25M and currently unemployed. My entire portfolio is in a 2x leveraged ETF, so I’ve taken one hell of a beating over the past few days, as you can see in the screenshot. The goal was to hit $200K, and I was ready to sell the moment I got there.…
At the end of November 2025, there was about $160.5 billion invested in leveraged exchange-traded funds and notes (ETFs and ETNs). At that point, fund volumes accounted for approximately 8% of total trading activity on U.S. stock exchanges.
