Correlations Among All Currency ETFs and Gold

Here we go. The following table shows the correlations among all currency ETFs (plus GLD) for September and October 2009. This is extremely important for diversification of investments. It is a large image.


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Uncorrelated Currencies

For proper diversification, what is of real interest is the uncorrelated currency ETFs. Here are the the most uncorrelated.

The Brittish Pound is the most uncorrelated currency with anything else.

-GBB with FXC (Pound, Canada, perfect 0.0 score), also with BNZ/BZF/CEZ, and similarly FXB/FXC
-YCL/CNY
-GBB/AYT (Pound/Asia)
-YCS/FXM
-YCN/CYB
-DRR/CYB
-FXY/CNY


Gold and Currency correlation:

Gold is most correlated with:

- BNZ, BZF, CEW, DBV, FXA, FXC (New Zealand, Brazil, Emerging, G10, Australia, Canada)

Gold is most uncorrelated with CYB (Yuan)

These are the names of the ETFs:

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