A modest loss already needs a larger percentage gain to recover.
Zeus Alpha — Advanced leveraged signal
A high-risk exposure signal for a daily-reset leveraged ETF. Read the loss mechanics first: leverage can magnify losses, volatility drag and gaps, including loss of most or all invested capital.
Daily-reset leverage targets a multiple of one day's movement, not a long-period multiple. Compounding and volatile paths can make the result diverge sharply. A signal can reduce exposure at times; it cannot eliminate overnight gaps, execution slippage or total-loss risk.
The recovery math gets harder as the loss gets deeper
These examples are arithmetic, not forecasts. They show why a high return headline is meaningless without the drawdown beside it.
Half the capital requires a doubling just to return to the starting value.
A severe leveraged drawdown can make recovery practically remote.
Judge Alpha against leverage risk, not against Beta
The proof is kept beside its leveraged benchmark. The model state is calculated after the US market closes, with manual implementation assumed at the next US market open.
Zeus Alpha — Advanced leveraged signal
The model state is calculated after the US market closes. The hypothetical backtest assumes manual implementation at the next US market open. This is separate from the 14-day public publication delay.
Canonical chart and metric source through 2026-07-01. Both are simulated / hypothetical. The 14-day publication embargo applies separately to forward-journal observations.
Signal computed after the US market close; the resulting allocation is executed at the next market open.
Expert assumptions and provenance
- Accounting
- total_return_adjusted_ohlc
- Costs
- Fee 0.10% · borrow 5.00% · cash yield 0.00%
- Model version
- tqqq-trail3-frozen-v1
- Evidence generated
- 2026-07-03T06:07:49.000Z
Data through 2026-07-01. Public observations have a separate 14-calendar-day embargo. Source digest: df2d92bd07835b5a305e2e467729daa404fa0afa7c66559cbdb43612ce683ed6
Risk state before chart detail
Current access is designed to show model state, freshness and plain-language meaning first. Alpha also requires an explicit leverage-risk acknowledgement.
Shown only with a fresh source date
Plain-language meaning before weights
Market-data date and computation time
Interface schematic only. Bars do not represent performance or a live allocation.
A signal is not a safety mechanism
Gaps remain
A market can move before a next-open instruction can be acted on.
Paths matter
Daily reset and volatility can erode value even when the underlying later recovers.
You control execution
Zeus does not connect to a broker, hold funds or decide suitability for you.