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XLCD MicroSectors -3x Short Communication Services (XLC) ETNs

Aims to return three times the opposite of the daily move of State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLC)MicroSectorsan exchange traded note holds no assets; it is the issuing bank’s unsecured debtSince Sep 10, 2026Every MicroSectors fund ETFIQ covers
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Since launch to Sep 30, 2026: XLCD returned −3.3% where its own daily promise gave −1.5%, 1.8 points short.

−0.2%
What XLC did
−1.5%
What −3 times a day gives
−3.3%
What the fund returned
−1.8 pts
The fund itself cost
What it aimed at, and what it did
3.8 pts short of its stated multipleXLCD returned −3.3% while −3 times XLC's move would have been +0.5%XLC −0.2% ×−3 implies+0.5%XLCD returned−3.3%3.8 pts short of its stated multipleXLCD returned −3.3% while −3 times XLC's move would have been +0.5%XLC −0.2% ×−3 implies+0.5%XLCD returned−3.3%

Over the since launch to Sep 30, 2026, XLCD returned −3.3%, where −3 times that move implies +0.5%. The difference is −3.8 pts.

WindowFundXLC-3x the moveDifferenceXLC moved about
Since launch Sep 10 – Sep 30, 2026−3.3%−0.2%+0.5%−3.8 pts24%

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

In plain words

Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −3 times XLC's −0.2% implies +0.5%, which makes XLCD look 3.8 points short. 1.9 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. XLCD aims to return -3 times XLC'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. XLC moved at 24% 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 XLC, reset daily
Multiple a holder actually got over the window (ETFIQ)XLC moved −0.2% over this window, too little to read a multiple from
UnderlyingXLC
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
LaunchedSep 10, 2026
Underlying volatility over the window (ETFIQ)24% annualized
XLCD (MicroSectors -3x Short Communication Services (XLC) 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 XLCD

Did XLCD return -3 times XLC?
Over the window to Sep 30, 2026, XLC moved −0.2% and XLCD returned −3.3%. −3 times that move is +0.5%, so the fund came out 3.8 points short of it.
Why does XLCD not return -3 times over a year?
Because it resets daily. XLCD 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, XLCD and XLCTiingo 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, XLCD, leveraged ETFs, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/xlcd

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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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