On July 17, Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3x (TECL) fell 8.73% in regular trading, trading at $177.67/share, with turnover of $90.14 million.
On the news front, South Korea's Financial Services Commission officially announced tightened regulations on single-stock leveraged ETFs, raising the minimum margin requirement from 10 million to 30 million Korean won with only cash accepted, while simultaneously banning new product listings. The policy shift served as the direct catalyst for the current selloff. Following the announcement, SK Hynix plunged over 13%, Samsung Electronics fell more than 8%, and memory chip stocks collapsed broadly, with selling pressure rapidly spreading to Western markets as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 6.61% at the open.
Adding to the downside pressure, Goldman Sachs fund-flow tracking reports indicated that U.S. hedge funds had been net sellers of semiconductor and hardware technology names for multiple consecutive weeks, with profit-taking sentiment heavy across AI-related trades. Morgan Stanley also warned that the chip sector appeared significantly overbought. As a triple-leveraged ETF, TECL's decline was substantially amplified relative to the underlying technology sector pullback.
The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments that provide 3X daily leveraged exposure to a domestic technology sector index. It is non-diversified.
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