In short: "Fail of the week" — a 2×-daily-return SpaceX ETF launching ON the June-12 IPO day; pure gambling / "casino" leverage on an unprecedented, un-settled IPO. "Why not 10×?"
This is his "fail of the week." ProShares plans to launch SPCF, an exchange-traded fund designed to deliver two times SpaceX's daily move, on June 12 — the very day SpaceX goes public. A "2× daily" fund roughly doubles whatever the stock does each day, up or down, which magnifies both gains and losses.
Carlson's objection: the SpaceX IPO is already one of the most volatile, unprecedented debuts ever, with no trading history to lean on. Doubling down on that with leverage, on day one, isn't investing — "it's simply gambling." He cites Buffett and Munger's warnings about the market turning into a casino, and jokes that if 2× is fine, why not 5× or 10×? To him it's a sign of where the market's speculation is heading.
28:41And of course this would be the case cuz why not? Every part of this market has to be a casino. Everything we do has to be gambling and betting and levered and two times and three times. This is the latest from ProShares. ProShares is expected to launch an SPCF ETF targeting two times daily returns of SpaceX on June 12th. And this is real.
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