#leveraged-etfs

#leveraged-etfs

Palantir's commercial revenue surged 121% year over year in Q3 2025, signaling that enterprise customers are moving beyond pilot programs into production deployments. The company's Artificial Intelligence Platform is winning contracts because it delivers applications that work immediately, not prototypes that require months of customization. Watch quarterly earnings for two metrics: U.S. commercial customer count and average contract value. If those numbers accelerate, PTIR benefits twice over. If enterprise AI budgets tighten due to recession fears or disappointing ROI, the leveraged ETF will magnify that downside.

Over the last few years, the market has seen a number of trends that have led to huge market moves. Apart from AI, which is the main impetus to the jet fueled "Magnificent 7" tech stocks leading the S&P 500 and still going strong, some of the booms that became busts in the latter part of 2025 going into January 2026 are: ETFs with extreme leverage Ultra high yield ETFs using options for income

Leveraged ETFs demand a different monitoring framework than buy-and-hold funds, and SOXL's 3x daily exposure to semiconductors makes the distinction especially sharp. With $13.6 billion in assets and an extremely high portfolio turnover rate driven by daily rebalancing, this fund combines sector momentum and structural decay. As 2026 approaches, investors need to separate broad semiconductor trends from the mechanics that make leveraged products behave differently than their underlying holdings.