SCO -2x ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil

BEAR ETV standard · Issuer ProShares · Tracks WTI Crude Oil (USO) · Listed 2008-11-24

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Implied AUM

$1.0B

shares out × price

Last close

$20.36

20260929

30-day avg volume

5,993,814

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SCO realized

—

what holders actually earned

Theoretical -2x

—

-2x × WTI Crude Oil's return

Decay gap

—

realized minus theoretical

Realized vs theoretical -2x WTI Crude Oil

Cumulative return of SCO against a clean -2x of WTI Crude Oil's return over the same window; the red line (right axis) is the gap between them.

Pair counterpart: UCO (+2x bull, ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil)

Shorting both legs of a daily-reset bull/bear pair captures their combined decay over time. It isn't free money — the edge depends on borrow rates (often punitive on the bear leg) and assignment risk on hard-to-borrow shares.

Other leveraged products on WTI Crude Oil

Symbol	Factor	Direction	Issuer	Name	Implied AUM	30d volume	Options
UCO	+2x	BULL	ProShares	ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil	$415.3M	2,627,724	✓

How SCO works

SCO targets -2x the daily return of WTI Crude Oil — not the return over longer windows. It rebalances every day, so over weeks and months its result drifts away from -2x × the index, usually downward when the market chops around.

The maths: the drag is roughly −½ × N × (N−1) × σ² per period (N = leverage, σ = the index's volatility). For a -2x fund on an index with 25% annual volatility that is several percent a year before fees — the red line above is that drag measured.

Short-term trades (a day or a few) are what these funds are built for. Premium sellers like their rich option IV — see the quote page. Multi-day directional bets work in strong trends and get eaten in chop.

Not investment advice.