ETF Foundry
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profitability factor · long-only model fund

Foundry Technology ChTax Factor ETF

ETF Foundry Research (hypothetical) · rebalanced monthly

FCHTHYPOTHETICAL MODEL
Since ’99
−20%
Expense Ratio
0.45%
placeholder
Holdings
77
cap-weighted
Inception
Oct 2020
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Full Sharpe
0.04
Ann. Return (LS)
0.6%
Ann. Volatility
16.9%
Max Drawdown
-68.2%
Test Sharpe ’19–26
0.17
Test FF5 α (ann.)
0.0%
vs Fama-French 5
Test FF5 α t-stat
0.00
not significant
Monthly turnover
15%
of the long leg, per rebalance
Cumulative return (LS)
-20%
over 331 months
This fund holds the long leg only
Long leg Sharpe
0.51
what this fund holds
Long leg ann. return
14.9%
buyable, long-only
Long-short Sharpe
0.04
requires shorting
Bottom bucket ann. return
14.3%
the basket shorted

Every other metric on this page is the long-shortstrategy, which needs a short book. This fund is the long leg alone, so these are the figures for what it actually holds. The bottom-bucket number is that basket’s own return — not short P&L.

Hypothetical growth of $1 — long-short backtest

Gross of the placeholder expense ratio and trading costs · not investor results

331 months

Holdings

Every constituent of the long leg — sort, search or filter by sector

77 of 77 · 100.0% of book
TickerCompanySectorMarket capWeight
1NVDA
NVIDIA CORPTechnology$4.91T
58.20%
2MU
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INCTechnology$958.80B
11.37%
3PANW
PALO ALTO NETWORKS INCTechnology$292.32B
3.47%
4ANET
ARISTA NETWORKS INCTechnology$212.31B
2.52%
5APH
AMPHENOL CORPTechnology$186.01B
2.21%
6QCOM
QUALCOMM INCTechnology$181.06B
2.15%
7STX
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PLCTechnology$176.62B
2.09%
8MRVL
MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INCTechnology$165.06B
1.96%
9WDC
WESTERN DIGITAL CORPTechnology$164.49B
1.95%
10UBER
UBER TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$147.50B
1.75%
11APP
APPLOVIN CORPTechnology$142.62B
1.69%
12NOW
SERVICENOW INCTechnology$106.44B
1.26%
13ADBE
ADOBE INCTechnology$94.31B
1.12%
14MPWR
MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS INCTechnology$64.46B
0.76%
15ALAB
ASTERA LABS INCTechnology$52.04B
0.62%
16TER
TERADYNE INCTechnology$50.46B
0.60%
17XYZ
BLOCK INCTechnology$47.58B
0.56%
18ADSK
AUTODESK INCTechnology$46.07B
0.55%
19WDAY
WORKDAY INCTechnology$35.76B
0.42%
20UI
UBIQUITI INCTechnology$33.04B
0.39%
21NTAP
NETAPP INCTechnology$32.11B
0.38%
22FICO
FAIR ISAAC CORPTechnology$29.15B
0.35%
23ZM
ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS INCTechnology$26.72B
0.32%
24CTSH
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPTechnology$21.22B
0.25%
25LSCC
LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPTechnology$17.16B
0.20%
26SMCI
SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INCTechnology$14.54B
0.17%
27PTC
PTC INCTechnology$14.37B
0.17%
28DT
DYNATRACE INCTechnology$12.94B
0.15%
29GDDY
GODADDY INCTechnology$12.49B
0.15%
30SMTC
SEMTECH CORPTechnology$11.64B
0.14%
31RMBS
RAMBUS INCTechnology$10.97B
0.13%
32CGNX
COGNEX CORPTechnology$10.66B
0.13%
33DOCU
DOCUSIGN INCTechnology$10.07B
0.12%
34MANH
MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES INCTechnology$9.66B
0.11%
35IT
GARTNER INCTechnology$9.39B
0.11%
36VIAV
VIAVI SOLUTIONS INCTechnology$8.93B
0.11%
37TTD
TRADE DESK INCTechnology$8.74B
0.10%
38YOU
CLEAR SECURE INCTechnology$7.49B
0.09%
39DBX
DROPBOX INCTechnology$7.14B
0.08%
40ST
SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING PLCTechnology$6.55B
0.08%
41MXL
MAXLINEAR INCTechnology$6.43B
0.08%
42APPF
APPFOLIO INCTechnology$6.36B
0.08%
43CVLT
COMMVAULT SYSTEMS INCTechnology$6.10B
0.07%
44QLYS
QUALYS INCTechnology$5.61B
0.07%
45GTLB
GITLAB INCTechnology$5.53B
0.07%
46SYNA
SYNAPTICS INCTechnology$4.41B
0.05%
47BOX
BOX INCTechnology$4.22B
0.05%
48FOUR
SHIFT4 PAYMENTS INCTechnology$3.99B
0.05%
49PAY
PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS INCTechnology$3.75B
0.04%
50CCC
CCC INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INCTechnology$3.55B
0.04%
51TDC
TERADATA CORPTechnology$2.87B
0.03%
52ADEA
ADEIA INCTechnology$2.80B
0.03%
53VISN
VISTANCE NETWORKS INCTechnology$2.74B
0.03%
54SOUN
SOUNDHOUND AI INCTechnology$2.71B
0.03%
55GRND
GRINDR INCTechnology$2.71B
0.03%
56CALX
CALIX INCTechnology$2.50B
0.03%
57ROG
ROGERS CORPTechnology$2.36B
0.03%
58FLYW
FLYWIRE CORPTechnology$2.24B
0.03%
59INOD
INNODATA INCTechnology$1.99B
0.02%
60ALKT
ALKAMI TECHNOLOGY INCTechnology$1.92B
0.02%
61BL
BLACKLINE INCTechnology$1.78B
0.02%
62BLKB
BLACKBAUD INCTechnology$1.49B
0.02%
63CXM
SPRINKLR INCTechnology$1.37B
0.02%
64ARRY
ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES INCTechnology$940M
0.01%
65DAKT
DAKTRONICS INCTechnology$923M
0.01%
66MITK
MITEK SYSTEMS INCTechnology$857M
0.01%
67IBTA
IBOTTA INCTechnology$734M
0.01%
68FEIM
FREQUENCY ELECTRONICS INCTechnology$650M
0.01%
69PAYS
PAYSIGN INCTechnology$478M
0.01%
70CRNC
CERENCE INCTechnology$390M
0.00%
71XPER
XPERI INCTechnology$352M
0.00%
72BKTI
BK TECHNOLOGIES CORPTechnology$307M
0.00%
73AVNW
AVIAT NETWORKS INCTechnology$269M
0.00%
74RELL
RICHARDSON ELECTRONICS LTDTechnology$250M
0.00%
75ASYS
AMTECH SYSTEMS INCTechnology$242M
0.00%
76TRAK
REPOSITRAK INCTechnology$160M
0.00%
77ACFN
ACORN ENERGY INCTechnology$51M
0.00%

