FMF First Trust Managed Futures Strategy Fund
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Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, FMF returned 11.1%. When the S&P 500 fell, it fell 10% as much.
Promise check: Not measuredIts strategy, systematic trend, states no objective ETFIQ can measure.
FMF risk and return scorecard
vs VOO, its stated benchmark (secondary) · Aug 2013 to Oct 2026 · 690 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
Secondary: VOO tracks the S&P 500 Index, named in its shareholder report. Its own benchmark is its holdings, which have no weekly prices.
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
Money in and out
Net fund flows · Nov 3, 2026What you earned
How concentrated, and what does it cost?
More on FMF
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$50.72−1.6%1 day, priceClose, Nov 4, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
| Window | Total return | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|
| 1M Oct 5 – Nov 4, 2026 | −2.8% | −1.0% |
| 3M Aug 5 – Nov 4, 2026 | +1.8% | −0.1% |
| 6M May 6 – Nov 4, 2026 | −0.1% | +5.0% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026 | +9.2% | +13.3% |
| 1Y Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026 | +11.1% | +14.8% |
| 3Y Nov 3, 2023 – Nov 4, 2026 | +20.3% | +82.9% |
| 5Y Nov 5, 2021 – Nov 4, 2026 | +26.6% | +75.0% |
| 10Y Nov 4, 2016 – Nov 4, 2026 | +34.1% | +330.8% |
| Since launch Aug 2, 2013 – Nov 4, 2026 | +28.7% | +461.2% |
| Since launch, annualised Aug 2, 2013 – Nov 4, 2026 | +1.9% | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
FMF in the 26 weeks SPY fell, year to Nov 4, 2026: SPY averaged −1.07%, FMF −0.11%.
How much it diversifies a stock portfolio, ranked against 17 systematic trend alternatives ETFs with a full year. 100 is best. How it is computed
FMF’s weekly returns had a correlation of +0.16 with the S&P 500, and in the weeks the index fell its down-week capture was 9.9%. Over the same 52 weeks it finished 6.9 points ahead of T-bills.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Nov 3, 2026FMF: in the 22 trading days to Nov 3, 2026, net $15.7m came in.
Nov 3, 2026
Oct 28, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026
Jul 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Jul 1, 2023 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Jul 1, 2021 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
FMF, net flow each trading day over the 65 sessions from Aug 4, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 5 days and went out on 0 days, of the 21 days with daily data; the other 44 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 5 days, out on 0. 44 days missing.
FMF, net flow each trading day over the 251 sessions from Nov 4, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 5 days and went out on 0 days, of the 21 days with daily data; the other 230 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 5 days, out on 0. 230 days missing.
FMF, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Apr 2, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 5 days and went out on 0 days, of the 21 days with daily data; the other 379 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 5 days, out on 0. 379 days missing.
Daily data starts Oct 6, 2026.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from First Trust’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for FMF, back to Jul 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare FMF with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months21 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year5 weeks
Net flow into FMF each week, Oct 6, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outSep 2023 to Nov 2026
FMF, money in and money out each month from Sep 2023 to Oct 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Sep 2023 to Jun 2026 are from FMF’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Oct 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Jul 2026 to Sep 2026 have no data. Nov 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 23 and went out in 11.
Bars for Sep 2023 to Jun 2026 are from FMF’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Oct 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 23 and went out in 11.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Nov 3, 2026. Last checked Nov 5, 2026.
FMF key stats
Trading
as of Nov 3, 2026
Thin: its typical spread is 0.46% of its price.
FMF for holders outside the US
How much does it diversify a stock portfolio?
79.4% of the 17 sit at or above FMF on this measure.
85.3% of the 17 sit at or above FMF on this measure.
Weighted evenly, those two positions are what the score combines, across the 17 systematic trend alternatives ETFs with a full year. Neither spread above is the score: a fund can sit further right on one and score lower.
One year of weekly moves against the S&P 500, within one strategy; it ignores what the fund returned. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.
| What it measures | This fund | Its percentile | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| correlation with the S&P 500 | +0.16 | 79.4 | 50% |
| down-week capture against the S&P 500 | 9.9% | 85.3 | 50% |
About FMF
12 seats on FMF, as of Nov 4, 2026: 1 Mixed, 2 Challenges, 8 Not enough data, 1 Does not apply.
Questions people ask about FMF
- Does FMF move with the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, FMF’s weekly returns had a correlation of +0.16 with the S&P 500’s, on a scale where 1 moves in step, 0 shows no pattern and −1 moves opposite. Its beta was +0.11, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 0.11% the same way.
- What did FMF do when stocks fell?
- The S&P 500 fell in 26 of the 52 weeks to Nov 4, 2026, by 1.07% on average. In those weeks FMF fell 0.11% on average, a down-week capture of 9.9%.
- Did FMF earn more than cash?
- Over the same 52 weeks FMF returned +10.6% with distributions reinvested, and BIL, a fund of Treasury bills, returned +3.7%. FMF finished 6.9 percentage points ahead of it.
- What does FMF cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.98% a year.
- Why is FMF listed as managed futures?
- ETFIQ files each fund by what its own prospectus says it does, and FMF’s, filed Apr 30, 2026, describes a managed futures fund.
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