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TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need To Know for Friday

By David Penn | TradingMarkets.com | January 15, 2010
Symbols: TAN, CVX, EWZ, FXI, VHT, TAO, EWH, IYH, ILF

Although U.S. equity index ETFs gained on Thursday, a number of country-based exchange-traded funds continued to move deeper into oversold territory above the 200-day moving average. Among them was the iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund ( EWZ | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

Health care stocks, such as those represented by the Vanguard Health Care ETF ( VHT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), and the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Sector Index Fund ( IYH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), continued to gain. Both funds closed in overbought territory above the 200-day moving average for a second consecutive session on Thursday.

Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday.Among the top ETF PowerRatings funds going into Friday's trading are the Claymore/AlphaShares China Real Estate ETF ( TAO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and the Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy Index ETF ( TAN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

Both ETFs earned our highest rating midday through the trading day on Thursday.

The iShares S&P Latin American 40 Index Fund ( ILF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is also one of the highest rated exchange-traded funds going into the final trading day of the week. ILF also experienced one of the largest ETF PowerRatings upgrades on the day.

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After closing lower for three consecutive sessions - and making our Most Oversold List Wednesday after the close - the SPDR Lehman High Yield Bond ETF ( JNK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) rallied into neutral territory on Thursday.

The most oversold ETF in our database? Among country ETFs, the iShares MSCI Hong Kong Index Fund ( EWH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is one of the most oversold with a 2-period RSI of less than 5. Also very oversold above the 200-day moving average is the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund ( FXI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

Energy shares continued to move higher on Thursday. Gaining for a second day after reachign oversold extremes above the 200-day moving average was the ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas ( DIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating). DIG is leveraged two-to-one to the daily return of the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Index of stocks including Exxon Mobil Corporation ( XOM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Chevron Corp ( CVX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

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Original publication: January 14, 2010