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Plenty of sectors are in electoral crosshairs this year, technology chief among them. The S&P 500's largest sector weight is a leadership group again in 2020, but there are implications for it come Election Day.

If the first three quarters of 2020 have been any indication, the final three months of the year will more than likely hold its fair share of surprises. That being said, trends among Direxion’s most popular leveraged funds reveal how traders are positioning themselves heading into election season.

There are myriad potential sector-level outcomes that could result following Election Day.

Sandwiched between the two extremes of the largely shut-down Stay-at-Home Economy and a fully opened New Normal Economy, the Re-Opening Economy is an uncertain, transitional phase.We have identified multiple themes that we believe play an essential role in achieving these goals, including Cloud Computing, Genomics, the Internet of Things, and Telemedicine.Though the Re-Opening Economy roughly began in July, the lack of a vaccine and continued flare-ups of COVID-19 around the world suggest that this transitional phase is likely to remain in place for an extended time frame.

Canadian oil and gas stocks never really recovered from the global financial crisis. They had a bounce in 2009 as the economy improved, but a surge in U.S. shale production sparked another crash in 2014.

In this article I will walk you through the commonly used but wrong way to think about volatility decay.We'll then walk through an example of volatility decay with realistic numbers.Afterwards, we'll build a simple mathematical model to calculate volatility decay from first principles.We'll compare the model with back-test simulations done on portfoliovisualizer.com.

The darling technology sector took some lumps earlier this month, but consensus wisdom appears to be that was a mere blip and the group will get its groove back if it's not already doing so.What HappenedOf course, that would be beneficial to the Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: TECL

It would be reasonable to expect that last week's breathtaking declines among marquee technology stocks and the Nasdaq-100 Index would be all the impetus traders need to abandon leveraged tech exchange-traded funds, at least for the moment.