ProShares Ultra S&P500 ETF (SSO) may be a profitable swing trading instrument, but the 2X leverage factor is a source of drift. This article explains what "drift" means, reports it for 22 leveraged ...
Leveraged exchange-traded funds, which employ derivatives to generate a multiple of a reference asset’s daily return, have been popular. We estimate they gathered around $13 billion in net inflows ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Leveraged ETFs often underperform their underlying index leveraged by the same factor. ETF decay may have four reasons: beta slippage, roll yield, tracking errors, and management costs. Beta slippage ...
Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year weekly returns. The 1-yr return represents total return over the trailing 12 months. TQQQ charges a marginally ...
The ProShares Ultra S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT:SSO) and the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares ETF (NYSEMKT:SOXL) both offer leveraged exposure, but SSO targets the broad S&P 500 at 2x leverage, ...
NEW YORK, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Hedge funds are using near-record levels of leverage to trade equities and betting on debt-backed strategies in efforts to juice returns, making the most of markets buoyed ...
SOXL’s 3x leverage and semiconductor sector focus create far higher risk and volatility than SSO’s broad 2x S&P 500 exposure. SOXL offers a lower expense ratio, but it's suffered a much deeper 5-year ...