Correspondence 0001999371-25-000449 from Tidal Trust III (CIK 0001722388)
Tidal Trust III (CIK 0001722388)
Date: Jan. 17, 2025 · CIK: 0001722388 · Accession: 0001999371-25-000449
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Tidal
Trust III
234
West Florida Street, Suite 203
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53204
January
17, 2025
VIA
EDGAR TRANSMISSION
Alison
White
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Investment Management
100
F Street NE
Washington,
DC 20549
Re: Tidal
Trust III (the “Trust”)
Post-Effective
Amendment No. 76 to the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (the “Amendment”)
File
Nos. 811-23312; 333-221764
Dear
Ms. White:
This
correspondence responds to comments the Trust received from the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff”
or the “Commission”) on December 19, 2024, with respect to the Registration Statement and the Trust’s proposed new
series, the World Dynamic Momentum Leaders ETF (the “Fund”). For your convenience, the comments have been reproduced with
responses following each comment. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined have the same meaning as in the Registration Statement.
1. Please
supplementally provide the Staff with the underlying index methodology and the anticipated
or current top ten portfolio holdings, including the geographic and sector exposure of each
holding.
Response:
The Trust confirms that it provided the requested information via email at approximately the same time as this correspondence was filed.
2. Please
supplementally provide the Staff with a completed Fee Table pre-effectively.
Response:
The Fund’s completed Fees and Expenses tables and Expense Examples are as shown in the attached Appendix A.
3. If
the Fund or the adviser has entered into a contract to use the underlying index, please file
the contract as an exhibit to Part C of the registration statement.
Response:
The Trust confirms that the Adviser has entered into or will soon enter into an agreement to use the underlying index in connection with
operating the Fund. However, the Trust does not believe that disclosure of the agreement is required and most respectfully declines to
file it with Part C.
Principal
Investment Strategies
4. The
second sentence under the subheading “III. Exclusions” reads in part, “…companies
in the top decile (top 10%) for any two of the following metrics are excluded from the Index:”
Please clarify the disclosure to indicate the population from which the “top decile”
is derived.
Response:
The Trust confirms that it has revised the disclosure to identify the population from which the “top decile” is derived in
response to this comment.
5. With
respect to the third bullet under the subheading “III. Exclusions”, please clarify
how this volatility exclusion works and how the underlying index differentiates between volatility
and momentum.
Response:
The Trust confirms that revisions have been made to the Fund’s principal investment strategies to address this comment.
6. With
respect to the Concentration Risk in Item 9, please add corresponding risk disclosure in
Item 4.
Response:
The Trust confirms that revisions have been made to the Fund’s principal investment risks to address this comment.
If you have any questions or require further information, please contact Daniel Bulger at (262) 382-3522 or dbulger@tidalfg.com.
Sincerely,
/s/ Daniel Bulger
Daniel Bulger
VP of Legal Services
Tidal
Investments LLC
APPENDIX
A
WORLD
DYNAMIC MOMENTUM LEADERS ETF – FUND SUMMARY
Fees
and Expenses of the Fund
This
table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may
pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example
below.
Annual
Fund Operating Expenses(1) (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management
Fees
0.55%
Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees
0.00%
Other
Expenses(2)
0.00%
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
0.55%
(1)
The
Fund’s adviser will pay, or require a sub-adviser to pay, all of the Fund’s expenses, except for the following: advisory
fees and sub-advisory fees, interest charges on any borrowings, dividends and other expenses on securities sold short, taxes, brokerage
commissions and other expenses incurred in placing orders for the purchase and sale of securities and other investment instruments,
acquired fund fees and expenses, accrued deferred tax liability, distribution fees and expenses paid by the Fund under any distribution
plan adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and litigation
expenses, and other non-routine or extraordinary expenses.
(2)
Based
on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Expense
Example
This
Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes
that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then hold or redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods.
The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same.
The Example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you may pay on your purchases and sales of Shares. Although your actual
costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
1
Year
3
Years
$56
$176