FTQIFirst Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF
Seeks to provide current income.
By First Trust · Launched 2014
Annual Cost
0.75%
#4,069 of 6,040 · expensive
Fund Size
$963M
#1,202 of 6,040 · large
Return (1Y)
+21.5%
Track Record
12 years
#1,149 of 6,040 · established
Performance
Total-return NAV · USDGrowth of $10,000
$11,731+17.3%
Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.
What's inside
How Beacon categorizes this fundHoldings
By weightConcentration
Top 10 holdings = 41.7% of fundmoderately concentrated
Apple Inc.
7.8%
NVIDIA Corp.
7.5%
Amazon.com, Inc.
4.1%
Dreyfus Government Cash Management Funds
4.1%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
3.6%
Costco Wholesale Corporation
3.3%
Tesla Inc
3.2%
Broadcom Inc
2.9%
Cisco Systems, Inc.
2.6%
Netflix, Inc.
2.6%
Asset allocation
Stocks
94.0%
Cash
6.0%
Risk profile
Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ yearsVolatility (1Y)
11.3%Moderate
Year-on-year price swings
Max drawdown
-19.4%Moderate
Worst peak-to-trough loss
Sharpe (3Y)
0.97Decent risk-adjusted returns
Sortino (3Y)
1.39Good downside protection
Listing
- Exchange
- NASDAQ Global Select Market
Full fund details
- Objective
- Seeks to provide current income.
- Strategy
- Invests primarily in equity securities listed on U.S. exchanges and employs a buy-write option strategy by writing U.S. exchange-traded call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index. Aims to generate income from options premiums while investing at least 80% of net assets in Nasdaq Composite Index components.
- Inception date
- January 6, 2014
- Fund family
- First Trust
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Data updated on 2026-09-18