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
	FirstTr Morningstar Dividend Leaders	FDL	89.97	-0.10	0.65	3.00	11.34	11.96	26.35	19m
	iShares Select Dividend	DVY	89.38	-0.15	1.21	3.67	12.14	12.59	24.57	50m
	WisdomTree High Yield	DHS	86.29	-0.22	1.26	2.99	11.99	11.17	21.00	2m
	WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend	DLN	83.12	0.05	1.23	2.35	7.46	9.79	26.06	7m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	82.48	-0.17	1.42	1.67	4.68	9.50	31.30	28b
	WisdomTree Small Cap Div	DES	82.08	-1.09	2.11	3.59	13.03	8.60	23.91	4m
	WisdomTree Total Dividend	DTD	81.17	-0.24	1.33	2.41	7.59	9.27	25.82	2m
	Invesco Div Achievers Port	PFM	81.01	-0.11	0.74	2.73	8.00	9.75	25.07	2m
	Vanguard Dividend ETF	VIG	78.83	-0.14	0.90	2.56	7.45	8.96	25.61	125m
	SPDR Dividend ETF	SDY	76.34	-0.20	0.37	2.54	9.61	9.50	20.44	25m
	Invesco Intl Dividend Achievers	PID	75.07	0.20	0.56	2.74	12.65	9.34	15.78	2m
	First Trust Value Line Dividend ETF	FVD	73.92	-0.24	0.42	2.68	10.26	9.07	18.73	28m
	iShares Intl Select Dividend	IDV	72.53	-0.56	0.60	1.97	8.91	11.02	19.00	10m
	WisdomTree MidCap Div	DON	72.26	-0.59	2.47	3.30	8.85	6.50	24.42	5m
	SPDR Dow Jones Ind Avg ETF	DIA	70.19	0.10	1.66	3.14	7.93	6.64	24.28	1b
	Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF	VYM	68.41	-0.84	0.78	2.02	6.83	7.02	22.34	96m
	Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio	PEY	65.40	-0.69	0.69	2.50	11.72	9.31	14.87	3m
	WisdomTree Intl MidCap Div	DIM	63.42	-1.02	1.05	2.22	8.69	6.88	17.49	393k
	WisdomTree Intl SmallCap Div	DLS	60.80	-1.19	0.89	0.59	7.41	6.63	19.31	1m
	iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund	PFF	58.82	0.15	1.49	4.47	7.69	6.08	16.66	106m
	First Trust DJ STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index	FDD	58.78	-0.88	1.05	0.48	7.00	11.44	15.84	490k
	WisdomTree Intl Large Cap Div	DOL	58.22	-0.79	0.79	1.01	6.42	6.29	18.02	943k
	WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Div	DFJ	57.51	-0.29	1.38	2.02	8.86	3.46	15.50	1m
	WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend	DFE	53.67	-1.63	0.71	-0.70	4.44	8.30	20.87	779k
	WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity	DXJ	29.49	1.17	4.59	0.04	-2.42	-2.90	18.95	97m
	WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equ	DEM	28.10	-0.60	1.17	-1.72	-0.72	4.71	15.92	11m

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	09/20	09/13	09/06	08/29	08/22	08/15	08/08	08/01	07/25	07/18	07/11	07/03	06/26
FDL	90.0	92.3	94.8	92.6	88.4	86.5	91.6	87.2	85.6	83.2	64.8	56.1	66.9
DVY	89.4	91.2	94.0	90.1	83.9	81.3	82.4	78.6	78.7	72.2	54.7	46.4	53.9
DHS	86.3	88.6	92.9	90.0	81.7	82.1	84.5	77.7	76.8	71.8	47.4	40.7	47.3
DLN	83.1	85.3	90.3	88.2	84.3	84.1	85.0	78.8	75.9	78.3	74.1	74.2	76.4
SPY	82.5	81.7	83.3	85.7	86.2	87.5	85.0	86.0	84.1	86.7	87.9	88.5	89.1
DES	82.1	82.1	78.5	80.0	64.2	65.1	67.3	80.0	87.6	78.9	46.5	27.9	26.2
DTD	81.2	83.8	89.0	86.6	81.6	82.0	82.0	77.9	77.1	77.5	72.7	71.3	73.5
PFM	81.0	85.4	89.6	82.7	76.5	79.7	78.9	73.7	70.1	71.9	66.6	66.4	69.4
VIG	78.8	82.3	88.6	81.5	76.4	78.5	79.0	72.5	68.7	71.1	66.8	67.9	70.2
SDY	76.3	85.1	90.4	76.7	72.1	70.0	74.1	62.0	54.4	48.8	36.6	28.6	41.0
PID	75.1	78.3	77.5	62.5	59.8	62.9	60.2	54.1	50.5	42.2	39.1	32.7	15.3
FVD	73.9	80.4	87.5	69.2	62.1	61.8	66.4	58.4	47.2	42.3	29.7	21.5	27.6
IDV	72.5	79.8	77.8	65.8	61.4	58.6	60.2	55.3	62.9	56.8	62.6	62.9	52.8
DON	72.3	68.3	72.2	70.4	65.7	66.0	66.8	72.3	71.9	66.7	49.4	44.1	51.1
DIA	70.2	72.3	78.0	72.8	61.3	63.1	62.6	64.4	62.4	67.5	59.4	59.5	62.0
VYM	68.4	76.9	84.9	79.4	73.9	75.5	75.2	69.1	69.2	72.6	61.4	59.0	64.0
PEY	65.4	74.8	80.9	70.6	61.3	60.8	61.2	63.9	64.0	52.3	30.2	10.9	16.0
DIM	63.4	63.4	63.5	54.3	51.1	46.3	32.1	40.4	44.9	46.8	46.0	45.8	33.9
DLS	60.8	64.9	60.9	58.9	64.3	57.0	42.8	51.9	55.7	59.0	55.2	52.9	42.6
PFF	58.8	58.0	61.9	43.4	42.9	31.8	47.9	36.9	37.3	37.7	40.0	43.2	40.8
FDD	58.8	63.6	68.3	61.1	63.5	56.8	42.3	47.5	59.2	50.0	52.7	61.1	52.1
DOL	58.2	59.1	59.9	62.6	57.9	52.2	40.4	44.1	51.9	52.6	61.0	61.0	53.9
DFJ	57.5	53.3	48.1	50.9	57.2	38.4	14.4	43.9	37.2	37.5	31.1	38.3	29.5
DFE	53.7	61.6	49.0	60.7	63.2	61.8	63.4	61.8	69.9	77.2	74.6	70.0	59.0
DXJ	29.5	14.3	16.0	46.1	52.6	64.9	18.1	58.9	85.7	93.8	94.6	95.4	93.4
DEM	28.1	35.4	36.5	52.9	45.6	62.2	46.9	48.2	57.0	64.8	79.8	80.6	77.2