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ANALYTICS
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Alternatives Funds · 251 total

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SVIX

Commodity PoolInverse

-1x Short VIX Futures ETF

Expense Ratio
1.35%
AUM
$140M
Inception
3/31/2022
1Y Return
+42.3%98th %ilevs 251 asset-class peers

The index measures the daily inverse performance of a portfolio of first and second month VIX futures contracts. This theoretical portfolio is rolled each day to maintain a consistent time to maturity of the futures contracts. The index is calculated daily at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern time) and at a value calculated from the average price for the futures contracts between 3:45 p.m. (Eastern time) and 4:00 p.m. (Eastern time).

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
SVIX
-1x Short VIX Futures ETF
42.3%42.3%55.3%0.70-42.7%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
SVIX
-1x Short VIX Futures ETF
22.9%-0.6%3.7%3.8%22.6%87.6%42.3%13.6%3.1%16.8%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
2022202320242025YTD
SVIX
-1x Short VIX Futures ETF
-0.9%*157.4%-32.8%-4.5%22.9%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
SVIXUS
-1x Short VIX Futures ETF
-1.4%3.93**-0.270.79*0.39-0.13-0.16-0.280.68226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

SnapshotAs ofvsⓘ

Fund ProfileInverse

Family
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Alternatives
Peer Group Benchmark
Structure
Commodity Pool
Underlying
VIX futures (1x short)
Peer Group
Alts - Short Volatility (6 peers)
Expense Ratio
1.35%
AUM
$140M
Yield
0.00%
Inception
3/31/2022
Turnover
0%
Strategy Summary

The index measures the daily inverse performance of a portfolio of first and second month VIX futures contracts. This theoretical portfolio is rolled each day to maintain a consistent time to maturity of the futures contracts. The index is calculated daily at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern time) and at a value calculated from the average price for the futures contracts between 3:45 p.m. (Eastern time) and 4:00 p.m. (Eastern time).

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio from the sponsor's website. Turnover from market data (10/6/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Summary may be from an older prospectus.

SVIX is a commodity pool, not a registered fund, so it files no holdings report.

Factor DetailsRef: Alternatives Funds

SVIX has no stock-level metrics. Fund-level metrics such as AUM and expense ratio are available in the picker.

ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Alternatives Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
SVIX
-1x Short VIX Futures ETF
Peer Group
6 funds
Peer Asset Class
251 funds
YTD Return
22.95%-7.46%92
1Y Return
42.26%-9.54%98
3Y Return (Ann.)
3.09%-9.55%9
5Y Return (Ann.)
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Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
1.35%-1.42%53
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (7 share classes across 6 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity51
Top Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1SVXY
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
Alts - Short Volatility
Alts - Short Volatility
51--
2ZVOL
Volatility Premium Plus ETF
Alts - Short Volatility
Alts - Short Volatility
26--
3ABRSX
ABR 50/50 VOLATILITY FUND
Alts - Long Volatility
Alts - Long Volatility
18--
4BNKU
MicroSectors U.S. Big Banks 3X Leveraged ETNs
Leveraged - Equity
Leveraged - Equity
1--
5SVOL
Simplify Volatility Premium ETF
Alts - Short Volatility
Alts - Short Volatility
1--
6AVGV
Avantis All Equity Markets Value ETF
Global SMID Value
Global SMID Value
1--

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.