Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries Afterdark ETF
The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in securities and instruments providing exposure to bitcoin and U.S. Treasuries or cash equivalents. It captures bitcoin's overnight return profile through U.S. exchange-traded bitcoin futures, options, swaps, and underlying funds, while holding short-term U.S. Treasuries during daytime hours. The strategy is designed for high portfolio turnover and does not invest directly in bitcoin, with a minimum annualized tracking error of approximately 5%.
| Name | Cumulative Return | Ann. Return | Ann. Vol | Sharpe | Max DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries Afterdark ETF | -12.9% | -24.4% | 84.9% | -0.33 | -46.6% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 4/9/2026 to 10/7/2026.
Name | YTD | 1D | 5D | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y | 2Y | 3Y | 5Y | MAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries Afterdark ETF | -12.8% | -2.8% | 2.8% | 2.1% | 3.8% | -12.8% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.
Name | YTD |
|---|---|
Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries Afterdark ETF | -12.8% |
ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.
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ETF performance based on market prices. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth).
The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in securities and instruments providing exposure to bitcoin and U.S. Treasuries or cash equivalents. It captures bitcoin's overnight return profile through U.S. exchange-traded bitcoin futures, options, swaps, and underlying funds, while holding short-term U.S. Treasuries during daytime hours. The strategy is designed for high portfolio turnover and does not invest directly in bitcoin, with a minimum annualized tracking error of approximately 5%.
MethodologyExpense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table. Turnover from market data (10/6/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.
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Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Digital Assets Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.
Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
3 positions
| # | Name | Ticker | Weight % | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Treasury Bill | - | 102.77 | USA |
| 2 | First American Government Obli | - | 2.97 | USA |
| 3 | iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF | IBIT | -0.03 | USA |
Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Digital Assets Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.
Metric | NGHT Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries Afterdark ETF | Peer Group 76 funds | Peer Asset Class 168 funds |
|---|---|---|---|
YTD Return | -12.84% | -7.26%28 | -4.79%25 |
1Y Return | - | - | - |
3Y Return (Ann.) | - | - | - |
5Y Return (Ann.) | - | - | - |
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper | 0.97% | 0.89%29 | 0.69%16 |
Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (80 share classes across 76 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.
Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.
| Fund | Peer Group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BGLD FT Vest Gold Strategy Quarterly Buffer ETF Options - Buffer/Defined Outcome | Options - Buffer/Defined Outcome | 99 | - | - |
| 2 | TBIL F/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill Fund Fixed Income - Government Intermediate | Fixed Income - Government Intermediate | 99 | - | - |
| 3 | ACEI Innovator Equity Autocallable Income Strategy ETF Options - Income | Options - Income | 99 | - | - |
| 4 | ACII Innovator Index Autocallable Income Strategy ETF Options - Income | Options - Income | 99 | - | - |
| 5 | RKLX Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Rklb ETF Leveraged - Equity | Leveraged - Equity | 98 | - | - |
| 6 | LNOK Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Nok ETF Leveraged - Equity | Leveraged - Equity | 97 | - | - |
| 7 | OKLL Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Oklo ETF Leveraged - Equity | Leveraged - Equity | 96 | - | - |
| 8 | IONX Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Ionq ETF Leveraged - Equity | Leveraged - Equity | 94 | - | - |
| 9 | AVGX Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Avgo ETF Leveraged - Equity | Leveraged - Equity | 94 | - | - |
| 10 | ORCX Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Orcl ETF Leveraged - Equity | Leveraged - Equity | 93 | - | - |
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MethodologyRows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap.