Thrill-Seeking Investors Just Made a Fortune on Triple Leveraged ETFs -- WSJ

Dow Jones

Apr 10, 2025

By Jack Pitcher

When stocks started tanking last week, investors in the biggest leveraged exchange-traded funds doubled down. They just made a fortune on paper.

Investors plowed a net $3.4 billion into the ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF from Thursday to Tuesday, according to FactSet, including a record high $1.8 billion on Monday alone. The fund seeks to triple the daily performance of the Nasdaq-100 index, up or down.

As the Nasdaq posted one of its biggest days in history Wednesday, the triple-leveraged fund rose 35%.

Another popular leveraged fund, the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x Shares, reported $2.3 billion of inflows from Thursday through Tuesday. It soared 56% Wednesday.

Because leveraged ETFs only try to amplify the return of their underlying assets on a single day basis, performance can differ substantially from the underlying assets over a longer period of time. Read more about leveraged funds here.

This item is part of a Wall Street Journal live coverage event. The full stream can be found by searching P/WSJL (WSJ Live Coverage).

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