ETF Heatmap

What is an ETF?

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a basket of securities, such as stocks, bonds or commodities, that trades on an exchange throughout the day much like an individual stock. Many ETFs are designed to track an index, a sector, a commodity or a mix of assets, giving investors diversified exposure in a single purchase.

How to read this heatmap

• Block size reflects the fund's assets under management (AUM) — larger, more widely held funds appear as bigger tiles, while smaller or newer funds appear as smaller tiles.
• Block color reflects recent price change over the selected period. Green shades indicate the fund's price is up; red shades indicate it is down, with darker shades generally representing a larger move.
• Grouping clusters funds by asset class or sector, so you can compare, for example, how equity ETFs performed relative to bond or commodity ETFs over the same period.

Click any tile to open that fund's detailed page on TradingView, or use the top bar inside the widget to change the grouping or comparison period.

Why investors use an ETF heatmap

A heatmap lets you scan hundreds of funds at once instead of checking each one individually. It can help you notice sector rotation — for example, whether technology funds are outperforming utilities or energy funds over a given period — or whether gains are broad across most asset classes or concentrated in just one or two.

What a heatmap does not tell you

Block size in this widget reflects a fund's popularity and assets, not its expected future return. A large, well-known fund is not inherently a better or safer choice than a smaller one, and a red tile does not make a fund a "bargain."

The heatmap also does not show a fund's expense ratio, index-tracking accuracy, dividend policy, tax treatment or trading liquidity — all factors worth researching separately before choosing a fund. Past price performance, however it is colored, does not indicate future results.

Long-term investing considerations

A heatmap is a short-term orientation tool, not an investment plan. Many investors use broad, low-cost ETFs as a building block for long-term portfolios precisely because they offer diversification that a single stock cannot. If you are comparing a hypothetical ETF-based plan with contributions over time, model it with a calculator that lets you test several return assumptions rather than relying on any single period's colors.