FCTE: Valuation Is Up, Growth Is Down, And Earnings Momentum Has Collapsed

  • SMI 3Fourteen Full-Cycle Trend ETF takes a proprietary "Full Cycle Trend" approach to select 20 U.S. stocks based on quality, trend, and momentum screens, among others. Its expense ratio is high at 0.85%. My initial coverage from October was reasonably positive, though I maintained a healthy degree of skepticism, as is appropriate for such a new and highly active ETF. I was prepared for high turnover, but what I wasn't expecting was such a dramatic change in portfolio fundamentals. Unfortunately, most of the changes were negative.