Traders in India are adopting contrasting strategies with exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to navigate the volatile financial markets, as per data from Bloomberg Intelligence. The year-to-date has witnessed significant inflows into leveraged long ETFs for assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies, as well as cash and gold funds. Eric Balchunas, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst, highlighted the record flows into leveraged long ETFs, cash, and gold ETFs. Leveraged ETFs aim to amplify the daily performance of assets, attracting approximately $6 billion in net inflows in 2025. Concurrently, cash and gold funds received nearly $4 billion. Amid market turbulence post-US President Trump’s tariff announcements, the S&P 500 index has dropped around 5%, while Bitcoin has shown resilience, with its spot price surpassing $90,000 per coin and attracting nearly $1 billion in net inflows into Bitcoin ETFs. Despite being dubbed “digital gold,” Bitcoin has a weak correlation with the safe-haven asset and aligns more with equities. Binance noted that Bitcoin’s correlation with gold averaged 0.12 over the past 90 days. Cryptocurrency exchanges are capitalizing on the volatility by expanding into financial derivatives like futures, with Bitcoin futures witnessing a 30% increase in net open interest to around $28 billion in April, according to Coinalyze data. The question remains whether Bitcoin can revert to its historical low correlation with equities, while gold continues to be the preferred safe-haven asset for most investors.