# Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Portfolios

**URL:** https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/leveraged-etfs-leveraged-portfolios/502
**Category:** Investing / Others
**Created:** [October 22, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/leveraged-etfs-leveraged-portfolios/502 "2017-10-22T16:20:38Z")
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### Author: ![Tony1337](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/user_avatar/forum.mustachianpost.com/tony1337/32/12327_2.png) [@Tony1337](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Tony1337)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/leveraged-etfs-leveraged-portfolios/502/257 "2025-10-12T18:30:31Z")

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> [@Wolverine](#):
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> and “if you can afford that level of risk at potentially not the low at all, why aren’t you more leveraged all of the time?”

Correct way to look at it. But I get the aspect to lever up at lows.

Because that limits your downside somewhat and can be a lot easier psychologically.

Theoretically optimal is to be levered at that level all the time, but the drop from top to bottom in a crash is a lot bigger that way as well.

Levering at lows is basically timing the market. It will have a worse outcome than not timing.

But if your baseline is unlevered buy & hold, levering up at lows (up to a certain amount to not risk liquidation of course), while otherwise you would not use leverage, that leverage at lows will give you extra returns (of course by increasing your risk).

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