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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 4348443, member: 73489&quot;]Leveraged ETFs don&#039;t work over longer periods of time -- say months for sure but maybe even weeks during periods of hyper-volatility (i.e, March 2020) -- because of time decay.&nbsp; You have to buy more-expensive futures contracts and sell lowe-priced near term futures.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also have a math problem:&nbsp; lose 50%, gain 50%, you&#039;re still down 25%.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>That said...IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING...and can&#039;t or don&#039;t want to raise cash (maybe you have a taxable account)....you can buy inverse ETFs and/or inverse leveraged ETFs and use them to hedge</u></b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to use them alot in 2005-09 and the only time I went &quot;short&quot; against the market was in November 2009.&nbsp; Made a quick 8% on portfolios in 2 days using the leveraged ETFs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Funds run by perma-bears like David Tice in the 1990&#039;s and 2000&#039;s could not be held profitably for more than a few months for the most part.&nbsp; That&#039;s what I meant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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