FIRST TRUST ALTERNATIVE ABSOLUTE RETURN STRATEGY ETF

Symbol: FAAR

Exchange: NASDAQ

Sector: Financial_Services

Category: Commodities Broad Basket

Inception Date: 18/05/2016

Latest Date: 02/04/2026

Current Price: $34.03

Expense Ratio: 0.97%

Assets Under Management
$151.0M
0.35% daily change

Period Performance

Adjusted cumulative ETF performance normalized to the first available adjusted price of the selected period.

Adjusted Return
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Performance Metrics

Return

8.69%

Volatility

18.95%

Sharpe Ratio

7.680

VaR 95%

-1.68%

CVaR 95%: -2.24%
Max Drawdown: -2.70%
Sortino Ratio: 10.698
Calmar Ratio: 55.31
Return

25.16%

Volatility

16.47%

Sharpe Ratio

8.821

VaR 95%

-1.46%

CVaR 95%: -1.85%
Max Drawdown: -2.88%
Sortino Ratio: 13.047
Calmar Ratio: 51.63
Return

25.12%

Volatility

14.97%

Sharpe Ratio

3.574

VaR 95%

-1.30%

CVaR 95%: -1.68%
Max Drawdown: -4.85%
Sortino Ratio: 6.382
Calmar Ratio: 11.79
Return

30.24%

Volatility

15.33%

Sharpe Ratio

1.744

VaR 95%

-1.36%

CVaR 95%: -2.13%
Max Drawdown: -7.92%
Sortino Ratio: 2.444
Calmar Ratio: 3.83
Return

34.84%

Volatility

12.69%

Sharpe Ratio

0.990

VaR 95%

-1.19%

CVaR 95%: -1.75%
Max Drawdown: -11.54%
Sortino Ratio: 1.419
Calmar Ratio: 1.40
Return

35.81%

Volatility

11.40%

Sharpe Ratio

0.628

VaR 95%

-1.03%

CVaR 95%: -1.57%
Max Drawdown: -11.54%
Sortino Ratio: 0.924
Calmar Ratio: 0.93

Daily Returns for Period 12M

Daily simple returns calculated over the official metric window from the same adjusted price series used in the chart: 02/04/2025 - 02/04/2026.

Methodology: adjusted prices + daily simple return
Average Daily Return

0.11%

Best Day

3.569%

02/03/2026
Worst Day

-3.927%

03/04/2025
Days with Data

251

Recent Price History (Last 90 Days)

Date Open High Low Close Volume
02/04/2026 $33.91 $34.12 $33.80 $34.03 54,700
01/04/2026 $33.60 $33.76 $33.49 $33.63 26,800
31/03/2026 $33.84 $33.92 $33.60 $33.75 353,600
30/03/2026 $33.84 $33.85 $33.63 $33.77 203,600
27/03/2026 $33.45 $33.68 $33.45 $33.61 75,500
26/03/2026 $33.39 $33.42 $33.13 $33.16 33,700
25/03/2026 $33.20 $33.35 $33.10 $33.22 25,300
24/03/2026 $33.35 $33.50 $33.31 $33.42 56,500
23/03/2026 $33.26 $33.32 $33.00 $33.11 45,100
20/03/2026 $33.73 $34.11 $33.72 $34.03 42,700