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GraniteShares 2x Long VRT Daily ETF (VRTL)

Trading--Leveraged Equity | Exchange Traded Fund | NasdaqGM
26.92 USD -2.90 (-9.722%) ⇩ (Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)
After hours: 27.80 +0.88 (3.265%) ⇧ (Aug. 28, 2026, 7:59 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★★⯪☆☆Dividends:☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | Aug. 22, 2026, 1:18 a.m. EDT

This is a leveraged daily ETF (2x long) tracking a newly listed or extremely volatile instrument, evidenced by the zero-year price history window and the complete absence of dividend data. The lack of historical performance data makes any long-term fundamental assessment impossible; there is simply no track record to evaluate business quality or growth trajectory. Consequently, the long-term rating remains neutral as the asset is too new to assess. In the short term, the price action is erratic, swinging wildly between $28 and $36 in a single week, which is typical for leveraged products but dangerous without a clear trend. The options market confirms this chaos: traders are buying deep OTM calls and deep ITM puts, effectively betting on a binary 'moonshot' or 'crash' scenario rather than a steady move. With no dividends to provide a floor and no historical data to suggest stability, this is a pure momentum play for aggressive traders who understand the decay risks of leveraged daily ETFs, but it offers no investment thesis for a standard portfolio.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoARIMA ✓0.307382
AutoETS0.307383
MSTL0.322013
AutoTheta0.349010

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA

Forecast Reliability
Score 19%
H-stat 8.93
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.001
Excess Kurtosis 1.39

As of Aug. 22, 2026, 1:18 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning for extreme volatility rather than a specific directional outcome. Call open interest is heavily skewed out-of-the-money (OTM) with massive walls at strikes like $47, $55, and $66, suggesting bets on a massive gap-up event. Conversely, put open interest is concentrated deep in-the-money (ITM) at strikes like $13, $20, and $26, indicating a hedge against a severe crash. The implied volatility surface shows massive spikes at these distant strikes compared to the near-term ATM, reflecting uncertainty about whether the asset will double or halve.


Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 73.0
All Time Low 2.523333
Ask 39.97
Ask Size 2
Average Daily Volume10 Day 74,670
Average Daily Volume3 Month 220,500
Average Volume 220,500
Average Volume10Days 74,670
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 24.02
Bid Size 2
Category Trading--Leveraged Equity
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 29.55
Day Low 26.8008
Dividend Yield 0.0
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NGM
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 37.9349
Fifty Day Average Change -11.013998
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.29033947
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 164.29689
Fifty Two Week High 73.0
Fifty Two Week High Change -46.0791
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.6312206
Fifty Two Week Low 10.346667
Fifty Two Week Low Change 16.574234
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 1.601891
Fifty Two Week Range 10.346667 - 73.0
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,742,909,400,000
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGM
Fullday Change -2.8991
Fullday Change Percent -9.722
Fullday Price 27.8
Fund Family Graniteshares
Fund Inception Date 1,742,774,400
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Ipo Expected Date 2,025-03-25
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The fund is an actively managed exchange traded fund that attempts to replicate 2 times (200%) daily percentage change of the underlying stock by entering financial instruments such as swaps and options on the underlying stock as well as directly purchasing the underlying stock. The fund is non-diversified.
Long Name GraniteShares 2x Long VRT Daily ETF
Market us_market
Market State CLOSED
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1931657837
Nav Price 28.66
Net Assets 41,417,384.0
Net Expense Ratio 1.5
Open 29.55
Post Market Change 0.8790989
Post Market Change Percent 3.2654884
Post Market Price 27.8
Post Market Time 1,787,961,556
Previous Close 29.82
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -2.8990993
Regular Market Change Percent -9.721996
Regular Market Day High 29.55
Regular Market Day Low 26.8008
Regular Market Day Range 26.8008 - 29.55
Regular Market Open 29.55
Regular Market Previous Close 29.82
Regular Market Price 26.9209
Regular Market Time 1,787,947,200
Regular Market Volume 60,300
Short Name GraniteShares 2x Long VRT Daily
Source Interval 15
Symbol VRTL
Total Assets 41,417,384
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns -55.6615
Trailing Three Month Returns -55.6615
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 35.442986
Two Hundred Day Average Change -8.522085
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent -0.2404449
Type Disp ETF
Volume 60,300
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return 49.60788