Wikinvest Wire

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Correlation

U2 fans will recognize the title from the All That You Can't Leave Behind CD. Ahem.

A reader asked what sectors do and do not correlate to the energy sector. The best way to look at the question is to compare sector ETFs for all ten S&P groups. You can click on the chart to make it bigger. The energy sector is in black. It seems to have a very low correlation with a lot of sectors. I thought this was interesting.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dave Landry, the swing trader, has long noted that energy and analogous commodity stocks are capable of trading independently of the overall market.

Roger Nusbaum said...

I would say Mr. Landry has it correct.

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