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 governed 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 with the relevant fund 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 $250 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 three and six months ended June 30, 2018 which are included in the Addition and/or Redemption of Shares on the Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity, were as follows:


	Three Months Ended June 30, 2018		Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
Fund
Short Euro	$	—	$	—
Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF		117,253		557,733
Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil		41,962		105,564
Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas		2,040		7,843
Ultra Euro		—		—
Ultra Gold		2,097		6,263
Ultra Silver		6,305		11,572
Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF		407,322		1,061,749
Ultra Yen		—		—
UltraPro 3x Crude Oil ETF		8,904		13,698
UltraPro 3x Short Crude Oil ETF		8,498		20,543
UltraShort Australian Dollar		—		—
UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil		27,882		65,813
UltraShort Bloomberg Natural Gas		622		2,732
UltraShort Euro		—		—
UltraShort Gold		2,996		8,911
UltraShort Silver		—		—
UltraShort Yen		—		—
VIX Mid-Term Futures ETF		2,116		12,050
VIX Short-Term Futures ETF		24,855		92,160

Total Trust	$	652,852	$	1,966,631