The U.S.-China trade war is more than 18 months old. And in that time the conflict has taken a toll on stocks across the world and put company executives and market watchers alike on edge.

Traders just weathered another bout of tariff-related volatility in the wake of President Trump’s latest round of tariffs. The announcement from the most recent escalation managed not only to sack the S&P 500 by more than -6.5%, but caused a mad dash to bonds and treasury notes that resulted in another inversion of the 2-year/10-year Treasury yields curve, further exacerbating the equity sell-off.

Nevertheless, the equity market has bounced back; as it did following the March 2018 sell-off as the first round of tariffs were introduced; as it did following the September 2018 sell-off in response to a second round of tariffs; as it did following the May 2019 sell-off as the Trump administration introduced legislation to ban Chinese telecom firm Huawei from doing business in the U.S.; as it has done on numerous rumors of failed negotiations, bad faith accusations and an array of other dead-end truces and false accords.

The point is, the market has been here before, and many of the same industries keep getting knocked down only to get back up again for another go. In the case of such consistent market patterns, traders often turn to leveraged ETFs to capture some of the directionality of these moves.

While there’s no telling if and when a lasting bear market will finally strike the U.S. exchanges as a result of the interminable trade war, the leveraged sector ETFs below are among the most consistently affected by the many bumps along the road to peace.

Semiconductors

Long before the trade war kicked off in earnest, many on Wall Street predicted semiconductors would be hit particularly hard in any trade dispute with China. In 2018, as the trade war was ramping up, China spent more on chip imports than it did on oil and Chinese tech firm Huawei alone purchased more than $11 billion on semiconductor components from American manufacturers.

The fallout from the tariffs is plain to see in many of the largest semi companies. Revenue for GPU industry leader Nvidia Inc. (NASDAQ:NVDA) is down 24% in the first quarter of 2019 compared to this time last year, while sales for competitor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is down 17%.

In the 18 months since the China Tariffs were first announced, Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares (NYSE:SOXS) has spiked by as much as 20% in a single day, and has made double-digit percentage moves as recently as mid-August.

Conversely, the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (NYSE:SOXL) has rebounded three times in that same span to bump up against an all-time high just above the $200 level.

Technology

Unsurprisingly, technology names as a whole have been susceptible to the trade spat since the troubles faced by chip makers and component manufacturers like Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) and QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) impact company all along the supply chain.

Biotech

Although the global investment pattern has continued unabated, U.S. companies are seeing less capital due to the trade war. Investment from China to the U.S. has been cut nearly in half in the first six months of 2019 compared to the same span last year.

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