ETFs

PowerShares S&P SmallCap Health Care (NYSE: PSCH) is up nearly 22% year to date. The investment seeks to replicate the S&P SmallCap 600 Capped Health Care index, which is comprised of common stocks of U.S. health care companies. Top holdings include Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN), Amerigroup (NYSE: AGP) and Cooper Companies (NYSE: COO). SPDR S&P Biotech (NYSE: XBI) is up more than 19% since the beginning of the year. The underlying index represents the biotechnology subindustry portion of the S&P Total Market index. Top holdings include Theravance (NASDAQ: THRX) and Savient Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SVNT). PowerShares Dynamic Healthcare (NYSE: PTH) is up nearly 19% year to date. The underlying index consists of U.S. companies engaged in providing health care-related products and services, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, supplies and facilities. Top holdings include Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB), Humana (NYSE: HUM) and St. Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ). First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX (NYSE: FXH) is up more than 18% year to date. The investment seeks...

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Monday July 11, 2011. Oil plays: WisdomTree International Energy ETF (NYSE: DKA) and the Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLE). The Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) will be in play this week. Additional sector plays: Guggenheim Global Solar Energy ETF (NYSE: TAN) and the Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF (NYSE: MOO). Emerging markets plays of the days: iShares MSCI Taiwan Index Fund (NYSE: EWT), the Market Vectors Indonesia ETF (NYSE: IDX) and the Direxion Daily China Bear 3x Shares (NYSE: YANG). Forex play of the day: PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP).

Peak oil is a misunderstood phenomenon, but the reality is the world is probably in its throws right now. The base definition of peak oil is the time at which new discoveries and production cannot keep pace with demand. Sound familiar? Depending on the estimate, the world currently consumes 86 million to 88 million barrels of oil per day, but it is worth noting that one of the key reasons that many analysts and banks maintain such high forecasts for oil going forward is because supply simply isn't there to keep up with demand. Translation: For all of the new discoveries out there, Brazil's included, they just can't keep pace with declines in places like Alaska, the North Sea and Saudi Arabia, just to name a few. Peak oil is here and these are the ETFs to profit with. 1) U.S. Brent Oil Fund (NYSE: BNO): The spread between Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate remains near historically wide levels and while there...