Best Performing Inverse ETFs
Below is a the ‘Best inverse ETFs List’ by year-to-date performance (thru Sept 20, 2015). We can see inverse emerging market ETFs were the best performers followed by the Dow Jones Industrials sell-off, China, the S&P 500 and lastly, the inverse financials ETF.
Here are the Top 12 Inverse ETFs:
| Symbol | Name | Leverage | Index | $AUM (mm) | YTD % |
| ERY | Daily Energy Bear 3X Shares | -3X | Energy Select Sector Index | 67.3 | 45.0 |
| EDZ | Daily Emerging Markets Bear 3X Shares | -3X | MSCI Emerging Markets | 180.9 | 23.4 |
| EEV | UltraShort MSCI Emerging Markets | -2X | MSCI Emerging Markets | 86.4 | 18.8 |
| EUM | Short MSCI Emerging Markets | -1X | MSCI Emerging Markets | 511.0 | 10.4 |
| SDOW | UltraProShort | -3X | Dow Jones Industrial Avg | 143.8 | 9.6 |
| DXD | UltraShort Dow 30 | -2X | Dow Jones Industrial Avg | 261.1 | 8.2 |
| DOG | Short Dow 30 | -1X | Dow Jones Industrial Avg | 429.7 | 4.7 |
| FXP | UltraShort FTSE/Xinhua China | -2X | FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index | 82.2 | 3.1 |
| SDS | UltraShort S&P 500 | -2X | S&P 500 | 1630 | 2.0 |
| SH | Short S&P 500 | -1X | S&P 500 | 2017 | 1.6 |
| FAZ | Daily Financial Bear Shares | -3X | Russell 1000 Financial Services Index | 310.6 | 1.0 |