NOTE 6 – CREATION AND REDEMPTION OF CREATION UNITS

Each Fund issues and redeems shares from time to time, but only in one or more Creation Units. A Creation Unit is a block of 50,000 Shares of a Geared Fund and 25,000 Shares of a Matching VIX Fund. Creation Units may be created or redeemed only by Authorized Participants. As a result of the Share splits and reverse Share splits as described in Note 1, certain redemptions as disclosed in the Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity reflect payment of fractional share balances on beneficial shareholder accounts.

Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities. Retail investors, therefore, generally will not be able to purchase or redeem Shares directly from or with a Fund. Rather, most retail investors will purchase or sell Shares in the secondary market with the assistance of a broker. Thus, some of the information contained in these Notes to Financial Statements—such as references to the Transaction Fees imposed on purchases and redemptions—is not relevant to retail investors.

Transaction Fees on Creation and Redemption Transactions

The manner by which Creation Units are purchased or redeemed is dictated by the terms of the Authorized Participant Agreement and Authorized Participant Handbook. By placing a purchase order, an Authorized Participant agrees to: (1) deposit cash with the Custodian; and (2) if permitted by the Sponsor in its sole discretion, enter into or arrange for an exchange of futures contract for related position or block trade whereby the Authorized Participant would also transfer to such Fund a number and type of exchange-traded futures contracts at or near the closing settlement price for such contracts on the purchase order date.

Authorized Participants may pay a fixed transaction fee of up to $500 in connection with each order to create or redeem a Creation Unit in order to compensate BBH&Co., as the Administrator, the Custodian and the Transfer Agent of each Fund and its Shares, for services in processing the creation and redemption of Creation Units and to offset the costs of increasing or decreasing derivative positions. Authorized Participants also may pay a variable transaction fee to the Fund of up to 0.10% (and a variable transaction fee to the Matching VIX Funds of 0.05%) of the value of the Creation Unit that is purchased or redeemed unless the transaction fee is waived or otherwise adjusted by the Sponsor. The Sponsor provides such Authorized Participant with prompt notice in advance of any such waiver or adjustment of the transaction fee. Authorized Participants may sell the Shares included in the Creation Units they purchase from the Funds to other investors in the secondary market.

Transaction fees for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 which are included in the Addition and/or Redemption of Shares on the Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity, were as follows:


Fund	Year Ended December 31, 2016		Year Ended December 31, 2015		Year Ended December 31, 2014
Fund	Year Ended December 31, 2016		Year Ended December 31, 2015		Year Ended December 31, 2014
VIX Short-Term Futures ETF	$	229,699	$	105,024	$	72,020
VIX Mid-Term Futures ETF		24,056		8,521		8,927
Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF		801,564		342,734		218,121
Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF		1,822,247		1,391,292		734,298
UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil		398,027		382,054		257,458
UltraShort Bloomberg Natural Gas		8,989		8,853		26,053
UltraShort Gold		29,854		11,024		32,473
UltraShort Silver		16,729		39,354		48,832
Short Euro		—		—		—
UltraShort Australian Dollar		—		—		—
UltraShort Euro		—		—		—
UltraShort Yen		—		—		—
Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil		504,533		847,422		299,493
Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas		9,175		13,939		30,073
Ultra Gold		14,138		4,218		12,088
Ultra Silver		47,414		38,848		65,208
Ultra Euro		—		—		—
Ultra Yen		—		—		—

Total Trust*	$	3,906,425	$	3,193,283	$	1,805,044

*	Amounts exclude the activity of ProShares Ultra Australian Dollar which liquidated on June 29, 2015, ProShares Managed Futures Strategy which liquidated on March 30, 2016, ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Commodity and ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Commodity which liquidated on September 1, 2016.