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Direxion said on Wednesday that it has launched new leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds tied to two stocks, Palantir Technologies and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway that offer traders ...
The 7 Best Inverse ETFs. Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bear 3X (SPXS) Proshares Short 20+ Year Treasury (TBF) ... offers ample opportunity for investors to short the stock market. The goal of buying ...
Direxion announced Thursday the launch of three new ETFs available to trade on the New York Stock Exchange: the Direxion Daily FinTech Bull 2X Shares (NYSE Arca: FNTC), the Direxion Daily Oil ...
Using a combination of options, futures, and swaps some firms have designed ETFs capable of tracking approximately −1x, 2x, −2x, 3x and −3x the daily returns of an index. 3x and −3x ETFs were first released on November 8, 2008 by Direxion Funds.
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund that is also an exchange-traded product, i.e., it is traded on stock exchanges. [1] [2] [3] ETFs own financial assets such as stocks, bonds, currencies, debts, futures contracts, and/or commodities such as gold bars.
An inverse S&P 500 ETF, for example, seeks a daily percentage movement opposite that of the S&P. If the S&P 500 rises by 1%, the inverse ETF is designed to fall by 1%; and if the S&P falls by 1%, the inverse ETF should rise by 1%. Because their value rises in a declining market environment, they are popular investments in bear markets.
So, a fund like the Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bull 3X Shares (SPXL) offers three times the performance of the S&P 500 index for that day. If the index goes up, the ETF should go up three times as much.
In March 2020, amidst the 2020 stock market crash, Direxion announced that it would reduce the leverage of ten of its ETFs from 3x to 2x and close eight others. [15] This was part of a broader trend among providers of leveraged ETFs during the first quarter of 2020; nevertheless, Direxion saw inflows of nearly $4 billion during March 2020 alone ...