Correspondence 0001999371-25-002653 from Tidal Trust II (CIK 0001924868)
Tidal Trust II (CIK 0001924868)
Date: March 14, 2025 · CIK: 0001924868 · Accession: 0001999371-25-002653
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Tidal
Trust II
234
West Florida Street, Suite 203
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53204
March
14, 2025
VIA
EDGAR TRANSMISSION
Mr.
Raymond Be
Division
of Investment Management, Disclosure Review Office
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
100
F Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re: Tidal
Trust II (the “Trust”)
Post-Effective
Amendment No. 297 to the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A (the “Amendment”)
File
Nos. 811-23793; 333-264478
Dear
Mr. Be:
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 February 11, 2025, with respect to Defiance Leveraged Long MSTR ETF and Defiance Leveraged Long +
Income MSTR ETF (each, a “Fund,” and together, the ‘Funds”). 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.
Prospectus
1. Please
supplementally provide the Staff with a completed Fee Table for each Fund pre-effectively
and describe how Other Expenses were reasonably estimated for the current fiscal year.
Response:
Each Fund’s completed Fees and Expenses table and Expense Example, which are identical for each Fund, are as shown in the attached
Appendix A. In addition, the Trust responds supplementally by confirming that “Other Expenses” were estimated based on reasonably
anticipated expenses to be incurred by each Fund during its initial fiscal period.
2. With
respect to each Fund’s Principal Investment Strategies section, the Staff notes the
disclosure, “Although the Fund’s leverage will vary, its base, target leverage
level will be approximately 200%.” Please briefly explain how the leverage level will
be calculated and how it differs from “2X daily.” For example, should investors
expect a 200% return in one day, or a different period of time?
Response:
The Trust respectfully notes that the Prospectus states that: “At the end of each trading day, the Fund’s swaps and
options are marked to market (valued based on current market prices), and the Fund’s investment adviser rebalances the portfolio
to maintain leveraged exposure of approximately 150% to 200% of the Underlying Security’s share price.” Nonetheless, the
Trust has added additional clarifying disclosures indicating that the Fund’s leverage level ranges are daily.
3. With
respect to each Fund’s Principal Investment Strategies, the Staff notes the disclosure,
“Swap agreements may be entered into with financial institutions for periods ranging
from one day to over a year.” Please clarify the implications of that statement. For
example, will the Swap Agreements require the exchange of returns daily for a year, or just
once at the end of the year?
Response:
Revisions have been made to the Fund’s Principal Investment Risks disclosure to address this comment and provided to the Staff
under separate cover.
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4. The
Staff notes that although the Funds don’t seek 2X returns daily, they appear to rebalance
daily and seek leveraged returns. Please discuss the risks of compounding due to leverage,
or explain supplementally why this is not a principal risk of the Funds.
Response:
The Trust has supplemented the Funds’ principal risk disclosures with compounding and market volatility risk disclosures.
5. In
the Principal Investment Strategies section, please enhance and contextualize the disclosure
by providing an explanation of blockchain technology and crypto assets, including the following
with respect to public, permissionless, blockchains:
● their
general design and purpose;
● how
they are developed, maintained and governed;
● how
public, permissionless blockchains are accessed and used;
● the
relationship of blockchains to their native crypto assets; and
● specific
use cases and applications they support or are designed to support.
Response:
Revisions have been made to the Fund’s Principal Investment Strategies disclosure in Item 9 of Form N-1A to address this comment
and provided to the Staff under separate cover.
6. In
the Principal Investment Risks section, please discuss the unique risks and challenges associated
with blockchain technology, including the following:
● risks
related to the integrity and viability of the consensus mechanism of the blockchain;
● the
blockchains capacity to execute and settle transactions in a timely and predictable manner;
and
● the
development, maintenance and governance of the blockchain, which is generally open-source
and thus vulnerable to being “forked” by users and miners/validators.
Response:
Revisions have been made to the Fund’s Principal Investment Risks disclosure in Item 9 of Form N-1A to address this comment and
provided to the Staff under separate cover.
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
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APPENDIX
A
DEFIANCE
LEVERAGED LONG MSTR ETF
DEFIANCE
LEVERAGED LONG + INCOME MSTR ETF
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
1.29%
Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees
0.00%
Other
Expenses(2)
0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating
Expenses
1.29%
(1)
The Fund’s
investment adviser, Tidal Investments LLC (the “Adviser”), will pay, or require a sub-adviser to pay, all of the Fund’s
expenses incurred by the Fund (except for advisory fees and sub-advisory fees, as the case may be) excluding 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:
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Year
3
Years
$133
$415
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