What the hell just happened with DDM?

DDM, QLD etc all paid very high DIVIDENDS today. I have QID and noticed the same thing at the open, if you go to proshares.com it has all the dates of when dividends are being paid which is the 27th of December. Thats a nice little gift.

 

I didn't even know that about the dividends. Good thing I didn't buy it yesterday, then.

 

27th will be a nice pay day.

 

so if you were long DDM before yesterday eventhough you lost on the price drop they will pay you back with the dividend later?

So it acts the same as a stock?


thanks