The takeaway
Direxion Daily Energy Bull 2X Shares shows a moderate seasonal pattern over 10 years of data — strongest in September (+3.5%) and softest in October (−1.4%).
Right now
In July, the fund has risen 60% of years, averaging +0.8%, roughly 1.4 pts behind the S&P 500.
The full picture
Direxion Daily Energy Bull 2X Shares's most dependable month has been September, higher in 6 of 10 years; October has been its least reliable, up just 20% of the time.
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Month by month
The fund's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in April (+7.5 pts); it has trailed the market most in March (−4.0 pts).
“vs S&P” is Direxion Daily Energy Bull 2X Shares’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Direxion Daily Energy Bull 2X Shares’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, September has closed higher 40% of the time versus 60% across the last 10 years — the pattern is weakening.
Figures are the typical (median) September return and how often it rose — the last 5 years versus the last 10(the heatmap’s default window). This verdict stays anchored to that 10-year window even if you zoom the chart, so it never disagrees with the badges above.
In plain English
The year leans September's way without overwhelming the rest of it: the fund has closed higher in 6 of 10 Septembers, its most dependable month if not a dominant one.
Its average (+3.5%) and median (+3.8%) land within a hair of each other — the tell of steady, year-after-year gains rather than one outlier doing the work. That reliability comes with real swings, mind — even September ranges by 15.7% from year to year, so any single year can land far from the average. Crucially, the gain is the fund's own rather than a rising tide's: September has cleared the S&P 500 by +3.6 points above the index. It bucks the broad tape, besides: September lifts just 39% of stocks across the market.
A few other months pull their weight: January, May, and July have also closed higher more often than not. The weaker half of the year is plainer: October has been the soft spot — the weakest of 5 months that average a loss (−1.4%), and the edge isn't year-round — the fund has trailed the S&P 500 in March, December, and October. Its roughest month on record was a −87.7% March in 2020 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
The pattern has softened of late, September's last five years slipping below its longer-run record.
Treat it as a tendency rather than a rule — seasonality describes the past, not a promise. With returns that swing hard year to year, the signal is best held loosely.
Short answers on the fund's best month (September), its worst (October), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a moderate degree. Since 2016 its best month (September, +3.5%) has run well ahead of its worst (October, −1.4%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
September has been the strongest, averaging +3.5% and closing higher in 6 of 10 years since 2016.
It's the weakest, averaging −1.4% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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