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. ( ).

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✓	Name	Symbol	RSf	Rtn-1d	Rtn-5d	Rtn-1mo	Rtn-3mo	Rtn-6mo	Rtn-1yr	$vol-21
	VanEck Vectors-Nuclear Energy ETF	NLR	98.46	0.34	3.26	11.40	54.31	25.71	53.78	51m
	ProShares Ultra Silver	AGQ	95.65	-4.99	-0.32	9.40	24.71	41.55	42.93	86m
	VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF	GDXJ	95.57	-0.57	2.46	1.56	8.93	44.27	51.53	267m
	ProShares Ultra Gold	UGL	95.50	-2.12	-0.82	-0.37	-2.84	37.40	71.28	41m
	SPDR Metals & Mining	XME	95.20	0.44	3.22	18.42	35.66	27.61	24.52	137m
	VanEck Vectors Gold Miners	GDX	94.56	1.18	5.53	3.93	8.44	43.89	45.77	1b
	iShares Silver Trust	SLV	89.30	-2.34	0.14	5.00	13.42	24.81	29.91	779m
	Invesco Global Clean Energy Portfolio	PBD	88.48	0.07	3.24	13.62	30.96	19.65	1.05	329k
	iShares Gold Trust	IAU	84.76	-0.98	-0.35	0.10	-0.21	21.03	38.29	399m
	SPDR Gold Shares	GLD	84.61	-0.93	-0.32	0.09	-0.22	20.99	38.11	3b
	Invesco DB Precious Metals Fund	DBP	84.35	-1.30	-0.29	1.06	2.15	20.45	35.40	630k
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	71.40	0.42	1.52	4.94	16.54	4.49	15.40	42b
	VanEck Vectors RVE Hard Assets Prod ETF	HAP	61.52	-0.15	2.31	4.78	10.52	11.56	10.49	229k
	VanEck Vectors--Agribusiness ETF	MOO	56.01	-0.09	2.24	2.64	9.83	8.38	8.84	6m
	Invesco Global Water Portfolio	PIO	55.63	-0.07	0.90	2.08	9.58	9.69	7.37	238k
	Invesco S&P Global Water ETF	CGW	54.35	0.26	-0.02	1.27	8.01	13.99	6.75	1m
	Invesco Water Resource Portfolio	PHO	43.58	0.46	0.73	2.60	10.41	4.20	4.04	3m
	First Trust ISE Water Index Fund	FIW	43.21	0.54	1.32	2.66	9.75	3.95	5.13	4m
	iPath DJ AIG Commodity ETN	DJP	39.34	-1.11	-1.90	1.47	1.45	2.01	11.51	4m
	Invesco DB Base Metals Fund	DBB	38.70	-0.56	0.10	2.91	5.93	2.88	9.73	1m
	Invesco DB Energy Fund	DBE	36.79	-1.20	-2.20	2.30	7.78	-2.35	1.44	387k
	iShares S&P Natural Resources Index Fund	IGE	35.25	-0.01	1.90	3.98	7.60	-0.16	3.41	4m
	iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Tr	GSG	33.93	-0.93	-1.28	1.63	3.89	-1.36	4.57	9m
	Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking	DBC	32.81	-1.03	-1.60	1.56	3.99	-0.40	4.12	12m
	US Oil Fund ETF	USO	31.08	-1.63	-1.42	2.10	9.33	-5.50	-2.31	427m
	iShares S&P Global Energy Index Fund	IXC	22.56	-0.40	1.44	3.13	6.42	-0.89	-2.07	16m
	Invesco DB Agriculture Fund	DBA	20.65	-0.46	0.19	0.00	-4.29	-4.33	11.85	5m
	Vanguard Energy VIPERs	VDE	17.57	-0.49	1.11	2.16	6.61	-5.31	-1.44	50m
