Xtrackers FTSE 100 Short Daily Swap UCITS ETF 1C

Xtrackers FTSE 100 Short Daily Swap UCITS ETF 1C is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Xtrackers, traded under the ticker XUKS (ISIN LU0328473581). One trade buys a whole basket of holdings, so your money is spread out instead of riding on a single company. In plain terms it is about owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth when they do well — and their falls when they don't, spread across its target market. It follows the FTSE 100 Daily Short Index index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include HOME DEPOT INC, LAM RESEARCH CORP and TESLA INC. Spread across roughly 29 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 50.5%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. Geographically it leans ~100% United States. By industry it concentrates most in ~24.2% Technology and ~17.3% Consumer Discretionary. It is commonly used to tilt a portfolio towards one market, usually alongside broader, more global funds rather than on its own. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.5% a year — about €50 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is an accumulating share class: dividends are rolled straight back in, compounding your returns rather than landing in your account as cash. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Luxembourg and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in GBP. On the standard KID risk scale it is rated 5 out of 7 and its price has swung about 12% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2008. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from Xtrackers.)