ETF Wrap: Bitcoin miner or gold miner? Here’s where Wall Street winners put their bets

Hello again: During a hectic week of trading on Wall Street, a big question that seems to emerge is: Is sentiment in crypto influencing mood in traditional financial markets?
The jury is out, but many people seem inclined to draw parallels between risk appetite in the nascent digital asset market and sentiment for stocks and bonds.
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What happened this week? We promise we won’t be talking crypto on Wrap every week, but this is becoming a more ubiquitous talking point as one of the hottest trades of the year appears to be emerging from the boil.
And it is interesting to note that the researchers at JPMorgan Chase JPM,
this week argued that investors are abandoning bitcoin BTCUSD,
so. This is a thesis that apparently has its challenges since the assumption is that bitcoin and gold investors don’t mix well.
See: Bitcoin’s 40% crash ‘looks like a capitulation’, says crypto expert, but here’s where the next crucial level of support lies
JPMorgan says that “the image of bitcoin flows continues to deteriorate and indicates a continuing decline in institutional investors,” and these investors gravitate towards bitcoin futures BTC.1,
which, according to the report, “had its steepest and most sustained sell-off since the ascent of bitcoin began last October,” and in GC00 bullion
What’s fascinating is that the top performing ETFs this week, among those reviewed by MarketWatch, are gold and silver miners.
The ETF ETFMG Prime Junior Silver Miners is up almost 10% so far this week, through Thursday noon, for example. Global X Silver Miners ETF is up 8.1% and VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF has returned over 7% so far.
There is no ETF exclusively for companies that digitally mine bitcoin miners … yet, but Riot Blockchain Inc. shares RIOT,
are down nearly 7% over the same period this week and those of Marathon Digital Holdings MARA,
were off 1.2%, FactSet data show.
Weekly ETF movements
Top 5 winners from last week |
% Performance |
ETFMG Prime Junior Silver Miners ETF SILJ |
9.6 |
Invesco Solar ETF TAN, |
8.6 |
Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF PBW, |
8.5 |
Global X Silver Miners ETF SIL, |
8.1 |
VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF GDXJ, |
7.3 |
Source: FactSet, until Thursday noon, May 20, excluding ETNs and leveraged products. Includes ETFs traded on NYSE, Nasdaq and Cboe of $ 500 million or more |
Top 5 variations of last week |
% Performance |
IShares US Home Construction ETF |
-3.4 |
SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF XHB, |
-3.0 |
Global X Copper Miners ETF COPX, |
-2.9 |
Global X US Infrastructure Development ETF PAVE, |
-2.4 |
iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF PICK, |
-2.3 |
Source: FactSet, through Thursday noon 29 May, excluding ETNs and leveraged products. Includes NYSE, Nasdaq, and Cboe-traded ETFs of $ 500 million or more |
What’s up?
Modernizing the Dow Theory? The iShares Transportation Average ETF IYT ETF,
will be under renovation this summer.
The $ 2.2 billion ETF tracks the Dow Jones Transport-Weighted Average DJT,
and is considered an important indicator of the health of the market and the economy, following an index even older than the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
Rather than following the top 20 transport and air freight companies on a price-weighted basis, the ETF will now follow 41 companies, including Uber Technologies Inc. UBER,
and Lyft Inc. LYFT,
on a market capitalization weighted basis.
Why is this important: The change is important because transportation is part of one of the oldest methods of technical analysis in the market called Dow Theory, which argues that any sustainable rally to new heights in Dow industrials must be accompanied by a new high. of the Dow. Jones Transportation Average.
It will be interesting to see how investors react to this change.
Is there a PSPC for this?
Perhaps the only thing buzzier than crypto over the past 12 months has been PSPCs or special purpose acquisition companies. In 2021, PSPCs raised nearly $ 100 billion in initial public offerings, more than the amount of PSPC’s IPOs from 2003 to 2019 combined.
However, the PSPC phenomenon, which has become a popular way for companies to go public, is suffering a powerful slowdown, but that hasn’t stopped the rollout of a new fund linked to the PSPC craze.
Tuttle Capital Management launched the Short De-SPAC ETF SOGU earlier this week,
which aims to take advantage of the decline in the SPAC market.
Comments from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which said it was reviewing the accounting behind the PSPCs and their show, also helped add to the freshness in the space.
The Defiance Next Gen SPAC Derived ETF SPAK,
is down 30% in the last three months and 16% so far this year.
So a fund that bets against the universe of companies that have gone public through a PSPC is either late or just in time.
Graph of the week
Sector ETFs | Sector | Net finlows last month (in millions of dollars) |
Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund XLF, |
Financial |
2,524 |
Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund XLV |
Health care |
1,433 |
SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF KRE, |
Financial |
999 |
Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund XLB, |
Materials |
953 |
Vanguard Real Estate ETF VNQ, |
Immovable |
776 |
SPDR S&P Biotech ETF XBI, |
biotechnology |
450 |
iShares US Financial Services ETF IYG, |
Financial |
448 |
Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund XLP, |
Consumer staples |
441 |
Vanguard Information Technology ETF VGT, |
Tech Info |
352 |
SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF XME, |
Materials |
325 |
Totals |
$ 7.049 Source: CFRA |
This table highlights the growing focus on bank stocks in this phase of recovery from the COVID pandemic.
the The Wall Street Journal recently wrote that roughly $ 32 billion has been poured into large financial stocks this year, citing data from Bank of America strategists.
“The biggest driver of inflows to financials has been the belief that 2020 marks a secular low point for interest rates and inflation,” said the WSJ as quoted Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America.