
Defiance Daily Target 2X Short QBTS ETF
$16.21+0.85 (+5.54%)
- Expense ratio
- 2.31%
- Fund size
- $4M
- 1Y return
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- Yield · Last 12 months
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- Holdings
- 7
- Volume · 30D
- 0.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $15.13
- 52W range
The ETF.net QBTZ Grade
Score 40 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E. A structural cap ceilings this fund at 40, so B and A are out of reach.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 5Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 96Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 32Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 30Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 44Category rank
Our read on QBTZ
CA one-day trade on quantum hype cooling. QBTZ aims to deliver -2x the daily move in D-Wave Quantum stock inside an ordinary brokerage account, no margin agreement and no borrowed shares. A stopwatch instrument, not a set-and-forget short.
QBTZ seeks daily inverse results equal to -200% of the daily percentage change in D-Wave Quantum Inc.'s share price. It is designed for short-term use and does not target results over periods longer than one trading day.
Why people hold it
- Turns a hard trade into a ticker: shorting a hot quantum name with leverage normally means a margin account and locating borrow. Here it is a share purchase.defianceetfs.com
- Does the job it advertises. The fund hews closely to its stated goal of -200% of D-Wave Quantum's daily move, which is the whole point of a daily-reset tool.
- Standard 1940 Act ETF wrapper, so the position cannot cost more than what you put in. No margin calls, no forced buy-in when QBTS rips.defianceetfs.com
Worth knowing
- The math resets every day. Hold longer than a session and compounding takes over, so results can drift well away from -2x, especially in a stock that whipsaws.
- At 1.29% a year the fee sits right at the category median and above the big bear funds on mega-caps, like TSLS at 0.95% and AAPD at 0.96%.
- A 2025 launch and a small asset base relative to established single-stock bear funds, which tends to show up as wider spreads around the edges of the day.
QBTZ Holdings
- Other
- 7
- 300%
- Cash & Other
QBTZ Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | QBTZ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −89.3% |
| 1 month | +5.2% |
| 3 months | −20.6% |
| 1 year | — |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | QBTZ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −89.3% | |
| 2025 | −50.0% |
QBTZ in the news
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QBTZ Dividends
Listed Oct 2025. No distributions yet.
QBTZ Risk
This fund targets a multiple of the daily move of its index and resets daily. Hold it longer than one reset and compounding makes the return diverge from that target. In choppy markets it can lose value even when the index ends flat.
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How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
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How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
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How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- −8.43
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QBTZ Cost
- The middle half of Single-Stock Inverse funds
- Median 1.35%
39 of the 43 Single-Stock Inverse funds charge less.