What are leveraged 3x ETFs?

Leveraged 3X 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 respective underlying index. Such ETFs come in the long and short varieties.

What is a leveraged 3x inverse/short ETF?

Leveraged 3X Inverse/Short ETFs seek to provide three times the opposite return of an index for a single day. These funds can be invested in stocks, various market sectors, bonds or futures contracts. This creates an effect similar to shorting the asset class. The funds use futures and swaps to accomplish the leverage effect.

What are exchange traded funds (ETFs)?

There are a number of exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track the banking sector. Leveraged ETFs are exchange-traded funds that seek to return some multiple (e.g., 2x or 3x) of the daily performance of the index it tracks. A leveraged ETF is a fund that uses financial derivatives and debt to amplify the returns of an underlying index.