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RSBT — Return Stacked Bonds & Managed Futures ETF
RSBT targets roughly dollar-for-dollar broad U.S. bond exposure alongside a systematic managed-futures sleeve, return stacking for fixed-income allocators who want trend exposure without selling bonds.
RSBT price history
Total return (Yahoo adjusted close—dividends and splits per Yahoo), normalized to $10,000 at first available trade date. Educational only.
Strategy
For each dollar invested, RSBT holds roughly one dollar of broad U.S. bond exposure targeting the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (implemented via SPAB, Treasuries, or Treasury futures) and one dollar of systematic managed-futures exposure. The futures sleeve uses a blended approach: 30% top-down regression against leading CTA funds, 70% bottom-up time-series momentum, price-versus-moving-average, and breakout signals across equities, bonds, commodities, and currencies.
The bond sleeve provides duration and credit carry; the futures overlay trend-follows independently. When rates move directionally or macro themes persist, both sleeves can contribute. In choppy, mean-reverting markets the futures drag adds to the carry cost of running leveraged exposures, and investors should review the prospectus for details on swap counterparty risk and gross notional limits.
Manager and Issuer Pedigree
Return Stacked® ETFs package ReSolve / Newfound-style capital-efficiency research through Tidal’s ETF platform, with transparent notional sleeves rather than opaque alternatives wrappers.
The complex is smaller than mega-index issuers, but purpose-built around sleeve-level implementation and disclosure. Read holdings and shareholder reports because gross and net exposures can move with volatility targeting and futures conditions.
Outperformance
Outperforms when bond markets deliver positive total return while managed-futures trends persist across rates, FX, or commodities, adding a layer of diversified alpha on top of the core fixed-income allocation rather than replacing it.
Underperforms when fast mean-reversion repeatedly stops out trend signals while bond markets trade sideways or decline, collapsing the contribution from both sleeves simultaneously and leaving financing costs unearned.
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Official ETF page
Read the official ETF page for current NAV, holdings, and documents: Return Stacked ETFs (RSBT).