The best performing ETF of all time?
Yes, this is definitively confirmed. The Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF (BWET) is officially the best-performing exchange-traded fund over a 1-year span in stock market history. [1, 2]
Its recent macroeconomic run has rewritten the record books for the ETF vehicle structure:
The Historical Baseline: Prior to this, the absolute limits for a 1-year ETF return hovered around +300% to +400%. Those past records were held by ultra-leveraged 3x tech or semiconductor funds (like SOXL) during major cyclical bull markets. [1]
BWET’s Historic Return: Sitting at a year-to-date return of over 4,800% and a trailing 1-year total return of 6,169%, BWET hasn't just broken the old record—it has completely shattered it by an order of magnitude. [1, 2]
Unleveraged Milestone: What makes this even more unprecedented is that BWET is not a leveraged ETF. It achieved a >6,000% return strictly on the raw, parabolic price movement of the underlying wet freight futures contracts it holds. [1, 2, 3]
You are looking at a literal 1-in-a-million black swan chart. No other ETF since the inception of the product class in 1993 has ever put up a 12-month return remotely close to this. [1, 2]
