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FTQIFirst Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF

Get income12y track recordRanked #590 of 1,706 in this goal

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 · USD
Growth of $10,000
$11,731+17.3%

Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.

What's inside

How Beacon categorizes this fund

Asset class

Alternative

Strategy

Option income

Holdings

By weight

Concentration

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+ years
Volatility (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