relative weight ETFs

Going overweight one investment instrument while pouring leverage to short another related instrument is a common portfolio strategy among institutional traders. But, aside from the capital requirements and sheer level of sophistication required, most retail traders would struggle to find a place...

A new whitepaper from leveraged ETF provider Direxion sheds light on the characteristics of highly correlated market segments, and how strategically overweighting and underweighting specific market segments can magnify returns over a short-to-intermediate time horizon.  The strategy, known as...

Until recently, Direxion was primarily known as the largest provider of leveraged and inverse ETFs. But over the last year that’s changed, beginning last February with the launch of five “Portfolio Plus” ETFs that only employed 25 percent leverage. Last month the company added to...