“If daily returns are just bouncing around a lot, but it ends up kind of flattish on the week, then it might be better to reset at a weekly than a daily interval. You would see that because when you actually computed the vol drag term, the vol drag term says how big are the moves between my resets?”

Chris Murray · The Rational Reminder Podcast · How Leveraged ETFs Really Work (Marco Sammon & Chirs Murray)

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explain that reset frequency matters when daily returns are volatile and do not cancel out between resets

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