Methodology: each issue's direction is a live signal — long/short opens or holds a position, neutral means flat, and every direction change opens, flips, or closes it. Returns are direction-aware (a short gains when the price falls) and compound across positions from first observation to the latest issue. "Price move" is the stock's own raw change, shown separately. Neither represents actual portfolio performance.
Brief History (14 issues)
Down 2.9% at RSI 35.6 as the Nasdaq's 0.63% decline was tripled. With the Fed and both Microsoft and Meta reporting tonight, leveraged exposure into twin events is high risk — not a position to hold through the catalysts
Down 5.7% — 3x Nasdaq into an FOMC-plus-Big-Four-earnings week is a gambling chip, not a tool; cutting leverage is discipline
Bounced +5.5% into earnings week; tonight's Alphabet/Tesla double-header flips the direction switch — cutting leverage before earnings night is discipline
Down 4.54% to $67.53, -10.6% on the week and -17.3% on the month — in a grinding downtrend, 3x leverage bleeds from volatility decay in both directions. A day-trading tool; don't marry it overnight
Down 5.0% to $70.74, -16% on the month — 3x leverage in an AI unwind is a paper shredder; flat leverage before event night is common sense
Down 0.8% to $74.44 — on days the index is calm but its guts are torn, leverage decay bites hardest
Down 5.7% to $72.64, the 3x print of Nasdaq's -1.9% — with CPI tonight, gear down the leverage first
Up 0.9%, back above the 20/50-day cluster — early confirmation of a trend restart
Up 5.0% as the 3x Nasdaq refilled with the tech bounce; only above the 20/50-day cluster is it out of danger
A limp +0.7% for the 3x Nasdaq against a -7.6% week; until the chip repair confirms, leverage is an instrument of torture
-5.5% 3x Nasdaq with the chip pullback, below the 20/50-day; don't catch before confirmation
+4.2% 3x Nasdaq on the chip rebound, above the 50-day ($75); quick in, quick out
3x Nasdaq off 5.3% with the chip pullback; below the 50-day ($74.9) decay bites harder — quick in, quicker out
Nasdaq trend holds above the 50-day; short-term entries on the $74–75 retest, stop on a break