THOR Index Rotation ETF
$33.78−0.28 (−0.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.69%
- Fund size
- $200M
- 1Y return
- +8.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.33%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $34.05
- 52W range
The ETF.net THIR Grade
Score 46 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.DScore 29Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 82Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 39Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on THIR
CAn index fund with an escape hatch. THIR tracks the THOR SDQ Rotation Index, a rulebook that rotates across US large-cap index ETFs and steps away from the ones in downtrends. Plain beta, plus a trend filter, in one ticker.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the THOR SDQ Rotation Index. Its rules-based strategy uses U.S. index ETFs to pursue large-cap equity exposure while seeking lower volatility by avoiding indexes and ETFs in downtrends.
Why people hold it
- The rulebook does the deciding: it rotates among US index ETFs for large-cap exposure and avoids indexes and ETFs in downtrends, rather than leaving the call to a manager's mood.
- What it holds underneath is vanilla: US index ETFs, large-cap equity, inside a standard 1940 Act fund. The strategy is the wrapper, not the ingredients.
- One ticker stands in for a do-it-yourself trend rulebook: no personal spreadsheet deciding which index ETF to hold and which to skip this month.
Worth knowing
- At 0.70% a year it costs well more than plain index trackers such as SCHK (0.03%) or VOOV (0.07%). The rotation rules are what the extra buys.
- Launched in 2024, so the live record is short and has not yet spanned a full market cycle.
- Trend rules act after a move is underway, so the fund can be out of an index during the early stretch of a rebound. That is the mechanism working as designed.
THIR Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 100%
- SPY
Sectors
Geography
THIR Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | THIR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.7% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | −0.8% |
| 1 year | +8.7% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | THIR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.7% | |
| 2025 | +25.2% | |
| 2024 | +3.2% |
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THIR Dividends
- 0.33%
- $0.11
- $0.11 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 17, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Dec 17, 2024 | $0.08 |
THIR Risk
- 12.3%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −10.0%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.77
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
THIR Cost
- The middle half of Trend-Following / Tactical Index funds
- Median 0.60%
13 of the 20 Trend-Following / Tactical Index funds charge less.