If you have suffered losses in Direxion ETFs, please call 303-300-5022 to discuss the potential for loss recovery.
After days of volatility, Direxion stated that it was closing the following funds “due to their inability to attract investor assets“:
| Direxion Daily Russia Bear 3X Shares | RUSS |
| Direxion Daily Natural Gas Related Bull 3X Shares | GASL |
| Direxion Daily Natural Gas Related Bear 3X Shares | GASX |
| Direxion Daily MSCI Developed Markets Bear 3X Share | DPK |
| Direxion Daily Mid Cap Bear 3X Shares | MIDZ |
| Direxion Daily Regional Banks Bear 3X Shares | WDRW |
| Direxion Daily MSCI European Financials Bull 2X Shares | EUFL |
| Direxion Daily Total Bond Market Bear 1X Shares | SAGG |
These investments are investments that should have only been sold to highly sophisticated investors looking to take great amounts of risk.
In 2009, FINRA, the regulator that oversees the actions of brokers, stated that leveraged and inverse ETF investments are toxic for average investors. These investments reset every day. As a result, the investments compound in their losses and the nature of them can change drastically over the course of a few days.
Daily re-leveraging combined with high volatility, such as the volatility seen in March 2020, creates compounding issues. When the underlying index of the ETF if volatile as opposed to being stable, either up or down, the re-leveraging of the ETF each day is mathematically destructive.
As of June 2026, Direxion’s 3X Bull Semiconductor ETF is still active but can be considered legally inappropriate for most investors. The Wall Street Journal identified how this investment is part of a dangerous new wave of investments. That wave includes heavy investing into highly-leveraged technology investments.
On June 5, for example, the Direxion 3X semiconductor fund plunged 31% in a single session, roughly tripling its benchmark index’s decline. Direxion designed the fund to do this. But the recovery will take much more. An approximately 10 loss like this in the underlying security requires an almost 50% recovery to recapture the lost principal.
As stated in the WSJ, if a leveraged fund grows large enough, it can start to have a significant impact on the underlying stock to which it is tied, a phenomenon traders refer to as “the tail wagging the dog.” Consequently, when the investment starts dropping it has a cascading impact.
This risk of leverage is well-known to brokers. Such investments should be recommended cautiously to experienced, speculative investors. They should not be recommended at all to other investors.
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