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FT Vest Laddered Enhance & Moderate Buffer ETF (BUFX)

Defined Outcome | Exchange Traded Fund | Cboe US
22.56 USD

Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★★⯪☆☆Dividends:☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | Aug. 22, 2026, 1:29 a.m. EDT

The instrument shows no clear directional edge for the immediate future, trading flat against its moving averages with negligible recent price movement. From a long-term perspective, the security is too new to assess based on historical performance, and the lack of any dividend history eliminates income potential entirely. While the statistical model indicates a very high-confidence slight upward drift over the next 45 days, this short-term noise pattern cannot override the absence of fundamental data or yield for a broader investment thesis.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoTheta ✓0.002702
MSTL0.006523
AutoETS0.007128
AutoARIMA0.007171

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta

Forecast Reliability
Score 85%
H-stat 0.80
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.569
Excess Kurtosis 0.47
Attribute Value
Trailing P/E 26.46

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 22.6
All Time Low 20.115
Ask 22.6
Ask Size 300
Average Daily Volume10 Day 4,650
Average Daily Volume3 Month 5,753
Average Volume 5,753
Average Volume10Days 4,650
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 22.52
Bid Size 100
Category Defined Outcome
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 22.6
Day Low 22.525
Dividend Yield 0.0
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 0.85255796
Esg Populated 0
Exchange BTS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 22.3045
Fifty Day Average Change 0.2554989
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.011455038
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 9.567749
Fifty Two Week High 22.6
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.040000916
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.001769952
Fifty Two Week Low 20.55
Fifty Two Week Low Change 2.0100002
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.09781023
Fifty Two Week Range 20.55 - 22.6
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,750,858,200,000
Full Exchange Name Cboe US
Fullday Change 0.0
Fullday Change Percent 0.0
Fullday Price 22.56
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 CLOSED
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1943656504
Nav Price 22.52
Net Assets 15,621,184.0
Net Expense Ratio 0.96
Open 22.54
Previous Close 22.56
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Delayed Quote
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change 0.0
Regular Market Change Percent 0.0
Regular Market Day High 22.6
Regular Market Day Low 22.525
Regular Market Day Range 22.525 - 22.6
Regular Market Open 22.54
Regular Market Previous Close 22.56
Regular Market Price 22.56
Regular Market Time 1,787,945,758
Regular Market Volume 10,675
Short Name FT Vest Laddered Enhance & Mode
Source Interval 15
Symbol BUFX
Total Assets 15,621,184
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing P E 26.461544
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 2.1978
Trailing Three Month Returns 2.1978
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 21.648174
Two Hundred Day Average Change 0.9118252
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.04212019
Type Disp ETF
Volume 10,675
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return 5.13424