Tuttle Capital Pure Play Photonics ETF

FOTO

Valor de mercado US$ 104 mi

I am comparing funds to play the AI Optics narrative. The EUV ETF remains my top pick for AI optics exposure, offering the best blend of scale, liquidity, and cost. LYTE delivers the purest optics exposure but carries significant China regulatory risk and high trading costs, making it unsuitable for new positions. FOTO offers high-beta small/mid-cap optics exposure but is diluted by non-AI end markets and commands the highest fee among peers.

Key Takeaways: AI investing is broadening beyond processors to memory and photonics, which address critical data storage and connectivity bottlenecks. Both memory and photonics ETFs offer targeted access to global leaders, but concentrated holdings can amplify both opportunity and volatility.

Optical stocks have emerged as a bountiful play on the artificial-intelligence trade, but Friday's selloff is putting a damper on that momentum.

Riverside, Connecticut--(Newsfile Corp. - June 16, 2026) - Tuttle Capital Management today announced that options on the Tuttle Capital Pure Play Photonics ETF (CBOE: FOTO) began trading on Cboe Options (C1) and EDGX Options on June 5, 2026, following the Fund's launch on May 29, 2026. The addition of listed options - standardized, exchange-traded contracts that give the holder the right to buy or sell FOTO shares at a set price before a specified date - gives investors further tools to manage their photonics exposure, including the ability to hedge existing positions, express a directional view with defined risk, or generate income through covered calls, an options strategy in which an investor sells call options against shares they already own to collect premium income.

The first phase of the artificial intelligence investment trade was relatively straightforward: if you wanted to capture the AI boom using familiar names, you bought semiconductors. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) became the default for this theme, with over $9 billion in net inflows over the past one year.