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The Week

TECS.US closed at $62.35, down 0.13% on the week and about 0.34 percentage points ahead of the S&P 500. The fund swung widely, posting an 11.95% weekly range. It opened Monday at $59.17, pushed up to $63.02 intraday on Tuesday, then dropped to $56.96 on Wednesday before recovering into Thursday and Friday. Average daily volume was 373,466 shares, roughly in line with recent levels.

Spdr Select Tech This Week

The underlying Spdr Select Tech (XLK.US) also ended the week down 0.13% at $183.23. It opened the week at $186.99, reached a weekly high of $189.11 on Wednesday, then fell to $181.50 on Thursday before a late bounce. The weekly range was 4.07%, much narrower than TECS.US. With average daily volume of 9.49 million shares, activity was notably above its recent median.

Leverage & Decay

TECS.US aims to deliver -3x the daily return of Spdr Select Tech, not -3x the weekly number. The underlying slipped 0.13% over the week, so a simple triple-inverse math would imply a +0.39% gain. In reality, TECS.US fell 0.13%, leaving a 0.52 percentage point gap. That gap comes from daily rebalancing. The underlying moved up early in the week, fell midweek, and bounced into Friday, which whipsawed the leveraged fund. Even in a modest week for the tech sector, the cost of holding a leveraged inverse product shows up in choppy conditions.

Spdr Select Tech News

The week’s tech headlines centred on AI names and valuation risk. Applied Materials swung sharply in after-hours trading, first up 3.15% and later down 3.18%. AMD and Intel both pulled back before their earnings, with some put options jumping 757% to 1,000%. Palantir rose 3.38% midweek as several institutions adjusted positions, and Microsoft expanded its AI-related work with Palantir. Nvidia also saw new institutional buying. The running theme was unease over AI build-out costs and whether tech valuations have run too far.

The Week Ahead

On 26 and 27 October, a batch of US macro data is due, including Dallas Fed manufacturing activity, durable goods orders, Case Shiller home prices, and consumer confidence. Consumer confidence printed 81.9 last time against a forecast of 81, and durable goods orders are expected at 1.5. On the earnings side, next week’s reports from large AI-related companies will test this week’s worries about cost and demand. Whether beaten-down semiconductor names can steady will also matter for the direction of the tech complex.

In Short

TECS.US finished almost flat in what was a turbulent week. The underlying Spdr Select Tech slipped just 0.13%, yet the fund underperformed its theoretical -3x week by 0.52 percentage points, showing how rebalancing drag bites in choppy markets. AI-cost nerves drove the back-and-forth across tech, and next week’s macro data plus key earnings will set the tone. For this product, the daily path of the underlying matters more than the weekly total.

This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.