How To Trade Single Stock Leveraged ETFs – Part Two
Larry Connors' Trading Lesson of The Day | Oct. 1, 2025
This Saturday, I’m conducting a full-day seminar on how to professionally trade the fastest-growing area in the history of ETFs – Single-Stock Leveraged ETFs (SSLETFs).
As far as I’m aware, this will be the first time a professional-level course on trading SSLETFs has been taught.
Trading SSLETFs, both on the long side and the short side, is part of the reason why my long/short hedged portfolio is +61.01% this year through this morning (Oct. 1, 2025).
I can’t and won’t promise you these returns.
I rarely, if ever, share my trading results. When I ran my two private partnerships over a combined 11-year period (each were high Sharpe ratio, low volatility partnerships), the partners knew the returns each month.
Now, running my own money, I rarely talk about returns outside of a small handful of long-time trading associates.
I want to point out that the majority of these gains have come from both the long and the short strategies I’ve taught in my seminars and courses.
This includes Asymmetric Trading, Thematic Trading, Shorting Busted Momentum with puts (see RDDT today, which I have a put options position on), Shorting Structural Inefficiencies, especially VXX, BOIL, and DUST, along with hedging market, industry, and individual stock risk.
This is not the usual long-only portfolio, and then hoping prices rise.
It’s professionally crafted, and Single-Stock Leveraged ETFs are now playing a larger role because they offer many opportunities both on the long and the short side.
The opportunities are expanding and, in my opinion, they’re going to be vast for years to come for those who professionally understand how to trade them.
Here Are Ways For You To Trade SSLETFs
Today, I’ll share a handful of these opportunities with you…
If you wish to go much further in learning how to trade Single-Stock Leveraged ETFs, the seminar link and loyalty discount can be found at the bottom of this report.
1. Long Side
The moves higher are obviously amplified when the 1x rises. The 2x moves up double the amount for the day.
The goal is to identify those SSLETFs that have the potential to move up multiple days in a row.
These moves are called “Runners.”
Runners are SSLETFs that move up on an “exponential basis” in a very short period of time – often 5-7 days.
In September, dozens of SSLETF “Runners” moved up 100-300% in only a few days.
This is going to continue in perpetuity because more and more stocks are now trading with 2x daily movements.
There are a strong handful of ways to identify potential Runners.
One is when the 1x is trading above its 200-day ma and its 2-period RSI is trading under 5.
Two decades of published data-driven research by my research firm has shown these to have been historically high probability entry zones.
👉 As I’ve been teaching for years, the key is to structure your trades asymmetrically. Risk one unit with the goal of making many units.
This not only places you in the position to potentially make substantial returns, you also sleep at night knowing exactly, to the dollar, what your risk is. Heads, you win. Tails, you lose a little.
It’s the backbone trade structure of most multi-billion-dollar hedge funds, and professional traders.
It’s also the backbone of successfully trading SSLETFs.
There are additional long entry methods.
For example, trend following and thematic trading (think AI, data centers, quantum power centers, and more) are a few of the many.
You’ll learn these in greater depth in my seminar on Saturday.
2. Short Side
On the short side, the potential returns are as great, and potentially even greater, including with the inverse SSLETFs.
Both mean reversion and, especially, trend following work best.
Mean reversion traders should look for the 1x stocks that are overbought in longer-term downtrends.
Look for the single stock trading below its 200-day ma, combined with an overbought 2-period RSI above 95.
Oftentimes, quick reversals occur and, on a daily basis, those returns double the 1x.
Trend following is another.
So far in 2025, this has been vast. I can show you dozens of examples of large trend moves down, again with pre-determined fixed dollar risk that made 5, 10, and even 20 times the initial risk.
👉 Learning how to properly structure these trades is the key, and this will be taught this Saturday.
3. Arbitrage and Pairs Trading
Another rich area is arbitrage and pairs trading.
There are numerous opportunities here for you, and they are growing at one of the fastest paces I’ve seen in my 44 years in the trading industry.
A bonus to this is “crypto-arbitrage” with “pre-determined” dollar risk (you decide the amount).
There is an abundance of opportunities here, including with IBIT/BITX, BITO, MSTX, along with new leveraged products in Ether, Solana, and others.
Many of the opportunities are pure DHANDHO – “Heads I win; tails I only lose a little.”
The SEC has stated they’re fast-tracking bringing to the market many more of these crypto and crypto-related opportunities, especially over the next three months.
You’ll learn how to professionally trade them on Saturday.
4. Day Trading
There are also day-trading opportunities, especially to take advantage of large intraday movements.
The key is to know when to enter, and especially when not to enter.
There are windows of the day where high-frequency firms are crippling traders, which you absolutely want to avoid.
There is also a window during the day when the advantages move in favor of traders.
Knowing this gives you the power to amplify your returns.
5. Options Trading With SSLETFs
As I’ve encouraged for years, long options are among the best ways to structure your trades with the goal of achieving higher returns.
At Saturday’s seminar, I’ll dive deeper into this because it’s at the heart of asymmetric trading.
Saturday’s Single-Stock Leveraged ETF Trading Seminar is one of a kind, and you’ll be in possession of new trading strategies that few, if any, others have. If you’d like to join, you can do so here: https://store.tradingmarkets.com/cart/52201007939900:1
Please note – this course is not for beginners. You should have at least 3-5 years of trading experience and a basic level of options trading. This is to ensure you get the maximum value from the seminar.
Also, NDAs are required to keep this knowledge limited to participants only.
The seminar is limited to 50 traders and is now approaching full capacity.
If you’re looking to professionally grow your trading knowledge and trading skills, along with professionally learning the many ways to trade SSLETFs, join me on Saturday.
I can’t guarantee anyone will achieve returns greater than or less than mine. What I can guarantee is that by Saturday evening, you’ll be in possession of new professional-level Single-Stock Leveraged ETF trading strategies and knowledge that you never had (or few others have).
➞ To register for the seminar, please click here: https://store.tradingmarkets.com/cart/52201007939900:1
Sincerely,
Larry
PS- This will likely be the only time I teach this course. It will be made available for a short period of time in recorded form at a significantly higher price. After that, it will be removed from the market permanently.
PPS- Loyalty Pricing – There is loyalty pricing for those of you who have taken one of my courses or purchased the Cognitive Analysis manual. It’s my way of thanking you for your loyalty. Please use the code “Runners” at checkout to save $2,000.
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