5 Best Oil and Gas ETFs

2. ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (NYSE:DUG)

5 Year Share Price Gains: 30.68%

ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (NYSE:DUG) is an ETF for you if you want to profit from oil companies’ losses. It is an inverse tracker of the S&P Energy Select Sector index, and 90% of its holdings are in oil and gas companies. It is also a rather technical fund, which seeks twice the negative returns of the underlying index on a daily basis, requiring careful monitoring of the index since returns can significantly change in just a week.