JDST -2x Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bear 2X ETF

BEAR ETF standard · Issuer Direxion · Tracks Junior Gold Miners (GDXJ) · Listed 2013-10-03

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Implied AUM

$40.2M

shares out × price

Last close

$25.88

20261001

30-day avg volume

872,417

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JDST realized

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what holders actually earned

Theoretical -2x

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-2x × Junior Gold Miners's return

Decay gap

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realized minus theoretical

Realized vs theoretical -2x Junior Gold Miners

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

Pair counterpart: JNUG (+2x bull, Direxion Daily Junior 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 Junior Gold Miners

Symbol	Factor	Direction	Issuer	Name	Implied AUM	30d volume	Options
JNUG	+2x	BULL	Direxion	Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bull 2X ETF	$397.9M	274,062	✓

How JDST works

JDST targets -2x the daily return of Junior 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.