Largest Leveraged and Inverse ETFs: September 2025

Updated as of: October 9, 2025

Leveraged and Inverse ETFs are advanced investment vehicles useful for short-term trading or gauging investor sentiment on a single stock or sector.

Leveraged ETFs are exchange-traded funds designed to amplify the daily returns of a specific index, typically by two (2x) or three (3x) times. These securities achieve the double or triple return objective through the use of financial derivatives such as swaps, futures, and options. 

Inverse ETFs aim to deliver the opposite of the daily performance of a specific index, often using derivatives to achieve −1x, −2x, or −3x exposure. Investors use inverse ETFs to profit from or hedge against market declines without short selling.

Both of these investment vehicles are mainly intended for short-term trading or tactical strategies rather than long-term investing. This is mainly due to daily exposure resets and compounding effects that can cause significant performance deviations over time, especially in volatile markets. 

To provide advisors with leveraged and inverse investment ideas for consideration in portfolios, we compiled a list of the largest leveraged and inverse ETFs based on share class assets under management (AUM) using the YCharts Fund Screener, which helps advisors navigate across a universe of over 85,000 funds to find specific investment candidates.

The following data includes AUM flows over the last month, three months, and one year, along with net expense ratio and one-year price returns for the largest leveraged and inverse ETFs.

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Largest Leveraged ETFs

These are the largest Leveraged ETFs as of September 30, 2025.

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Leveraged Fund Share Class Flows

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Largest Inverse ETFs

These are the largest Inverse ETFs as of September 30, 2025.

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Inverse Fund Share Class Flows

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