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SSG ProShares UltraShort Semiconductors

Aims to return twice the opposite of the daily move of Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductors Index

SSG aims to return -2 times Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductors Index's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that.

ProShares · Leveraged ETFs · data as of

10th of 59 leveraged and inverse ETFs by net assets

ETFIQ publishes no comparison for SSG. Measuring a leveraged fund means pricing what it tracks over the same days, and no live price history was found for Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductors Index, so there is nothing to hold its return against. Its own returns below are unaffected, and it is left out of every ranking and score on this desk rather than placed last in them.

Method

In plain words

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. SSG itself moved at 90% annualized over that window. No listed fund tracks this index, so ETFIQ has no daily series to measure the fund against. Its own return is shown and no achieved multiple is computed: on this desk the difference from the label is meant to be the fund’s own cost, and a nearly right benchmark would put the gap between two indexes into that figure.

SSG (ProShares UltraShort Semiconductors), leveraged ETFs fields as of Sep 11, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Sets out to return-2 times the daily move of Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductors Index, reset daily
UnderlyingDow Jones U.S. Semiconductors Index (no investable tracker)
Segmentsector or country, sector
Net assets (issuer page, as of Sep 11, 2026)$36m
Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Sep 23, 2025)0.95%
LaunchedJan 4, 2010

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

Why does SSG not return -2 times over a year?
Because it resets daily. SSG 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.

Every term used here, defined in full on the leveraged ETFs vocabulary page.

Where these figures came from

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Where to next

Where SSG is written about

SSG, 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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Cite this page. ETFIQ, SSG, leveraged ETFs, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/SSG Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.

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