On June 23, Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3x declined 12.34% in regular trading, trading at $216.81/share, with turnover of $102 million. The sharp drop was driven by a concentrated unwinding of crowded semiconductor positions that triggered a cascading selloff across leveraged products.
On the news front, the Korean financial regulator officially tightened rules on single-stock leveraged ETFs tied to Samsung and SK Hynix, forcing massive deleveraging as related ETF assets had surged from $3 billion to $9.1 billion in just one month. The Korean Composite Index plunged 10%, sparking global panic. Simultaneously, the Bank of America June Global Fund Manager Survey revealed that 80% of respondents identified long global semiconductors as the most crowded trade in history, while 56% characterized current AI stocks as being in a boom period. The 3x semiconductor ETF (SOXL) plunged 22% on the same day, and the 3x leveraged Korea ETF collapsed 35%, as the triple-leverage mechanism dramatically amplified the underlying sector correction.
The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments providing 3X daily leveraged exposure to a technology sector index, meaning any underlying index decline is magnified threefold in daily returns.
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