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15 ETFs

The ETFs tab is a map of the exchange-traded fund market, in three parts.

The most traded

The busiest fund of the last completed session leads the page, with the next four beside it, numbered one to five so the order is stated rather than implied. Inside that panel sit two smaller boxes: the busiest funds of the trading week and of the trading month. One day's leader is a fact about one session; read next to the week and the month it becomes either a trend or an oddity, which is the more useful thing to know. Every volume figure on the tab is picked out in green, so the size of a fund's day is readable at a glance without hunting for it among the prices. Volume tells you how much of the market passed through a fund — it says nothing about whether the fund is any good, and a fund can perfectly well show a busy green figure next to a red change, because volume has no direction.

Every fund on this tab, in every section, opens its own chart page when you click it.

Newly listed

Funds trading today that did not exist three months ago. This is established by comparing the exchange's own ticker list on the two dates, so it is a fact about the listing rather than an estimate. The funds sit side by side as cards rather than stacked in a list, so you can scan across them. Each card shows who launched it — read from the fund's registered name, and left blank rather than guessed when the name does not identify a house — and a one-line description derived from that same name: a fund called "2X Long" is described as leveraged because it says so itself. Ten at a time, up to thirty, newest and busiest first.

A note on what this section is not: a new listing is not a recommendation and it is not news that a fund is good. A great many newly listed funds are leveraged or inverse products built for single sessions, which is why each card says so in its own description rather than leaving you to decode the name.

Leaders by area

Eight areas — broad market, technology, healthcare, financials, energy, bonds, outside the US, and dividends — behind a row of tabs. Pick an area and its five funds appear, each with a plain sentence on what it actually holds. It is a map, not a recommendation.