Buying a leveraged ETF is a good way to lose money. Long-term investing is the better option for long-term wealth.

Many investors look at leveraged ETFs as a way to really magnify their returns. In reality, they usually do much more harm ...

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 ...

Leveraged ETFs promise supercharged gains. The math tells a different story.

Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bull 2X Shares ETF (SPUU) is a lesser known competitor of ProShares Ultra S&P500 (SSO): both aim to provide twice the daily return of the S&P 500 Index before expenses. They are ...

If the market goes up 1%, a leveraged ETF promises to go up 2%. That sounds like free money until you understand the catch: daily rebalancing means the math only works in one direction at a time.

Summary: Leveraged exchange-traded funds seek to deliver some multiple of an underlying index or reference asset’s return over a day, before fees. Owing to compounding effects (“volatility decay”), ...