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Ticker Fund Issuer Index Buffer Upside multiple Period ends Net assets \n XDEC FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - December First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Dec 18, 2026 $209m \n XMAR FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - March First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Mar 19, 2027 $160m \n XJUN FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - June First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Jun 17, 2027 $139m \n XBAP Innovator U.S. Equity Accelerated 9 Buffer ETF - Apr Innovator SPY 9% 15.0% Mar 31, 2027 $128m \n XSEP FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - September First Trust SPY 0% to 15% 2.0x Sep 17, 2027 $100m \n XBJA Innovator U.S. Equity Accelerated 9 Buffer ETF - Jan Innovator SPY 9% 11.9% Dec 31, 2026 $94m \n XBJL Innovator U.S. Equity Accelerated 9 Buffer ETF - Jul Innovator SPY 9% 13.8% Jun 30, 2027 $77m \n XJAN FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - January First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Jan 15, 2027 $71m \n XFEB FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - February First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Feb 19, 2027 $61m \n XBOC Innovator U.S. Equity Accelerated 9 Buffer ETF - Oct Innovator SPY 9% 13.7% Sep 30, 2027 $60m \n XAPR FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - April First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Apr 16, 2027 $52m \n XJUL FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - July First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Jul 16, 2027 $42m \n XOCT FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - October First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Oct 16, 2026 $40m \n XNOV FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - November First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Nov 20, 2026 $26m \n XAUG FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - August First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x Aug 20, 2027 $26m \n XMAY FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF - May First Trust SPY 15% 2.0x May 21, 2027 $19m \n \n Questions people ask\n How many accelerated etfs are there? ETFIQ covers 16 US listed accelerated etfs as of Oct 9, 2026, read from each issuer\u2019s own outcome page. How is an accelerated ETF different from a buffer ETF? Funds that multiply the index\u2019s rise, usually twice, up to a cap, and still buffer the first part of a fall. The multiple is the point: the cap is reached on half the move. Where to next\n Every buffer ETF Compare two funds The vocabulary Where these figures came from\n Innovator, AllianzIM and FT Vest publish each fund\u2019s current outcome-period values daily SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement.\n ETFIQ is an independent publisher and makes no recommendations; every figure is calculated from published data. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, Accelerated ETFs: what each one protects, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/buffer/accelerated Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, Accelerated ETFs: what each one protects, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/buffer/accelerated APA ETFIQ. (Oct 9, 2026). Accelerated ETFs: what each one protects. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/buffer/accelerated Markdown [Accelerated ETFs: what each one protects (ETFIQ, Oct 9, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/buffer/accelerated)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). 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