ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury (TTT) Expected Move
Expected move estimates the probable price range for a given period based on at-the-money options pricing. It reflects the market consensus for volatility over the selected timeframe.
ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury (TTT) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management industry, with a market capitalization near $19.3M, listed on AMEX, carrying a beta of -7.18 to the broader market. TTT provides daily -3x exposure to the ICE U. Led by Michael L. Sapir, public since 2012-03-29.
Snapshot as of Aug 14, 2026.
- Spot Price
- $76.60
- Expected Move
- 7.5%
- Implied High
- $82.33
- Implied Low
- $70.87
- Front DTE
- 35 days
As of Aug 14, 2026, ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury (TTT) has an expected move of 7.48%, a one-standard-deviation implied price range of roughly $70.87 to $82.33 from the current $76.60. Expected move is derived from at-the-money straddle pricing and represents the market's pricing of a ±1σ move. Roughly 68% of outcomes should fall within this range under lognormal assumptions, though empirical markets have fatter tails.
TTT Strategy Sizing to the Expected Move
With ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury pricing an expected move of 7.48% from $76.60, risk-defined strategies sized to the implied range structurally target the modal outcome distribution. Iron condors with wings at the ±1σ expected move boundaries collect premium against the ~68% probability that spot stays inside the range under lognormal assumptions; strangles set wider at ±1.5σ or ±2σ target the tails but pay smaller per-trade premium. Long-vol structures (long straddles, ratio backspreads) profit when realized move exceeds the implied move, the inverse trade: they bet against the lognormal assumption itself, capitalizing on the empirically fatter equity-return tails.
How to read the TTT implied-range chart
The shaded range above shows the one-standard-deviation implied price band at each listed expiration, derived from ATM implied volatility scaled to days-to-expiration. The front-tenor expected move is 7.48%, anchoring an implied range of approximately $70.87 to $82.33. Under lognormal assumptions, roughly 68% of outcomes fall inside that band; 95% fall inside ±2σ; 99.7% inside ±3σ. The empirical equity-return distribution has fatter tails than lognormal, so true tail-outcome frequency is moderately higher than these closed-form numbers suggest.
TTT expected move and event pricing
Expected move widens with √time: a 5% 30-day move corresponds to roughly a 2.5% 7.5-day move and a 10% 120-day move. TTT term-structure is in backwardation (slope -0.002), so near-dated tenors price in disproportionate vol - usually because of a known event in the front-month window. With IV rank at 3.1%, the implied move is at the low end of the typical TTT range - cheap optionality for buyers, thin premium for sellers.
Sizing TTT structures to the expected move
Iron condors with wings at ±1σ collect the modal-outcome premium; ±1.5σ widens probability of inside-range to ~87% but cuts collected premium roughly in half. Strangles do the inverse trade - they pay against the same lognormal distribution, profiting when realized exceeds implied. Calendar spreads bet on the slope of the term structure rather than the level. TTT put/call volume ratio currently at 1.40 indicates protective put flow dominates - look for hedged-money positioning into the move. The expected move is the inputs the chain is pricing, not a forecast - realized moves above or below are normal under any distribution.
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Per-expiration expected move for TTT derived from ATM implied volatility at each listed expiration. Implied high/low bounds are computed as $76.60 × (1 ± expected move %). One standard-deviation range under lognormal assumptions, roughly 68% of outcomes fall inside.
| Expiration | DTE | ATM IV | Expected Move | Implied High | Implied Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2026 | 7 | 23.9% | 3.3% | $79.14 | $74.06 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 35 | 26.1% | 8.1% | $82.79 | $70.41 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 63 | 25.9% | 10.8% | $84.84 | $68.36 |
| Jan 15, 2027 | 154 | 27.8% | 18.1% | $90.43 | $62.77 |
Frequently asked TTT expected move questions
- What is the current TTT expected move?
- As of Aug 14, 2026, ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury (TTT) has an expected move of 7.48% over the next 35 days, implying a one-standard-deviation price range of $70.87 to $82.33 from the current $76.60. The expected move is derived from at-the-money straddle pricing and represents the market consensus for a ±1σ price move.
- What does the TTT expected move mean for traders?
- Roughly 68% of outcomes should fall within ±1 expected move and 95% within ±2 under lognormal assumptions, though equity returns have empirically fatter tails than log-normal predicts. Strategies sized to the expected move (iron condors at ±1σ, strangles at ±1.5σ) target the typical outcome distribution; strategies that profit from tail moves (long-vol structures, ratio backspreads) target the tails the lognormal model under-prices.
- How is TTT expected move calculated?
- The expected move displayed here is derived from at-the-money implied volatility scaled to the chosen tenor: expected move % is approximately ATM IV times sqrt(T / 365), where T is days to expiration. An equivalent straddle-based form: the ATM straddle (call + put at the same strike) is roughly sqrt(2/pi) times spot times IV times sqrt(T/365), so the implied one-standard-deviation move is approximately 1.25 times ATM straddle divided by spot. The two formulations agree once the sqrt(2/pi) constant is reconciled.