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June 16, 2026

ETF Time of Day Tool

When Does Your Leveraged ETF Make Its Move?

The ETF Time of Day tool shows how a leveraged or inverse ETF has tended to move during any window of the trading day. Pick a featured ETF, choose a start and end time in 30-minute steps from the open to the close, and the tool measures what that stretch of the day has done across years of intraday history.

Leveraged and inverse ETFs do not move evenly through the session. The first thirty minutes after the open and the last hour into the close are often where most of the daily range happens, while the middle of the day can be much quieter. Knowing when a name has historically made its move can matter as much as knowing which direction you expect.

Instead of guessing, this tool lets you measure a specific window directly. For the time slice you choose, it shows the average and median move, the largest spike and the largest crash with the dates they happened, and how often that window finished green versus red.

What the Tool Shows You

Window

Custom Time Window

Choose any start and end time in 30-minute steps, from the 9:30 open to the 4:00 close, and the tool measures only that slice of the session.

Average

Average & Median Move

See the average and median percentage move for your chosen window across years of intraday sessions, so a few outliers do not distort the read.

Extremes

Biggest Spike & Crash

See the largest up move and the largest down move the window has ever produced, each with the date it happened.

Odds

Green vs Red Probability

See how often the window has finished higher versus lower, with the count of green and red sessions behind each percentage.

How Traders are using the ETF Time of Day Tool

1

Pick an ETF and a Window

Select a featured leveraged or inverse ETF and set the start and end of the time window you care about, such as the open, the midday lull, or the final hour.

2

Read the Average and Median Move

Check the average and median move for that window to see the size and direction the ETF has typically delivered over that part of the day.

3

Check the Extremes

Look at the biggest spike and biggest crash to understand how far the window has run in both directions, and when those outliers occurred.

4

Weigh the Green and Red Odds

Use the green and red probabilities to judge how reliable the directional tendency has been before you build a trade around it.

See when your leveraged ETF makes its move

Open ETF Time of Day Tool

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