(https://www.marketwatch.com/story/risky-leveraged-etfs-are-booming-in-2026-some-worry-they-could-be-making-the-stock-market-more-volatile-cef1427b?mod=mw_rss_topstories) and brokers love the fee drag, but this is exactly backwards — you're buying volatility drag disguised as leverage. In flat or choppy markets (which we ARE in post-Fed), 3x levered products bleed on daily rebalancing faster than the underlying index moves.

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