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
	ProShares Ultra Gold	UGL	94.85	1.20	2.35	10.53	-0.72	27.05	68.72	18m
	United States Natural Gas Fund	UNG	94.00	-0.71	-9.13	14.18	34.22	26.62	-9.94	223m
	Invesco DB Agriculture Fund	DBA	89.82	0.37	3.87	3.18	12.74	18.22	33.45	11m
	VanEck Vectors-Nuclear Energy ETF	NLR	87.26	-0.59	11.29	16.43	1.33	24.39	27.32	34m
	iShares Gold Trust	IAU	83.67	0.63	2.07	5.68	0.75	15.45	36.26	214m
	SPDR Gold Shares	GLD	83.08	0.62	2.02	5.60	0.68	15.26	36.02	1b
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	81.78	-0.29	2.76	2.85	4.23	12.68	26.57	29b
	Invesco DB Precious Metals Fund	DBP	79.67	0.76	0.88	5.48	-1.25	13.90	36.75	638k
	VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF	GDXJ	61.24	1.32	4.00	10.11	-11.73	7.92	42.07	164m
	iPath DJ AIG Commodity ETN	DJP	58.57	-0.21	-1.05	7.26	4.87	10.01	11.98	3m
	US Oil Fund ETF	USO	55.83	0.49	-4.03	8.89	7.60	3.63	14.27	225m
	First Trust Natural Gas ETF	FCG	55.42	-1.32	-3.58	12.49	8.52	1.58	16.45	12m
	iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Tr	GSG	54.39	0.26	-1.47	5.95	6.30	6.45	10.68	9m
	Invesco DB Oil Fund	DBO	51.13	0.47	-4.04	8.16	6.83	3.05	9.59	5m
	Vanguard Energy VIPERs	VDE	50.57	-0.91	-2.27	9.44	3.23	3.32	17.86	74m
	Invesco DB Energy Fund	DBE	49.17	0.05	-2.93	8.79	7.33	3.46	5.51	763k
	iShares Silver Trust	SLV	48.35	0.50	-0.46	3.68	-12.07	5.60	35.95	399m
	VanEck Vectors Gold Miners	GDX	48.28	1.20	3.63	10.55	-12.92	3.13	36.01	537m
	Invesco Glbl Timber Indx	CUT	47.76	1.30	3.56	6.42	1.07	2.53	11.65	251k
	iShares S&P Natural Resources Index Fund	IGE	47.20	-0.50	-0.68	8.52	-0.11	3.59	18.48	3m
	iShares US Energy	IYE	45.24	-0.92	-2.38	9.01	2.17	2.32	16.62	14m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	45.13	-0.97	-2.07	9.43	1.99	2.76	16.99	1b
	Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking	DBC	41.69	0.04	-1.33	6.53	2.94	4.63	5.91	19m
	First Trust ISE Water Index Fund	FIW	40.13	-0.69	0.37	2.31	-2.15	1.85	13.72	6m
	ProShares Ultra Silver	AGQ	39.99	1.69	-3.05	6.37	-24.07	4.61	58.40	56m
	SPDR Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	XOP	39.76	-1.37	-3.52	12.19	5.28	0.01	11.52	333m
	U.S. 12 Month Oil Fund	USL	39.17	-0.02	-1.91	6.21	4.28	0.45	8.11	255k
	Proshares Ultra Oil & Gas	DIG	38.99	-1.91	-4.33	18.51	1.62	0.31	23.88	2m
	Direxion Energy Bull 2X Shares	ERX	38.36	-2.01	-4.22	18.75	1.47	0.22	23.97	30m