Full long-leg book as of July 2026 · cap-weighted · total market cap $8.43T. Hypothetical model holdings — not a registered fund’s portfolio.

Sector Breakdown

1 sectors
Technology
100.0%

Portfolio Style

Size × value map of the long-leg book

77 classified
Value
Blend
Growth
Large
Mid
Small
3%8
19%9
77%18
<1%6
<1%8
1%9
<1%6
<1%7
<1%2

Share of long-leg capital by market cap × book-to-market, using terciles of the 421-name universe at July 2026. Rows: Large ≥ $8.9B, Small < $1.9B. Columns: Value ≥ 0.63, Growth < 0.38 B/M. The dot marks the capital-weighted centroid of the book — 99% toward Large, 87% toward Growth. Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not realized P&L.

Tilt over time
Size tilt99% → Large
SmallLarge
Value ↔ growth tilt87% → Growth
ValueGrowth

Capital-weighted centroid of the long leg, December 1998July 2026; the right-hand end is the same value as the box’s dot. 77 names now. The faded start covers early months with a much thinner universe. Hypothetical holdings — descriptive, not P&L.

Constraint checks

How this book measures against the concentration and liquidity rules — as implemented here

How this book was built

These are UNCONSTRAINED factor sleeves: the construction pipeline sorts on a signal and cap-weights the top bucket, applying no issuer cap, no industry cap and no liquidity screen beyond the universe filter. A failing test therefore reports a constraint that was never applied during construction — it is not a defect in the strategy and not an error in the data. The same signal can be solved subject to these constraints.