	SPDR Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	XOP	12.50	-0.60	-1.07	1.49	13.52	-10.29	-9.66	342m
	iShares US Energy	IYE	12.35	-0.41	1.01	2.73	5.86	-5.38	-2.20	31m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	11.82	-0.38	1.33	3.03	5.52	-5.53	-1.96	1b
	Invesco Glbl Timber Indx	CUT	10.36	1.12	4.56	5.88	5.25	-4.29	-4.03	74k
	iShares US Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	IEO	10.32	-0.51	-0.89	1.12	8.38	-8.26	-7.25	7m
	Invesco DB Oil Fund	DBO	10.14	-1.59	-1.02	3.11	6.16	-8.72	-6.01	4m
	U.S. 12 Month Oil Fund	USL	9.35	-1.42	-0.96	2.91	5.86	-7.91	-7.10	139k
	First Trust Natural Gas ETF	FCG	9.31	-0.59	-0.17	0.43	9.74	-11.45	-10.19	9m
	iShares US Oil Equip & Svcs	IEZ	8.18	-0.16	8.80	11.26	15.32	-13.28	-19.10	8m
	VanEck Vectors Oil Services	OIH	7.70	-0.34	8.06	10.78	16.78	-13.34	-21.33	125m
	Direxion Energy Bull 2X Shares	ERX	5.07	-0.63	2.61	5.58	10.22	-15.93	-13.93	25m
	ProShares UltraShort DJ-AIG Crude Oil	SCO	5.03	3.07	2.33	-5.30	-14.30	8.41	1.12	34m
	Proshares Ultra Oil & Gas	DIG	4.92	-0.68	2.44	5.32	9.86	-15.85	-14.06	2m
	SPDR Oil & Gas Eqpmt & Svcs	XES	4.32	-1.05	6.70	8.91	16.11	-19.84	-27.26	4m
	Proshares UltraShort Oil & Gas	DUG	4.02	0.82	-2.30	-5.44	-11.85	-0.14	-5.93	2m
	ProShares Ultra DJ-AIG Crude Oil	UCO	3.83	-2.93	-2.20	5.18	8.93	-19.52	-23.12	52m
	Direxion Energy Bear 2X Shares	ERY	3.79	0.84	-2.61	-5.51	-12.01	-1.01	-6.74	5m
	United States Natural Gas Fund	UNG	3.23	-0.22	-12.74	-12.74	-10.77	-24.22	-6.93	128m
	ProShares UltraShort Gold	GLL	1.61	2.10	0.56	0.15	-0.13	-31.61	-45.96	9m
	ProShares UltraShort Silver	ZSL	0.86	5.04	-0.11	-9.94	-23.58	-39.00	-48.72	9m

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.

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Symbol	07/25	07/18	07/11	07/03	06/26	06/18	06/11	06/04	05/28	05/20	05/13	05/06	04/29
NLR	98.5	97.9	97.1	97.8	98.5	99.1	98.2	96.6	96.7	72.8	45.9	33.7	23.3
AGQ	95.6	96.0	98.3	94.6	94.9	96.0	96.4	87.8	52.1	58.1	77.4	81.2	88.8
GDXJ	95.6	93.5	98.0	98.9	98.7	99.4	99.6	99.6	99.0	99.1	98.7	99.6	99.6
UGL	95.5	95.9	98.0	98.1	99.3	99.6	99.6	99.7	99.7	99.7	99.8	99.7	99.8
XME	95.2	94.4	95.0	92.5	89.8	91.2	80.0	66.1	31.8	16.9	12.2	21.5	17.3
GDX	94.6	90.1	96.7	97.5	97.9	98.7	98.6	99.4	98.7	98.7	97.5	99.4	99.4
SLV	89.3	89.7	94.2	90.1	92.2	93.8	92.8	88.1	80.5	81.3	86.6	88.5	92.1
PBD	88.5	80.3	72.4	74.0	47.7	14.7	35.6	13.6	11.5	14.6	20.9	10.1	8.4
IAU	84.8	86.6	93.1	93.9	95.6	97.0	97.2	97.9	97.7	97.8	97.9	99.2	99.0
GLD	84.6	86.6	93.0	93.8	95.4	96.9	97.0	97.8	97.6	97.8	97.8	99.0	98.9
