ETFs For This Week's Earnings Reports

This week marks the start of fourth-quarter earnings season and while only a few marquee names are due to report this week, three Dow names to be exact, it never hurts to do a little advanced planning and scope out some ETFs that may move on the back of these profit reports. For Alcoa (NYSE: AA) today after the bell: The SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (NYSE: XME) would be the conservative play as Alcoa gets just over 4% of XME's weight, but the ambitious trader could give the newly minted Global X Aluminum ETF (NYSE: ALUM) a whirl. A good leveraged bet would be the ProShares Ultra Industrials (NYSE: UXI). For Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Thursday after the close, run with the Semiconductor HOLDRs (AMEX: SMH), which allocates more than 20% of its weight to Intel. If Intel blows out as it has in recent quarters, go big with the Direxion Daily Semicondct Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: SOXL). For JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) Friday before the open: Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), iShares Dow Jones US Financial Sector ETF (NYSE: IYF) and the Vanguard Financials ETF (NYSE: VFH).