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FT Vest Laddered Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF (BUFX)

Defined Outcome | Exchange Traded Fund | Cboe US
22.68 USD -0.07 (-0.308%) ⇩ (Oct. 16, 2026, 1:20 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★★⯪☆☆Dividends:☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 3:43 a.m. EDT

The security has too little price history to assess long-term, as the available data covers only a single day within the trailing twelve-month period, rendering any multi-year trend analysis impossible. Consequently, the long-term rating remains neutral despite the lack of historical performance data. In the short term, the asset displays flat momentum, trading essentially sideways near its fifty-two-week high with minimal volume relative to its average, offering no clear directional edge for a momentum play. The statistical forecasting model indicates a very high confidence in a slight upward move over the next 45 days, which provides a minor bullish nudge, but this cannot overcome the absence of a tangible business or fund strategy given the zero-dividend history and lack of annual trajectory data. Without knowledge of the underlying assets or a proven track record, the investment case relies entirely on the immediate statistical anomaly rather than fundamental quality.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoARIMA ✓0.005081
AutoETS0.005173
MSTL0.005179
AutoTheta0.010494

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA

Forecast Reliability
Score 82%
H-stat 0.25
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.397
Excess Kurtosis -0.48
Attribute Value
Trailing P/E 24.22

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 22.9
All Time Low 20.115
Ask 22.71
Ask Size 300
Average Daily Volume10 Day 1,630
Average Daily Volume3 Month 4,959
Average Volume 4,959
Average Volume10Days 1,630
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 22.64
Bid Size 100
Category Defined Outcome
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 22.79
Day Low 22.675
Display Name Laddered Enhance & Moderate ETF
Dividend Yield 0.0
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 0.9363345
Esg Populated 0
Exchange BTS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 22.5986
Fifty Day Average Change 0.07639885
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.0033806895
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 9.350967
Fifty Two Week High 22.9
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.22500038
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.009825344
Fifty Two Week Low 20.745
Fifty Two Week Low Change 1.9299984
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.09303439
Fifty Two Week Range 20.745 - 22.9
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,750,858,200,000
Full Exchange Name Cboe US
Fullday Change -0.025001526
Fullday Change Percent -0.10992097
Fullday Price 22.675
Fund Family First Trust
Fund Inception Date 1,750,723,200
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by providing investors with U.S. large-cap equity market exposure while fund manager attempting to limit downside risk through a laddered portfolio of twelve FT Vest U.S. Equity Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETFs. Under normal market conditions, it will invest substantially all of its assets in the Underlying ETFs, which seek to provide investors with returns of approximately twice any positive price return of SPY, up to a predetermined upside cap, while providing a buffer against the first 15% of SPY losses, over a defined one-year period.
Long Name FT Vest Laddered Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF
Market us_market
Market State POST
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1943656504
Nav Price 22.72
Net Assets 19,247,672.0
Net Expense Ratio 0.96
Open 22.79
Previous Close 22.745
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Delayed Quote
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.0700016
Regular Market Change Percent -0.307767
Regular Market Day High 22.79
Regular Market Day Low 22.675
Regular Market Day Range 22.675 - 22.79
Regular Market Open 22.79
Regular Market Previous Close 22.745
Regular Market Price 22.675
Regular Market Time 1,792,171,245
Regular Market Volume 354
Short Name FT Vest Laddered Enhance & Mode
Source Interval 15
Symbol BUFX
Total Assets 19,247,672
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing P E 24.216772
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 2.07394
Trailing Three Month Returns 2.07394
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 21.918015
Two Hundred Day Average Change 0.7569847
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.034537103
Type Disp ETF
Volume 354
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return 6.64154