MYY vs SMDD: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, MYY finished 1.6 points over and SMDD 4.3 points over. ProShares Short MidCap400 and ProShares UltraPro Short MidCap400.
MYY returned +7.1% while −1 times MDY's move would have been +5.6%
SMDD returned +20.7% while −3 times MDY's move would have been +16.7%
A percentile among the 125 inverse ETFs over three months. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All leveraged ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →
Performance, window by window
| Total return | Multiple would give | Difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | MYY | SMDD | MYY | SMDD | MYY | SMDD |
| 1 month | +4.7% | +14.6% | +4.2% | +12.6% | +0.5 pts | +2.0 pts |
| 3 months | +7.1% | +20.7% | +5.6% | +16.7% | +1.6 pts | +4.0 pts |
| 6 months | −4.0% | −15.6% | −6.1% | −18.4% | +2.1 pts | +2.8 pts |
| 1 year | −6.9% | −27.9% | −11.4% | −34.2% | +4.5 pts | +6.3 pts |
| 3 years | −24.4% | −73.3% | −49.0% | −146.9% | +24.6 pts | +73.6 pts |
| Since launch MYY Jan 2010 · SMDD Feb 2010 | −89.0% | −100.0% | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful |
MYY and SMDD over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
MYY and SMDD on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
MYY in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: MYY returned +7.1% where its own daily promise gave +5.5%, 1.6 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −1 times MDY's −5.6% implies +5.6%, which makes MYY look 1.6 points over. 0.0 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −1 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. MYY aims to return -1 times MDY's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not -1 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more. MDY moved at 12% annualized over that window. That is what decides how far the two figures separate: the same fund on a calm underlying and a violent one is a different product.
SMDD in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: SMDD returned +20.7% where its own daily promise gave +16.4%, 4.3 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −3 times MDY's −5.6% implies +16.7%, which makes SMDD look 4.0 points over. 0.3 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. SMDD aims to return -3 times MDY's move each day, then resets. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not -3 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more.
Questions people ask
- Which came closer to its stated multiple, MYY or SMDD?
- Over the window to Sep 30, 2026, MYY finished 1.6 points from what its multiple implies and SMDD finished 4.0 points from its own, so MYY came closer. Neither figure predicts the next window: it depends on how much the underlying moves about.
- Are MYY and SMDD levered on the same thing?
- Yes. Both are levered on the S&P MidCap 400, MYY at -1 times and SMDD at -3 times the daily move.
- Which one decays faster, MYY or SMDD?
- Decay follows how much the underlying moves about. Over this window MYY’s moved at 12% annualized and SMDD’s at 12%, so MYY has the rougher ride and, at the same multiple, loses more to compounding.
- Can I hold MYY or SMDD for a year?
- Both reset every day, so the multiple in the name applies to a single day and the daily results compound. Over a year the total is not the multiple times the year’s move, and in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less. ETFIQ makes no recommendation either way.
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ETFIQ, MYY against SMDD, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/myy-vs-smdd
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