That makes absolutely no sense. They are rebalanced every day, therefore, the leverage is 3x every day. Your leverage after holding them a while can't be any different from someone who just bought them. The shares are identical.
On Apr 08 01:22 PM Ron Rowland wrote:
> The reason these things work this way is because the daily reset > of the leverage results in higher "effective" leverage every day > the trend continues to move in your direction. > > For example, say you buy a 3x fund that moves in your direction for > a few weeks and you are now sitting on a 100% gain. At that time > your leverage is about 6x from where you started. And most importantly, > it is at 6x at the worst possible time - when the trend reverses. > So now you have 6x leverage working against you.
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On Apr 08 01:22 PM Ron Rowland wrote:
> The reason these things work this way is because the daily reset
> of the leverage results in higher "effective" leverage every day
> the trend continues to move in your direction.
>
> For example, say you buy a 3x fund that moves in your direction for
> a few weeks and you are now sitting on a 100% gain. At that time
> your leverage is about 6x from where you started. And most importantly,
> it is at 6x at the worst possible time - when the trend reverses.
> So now you have 6x leverage working against you.