On July 21, Direxion Daily South Korea Bull 3X Shares rose 8.47% overnight, trading at $20.01/share, with turnover of $63.02 million.
On the news front, Korean equities showed signs of stabilization after a prolonged selloff, with Samsung Electronics climbing 2.7% to 250,500 KRW. The KOSPI index, which had retreated over 25% from its highs dragged down by heavyweight semiconductor and tech names including SK Hynix and Samsung, opened lower but quickly narrowed losses. Meanwhile, Korean President Lee Jae-myung urged financial regulators during a cabinet meeting to take bold and swift necessary measures regarding individual stock leveraged ETFs, a statement widely interpreted by markets as a clearer policy floor signal.
Goldman Sachs and UBS both indicated that the current environment presents a favorable risk-reward ratio, suggesting that extreme volatility may represent a positioning window. Heightened expectations for a Korean equity rebound drove the triple-leveraged ETF sharply higher.
The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments providing daily leveraged exposure to the MSCI Korea 25/50 Index, designed to measure the performance of large- and mid-cap segments of the South Korean equity market, covering approximately 85% of free float-adjusted market capitalization.
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