According to Eric Balchunas, the market is already at 2x AltAlt Season Crypto ETFs even before October, indicating a rapid pickup in leveraged crypto ETF activity. Source: Eric Balchunas on X, Sep 18, 2025. He added that conditions are likely to get increasingly intense into October, signaling heightened risk-taking around leveraged crypto exposures. Source: Eric Balchunas on X, Sep 18, 2025. For traders, leveraged and inverse ETFs are designed for short-term use with daily resets, where compounding can cause multi-day returns to diverge from the underlying, requiring disciplined risk management. Source: SEC Investor.gov, Leveraged and Inverse ETFs. The SEC also warns these products can amplify volatility and losses and are generally not intended for buy-and-hold investors. Source: SEC Investor.gov, Leveraged and Inverse ETFs.