NTRL First Trust Equity Market Neutral ETF
Market neutral fund: owns stocks it expects to do well and sells short about as much in stocks it expects to lag
NTRL has less than a year of prices, so ETFIQ does not yet measure how it moves with the S&P 500.
Key facts
Not a full year of prices yet.
Period by period
| Window | The fund | S&P 500 | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Since it listed | +2.6% | +4.1% | −1.6 pts |
In plain words
ETFIQ measures what every alternatives fund is sold on: whether it moves differently from the stock market. It has traded since Jun 24, 2026, which is less than the year these figures need. Since it listed it returned +2.6% against +4.1% for the S&P 500.
| Issuer | First Trust |
|---|---|
| Strategy (ETFIQ, from its prospectus) | Market neutral |
| Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Jun 18, 2026) | 0.95% |
| Net assets (issuer page, as of Sep 18, 2026) | $17m |
| Listed since | Jun 24, 2026 |
| Days traded | 61 |
| Quoted | on an exchange, every trading day |
Weekly closes from Tiingo with distributions reinvested, 52 weeks to the same date for the fund, SPY and BIL. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
- What does NTRL cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.95% a year.
- Why is NTRL listed as market neutral?
- ETFIQ files each fund by what its own prospectus says it does, and NTRL’s, filed Jun 18, 2026, describes a market neutral fund.
The words on this page
- Correlation
- How closely the fund’s weekly returns moved with the S&P 500’s over the last year, from −1 to 1. At 1 the two rise and fall together, at 0 there is no pattern, and below 0 the fund tended to move the other way.
- Beta
- How far the fund moved, on average, for each 1% move in the S&P 500 over the same weeks. At 0.3 it moved about 0.3% the same way; below 0 it moved the other way.
- Down week
- A week in which the S&P 500 fell, measured through SPY with dividends reinvested. A week that ended exactly level is not a down week.
- Down-week capture
- The fund’s average return in the S&P 500’s down weeks as a share of the index’s own average in those weeks. At 100% it fell as much, at 50% half as much, and below zero it rose. It is weekly and covers one year, so it is not the same figure as Morningstar’s downside capture.
- Against T-bills
- The fund’s total return minus a short Treasury bill fund’s (BIL) over the same year, in percentage points. A fund can steady a portfolio and still earn less than cash.
Every term used here, defined in full on the alternatives ETFs vocabulary page.
Where these figures came from
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Cite this page. ETFIQ, NTRL, alternatives ETFs, data as of Sep 18, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/ntrl Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.