Summary
FT Vest Gold Strategy Quarterly Buffer ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 5. The ten largest make up 100% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.91%
- Fund size
- $54.9M
- Positions
- 5
- Dividends
- Reinvested
- Running since
- 2021
What speaks for it
Nothing stands out in its favour.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 100% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- Costs of 0.91% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.75%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 36% from its high.
- A small fund with $54.9M under management; small funds get closed more often.
- It trades little: only about $330.8K changes hands a day.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -3.4%
- 3 months
- -1.5%
- This year
- -5.7%
- 1 year
- -33%
- 3 years
- -19%
- 5 years
- -15%
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 U.S. Treasury Bill, 0%, due 11/27/2026 98%
- 2 2026-11-30 SPDR® Gold Trust C 388 2.3%
- 3 US Dollar 0.6%
- 4 2026-11-30 SPDR® Gold Trust C 447.91 0.2%
- 5 2026-11-30 SPDR® Gold Trust P 347.16 0.4%
Positions in the fund: 5. The ten largest make up 100% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $91.00
- Over 20 years
- $4,239
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $91.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $4,239.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 5 years
- -3.1%
- Deepest drop
- -36%
- Yearly volatility
- 41%
Average yearly decline over the last five years: 3.1%. Deepest drop in these years: 36% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
No, it reinvestsThe fund pays nothing out. What its holdings earn stays inside and shows in the price.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
It trades little- Traded a day
- $330.8K
- Shares a day
- 21K
On an average day about $330.8K of the fund changes hands.