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SPXL also has an expense ratio over 1%, which will eat away at earnings unless in the best of bull rushes (now).

The expense ratios of leveraged ETFs are nothing compared to the volatility drag. There are far cheaper and more effective ways than leveraged ETFs for buy-and-hold investors to obtain leverage, notably LEAPs and index futures. (Disclaimer: Not investing advice, do your own research, etc.)

Leveraged EFTs outperform VTI/VOO (in terms of total return) over 30-40 year investment horizons. Period.

Now, the risk (potential one-year downside) is not for everyone.

A little bit of leverage as others have commented is fine.

The problem happens if there’s 51% drop in 2x levered fund.

There’s a reason the fund the article’s OP is in started in 2008 and not 40 years ago.

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