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FAAR — First Trust Alternative Absolute Return Strategy ETF

US equity
31.44 +0.29% today
USD · as of 2026-08-21

Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21

499 daily closes shown
52w low 26.79 · high 34.34

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Performance

1 day+0.29%
1 week+1.73%
1 month+0.67%
3 months-7.65%
6 months+5.32%
Year to date+15.63%
1 year+7.16%
3 years+10.67%
5 years+5.81%

Technicals

RSI 1466.1
vs 50-day avg-0.10%
vs 200-day avg+0.33%
Volatility 1y16.3%
Max drawdown 1y-13.31%
Avg volume 30d32.5K
Daily bars held2,577
History from2016-05-23

Dividends

Yield (trailing 12m)1.36%
Paid last 12m3.0771
Payments in 12m4
Paying since2017-12-21

⚠ Includes an irregular or special distribution — this yield is unlikely to repeat.

Largest institutional holders

managervalueshares
LPL Financial LLC17.7M525.7K
ENVESTNET ASSET MANAGEMENT INC13.2M390.5K
FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP10.2M302.6K
MORGAN STANLEY9.6M283.1K
ASSETMARK, INC9.4M277.8K
Cetera Investment Advisers8.4M247.6K
RFG Advisory, LLC4.1M120.6K
Center For Asset Management LLC3.8M112.1K
SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP3.4M99.4K
BENJAMIN EDWARDS INC3.2M96.0K

13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →

Short selling

Avg short volume, 90d58.9% of tape
Days observed61

This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →

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