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LQDU MicroSectors 3x Long Investment Grade Corporate Bond (LQD) ETNs

Aims to return three times the daily move of investment-grade bonds (LQD)MicroSectorsan exchange traded note holds no assets; it is the issuing bank’s unsecured debtSince Aug 11, 2026Every MicroSectors fund ETFIQ covers
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One month to Sep 30, 2026: LQDU returned −11.0% where its own daily promise gave −9.9%, 1.1 points short.

−3.4%
What LQD did
−9.9%
What 3 times a day gives
−11.0%
What the fund returned
−1.1 pts
The fund itself cost
What it aimed at, and what it did
0.9 pts short of its stated multipleLQDU returned −11.0% while 3 times LQD's move would have been −10.2%LQD −3.4% ×3 implies−10.2%LQDU returned−11.0%0.9 pts short of its stated multipleLQDU returned −11.0% while 3 times LQD's move would have been −10.2%LQD −3.4% ×3 implies−10.2%LQDU returned−11.0%

Over the 1 month to Sep 30, 2026, LQDU returned −11.0%, where 3 times that move implies −10.2%. The difference is −0.9 pts.

2 pts short of its stated multipleLQDU returned −11.6% while 3 times LQD's move would have been −9.6%LQD −3.2% ×3 implies−9.6%LQDU returned−11.6%2 pts short of its stated multipleLQDU returned −11.6% while 3 times LQD's move would have been −9.6%LQD −3.2% ×3 implies−9.6%LQDU returned−11.6%

Over the since launch to Sep 30, 2026, LQDU returned −11.6%, where 3 times that move implies −9.6%. The difference is −2.0 pts.

WindowFundLQD+3x the moveDifferenceLQD moved about
1M Aug 31 – Sep 30, 2026−11.0%−3.4%−10.2%−0.9 pts7%
Since launch Aug 11 – Sep 30, 2026−11.6%−3.2%−9.6%−2.0 pts6%

LQDU over each window to Sep 30, 2026. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation. Source: ETFIQ.

Head to head
LQDU vs LQDD

In plain words

Read the multiple against the whole window instead and 3 times LQD's −3.4% implies −10.2%, which makes LQDU look 0.9 points short. 0.2 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any 3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. LQDU aims to return +3 times LQD'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. LQD moved at 7% 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.
Sets out to return+3 times the daily move of LQD, reset daily
Multiple a holder actually got over the window (ETFIQ)LQD moved −3.4% over this window, too little to read a multiple from
UnderlyingLQD
Segmentsector or country, index
Net assetsan exchange traded note holds no assets; it is the issuing bank’s unsecured debt
Expense rationot read by ETFIQ
LaunchedAug 11, 2026
Underlying volatility over the window (ETFIQ)7% annualized
LQDU (MicroSectors 3x Long Investment Grade Corporate Bond (LQD) ETNs), leveraged ETFs fields as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Returns are ETFIQ calculations from Tiingo end-of-day prices, distributions reinvested, measured against the underlying over exactly the same days. How these figures are computed

Questions people ask about LQDU

Did LQDU return +3 times LQD?
Over the window to Sep 30, 2026, LQD moved −3.4% and LQDU returned −11.0%. 3 times that move is −10.2%, so the fund came out 0.9 points short of it.
Why does LQDU not return +3 times over a year?
Because it resets daily. LQDU aims at +3 times each day's move, and daily results compound. Over a run where the underlying falls and comes back, compounding a levered daily return leaves a holder behind what +3 times the period move would suggest; over a steady run in one direction it can leave them ahead. The longer the holding, and the more the underlying moves about, the further apart the two figures get.
Sources and dates
Prices, LQDU and LQDTiingo end-of-day prices ↗
Fee, not read by ETFIQ
Net assets, an exchange traded note holds no assets; it is the issuing bank’s unsecured debt
IssuerMicroSectors website ↗
SourceSEC investment company series and class file, which lists every registered fund ↗

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ETFIQ, LQDU, leveraged ETFs, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/lqdu

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Stated multiple
What the fund sets out to return against its underlying, each day. A fund at 2x aims to return twice the underlying’s daily move, and an inverse fund at -2x aims to return twice it in the opposite direction.
Daily reset
The fund starts each day aiming at the multiple again, from wherever it now stands. It is the mechanism that makes these funds behave as they do, and the reason the stated multiple applies to a day rather than to a holding period.
Compounding
Daily results multiply together rather than adding up. Two days of the multiple is not twice the multiple, and over a run of days the difference between the two grows with how far the underlying moves about.
Decay
What compounding costs a holder when the underlying falls and rises back to where it started. The underlying is level and the fund is down; the more violently it moved, the further down.
Difference against the stated multiple
The fund’s return minus the stated multiple times the underlying’s return, in percentage points. The one figure that says whether a holder got what the fund’s own multiple describes.
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