The takeaway
Direxion Daily GOOGL Bull 1.5X Shares shows a pronounced seasonal pattern over 4 years of data — strongest in May (+14.2%) and softest in February (−16.5%).
Right now
In July, the fund has risen 67% of years, averaging +6.6%, about +4.4 pts better than the S&P 500.
The full picture
Direxion Daily GOOGL Bull 1.5X Shares's most dependable month has been May, higher in 3 of 3 years; February has been its least reliable, up just 0% of the time.
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Month by month
The fund's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in May (+13.5 pts); it has trailed the market most in February (−16.3 pts).
“vs S&P” is Direxion Daily GOOGL Bull 1.5X Shares’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Direxion Daily GOOGL Bull 1.5X Shares’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 3 years, May has closed higher 100% of the time versus 100% across the last 4 years — the pattern is holding.
Figures are the typical (median) May return and how often it rose — the last 3 years versus the last 4(the heatmap’s default window). This verdict stays anchored to that 4-year window even if you zoom the chart, so it never disagrees with the badges above.
In plain English
This is a fund you can almost set a calendar by, and May is the anchor — it has closed higher in all 3 Mays, the steadiest beat on its year.
The strength looks broad-based rather than freakish: its average (+14.2%) and median (+10.7%) sit close together, so no single blow-out year is flattering the figure. Few months are steadier: May's returns vary by just 5.6% year to year, and even its worst May in 4 years lost only 9.7% — the gentlest downside anywhere on its calendar. Better still, that strength is the fund's own and not just a buoyant market — May has outpaced the S&P 500 by +13.5 points on average. Few peers keep such company in May — the typical stock clears it just 55% of the time.
May anchors a run, too: the March-through-August window has been the fund's reliable season. The weaker half of the year is plainer: February has been the soft spot — the only month to average an outright loss (−16.5%), and the edge isn't year-round — the fund has trailed the S&P 500 in February. Its roughest month on record was a −29.8% February in 2025 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
For a fund this dependable in May, the sharper question is the rest of the year — outside its strong stretch, the calendar gives far less to lean on. With a short 4-year record, the signal is best held loosely.
Short answers on the fund's best month (May), its worst (February), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a pronounced degree. Since 2022 its best month (May, +14.2%) has run well ahead of its worst (February, −16.5%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
May has been the strongest, averaging +14.2% and closing higher in all 3 years on record since 2022.
It's the weakest, averaging −16.5% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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