If you spend a little time looking at the volume of trades, you will notice something interesting. You'll notice that many investors are putting big bets on the stock market these days. Most of them are long bets, but some are short. This is easy to see as ETF businesses caters to investors who want to place short-term oversized bets on the stock market. These are leveraged ETFs and reverse ETFs. Leveraged ETFs use financial derivatives to amplify daily returns of indexes or inventory. For example, if your index rises 1% in a day, a double leveraged ETF will provide a 2% return, while a 3% return. Reverse ETF offers opposite daily performance. Therefore, in a day when the index rises by 1%, a double inverse ETF decreases by 2%, and the opposite is true. These leverage/reverse ETFs aren't just growing in assets. They are becoming a large part of the daily trading volume of the ETF universe, and it is becoming a larger part of the overall trading. Who uses these products? It has a lot to do with the general increase in speculative behavior in the market. There is an increase in trading of options, Bitcoin and other more speculative products. “We continue to see more investors being used as a way to express short-term views in the marketplace. Space,” said one of the biggest providers of Leveraged/Inverse ETFS. Doug Yones, CEO of one Direxion, told CNBC. The first leverage/reverse ETF in the US, growing as a share of assets, began in 2006, allowing long or short bets to indexes such as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100. And they grew quickly too. The largest Prosharesultrapro QQQ (TQQQ), offering triple-loaded exposure to the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), has nearly $26 billion in assets. Single-size ETFs that utilize Nvidia and Tesla also currently have substantial assets. Max Leverage/Inverse ETF (Managed Assets)Prosharesultrapro QQQ (TQQQ)$25.7 Billion Direxion Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X (SOXL)$850 Million Protra QQQ (QLD)$79 Billion Proshares Ultra SP Bull 3X (SPXL) $5 billion daily Direction TSLA BULL 2X (TSLL) $3.5 billion Graniteshares 2x Long NVDA (NVDL) part of the $4.2 billion dollars is a bull market effect. Overall assets have been rising as stocks have increased meaningfully over the past few years. However, these leveraged/inverse ETFs are not merely growing assets, they are becoming a larger part of the ETF universe. According to Strategas, 2016 was the assets (AUM) managed by ETFS (AUM) in 2016, with assets (AUM) of approximately $2 trillion in assets (AUM) of assets (AUM). Today, ETFs have around $11 trillion in managed assets, but leveraged/reverse ETFs account for $81 billion of that, or nearly 8% of the total AUM. Why are these products growing? “I think play has a generational effect. I think there's a big desire for younger traders to provide leverage,” Strategas ETF head Todd Sohn told CNBC. “The barriers to entry are very low so you can buy these products on your mobile phone.” Yones says that 75% of ownership of these products are retailers, with hedge funds, trade desks and large securities. It estimated that it was a company and 25% of institutions, including “people who have books that want to neutralize the market.” He estimated that a small but substantial percentage of retailers (12%-15% of total) was from outside the US. , Japan and Europe. Daily trading volume leverage and reverse ETF growth (including leveraged and reverse single-size ETFs) are routinely manifested in the ETFs that are most frequently traded on a daily basis. An easy way to see this is the average daily amount of dollars per day, and the amount traded daily in ETFs. The top ETFs with daily dollar volumes are mainly the S&P 500, Russell 2000, and Nasdaq 100. ETFs are still tied to ETFs tied to the largest index, which is SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) $27.7 billion, a daily volume of 3 months. Investco QQQ (QQQ) $15.3 billion ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 (IWM) $5.7 billion ISHARES CORE S&P 500 (IVV) $3.9 billion Source: Strategically, average daily amount of dollars per day over the past three months The fifth largest ETF by the Nasdaq100. Prosharesultrapro QQQ offers 3x leveraged exposure to Altogether. The average daily dollar amount is leverage/verse. Leverage/Reverse ETF: Maximum average. 3 Months Daily Dollar Volume Prosharesultrapro QQQ (TQQQ) $380 Million Direxion Direxion Direxion Bull 3X (SOXL) $210 Million Direxion Direxion Direxion Direxion Tsla Bull 2X (TSLL) 1 Billion Source: Strategas Daily Reset These Products is bet on short-term momentum, but there is one additional feature that has proven difficult for investors to wrap their heads. It is reset every day. Because of the compounding effect, understanding what the actual returns will look like on a daily basis can be more difficult. This means that holding a double leveraged product for more than one day can significantly reduce returns by less than twice as much, depending on the market direction. An example is: Suppose your S&P 500 rises 10% a day and decreases 10% the next day. Here's the $100 investment: S&P 500: Virtual $100 Investment Day 0 $100 Day 1 (10% increase): Day 2 $110 (10% decrease). Two days later, we have $99, $99, so it will be down 1%. If you have leveraged products over these two days, it seems like it will be down 2% or $98. But because of a daily reset, it doesn't happen. S&P 500: Double Leveraged Double 100 Investment 0 $100 Days (10% Up, 20% Up): 120 Days 2 (10% Down, 20% Down) at $96 , has $96 instead of $98. And keep in mind that this excludes fees. Over time, these calculations become increasingly complicated. As a result, those who offer these products routinely say that they are not for purchase and retention investors. With these funds having very large daily sales, most investors seem to understand the risks of holding these products more than they do every day. However, Sohn told CNBC that all investors in leveraged products need to be extremely careful. “But at some point, whenever the market is heading south, it helps to stock up on the associated risks,” Song told CNBC. Direxion CEO Doug Yones will appear on Halftime's ETF Edge section on Monday at 12:35pm, with an ED live stream from 1:30pm. He will be joined by Todd Rosenbluth, Bettafi's Head of Research.
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