DBP	84.3	85.1	93.0	92.2	94.3	96.6	96.6	97.2	96.9	97.1	97.1	98.0	98.5
SPY	71.4	71.8	65.4	67.8	66.0	64.8	65.6	62.9	60.4	58.3	60.9	40.6	36.3
HAP	61.5	53.2	72.0	64.7	61.4	73.2	65.5	54.3	50.6	60.0	54.5	52.4	49.6
MOO	56.0	52.5	71.8	72.3	64.9	78.5	67.2	66.9	70.7	75.4	71.7	54.3	45.1
PIO	55.6	62.0	73.4	71.7	72.1	64.5	69.9	65.5	70.4	75.2	70.4	74.6	59.4
CGW	54.4	62.2	73.8	75.7	75.2	73.0	74.0	73.4	77.2	80.9	69.8	78.8	80.2
PHO	43.6	48.0	61.1	57.6	50.3	42.8	50.6	48.0	32.3	45.2	27.2	26.3	23.2
FIW	43.2	43.5	59.8	54.7	49.0	41.5	49.6	45.0	31.4	46.5	32.2	27.8	25.4
DJP	39.3	45.1	39.5	35.1	44.0	81.9	58.3	60.2	50.3	61.4	69.7	77.8	81.3
DBB	38.7	38.0	25.2	23.4	19.8	12.3	11.1	14.7	16.7	20.1	19.1	22.1	35.1
DBE	36.8	37.6	37.3	21.2	19.0	88.0	47.1	16.3	13.1	10.6	12.9	12.1	13.7
IGE	35.2	28.0	40.9	30.3	21.6	43.6	39.4	17.5	13.9	13.0	15.3	17.7	20.7
GSG	33.9	34.0	32.5	25.9	24.3	79.7	51.3	33.1	22.3	21.5	20.9	22.2	25.5
DBC	32.8	34.4	32.9	25.7	25.1	75.2	42.9	24.8	19.9	19.0	19.5	22.5	26.8
USO	31.1	24.3	32.8	11.2	12.5	90.8	49.1	11.9	7.5	6.1	5.7	4.9	5.4
IXC	22.6	12.2	30.9	10.6	10.6	22.5	23.8	9.1	8.6	8.3	10.7	11.0	15.1
DBA	20.6	29.7	25.7	24.0	37.9	54.1	59.6	73.7	76.5	87.5	85.1	85.9	86.3
VDE	17.6	11.7	31.7	9.6	9.3	29.6	18.5	7.8	7.1	7.1	10.9	8.8	12.6
XOP	12.5	20.5	31.3	6.8	7.4	26.4	13.8	5.0	4.7	4.4	6.0	4.1	3.5
IYE	12.3	10.7	28.9	8.7	8.6	17.5	13.8	6.9	6.4	6.7	10.5	8.6	12.8
XLE	11.8	10.1	29.0	7.9	7.8	19.0	12.7	6.5	6.2	6.4	10.0	8.5	12.8
CUT	10.4	6.1	14.1	9.5	6.5	5.4	7.0	6.9	9.2	11.9	10.2	8.1	12.2
IEO	10.3	14.6	29.4	8.0	8.4	21.1	13.3	5.7	5.3	5.7	8.5	5.8	6.0
DBO	10.1	8.2	6.3	5.1	5.9	70.3	26.7	7.6	6.2	5.3	5.1	5.3	5.5
USL	9.3	8.4	8.3	4.6	5.5	60.6	15.0	7.4	5.7	5.3	4.7	5.1	5.8
FCG	9.3	8.7	11.8	4.9	6.4	29.6	15.5	6.0	5.1	4.6	6.6	4.8	4.7
IEZ	8.2	3.0	5.1	3.1	2.6	4.1	4.4	2.6	2.4	2.2	2.3	2.5	2.1
OIH	7.7	3.3	5.9	3.0	2.4	4.1	4.2	2.3	2.2	1.9	2.0	2.0	1.8
ERX	5.1	4.5	11.1	3.2	2.8	4.7	3.4	1.9	1.8	2.1	2.8	2.2	2.4
SCO	5.0	6.9	4.4	33.5	44.2	2.4	5.8	80.2	94.9	95.9	95.9	98.4	99.0
DIG	4.9	4.4	13.7	3.3	2.7	4.8	3.4	2.0	1.9	2.1	2.8	2.3	2.5
XES	4.3	2.7	4.2	2.6	2.1	3.3	3.6	2.2	1.6	1.5	1.7	1.3	1.5
DUG	4.0	5.4	2.9	7.0	16.2	7.2	7.2	83.8	93.6	89.3	65.0	93.3	92.9
UCO	3.8	3.5	4.0	2.4	2.3	55.0	5.3	2.5	2.1	1.7	1.7	1.2	1.4
ERY	3.8	5.2	2.7	6.6	14.7	6.2	6.1	81.2	91.9	87.6	57.3	92.2	91.6
UNG	3.2	9.0	2.9	2.3	2.9	33.0	5.2	14.7	7.4	21.7	95.5	96.6	95.7
GLL	1.6	1.5	0.9	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.0	0.7	0.9
ZSL	0.9	0.9	0.5	1.0	1.2	1.1	1.0	1.5	2.7	2.9	2.0	3.3	2.7