	14.5	12.1	10.1	11.4	9.3	6.7	7.6	9.6	20.0	30.2