Nanotech ETF 2013 Update

PowerShares Lux Nanotech (ETF) is one of the few 'true' nanotech ETF.
Latest Weekly Chart Update:

Nanotech ETF Crossover

The 50 day Moving Average is now above the 200 day Moving Average, near a crossover, the short-term chart looks like this:

PowerShares Lux Nanotech (ETF) (Public, NYSE:PXN)

Nanotech ETF

PowerShares Lux Nanotech (ETF) is one of the few 'true' nanotech ETF, even if most companies aren't tied to just nanotechnology business, in the long term future some of these companies might be the ones to grab the emerging technology of the nano-scale.

Performance has not been stellar, but since last year recovery, PXN has made a decent performance for the last year. So here is latest year chart of this Nanotech ETF:

PowerShares Lux Nanotech (ETF)

Here is the chart and composition of the PowerShares Lux Nanotech (ETF), probably the best Nanotech ETF in the market.



The fund holdings are as of 7/1/2009:

(Fund Holdings are subject to change)
% of Fund

Consumer Discretionary
3.00%
TM Toyota Motor Corp. (ADS) 3.00%

Financials
4.88%
TINY Harris & Harris Group Inc. 4.88%

Health Care
26.79%
FLML Flamel Technologies S.A. (ADS) 5.71%
BDSI BioDelivery Sciences International Inc. 5.54%
ACCL Accelrys Inc. 5.44%
ELN Elan Corp. PLC (ADS) 5.12%
NSPH Nanosphere Inc. 4.97%

Industrials
11.19%
HEV Ener1 Inc. 4.91%
MMM 3M Co. 3.19%
GE General Electric Co. 3.08%

Information Technology
31.24%
NVEC NVE Corp. 5.61%
VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. 5.52%
FEIC FEI Co. 5.47%
SMMX Symyx Technologies Inc. 5.20%
INTC Intel Corp. 3.24%
HPQ Hewlett-Packard Co. 3.14%
IBM International Business Machines Corp. 3.07%

Materials
22.90%
SDTH ShengdaTech Inc. 6.02%
HW Headwaters Inc. 5.58%
ALTI Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. 5.04%
DD E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. 3.16%
APD Air Products & Chemicals Inc. 3.09%

PowerShares Lux Nanotech performance

PowerShares Lux Nanotech (ETF) (Public, NYSE:PXN) Chart:


The Nanotech ETF continues to have a poor performance, and should continue to follow the general markets until the current crisis is resolved.

Remember that effective and profitable Nanotechnology business is still a very long term investment.

Top Holdings on this ETF
(Fund Holdings subject to change)
Elan Corp. PLC (ADS) 8.23%
Flamel Technologies S.A. (ADS) 7.19%
Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. 6.39%
FEI Co. 6.30%
Veeco Instruments Inc. 6.13%
ShengdaTech Inc. 5.93%
Symyx Technologies Inc. 5.84%
Accelrys Inc. 5.31%
NVE Corp. 5.05%
Headwaters Inc. 4.86%

You can see this ETF details here.