The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is the most closely followed benchmark to gauge the performance of the overall stock market. In the past decade, it has produced a total return of nearly 254%. But ...

Take the S&P 500, for example. If the S&P 500 returned 20% in a single session, a leveraged ETF with three times daily leverage would return 60% that day. If you had invested $100 in the leveraged ...

Leveraged ETFs aim to amplify their benchmarks' daily returns by a fixed factor—usually 2X or 3x. For example, let’s say there was a 3X leveraged S&P 500 ETF. If the S&P 500 went up by 5% ...