MicroSectors Japan Leveraged ETNs: 3x & -3x EWJ Trading Tools
EXCHANGE TRADED NOTES
The MicroSectors™ Japan lineup of exchange traded notes provides 3x long exposure and -3x short exposure to the daily share price performance of EWJ, the iShares MSCI Japan ETF. Daily-resetting trading tools built for sophisticated investors.
TWO WAYS TO TRADE JAPAN
Long or short, at 3x. Each ETN seeks a daily return of 3x, or -3x, the daily share price performance of EWJ, the iShares MSCI Japan ETF, before fees and expenses, resetting each trading day.
WHAT IS EWJ?
Seeks 3x the daily share price performance of EWJ
Seeks -3x the daily share price performance of EWJ
Leverage resets each trading day; multi-day returns differ from the stated multiple
EWJ, the iShares MSCI Japan ETF, is one of the oldest and most widely traded US-listed country funds. It seeks to track the MSCI Japan Index, a rules-based benchmark of large- and mid-cap Japanese companies weighted by float-adjusted market cap, spanning industrials, consumer names, technology, and financials across the world’s fourth-largest equity market.
Because EWJ concentrates that market into a single US-listed instrument trading in US hours, while the Tokyo session is closed, its daily share price has become the standard intraday expression of Japan exposure for US traders. The ETNs on this page reference that daily share price directly: 3x long or -3x short, resetting each trading day.
How are MicroSectors Japan ETNs structured?
Both ETNs are designed as short-term trading tools, not buy-and-hold investments. Leverage resets daily, so returns over any period longer than one day will differ from three times, or three times the inverse of, the return of EWJ, and losses compound the same way gains do. A flat or choppy market can produce losses due to the daily reset. Because the reference asset is an ETF, the ETNs’ returns also reflect EWJ’s own fees and any tracking difference against its underlying index. The notes reference the closing market price of EWJ rather than its net asset value, so any premium or discount in the ETF passes through as well. Investors can lose their entire investment. The ETNs are unsecured debt obligations of Bank of Montreal and do not hold underlying assets, so repayment depends on the creditworthiness of the issuer.
The inverse note carries risks the long note does not. The -3x note is designed to lose value when EWJ rises, and because the exposure resets each day, a sustained rally compounds against the position. A single-day increase of approximately 33% in EWJ would reduce the value of the note to zero, and investors would lose their entire investment.
Benchmark for the MicroSectors™ Japan ETNs*
- 100.00% ISHARES MSCI JAPAN ETF
*Components as of SOD 10/15/2026
