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Short selling has long been a popular tactic for investors seeking to profit from drops in asset prices. The ProShares UltraPro Short S&P500 ETF (SDS) provides a leveraged mechanism for investors to engage in this strategy. SDS aims to deliver three times the inverse return of the S&P 500 Index. This article examines the performance of SDS, explori