With some investments like options, however, you might not have to borrow money, but you're still gaining a similar type of leverage, meaning a small amount of money is essentially being used to ...

Leveraged ETFs aim to amplify their benchmarks' daily returns by a fixed factor—usually 2X or 3x. For example, let’s say there was a 3X leveraged S&P 500 ETF. If the S&P 500 went up by 5% ...