DUST -2x Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bear 2X ETF

BEAR ETF standard · Issuer Direxion · Tracks Gold Miners (GDX) · Listed 2010-12-08

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Implied AUM

$111.0M

shares out × price

Last close

$40.89

20261001

30-day avg volume

1,609,637

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DUST realized

—

what holders actually earned

Theoretical -2x

—

-2x × Gold Miners's return

Decay gap

—

realized minus theoretical

Realized vs theoretical -2x Gold Miners

Cumulative return of DUST against a clean -2x of Gold Miners's return over the same window; the red line (right axis) is the gap between them.

Pair counterpart: NUGT (+2x bull, Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 2X ETF)

Shorting both legs of a daily-reset bull/bear pair captures their combined decay over time. It isn't free money — the edge depends on borrow rates (often punitive on the bear leg) and assignment risk on hard-to-borrow shares.

Other leveraged products on Gold Miners

Symbol	Factor	Direction	Issuer	Name	Implied AUM	30d volume	Options
GDXU	+3x	BULL	MicroSectors	MicroSectors Gold Miners 3x Leveraged ETN	—	1,690,043
NUGT	+2x	BULL	Direxion	Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 2X ETF	$979.9M	720,540	✓
GDXD	-3x	BEAR	MicroSectors	MicroSectors Gold Miners -3x Inverse Leveraged ETN	—	3,512,829

How DUST works

DUST targets -2x the daily return of Gold Miners — not the return over longer windows. It rebalances every day, so over weeks and months its result drifts away from -2x × the index, usually downward when the market chops around.

The maths: the drag is roughly −½ × N × (N−1) × σ² per period (N = leverage, σ = the index's volatility). For a -2x fund on an index with 25% annual volatility that is several percent a year before fees — the red line above is that drag measured.

Short-term trades (a day or a few) are what these funds are built for. Premium sellers like their rich option IV — see the quote page. Multi-day directional bets work in strong trends and get eaten in chop.

Not investment advice.