On June 2, Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X ETF (SOXS) declined 8.67% in regular trading, trading at $5.525/share, with trading volume of $744 million. The drop extends the fund's multi-session sell-off driven by a sustained global semiconductor sector rally weighing heavily on inverse-leveraged products.
As a triple-leveraged inverse semiconductor ETF, SOXS mechanically moves opposite to the sector's direction at three times the magnitude. The fund had already fallen 11.51% on May 26 and another 8.42% in pre-market trading on May 27, reflecting persistent semiconductor strength. Broad sector momentum has been supported by institutional consensus positioning into technology names, with heightened semiconductor sector activity evidenced by increased capital flows and elevated trading interest across chip stocks globally.
The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments that, in combination, provide 3X daily inverse exposure to the index. The index is a rules-based, modified float-adjusted market capitalization-weighted index that tracks the performance of the thirty largest U.S. listed semiconductor companies. The fund is non-diversified.
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