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Gutsy Traders Make $1.5 Billion Triple-Leveraged Bet on Nasdaq 100


Traders have shoveled record cash into a triple-levered fund tracking the Nasdaq 100, undaunted by the wild market swings of recent days.

Traders have shoveled record cash into a triple-levered fund tracking the Nasdaq 100, undaunted by the wild market swings of recent days. Investors sank $1.5 billion into the ProShares UltraPro QQQ fund (ticker TQQQ) in the most recent session for which data is available, the largest inflow in its 15-year history. TQQQ uses derivatives to deliver three times the daily performance of the Nasdaq 100.

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