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Why not invest in 3x leveraged ETF? ›

A leveraged ETF uses derivative contracts to magnify the daily gains of an index or benchmark. These funds can offer high returns, but they also come with high risk and expenses. Funds that offer 3x leverage are particularly risky because they require higher leverage to achieve their returns.

The Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bull 3x Shares (JNUG) and the Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bear 3x Shares (JDST) are the two most volatile exchange-traded funds of all. Each has a one-year volatility reading of about 170.

TECL - Performance Comparison. In the year-to-date period, TQQQ achieves a 0.80% return, which is significantly higher than TECL's -4.00% return. Over the past 10 years, TQQQ has underperformed TECL with an annualized return of 36.17%, while TECL has yielded a comparatively higher 40.20% annualized return.

These leveraged ETFs seek a return that are 300% or -300% of the return of their benchmark index for a single day. The funds should not be expected to provide three times or negative three times the return of the benchmark's cumulative return for periods greater than a day.

BMO has launched the first quadruple leveraged ETN fund that tracks the S&P 500. The fund will trade under the ticker symbol "XXXX" and seeks to generate four time the S&P 500's return on a daily basis. The launch come as bullishness rise among investors and Wall Street predicts more gains to come in 2024.

Because they rebalance daily, leveraged ETFs usually never lose all of their value. They can, however, fall toward zero over time. If a leveraged ETF approaches zero, its manager typically liquidates its assets and pays out all remaining holders in cash.

Direxion launched its first leveraged ETFs in 2008. In November 2008 the company was the first to offer ETFs with 3X leverage, a move that was copied some months later by its competitors ProShares and Rydex Investments.

UPRO is a triple-leveraged ETF that aims to deliver three times the daily return of the S&P 500, but it comes with high volatility and drawdown risks. Despite the risks, owning UPRO can be a strategic way to ride the stock market rally while protecting against significant losses.

The largest Aggressive ETF is the iShares Core Aggressive Allocation ETF AOA with $1.80B in assets. In the last trailing year, the best-performing Aggressive ETF was AOA at 12.08%. The most recent ETF launched in the Aggressive space was the iShares ESG Aware Aggressive Allocation ETF EAOA on 06/12/20.

ProShares UltraPro QQQ is the most popular and liquid ETF in the leveraged space, with AUM of $21.9 billion and an average daily volume of 67.3 million shares a day. The fund seeks to deliver three times the return of the daily performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index, charging investors 0.88% in annual fees.

Should I buy TQQQ or QQQ? ›

QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index passively, while TQQQ is highly levered. TQQQ seeks daily returns that are three times those of the QQQ (before fees and expenses.) QQQ experiences smaller price fluctuations and is considered to be less risky than TQQQ.

This ETF offers 3x daily long leverage to the S&P 500 Index, making it a powerful tool for investors with a bullish short-term outlook for large cap equities. Investors should note that UPRO's leverage resets on a daily basis, which results in compounding of returns when held for multiple periods.

Investors can hold the ETF for longer than a day, but returns can vary significantly from 2x exposure over longer periods. That's because the ETF resets its leverage daily. In oscillating markets, the leverage reset can significantly erode returns.

Leveraged 3X Long/Bull ETFs are funds that track a wide variety of asset classes, such as stocks, bonds and commodity futures, and apply leverage in order to gain three times the daily or monthly return of the underlying index. As long-only funds, they do not provide short or inverse exposure.

For most standard, unleveraged ETFs that track an index, the maximum you can theoretically lose is the amount you invested, driving your investment value to zero. However, it's rare for broad-market ETFs to go to zero unless the entire market or sector it tracks collapses entirely.

Nearly all leveraged ETFs come with a prominent warning in their prospectus: they are not designed for long-term holding. The combination of leverage, market volatility, and an unfavorable sequence of returns can lead to disastrous outcomes.

Leveraged ETFs decay due to the compounding effect of daily returns, volatility of the market and the cost of leverage. The volatility drag of leveraged ETFs means that losses in the ETF can be magnified over time and they are not suitable for long-term investments.

Yes. But it is not something I would recommend for the average person. Note: Most leveraged ETFs (such as TQQQ) are only designed to accomplish the stated leveraged objective on a daily basis. These funds are clear in their acknowledgment that returns may lag their stated objective over a longer period.

TQQQ has a draw down risk of -89.60%, which is the largest price decline experienced over the last three years. This fund has a three year standard deviation of 75.4%.