LEVERAGING SHORT POSITIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF SDS ETF PERFORMANCE

Short selling has long been a popular strategy for investors seeking to profit from decreases in asset prices. The ProShares UltraPro Short S&P500 ETF (SDS) SDS leveraged short ETF provides a leveraged mechanism for investors to enter in this strategy. SDS targets to deliver three times the inverse return of the S&P 500 Index. This article analyzes