TECL vs TECS: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, TECL finished 2.5 points short and TECS 2.8 points over. Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X ETF and Direxion Daily Technology Bear 3X ETF.
TECL returned +9.3% while 3 times XLK's move would have been +16.7%
TECS returned −21.0% while −3 times XLK's move would have been −16.7%
TECL among the 470 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months
TECS among the 125 inverse ETFs over three months
A percentile among the 470 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months. TECS is a percentile among the 125 inverse ETFs 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 | TECL | TECS | TECL | TECS | TECL | TECS |
| 1 month | +14.5% | −14.3% | +15.2% | −15.2% | −0.7 pts | +0.9 pts |
| 3 months | +9.3% | −21.0% | +16.7% | −16.7% | −7.4 pts | −4.3 pts |
| 6 months | +158.2% | −73.2% | +136.3% | −136.3% | +21.9 pts | +63.1 pts |
| 1 year | +99.3% | −72.2% | +118.8% | −118.8% | −19.5 pts | +46.6 pts |
| 3 years | +480.5% | −96.4% | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful |
| Since launch TECL Jan 2010 · TECS Jan 2010 | +28802.2% | −100.0% | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful |
TECL and TECS over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
TECL and TECS on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
TECL in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: TECL returned +9.3% where its own daily promise gave +11.8%, 2.5 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and 3 times XLK's 5.6% implies +16.7%, which makes TECL look 7.4 points short. 4.9 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any 3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. TECL aims to return +3 times XLK's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +3 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. XLK moved at 26% 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.
TECS in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: TECS returned −21.0% where its own daily promise gave −23.8%, 2.8 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −3 times XLK's 5.6% implies −16.7%, which makes TECS look 4.3 points short. 7.0 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. TECS aims to return -3 times XLK's move each day, then resets. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not -3 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, TECL or TECS?
- Over the window to Sep 30, 2026, TECL finished 7.4 points from what its multiple implies and TECS finished 4.3 points from its own, so TECS came closer. Neither figure predicts the next window: it depends on how much the underlying moves about.
- Are TECL and TECS levered on the same thing?
- Yes. Both are levered on technology, TECL at +3 times and TECS at -3 times the daily move.
- Which one decays faster, TECL or TECS?
- Decay follows how much the underlying moves about. Over this window TECL’s moved at 26% annualized and TECS’s at 26%, so TECL has the rougher ride and, at the same multiple, loses more to compounding.
- Can I hold TECL or TECS 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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