UBR +2x ProShares Ultra MSCI Brazil Capped

BULL ETF standard · Issuer ProShares · Tracks Brazil (EWZ) · Listed 2010-04-27

Implied AUM
$3.0M
shares out × price
Last close
$32.97
20261001
30-day avg volume
1,777
UBR realized
—
what holders actually earned
Theoretical +2x
—
+2x × Brazil's return
Decay gap
—
realized minus theoretical

Realized vs theoretical +2x Brazil

Cumulative return of UBR against a clean +2x of Brazil's return over the same window; the red line (right axis) is the gap between them.

Pair counterpart: BZQ (-2x bear, ProShares UltraShort MSCI Brazil Capped)
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 Brazil

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SymbolFactorDirectionIssuerNameImplied AUM30d volumeOptions
BRZL +3x BULLMicroSectorsMicroSectors 3x Long Brazil ETNs — 1,063
BRZU +2x BULLDirexionDirexion Daily MSCI Brazil Bull 2X ETF $111.1M 35,514 ✓
BZQ -2x BEARProSharesProShares UltraShort MSCI Brazil Capped $2.7M 7,087 ✓
BRZD -3x BEARMicroSectorsMicroSectors -3x Short Brazil ETNs — 411

How UBR works

UBR targets +2x the daily return of Brazil — 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.