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The Financial Trends Strategy Fund

Why invest in the fund? Active currency management & the Direxion Financial Trends Strategy Fund Active currency management involves the use of currency futures in a long/short approach to reduce portfolio volatility and increase risk-adjusted returns. Active currency management is commonly used as a hedge for international holdings in a portfolio. By investing in currency futures, investors often seek to help mitigate losses or amplify returns, depending on market conditions. While this can be a valuable tactical strategy, it does require that investors, usually with the assistance of their financial professionals: focus on whether exchange rates are likely to rise or fall; select specific currencies to add to their asset mix; and use a currency manager and FOREX (the marketplace for trading currency) to conduct active trades.

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But by investing in the Direxion Financial Trends Strategy Fund, investors can benefit in numerous ways:

• There is no need to use a currency manager – or to select specific currencies to add to the asset mix.
• No margin accounts are needed.
• There is no need to obtain various resources to implement a diversified active currency strategy.
• No technical or fundamental analysis is required to determine long/short positions: The Fund does this automatically using a rules-based methodology.

Investing in Currency Futures

By investing in currency futures, investors often seek to help mitigate losses or amplify returns, depending on market conditions.

One advantage the Fund offers investors

The Financial Trends Strategy Fund allows individuals to invest in a long/short financial futures fund without the complexities of employing an in-house tactical currency trading strategy – while benefiting from a buy and hold approach.

An investor should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the Direxion funds carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other information about Direxion funds. To obtain a prospectus, please contact Direxion Funds at 800.851.0511. The prospectus should be read carefully before Investing. Investing in funds that invest in specific industries or geographic regions may be more volatile than investing in broadly diversified funds.

The risks associated with the Direxion Financial Trends Strategy Fund are detailed in the prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (available upon request, free of charge). These include, but are not limited to, risks of high portfolio turnover; risk of tracking error; leverage, derivatives and counterparty risks; risk of non-diversification; risk of interest rate changes; risks of investing in other investment companies and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs); risks of investing in equity securities and foreign instruments; risks of currency exchange rates; market risk, risk of options and futures contracts; risk of shorting instruments; volatile markets; security selection risk; credit risk; and valuation time risk.

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