ORCS vs ORCU: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, ORCS finished 1.4 points over and ORCU 3.1 points short. Direxion Daily ORCL Bear 1X ETF and Direxion Daily ORCL Bull 2X ETF.
ORCS returned −2.6% while −1 times ORCL's move would have been +3.3%
ORCU returned −16.2% while 2 times ORCL's move would have been −6.6%
ORCS among the 125 inverse ETFs over three months
ORCU among the 470 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months
A percentile among the 125 inverse ETFs over three months. ORCU is a percentile among the 470 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months, a different set, so the two marks are not on one scale. 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
| Total return | Multiple would give | Difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | ORCS | ORCU | ORCS | ORCU | ORCS | ORCU |
| 1 month | +6.7% | −17.8% | +7.9% | −15.9% | −1.3 pts | −2.0 pts |
| 3 months | −2.6% | −16.2% | +3.3% | −6.6% | −5.9 pts | −9.5 pts |
| 6 months | −10.5% | −28.6% | +4.8% | −9.6% | −15.3 pts | −19.1 pts |
| Since launch ORCS Nov 2025 · ORCU Nov 2025 | +27.7% | −74.4% | +38.5% | −77.1% | −10.9 pts | +2.6 pts |
ORCS and ORCU over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
ORCS and ORCU on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
ORCS in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: ORCS returned −2.6% where its own daily promise gave −4.0%, 1.4 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −1 times ORCL's −3.3% implies +3.3%, which makes ORCS look 5.9 points short. 7.3 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 54% 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 30, 2026: ORCU returned −16.2% where its own daily promise gave −13.1%, 3.1 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and 2 times ORCL's −3.3% implies −6.6%, which makes ORCU look 9.5 points short. 6.5 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 30, 2026, ORCS finished 5.9 points from what its multiple implies and ORCU finished 9.5 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 Oracle, 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 54% annualized and ORCU’s at 54%, 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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ETFIQ, ORCS against ORCU, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/orcs-vs-orcu
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