FTLS First Trust Long/Short Equity
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Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, FTLS returned 8.5%, against 14.8% for VOO.
Promise check: Not measuredIts strategy, long-short equity, states no objective ETFIQ can measure.
FTLS risk and return scorecard
vs VOO · Sep 2014 to Oct 2026 · 632 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
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?
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Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$76.24+0.2%1 day, priceClose, Nov 4, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was +8.5%. 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 | Benchmark (VOO) | Gap to VOO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Oct 5 – Nov 4, 2026 | −2.0% | −1.1% | −0.9 pts |
| 3M Aug 5 – Nov 4, 2026 | +1.0% | −0.1% | +1.1 pts |
| 6M May 6 – Nov 4, 2026 | +3.6% | +5.0% | −1.4 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026 | +8.1% | +13.4% | −5.3 pts |
| 1Y Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 4, 2026 | +8.5% | +14.8% | −6.3 pts |
| 3Y Nov 3, 2023 – Nov 4, 2026 | +46.9% | +83.3% | −36.4 pts |
| 5Y Nov 5, 2021 – Nov 4, 2026 | +57.0% | +75.5% | −18.5 pts |
| 10Y Nov 4, 2016 – Nov 4, 2026 | +160.4% | +333.1% | −172.7 pts |
| Since launch Sep 10, 2014 – Nov 4, 2026 | +183.1% | +373.2% | −190.1 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Sep 10, 2014 – Nov 4, 2026 | +8.9% | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
FTLS in the 26 weeks SPY fell, year to Nov 4, 2026: SPY averaged −1.07%, FTLS −0.48%.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Nov 3, 2026FTLS: in the 22 trading days to Nov 3, 2026, net $77.3m came in.
Nov 3, 2026
Oct 28, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026
Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Aug 1, 2021 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
FTLS, net flow each trading day over the 65 sessions from Aug 4, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 9 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 9 days, out on 0. 44 days missing.
FTLS, net flow each trading day over the 251 sessions from Nov 4, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 9 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 9 days, out on 0. 230 days missing.
FTLS, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Apr 2, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026: money came in on 9 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 9 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 FTLS, back to Aug 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare FTLS 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 FTLS 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 outOct 2023 to Nov 2026
FTLS, money in and money out each month from Oct 2023 to Oct 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Oct 2023 to Jul 2026 are from FTLS’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Oct 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Aug 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 31 and went out in 5.
Bars for Oct 2023 to Jul 2026 are from FTLS’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 31 and went out in 5.
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.
FTLS key stats
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Liquid with care: its typical spread is 0.24% of its price.
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About FTLS
12 seats on FTLS, as of Nov 4, 2026: 1 Supports, 2 Challenges, 8 Not enough data, 1 Does not apply.
Questions people ask about FTLS
- Does FTLS move with the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Nov 4, 2026, FTLS’s weekly returns had a correlation of +0.83 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 +0.48, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 0.48% the same way.
- What did FTLS 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 FTLS fell 0.48% on average, a down-week capture of 44.7%.
- Did FTLS earn more than cash?
- Over the same 52 weeks FTLS returned +7.7% with distributions reinvested, and BIL, a fund of Treasury bills, returned +3.7%. FTLS finished 4.1 percentage points ahead of it.
- What does FTLS cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.38% a year.
- Why is FTLS listed as long-short equity?
- ETFIQ files each fund by what its own prospectus says it does, and FTLS’s, filed Feb 27, 2026, describes a long-short equity fund.
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