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Leveraged Bearish Strategy ETF Pulls in Millions at Record Lows
Leveraged Bearish Strategy ETF Pulls in Millions at Record Lows

Yahoo

timea day ago

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  • Yahoo

Leveraged Bearish Strategy ETF Pulls in Millions at Record Lows

A U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering leveraged bearish exposure to shares in bitcoin (BTC) holder MicroStrategy (MSTR) has recently attracted millions in investor money as its prices hit record lows. The Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF, listed under the ticker SMST on Nasdaq, has registered a net inflow of over $24 million since July 11, according to data tracked by VettaFi. The net inflow tallied over $10 million on July 16 alone, the biggest single-day total since March 26. The inflow likely represents bargain hunting at cheaper valuations. SMST fell to a high-volume record low of $17.68 last week as bitcoin's bull run gathered pace, with prices hitting highs above $120,000. MSTR's share price hit an eight-month high of $456. The 2x short ETF seeks to deliver daily investment results that are -200%, or minus 2x, the daily percentage change in the MSTR share price. The fund represents a bearish leveraged bet on MSTR. The ETF's price rose 12% on Friday, nearing a log-scaled bearish trendline, which represents the sell-off since inception in August 2024. On Monday, it traded flat at around $20. Long ETF bleeds money The apparent bargain hunting in the short ETF has coincided with outflows from its 2x bullish counterpart, suggesting a potential shift in investor sentiment or a recalibration of directional bets. The Defiance Daily Target 2X Long MSTR ETF (MSTX) registered a net outflow of over $118 million since July 11. The fund's price fell 12% on Friday to $42.30 and traded around the same price yesterday.

Elle Caruso Fitzgerald From the Faith Based Investing Content Hub Explains How Investors Should Think About Liquidity & Large-Cap ETFs
Elle Caruso Fitzgerald From the Faith Based Investing Content Hub Explains How Investors Should Think About Liquidity & Large-Cap ETFs

Globe and Mail

time2 days ago

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  • Globe and Mail

Elle Caruso Fitzgerald From the Faith Based Investing Content Hub Explains How Investors Should Think About Liquidity & Large-Cap ETFs

New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - July 21, 2025) - Elle Caruso Fitzgerald, a leading voice from the Faith Based Investing Content Hub, explains in her latest article how investors should think about liquidity and large-cap ETFs. Fitzgerald details how liquidity concerns may be overblown, particularly for large-cap ETFs, and investors may miss out on compelling opportunities. How Investors Should Think About Liquidity & Large-Cap ETFs To summarize, an ETF's liquidity is directly linked to the liquidity of its underlying securities. Therefore, to accurately assess an ETF's liquidity, it's crucial to examine the portfolio's holdings. Relying solely on total assets or trading volume may be misleading. To view the full article, please visit: About the Faith Based Investing Content Hub by JLens The Faith Based Investing Content Hub on ETF Trends is dedicated to helping investors understand and leverage the power of JLens' Jewish-themed funds. In particular, TOV provides a new investment vehicle for the Jewish community to hold corporations accountable, while also giving investors and shareholders the ability to 'invest Jewishly.' About VettaFi VettaFi is a leading provider of data-driven insights and specialized services for asset managers and investors, bringing together a wealth of expertise to support client success. At the core of VettaFi is a commitment to fostering strong relationships and delivering innovative solutions that help clients engage, grow, and thrive in an increasingly complex financial landscape. For more information about VettaFi, please visit

Why defense ETFs and gold miner ETFs are seeing big inflows
Why defense ETFs and gold miner ETFs are seeing big inflows

Yahoo

time27-06-2025

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Why defense ETFs and gold miner ETFs are seeing big inflows

Defense stocks have cooled off since their recent surge, but defense-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are still seeing inflows as NATO leaders commit 5% of their annual budgets to defense spending. Cinthia Murphy, VettaFi investment strategist, joins Market Catalysts to explain how these flows signal defense as both a tech and industrial play. She also takes a look at gold miner ETFs and explains why they're among the market's top performers this year. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Catalysts here. NATO leaders committed 5% of their annual budgets to defense spending at their annual summit this week. And while defense stocks have cooled since the recent spike, ETF flows suggest the defense rally still has some room to run and could even be an alternative way to play the tech trade. I want to bring in Cynthia Murphy, VettaFi investment strategist for this week's ETF report sponsored by Invesco QQQ. Great to have you here in studio with us. So, let's just begin why are we seeing some of these inflows and to what extent is it analogous to events that we've seen in the past where there is a ramp up in some of the defense prioritization among investors? You know, when it comes to thematic investing, defense has been one of the biggest themes so far this year. Outside of protection, things that we're going to talk in a minute about. And, you know, the news keeps supporting this as a good area of the market to be in. So, defense stocks are primarily industrial plays, but a lot of them have more and more tech stocks because defense today is both an industrial infrastructure effort. It's also a technology effort, an AI effort. And when you think about drones and all the new technology you're using, uh, for, for combat. And this week we had the NATO news where they're really upping their budget for defense spending. They went from 2% of GDP commitment to 5% GDP commitment. And not only that, but these countries have to actually show on an annual basis their plan. How are they going to allocate that budget? How are they're spending that money on actual defense, uh, you know, equipment and, and strategy? So it's a, it's a theme that just keeps on giving. I mean, some of these stocks, Rheinmetall, which is one of the biggest defense stocks, is a German company, is up over 250% in the last year. It's, uh, these are really, really strong performers and investors are buying the ETFs that, that tap into that space. Well, and Simeon, Cynthia mentioned a great point in that the battlefield is very different right now, because especially with some of the foreign actors that might try in times of conflict to tap into things like energy grids or natural resources, that also takes the mindset to what needs to be done within cyber security, what is already being done and where investors could also be thinking of that as a annexed defensive play. Yeah, I, I think maybe one of the questions is how insulated are these companies from the broader economy. Let's take the NATO, the NATO uptick and spending. Let's make kind of a bare case that they can't quite run deficits. We know they said they're going to run bigger deficits. They have in the past, but they can't do it like the US does. So let's suppose they keep their commitment, but it takes a nick out of their broader GDP growth. Are the defense names and the cyber security names narrow enough to benefit without the downside of perhaps a little touch of weakness in other parts of the European economy? I, I think it remains to be seen, but if you think about, I mean, we're talking arms dealers, we're talking about, you know, technology, uh, airplanes, like in the US would be like Lockheed Martin, Northman Grumman. I mean, they're, they're different companies that are, you know, kind of swimming above that pond because that market is so strong right now. And, and I think the specially strong plays here are Europe based plays more than the US because it has really been that effort there. So when you look at funds that invest primarily in Europe defense, like EUAD, that fund is up 65% so far this year. Uh, when you look at say SHLD, a shield, which has 50% US, 50% global, uh, that fund is up maybe 50%. So really they play really the European companies because they are committed to investing in these businesses and, and making it happen. You know, one of the other areas that you flagged to us as well, gold miners, still one of the year's best performing ETFs. What, what is the outlook for the second half of the year, given that we'd already seen some of the highs that were just mind-blowing that we were able to get to and, and how much of those flows could still see momentum from here? Yeah, it's, I mean, Simeon, we've been in this business long enough to know that gold miners ebb and flow. It's like almost every five years they have their moment in the sun and then nothing happens. And then they bust. Uh, this year, they're performing, outperforming gold two to one basically, 60% to 30%. Uh, all the conversation, I mean, JP Morgan just came out and pegged the price of gold at 4,000 by mid next year, uh, which is another big leg up from where it is today. And if you look at Q1 earnings, I think that's the big, a big catalyst here is Q1 earnings show these companies beating their, their earnings by big amounts. Like Newmont, I think beat earnings per share by more than 30%. So they are really resilient and they're doing well and, and folks are buying them. And they don't always do what gold does. Yeah. Yeah. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data

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