SRS -2x ProShares UltraShort Real Estate

BEAR ETF standard · Issuer ProShares · Tracks Real Estate (IYR) · Listed 2007-01-30

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Implied AUM
$17.6M
shares out × price
Last close
$46.61
20261001
30-day avg volume
15,521
options listed →
SRS realized
—
what holders actually earned
Theoretical -2x
—
-2x × Real Estate's return
Decay gap
—
realized minus theoretical

Realized vs theoretical -2x Real Estate

Cumulative return of SRS against a clean -2x of Real Estate's return over the same window; the red line (right axis) is the gap between them.

Pair counterpart: URE (+2x bull, ProShares Ultra Real Estate)
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 Real Estate

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SymbolFactorDirectionIssuerNameImplied AUM30d volumeOptions
DRN +3x BULLDirexionDirexion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X ETF $34.3M 1,626,154 ✓
URE +2x BULLProSharesProShares Ultra Real Estate $46.8M 1,501 ✓
DRV -3x BEARDirexionDirexion Daily Real Estate Bear 3X ETF $32.8M 132,457 ✓

How SRS works

SRS targets -2x the daily return of Real Estate — 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.