5QQQ - 5X Leveraged QQQ

Soooo, I just read a Bloomberg article about this ETN that unsurprisingly is listed in London and Amsterdam and not the U.S. Europe has always been more comfortable with crazy leveraged products. In Germany there's like 10x levered products you can buy etc. I'm feeling a bit of FOMO now not being able to participate in this new level of pandemonium. I believe this runs afoul of PFIC legislation for all us U.S. citizens. If it didn't I would seriously consider doing a bunch of work on it, and potentially selling a big chunk of my TQQQ holdings and paying ridiculous cap gains toswitchETF/Ns. Maybe I'm just being a pussy and even with the crazy PFIC taxes 5QQQ will come out ahead. Or maybe it goes to zero one fateful day when passiveETFselling goes into overdrive.

I'm too lazy to do the work because I'll just be sad I can't take part in the ETN, but all you non-American European people who were interested in TQQQ should look into this one!

And of course post your thoughts here so I can live vicariously.

Comments (10)

  • InterninIB - Gen
Dec 15, 2021 - 9:41pm

I thought the optimal leverage is between 2-3x for the QQQ's. 5x just seems like it'd have some steep drawdowns. Has anyone back tested this?

Dec 15, 2021 - 10:53pm
kidcudi696969ssh, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Optimal leverage for equities is like 1.4-1.5x actually.

No point backtesting 5QQQ since it'll probably be up 1500x since 2009, just like how TQQQ is up 100x since 2009.

2021年12月18日下午1:53
AndreFin26, what's your opinion? Comment below:

他们刚刚启动了它们,我相信它将增长

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Dec 18, 2021 - 3:13pm
cp5670, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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