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SQQQ · ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ

Over the last 15 years (2011-10 to 2026-10), $10,000 invested in SQQQ with dividends reinvested grew to $0, -53.38% a year, with a worst peak-to-trough fall of -100.00%. Past performance doesn't predict future results.

Growth of $10,000 · 2011-10 to 2026-10 · dividends reinvested

CAGR (annualized return)
-53.38%
Volatility (annualized)
48.44%
Worst drawdown
-100.00%
Sharpe ratio
-1.31

How SQQQ held up in past market crashes

SQQQ has been through 3 of the market crashes since 2000 in our data. Its deepest price fall was 49.4% in the 2022 bear market, when the S&P 500 fell 25.4%. Its price had not yet regained that high by the latest close (price only, not counting the dividends or interest it paid). No fund is safe from losses; past falls do not predict future ones.

Deepest price fall and recovery time of SQQQ in each market crash, next to the S&P 500
CrashSQQQ deepest fallS&P 500 (SPY)Peak to bottomBack to peak
2018 fourth-quarter selloff-21.8%-20.2%Nov 2018 to Dec 2018Under a month
2020 COVID crash-28.4%-34.1%Mar 2020 to Mar 2020Not yet
2022 bear market-49.4%-25.4%Jun 2022 to Aug 2022Not yet

Price declines in the fund's listing currency, dividends not included, inside each crash's S&P 500 peak-to-bottom window. See how 50 popular ETFs compare in the crash study.

About SQQQ

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ is an exchange-traded fund that seeks daily investment results corresponding to three times the inverse of the Nasdaq-100 Index.

Fund description from our market-data provider.

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