--- title: "Weekly Recap | FUTG.US -0.71%, a choppy fade-the-rally week" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/297392223.md" description: "FUTG.US slipped 0.71% this week to close at $5.193, while the S&P 500 gained 0.49%, leaving the ETF roughly 1.2 percentage points behind the benchmark. Intraday swings were unusually wide, with the weekly amplitude reaching 21.29%. Monday saw a sharp drop to $4.500 before the ETF closed at $4.560, then Tuesday delivered a rapid rally to $5.340. Wednesday marked the weekly high at $5.560, but the last two sessions pulled back, with Friday finishing at $5." datetime: "2026-08-29T06:58:07.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/297392223.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/297392223.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/297392223.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Weekly Recap | FUTG.US -0.71%, a choppy fade-the-rally week ## The Week FUTG.US slipped 0.71% this week to close at $5.193, while the S&P 500 gained 0.49%, leaving the ETF roughly 1.2 percentage points behind the benchmark. Intraday swings were unusually wide, with the weekly amplitude reaching 21.29%. Monday saw a sharp drop to $4.500 before the ETF closed at $4.560, then Tuesday delivered a rapid rally to $5.340. Wednesday marked the weekly high at $5.560, but the last two sessions pulled back, with Friday finishing at $5.193, almost back to the prior Friday close. The week ended as a choppy, fade-the-rally tape. ## Sector News News around Futu Holdings this week concentrated on three fronts. On Aug 25, FUTU shares jumped 7.87%, drawing attention to overseas expansion at cross-border online brokers; the same day Tiger and Futu both surged abroad amid a narrative that tightened mainland operations were pushing growth to offshore engines. Futu also stepped up its overseas brand presence through a partnership with the LPGA to launch a golf championship in Hong Kong and by co-running a Nasdaq trading competition in Canada. Separately, an investor alert about a securities fraud lawsuit appeared on Aug 24, though it carried no direct read-through to the company’s fundamentals. Overall, this week’s sector-level news tilted towards overseas partnerships and business expansion, with little in the way of constituent-level drivers specific to this ETF’s pricing. ## The Week Ahead A dense macro calendar lies ahead. Monday brings the Dallas Fed manufacturing activity index, Tuesday packs the S&P Global manufacturing PMI final, ISM manufacturing PMI and JOLTS job openings, and Wednesday adds ADP private payrolls, factory orders and EIA crude inventory data. For a leveraged ETF tied to a cross-border broker theme, these releases flow through via overall risk appetite and liquidity expectations. ISM manufacturing PMI and JOLTS openings are particularly relevant for rate-sensitive growth and tech names, so the intraday direction after those prints is worth tracking. ## In Short The week’s signal was high volatility plus relative weakness: the ETF finished slightly down while swinging more than 20%, and the latest session’s fund-flow snapshot shows large-lot net buying at 23.38% versus large-lot net selling at 12.98%, with medium-lot net selling at 31.66% against 24.59% net buying, a mixed picture. Meanwhile the S&P 500 rose modestly, leaving FUTG.US about 1.2 points behind. On the news side, the overseas partnership and expansion stories were broadly positive but lacked a heavyweight catalyst able to directly move the ETF’s price. The key going forward is how next week’s dense macro data shifts risk appetite, and whether price action near the $5.560 high can sustain the pullback repair seen in the final sessions. *This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.* ### Related Stocks - [FUTG.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/FUTG.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [China Aug manufacturing PMI rises to 49.8%, Pagoda Innovation says](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298253983.md) - [This ETF paid out big. Its total returns tell another story](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298299347.md) - [ZAWYA: South African private sector activity expands slightly in August, PMI shows](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298285970.md) - [Mexico's REITs poised to benefit from manufacturing, AI boom, exchange chief says](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298453186.md) - [Factory output, new orders support Singapore's modest PMI gain in August](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298154863.md) --- > **Disclaimer: This article is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice.**