Growth of $100 in the 1x SOXX vs the 3x SOXL, Jan 2 to Jul 13 2026

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-07-15, from How Leveraged ETFs Work (and Why They Decay).

Rows × columns

131 × 3

Period covered

2026-01-02 to 2026-07-13

Computed

2026-07-15

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-07-15, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH base AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           argMax(close, window_start) AS c
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN ('SOXX', 'SOXL')
      AND window_start >= '2026-01-02 00:00:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-14 00:00:00'
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker, d
),
f AS (SELECT ticker, argMin(c, d) AS c0 FROM base GROUP BY ticker)
SELECT base.d AS date,
    round(maxIf(base.c / f.c0 * 100, base.ticker = 'SOXX'), 1) AS soxx_growth,
    round(maxIf(base.c / f.c0 * 100, base.ticker = 'SOXL'), 1) AS soxl_growth
FROM base INNER JOIN f ON base.ticker = f.ticker
GROUP BY base.d
ORDER BY base.d