DDM finished 1.1 points short of what +2 times DIA’s daily move would have given, compounded through the same days.
Did it keep up with its own daily multiple, compounded day by day?
Points against its own daily promise, compounded
That is the share of the 391 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months sitting at or below DDM. A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another desk's.
Read the multiple against the whole window instead and +2 times DIA's 2.9% implies +5.7%, which makes DDM look 1.4 points short. 0.2 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any +2 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. DDM aims to return +2 times DIA's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +2 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. DIA moved at 11% 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.
DDM (ProShares Ultra Dow30), leveraged ETFs fields as of Sep 11, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Sets out to return
+2 times the daily move of DIA, reset daily
Multiple a holder actually got over the window (ETFIQ)
DIA moved +2.9% over this window, too little to read a multiple from
Underlying
DIA
Segment
broad index, us large cap
Net assets (issuer page, as of Sep 11, 2026)
$567m
Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Sep 23, 2025)
0.95%
Launched
Jan 4, 2010
Underlying volatility over the window (ETFIQ)
11% annualized
Returns are ETFIQ calculations from Tiingo end-of-day prices, distributions reinvested, measured against the underlying over exactly the same days. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
Did DDM return +2 times DIA?
Over the window to Sep 11, 2026, DIA moved +2.9% and DDM returned +4.4%. 2 times that move is +5.7%, so the fund came out 1.4 points short of it.
Why does DDM not return +2 times over a year?
Because it resets daily. DDM aims at +2 times each day's move, and daily results compound. Over a run where the underlying falls and comes back, compounding a levered daily return leaves a holder behind what +2 times the period move would suggest; over a steady run in one direction it can leave them ahead. The longer the holding, and the more the underlying moves about, the further apart the two figures get.
The words on this page
Stated multiple
What the fund sets out to return against its underlying, each day. A fund at 2x aims to return twice the underlying’s daily move, and an inverse fund at -2x aims to return twice it in the opposite direction.
Daily reset
The fund starts each day aiming at the multiple again, from wherever it now stands. It is the mechanism that makes these funds behave as they do, and the reason the stated multiple applies to a day rather than to a holding period.
Compounding
Daily results multiply together rather than adding up. Two days of the multiple is not twice the multiple, and over a run of days the difference between the two grows with how far the underlying moves about.
Decay
What compounding costs a holder when the underlying falls and rises back to where it started. The underlying is level and the fund is down; the more violently it moved, the further down.
Difference against the stated multiple
The fund’s return minus the stated multiple times the underlying’s return, in percentage points. The one figure that says whether a holder got what the fund’s own multiple describes.
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DDM, Leveraged ETFs, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 11, 2026. Every figure is arithmetic on a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, is not a fund issuer, broker-dealer or investment adviser, and makes no recommendations.
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