Data as of .
ORCS vs ORCU: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, ORCS finished 1.5 points over and ORCU 1.9 points short.
ETFIQ Decay Resistance Score: ORCU scores higher
Did it keep up with its own daily multiple, compounded day by day?
A percentile among the 121 inverse ETFs over three months. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All leveraged ETFs ranked by it · How it is computed
Performance, window by window
| Window | Total return | Multiple would give | Difference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORCS | ORCU | ORCS | ORCU | ORCS | ORCU | |
| 1 month | +0.4% | −6.2% | +2.0% | −3.9% | −1.6 pts | −2.3 pts |
| 3 months | +14.6% | −39.7% | +18.1% | −36.2% | −3.5 pts | −3.6 pts |
| 6 months | −12.4% | −24.6% | +2.4% | −4.8% | −14.8 pts | −19.7 pts |
| Since launch | +17.9% | −68.8% | +32.7% | −65.4% | −14.8 pts | −3.4 pts |
| ORCS Direxion Daily ORCL Bear 1X ETF Aims to return 1 times the opposite of the daily move of ORCL | ORCU Direxion Daily ORCL Bull 2X ETF Aims to return twice the daily move of ORCL | |
|---|---|---|
| Issuer | Direxion | Direxion |
| Sets out to return | -1x | +2x |
| On | ORCL | ORCL |
| Segment | company | company |
| Fund returned, 3 months | +14.6% | −39.7% |
| Underlying returned, 3 months | −18.1% | −18.1% |
| What the stated multiple implies, 3 months | +18.1% | −36.2% |
| Difference from stated, 3 months | −3.5 pts | −3.6 pts |
| Fund returned, 1 year or since launch | +17.9% | −68.8% |
| Difference from stated, over that window | −14.8 pts | −3.4 pts |
| Underlying volatility | 56% | 56% |
| Difference over the days both have traded | no shared window | −2.3 pts |
| Expense ratio | not published | 0.97% |
| Launched | Nov 19, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 |
ORCS in plain words
Three months to Sep 11, 2026: ORCS returned +14.6% where its own daily promise gave +13.0%, 1.5 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −1 times ORCL's −18.1% implies +18.1%, which makes ORCS look 3.5 points short. 5.1 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −1 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. ORCS aims to return -1 times ORCL's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not -1 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more. ORCL moved at 56% annualized over that window. That is what decides how far the two figures separate: the same fund on a calm underlying and a violent one is a different product.
ORCU in plain words
Three months to Sep 11, 2026: ORCU returned −39.7% where its own daily promise gave −37.9%, 1.9 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and +2 times ORCL's −18.1% implies −36.2%, which makes ORCU look 3.6 points short. 1.7 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any +2 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. ORCU aims to return +2 times ORCL's move each day, then resets. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +2 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more.
Questions people ask
- Which came closer to its stated multiple, ORCS or ORCU?
- Over the window to Sep 11, 2026, ORCS finished 3.5 points from what its multiple implies and ORCU finished 3.6 points from its own, so ORCS came closer. Neither figure predicts the next window: it depends on how much the underlying moves about.
- Are ORCS and ORCU levered on the same thing?
- Yes. Both are levered on ORCL, ORCS at -1 times and ORCU at +2 times the daily move.
- Which one decays faster, ORCS or ORCU?
- Decay follows how much the underlying moves about. Over this window ORCS’s moved at 56% annualized and ORCU’s at 56%, so ORCS has the rougher ride and, at the same multiple, loses more to compounding.
- Can I hold ORCS or ORCU for a year?
- Both reset every day, so the multiple in the name applies to a single day and the daily results compound. Over a year the total is not the multiple times the year’s move, and in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less. ETFIQ makes no recommendation either way.
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Where these figures came from
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Cite this page. ETFIQ, ORCS against ORCU, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/ORCS-ORCU Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.