Passed
4
Failed
2
Not tested
1
Independent checks
7

7 independent checks plus 1 arithmetically implied by another check (RIC / IRC 851(b)(3)(A) 50% bucket), which is reported separately so the tally cannot overstate scrutiny.

1 of 7 checks could not be tested. Those are neither passes nor failures — they are gaps in what the data can answer, and they are excluded from the passed count above rather than folded into it.

  • With respect to 75% of total assets, no more than 5% may be invested in the securities of any one issuer.

    Required
    >= 75.0%
    Actual
    40.4%
    Margin
    -34.6%
  • No more than 25% of total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer.

    Required
    <= 25.0%
    Actual
    58.2%
    Margin
    -33.2%
Reported separately — arithmetically implied
  • At least 50% of total assets must sit in cash, government securities, other RICs, and other securities limited to 5% of assets and 10% of the issuer's voting securities per issuer.

    Required
    >= 50.0%
    Actual
    40.4%
    Margin
    -9.6%

    Arithmetically entailed by '40 Act 5(b)(1) diversification (75%/5% asset leg) — it cannot fail independently, so it is reported outside the tally rather than counted as a separate check.

Engineering approximation of the cited rules for a DRAFT / HYPOTHETICAL model portfolio that is not a registered fund. This reports whether the portfolio passes the stated test AS IMPLEMENTED HERE; it is not a compliance opinion and is not a statement that any fund is compliant. Real filings need securities counsel.

No verdict sits within 1.0pp of its limit.

Data version — panel=20260719T025334 rows=2239262 asof=202607 issuers=20260719T014536 rates=20260804T224700

Measured on the 2026-07 formation date across 77 holdings (cap-weighted). A different formation date can produce different verdicts.

Derivatives risk (Rule 18f-4)

Whether this long-only book is subject to the VaR tests at all

This assessment describes the long-only book this fund holds — the top bucket only.

Governing rule
Rule 18f-4(c)(4) limited derivatives user exception

This fund QUALIFIES for the limited-derivatives-user exception, so it is excepted from the VaR tests; the ratio below is informational, not the operative limit.

Limited derivatives user exceptionby construction

Rule 18f-4(c)(4): a fund whose derivatives exposure (gross notional, including the value of assets sold short) is <= 10% of net assets is excepted from the VaR tests and the full derivatives risk management program.

Qualifies
Required
<= 10% of net assets
Exposure
0% of net assets
Margin
+10pp

No confidence interval: this follows from portfolio construction, not from an estimate.

Rule 18f-4(c)(2)(i): fund VaR at 99% over 20 trading days must not exceed 200% of the designated reference portfolio's VaR on the same basis.

Informational — does not govern

This fund is excepted from the VaR tests, so the ratio below is context rather than the operative limit. It is shown because it is still a description of the book’s risk, not because it decides anything.

Measured
2.2 (95% CI 1.3-2.9)
x reference VaR
Limit
2.00x
<= 2.00x reference VaR
Fund VaR
20.8%
99% / 20d
Reference
9.6%
FF5 market (mkt)

historical method · 331 monthly observations · about 3.3 in the 99% tail · paired percentile bootstrap over months

Same test, three estimators
historical
2.16x
over
parametric
1.87x
within
cornish fisher
2.01x
over

The estimators disagree about the verdict, not just the value — the choice of method decides the answer here. Historical VaR gives ratio 2.16 (fail) but Gaussian VaR gives 1.87 (pass). The pass/fail conclusion is an artefact of estimator choice, not a property of the strategy.

Engineering approximation of SEC Rule 18f-4 for research display. Not a compliance opinion and not a determination that any fund is compliant. Hypothetical model portfolio, not a registered fund.

The research long-short construction behind this factor does not qualify for this exception — a dollar-neutral book counts its full short notional, which is 100% of net assets against a 10% threshold. This product sidesteps that by holding the long leg alone, which is also why the long-leg Sharpe is reported separately throughout the site.