	iShares US Oil Equip & Svcs	IEZ	37.95	-0.23	-0.88	12.99	8.87	-4.49	4.26	4m
	Invesco DB Base Metals Fund	DBB	37.02	-0.10	-0.52	1.25	-3.82	7.69	14.35	1m
	Invesco Water Resource Portfolio	PHO	35.91	-0.86	0.36	1.87	-2.51	0.75	13.67	5m
	SPDR Oil & Gas Eqpmt & Svcs	XES	33.51	-0.40	-1.83	13.84	8.51	-7.65	6.79	4m
	iShares US Oil & Gas Expl & Prod	IEO	30.66	-1.36	-2.69	12.66	3.90	-0.27	10.90	11m
	Invesco Global Water Portfolio	PIO	22.47	-0.11	2.30	3.97	-1.24	-0.09	7.16	510k
	ProShares Ultra DJ-AIG Crude Oil	UCO	18.59	-0.07	-4.51	12.47	6.91	-5.16	5.52	38m
	VanEck Vectors Oil Services	OIH	15.03	-0.28	-1.30	11.86	6.52	-7.29	0.67	132m
	VanEck Vectors--Agribusiness ETF	MOO	13.33	-0.39	2.32	6.20	-1.50	0.43	-0.36	5m
	iShares S&P Global Energy Index Fund	IXC	12.29	-0.89	-1.28	8.20	-2.78	-2.19	9.53	18m
	VanEck Vectors RVE Hard Assets Prod ETF	HAP	11.81	0.11	1.22	6.79	-4.62	-0.79	7.45	2m
	SPDR Metals & Mining	XME	10.74	-0.20	1.49	6.93	-7.76	-0.63	6.35	89m
	Invesco S&P Global Water ETF	CGW	8.37	-0.61	0.10	-1.73	-7.61	-5.94	6.90	2m
	Direxion Energy Bear 2X Shares	ERY	7.33	2.01	4.36	-15.92	-2.71	-3.85	-22.97	6m
	Proshares UltraShort Oil & Gas	DUG	7.03	1.93	4.35	-15.93	-2.74	-3.98	-23.38	2m
	ProShares UltraShort DJ-AIG Crude Oil	SCO	4.33	0.25	4.83	-11.50	-9.74	-5.93	-18.43	34m
	ProShares UltraShort Silver	ZSL	3.63	-1.62	3.39	-7.86	22.68	-18.90	-54.92	12m
	Invesco Global Clean Energy Portfolio	PBD	3.30	0.94	1.29	1.59	-8.80	-13.51	-15.08	745k
	ProShares UltraShort Gold	GLL	2.04	-1.18	-2.16	-9.47	-0.69	-22.48	-42.29	3m

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	01/24	01/16	01/08	12/31	12/23	12/16	12/09	12/02	11/22	11/15	11/08	11/01	10/25
UGL	94.9	95.2	95.4	93.0	92.3	94.0	93.0	93.2	97.1	94.6	96.3	98.7	99.0
UNG	94.0	97.9	56.2	36.6	8.1	2.8	2.4	2.4	3.2	1.7	1.8	1.6	2.9
DBA	89.8	88.2	92.0	92.9	88.8	82.6	77.4	61.1	65.3	78.7	47.6	55.8	42.5
NLR	87.3	57.2	58.9	47.0	64.1	79.1	87.0	93.0	94.4	90.0	88.3	92.8	95.0
IAU	83.7	85.5	87.7	84.0	82.0	80.0	72.3	70.3	88.4	77.2	79.4	93.2	94.5
GLD	83.1	85.2	87.4	83.7	81.6	79.9	71.7	70.0	88.4	76.9	78.7	93.0	94.4
SPY	81.8	81.2	82.8	84.7	84.9	82.4	78.9	77.7	75.2	81.8	79.1	81.9	83.7
DBP	79.7	86.3	86.2	82.0	79.2	76.6	73.2	66.7	86.3	73.6	79.2	93.8	95.2
GDXJ	61.2	60.4	67.4	38.1	50.6	68.5	87.6	70.0	88.8	67.1	93.1	97.0	97.7
DJP	58.6	75.5	43.9	37.4	31.9	29.3	36.0	13.9	28.7	12.5	11.1	18.9	21.9
USO	55.8	84.5	45.4	45.6	23.7	22.3	23.2	8.7	10.6	5.7	5.9	6.7	5.6
FCG	55.4	78.5	41.6	25.5	9.7	13.0	29.3	35.3	44.3	17.0	13.0	5.3	4.4
GSG	54.4	72.2	42.9	41.7	29.7	25.9	28.9	10.7	14.8	8.9	6.5	7.8	7.3
DBO	51.1	79.6	39.3	40.4	20.0	15.3	11.8	6.4	9.0	4.8	4.9	5.2	4.7
VDE	50.6	68.5	36.3	24.5	16.7	30.5	48.7	55.5	61.2	51.1	41.3	14.1	7.8
DBE	49.2	71.8	31.1	31.2	16.8	12.2	9.0	5.9	8.0	5.1	4.4	4.6	4.1
SLV	48.4	65.7	62.0	46.5	57.8	63.2	82.5	62.1	76.9	68.8	85.8	95.7	97.4
GDX	48.3	46.5	44.0	18.5	27.9	51.9	65.2	53.8	77.7	50.4	85.3	94.8	96.5
CUT	47.8	23.9	15.5	17.7	16.2	27.5	41.6	39.1	40.9	39.1	46.1	50.3	42.1
IGE	47.2	55.9	36.3	22.6	19.2	39.2	53.4	57.4	66.5	58.1	52.9	36.5	32.1
IYE	45.2	62.7	29.6	19.5	14.0	28.4	47.6	54.9	62.6	54.6	44.1	21.9	8.8
XLE	45.1	60.8	28.1	18.7	13.2	23.1	45.8	53.6	62.2	56.2	44.1	21.6	9.1
DBC	41.7	54.4	27.8	27.0	18.5	14.5	13.5	8.1	12.3	8.2	6.5	7.3	7.6
FIW	40.1	41.5	33.6	35.3	37.2	50.6	59.2	57.6	55.5	53.4	56.4	56.2	57.4
AGQ	40.0	75.7	57.5	14.5	44.0	65.6	94.2	74.7	92.0	76.6	95.9	99.1	99.5
XOP	39.8	62.3	22.6	13.5	6.7	10.1	27.9	39.6	47.8	16.8	11.7	4.9	3.9
USL	39.2	54.9	34.7	34.0	18.7	16.3	14.9	7.6	10.0	5.7	5.6	6.1	5.3
DIG	39.0	65.6	8.2	5.1	3.5	9.2	51.7	65.4	84.7	64.7	53.4	9.1	5.8
ERX	38.4	65.0	8.2	5.0	3.4	9.1	52.3	65.7	84.5	64.4	53.2	8.6	5.9
IEZ	37.9	42.7	11.7	6.9	4.1	8.8	15.8	38.2	32.5	8.4	7.9	3.7	2.3
DBB	37.0	45.4	26.4	33.5	46.5	48.4	55.9	48.4	40.0	47.0	51.2	58.9	69.2
PHO	35.9	38.3	32.1	33.7	36.5	49.8	59.9	57.1	56.1	53.7	58.7	57.2	56.5
XES	33.5	46.1	11.4	7.0	3.6	6.0	8.7	26.0	16.9	5.1	5.9	3.3	2.2
IEO	30.7	51.1	14.7	8.1	5.4	8.2	24.4	35.7	47.0	26.0	14.9	5.6	4.3
PIO	22.5	15.2	11.5	11.5	12.7	14.1	31.7	30.3	25.5	22.5	33.9	32.8	31.1
UCO	18.6	56.6	10.4	10.7	4.6	5.8	5.7	3.7	3.3	2.0	3.1	3.0	2.3
OIH	15.0	27.1	8.5	5.6	3.3	6.0	8.2	18.7	14.9	6.0	6.1	3.2	2.0
MOO	13.3	10.4	6.1	5.7	6.5	7.5	8.3	9.9	10.0	7.2	7.1	11.2	8.2
IXC	12.3	27.4	11.5	8.4	6.9	12.0	33.6	36.5	45.0	37.4	27.2	13.5	9.0
HAP	11.8	14.2	7.4	6.7	7.2	9.5	26.4	27.8	24.9	13.2	26.3	28.0	26.4
XME	10.7	12.6	9.1	7.2	11.1	51.4	82.7	84.7	86.0	76.1	89.9	72.6	57.7
CGW	8.4	10.7	10.0	16.6	15.8	36.4	44.6	46.6	43.7	41.9	44.1	37.3	48.6
ERY	7.3	5.7	62.8	85.4	86.9	22.5	3.3	2.7	2.3	3.3	2.9	5.5	7.5
DUG	7.0	5.3	61.1	84.2	86.4	20.5	3.1	2.5	2.2	3.2	2.8	5.4	7.1
SCO	4.3	3.4	20.9	21.5	47.6	10.4	4.7	8.5	13.1	60.2	12.5	7.5	12.6
ZSL	3.6	1.7	2.7	6.1	3.5	1.8	1.1	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.1	0.4	0.3
PBD	3.3	3.1	2.8	2.7	2.7	2.7	3.7	3.4	2.7	2.2	3.7	6.1	5.4
GLL	2.0	2.5	3.0	4.4	3.7	2.1	2.0	1.9	1.6	2.2	1.8	1.0	0.9