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Monster ETF Scan v2

Oct 8, 2026

Watchlists 1

raw scan snapshot Oct 8, 2026 — prices as of scan date, not live cold board 1 of 58 in the universe qualified this week — a quiet board, not an error · screens, not recommendations lane lifecyclerecurringthesisMonster-ETF scan v2 — mechanism-aware (leverage-adjusted returns + ignores 52wk-high for daily-reset/synthetic-income classes)scan version2universe size58

Tier 1 — Vertical takeoff (leverage-adjusted >25% 30d OR >30% 3m)

(none this week — no ETF met this tier's threshold)

Tier 2 — ATH breakout (near 52wk high + RSI > 65)

(none this week — no ETF met this tier's threshold)

Tier 3 — Uptrend (leverage-adjusted >10% 30d)

Ticker	Mechanism	30d	Leverage-adj 30d	3m	RSI	%from 52wkHi	Underlying
DUST	daily-reset-leveraged (2x)	+24.6%	+12.3% adj	-34.4%	56	n/a (decay)	inverse-NYSE-Arca-Gold-Miners

Tier 4 — Cold (everything else)

57 of the 58 ETFs with fresh data (universe 58) sat below every tier threshold this week. Cold names are deliberately not tabulated — this scan reports takeoffs, breakouts, and uptrends; a mostly-empty board means the ETF universe is cold, not that the scan is broken.

Methodology

Mechanism-aware tiering, applied per ticker via market-engine watchlists/etf-monster-universe.json's mechanisms map:

Daily-reset leveraged (BITX, CDNG, CONL, DFEN, DUST, ENTL, FNGD, FNGU, FOMG, LABD, LABU, MRVU, MSTU, MSTX, MVLL, NUGT, NVDL, QLD, RAM, SOXL, SOXS, SPCH, SPCQ, SPXL, SQQQ, SSO, SSPC, SVXY, TECL, TECS, TNA, TQQQ, TSLL, TZA, UPRO, UVXY): leverage-adjusted return =

change30d / leverage_factor. 52wk-high field is ignored — volatility decay makes it meaningless. Tier on the leverage-adjusted return.

Synthetic-income (MSTY, NVDY, TSLY, YMAX, YMAG, CONY): same — NAV decay vs underlying

through covered-call mechanics. Ignore 52wk-high.

Buffered (BUFR): near-ATH is FLAGGED as late-cycle (these are designed to be flat).
Closed-end fund (BST, BSTZ, PDI, USA): near-ATH flag for premium/NAV check.
All others (passive-index, active-discretionary, thematic-rules-based, crypto-spot):

normal monster-shape filter — Tier 1 if change30d > 20% OR change3m > 30%; Tier 2 if at ATH with RSI > 65.

Sources

Universe: market-engine watchlists/etf-monster-universe.json
Summary: etf-monster-universe (precomputed summaries store)
CLI: monster-etf-scan

No direct external sources are attached to this read.