See the long-short verdict on the factor page →

Since publication

Did the edge survive the paper coming out?

published 2011
Before publication (pre-2011)
-0.08
Sharpe · -1.6% p.a.
January 1999December 2011 · 156 mo
Since publication
0.17
Sharpe · 2.6% p.a.
January 2012July 2026 · 175 mo
Change in Sharpe+0.26the return flipped from negative to positive since publication

Split at January of the year after the factor was published. The post-publication stretch IS genuinely out-of-sample relative to the original study -- the predictor was public by then -- so it speaks to whether the effect survived being known. Nothing is fitted here, so this is performance SINCE PUBLICATION, not validation of a model. Note the 'pre' side is our data before publication (our panel starts ~1999), NOT the study's original in-sample period, which usually ran decades earlier; a decay figure compares before-vs-after within our sample and is not a comparison against the published result.

Consistency across eras

Is this record broadly durable, or one regime?

26 windows
Positive windows
62%
16 of 26 3-year windows made money
Worst window
-0.60
Sharpe, January 2000 – December 2002
January 1999July 2026
Median Sharpe
0.13
Dispersion
0.40
Best window
0.78

3-year rolling windows, stepping 1 year (26 windows). Dispersion is the spread of window Sharpes — higher means the record depends more on which era you look at.

Rules-based factors fit no parameters, so these windows are not out-of-sample tests and do not validate a fitted model. They show whether the factor's record is consistent across eras or driven by one regime.

Returns

Long leg is what this fund holds — long-short is shown for reference

since January 1999
Trailing
PeriodLong legLong-short
1 yearcum.26.3%-15.9%
3 yearsp.a.40.3%12.8%
5 yearsp.a.25.0%3.1%
10 yearsp.a.28.5%3.2%
Since inceptionp.a.11.1%-0.8%
Calendar years
YearLong legLong-short
20267 mo11.9%-12.8%
202522.7%-4.8%
202479.1%65.8%
202359.8%-24.5%
2022-32.6%4.5%
202140.1%9.5%
202038.0%3.7%
201936.9%-9.2%
20181.6%3.1%
201751.8%14.1%
201610.6%-4.6%
2015-10.3%-10.4%
201418.4%13.6%
201323.1%-14.9%
201227.6%14.0%
20112.9%13.4%
201030.2%5.2%
200949.0%-7.1%
2008-51.3%-10.5%
200733.8%22.6%
2006-5.3%-20.8%
200510.7%3.1%
20045.8%-0.8%
200357.6%11.7%
2002-37.2%12.9%
2001-39.0%-25.2%
2000-47.7%-39.6%
199999.1%14.4%

Long leg = the top bucket this fund holds; long-short additionally shorts the bottom bucket and is not achievable in a long-only vehicle. Trailing figures run through July 2026: 1 year is a plain cumulative 12-month return (cum.), 3 years and longer are annualised (p.a.). Years marked with a month count are partial. These match the fact sheet’s tables by construction. Hypothetical backtest, gross of the placeholder expense ratio and trading costs — not investor results.

Fund Facts

Ticker (pseudo)FCHT
IssuerETF Foundry Research (hypothetical)
SeriesHypothetical Model Portfolio Series (not a registered trust)
Expense ratio0.45% (placeholder)
Inception2020-10-10 (placeholder)
Listing exchangeNot listed (hypothetical)
CUSIPNot applicable (hypothetical model portfolio)
RebalanceMonthly
Holdings as ofJuly 2026
Total mkt cap (long leg)$8.43T

Methodology

The Foundry Technology ChTax Factor ETF tracks a rules-based model that ranks Technology common stocks each month by a ChTax signal and holds the top quintile with the highest values. Signals are computed from point-in-time Sharadar fundamentals and total-return prices. The portfolio reconstitutes monthly and is cap-weighted within the long leg.

This is a hypothetical model portfolio for research display only — not a registered fund, not an offer, and not investment advice.

Documents (draft — hypothetical)

Auto-generated from the model’s metrics and current holdings. Every document is labeled DRAFT / hypothetical.

Summary Prospectus

Objective, fees, strategy, and key risks.

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Prospectus

Full strategy, model methodology, and risks.

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Statement of Additional Information

Policies, construction, and governance.

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Fact Sheet

One-page snapshot with top holdings.

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Daily Holdings

Full current constituent list.

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DRAFT — HYPOTHETICAL MODEL PORTFOLIO — NOT A REGISTERED FUND, NOT AN OFFER TO SELL SECURITIES, NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE.