On July 13, Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL) fell 10.47% in regular trading, trading at $173.11/share, with turnover of $1.29 billion.

On the news front, semiconductor-themed ETFs have seen net inflows exceeding 100 billion yuan over the past 15 trading days, with trading volume and fund shares both hitting all-time highs, pushing sector crowdedness to extreme levels. Simultaneously, the market's most popular tech trading strategy — long chips, short software — is showing signs of collapse. Hedge funds have been net sellers of chip hardware stocks for consecutive weeks, triggering concentrated profit-taking as multiple factors converge.

As a triple-leveraged product designed to deliver 3x the daily return of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, SOXL inherently amplifies underlying index movements. With the semiconductor sector under broad selling pressure — Intel down over 3%, Micron down over 6% on the session — the leveraged structure magnified losses significantly.

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