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Readers who follow me on Seeking Alpha may have noticed an interesting trend from me where I have become increasingly aggressive with my ratings. Of the last six ETFs I covered, I rated four a Sell or Strong Sell. These four funds weren’t necessarily garbage funds unsuitable to invest in. Some have done a very good job … Read more
Two articles I had recently written on Seeking Alpha were “YMAX: Paying Extra Management Fees For No Good Reason” and “SVOL: Low-Quality Holdings Increase Downside Potential Significantly.” I had given both funds, the YieldMax Universe Fund of Option Income ETFs (YMAX) and Simplify Volatility Premium ETF (SVOL), sell ratings. Like any Seeking Alpha article with … Read more
What started as a save and be ultra frugal to become financially free and retire early has come under fire in recent years. Content on social media has morphed from investing advice discussing how just investing $5 a day could completely change your life to satire around these strategies and how you’ll never be able … Read more
Almost everyone, including myself, recommends investing in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund over the long run. However, the long run is the keyword, and we’re not talking about five or even ten years. No, we’re looking much further at 20, 30, or even 40 years. I want you to take a look at the … Read more
One of my most viewed articles published in the last few days on Seeking Alpha was one about the Roundhill Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF (QDTE) for a pretty good reason. Since its inception in March, QDTE has beaten its underlying index—the NASDAQ 100—in total returns while offering 20%+ yielding weekly distributions. Image From Seeking Alpha | QDTE … Read more
Covered call funds have become extremely popular this decade, with numerous companies launching high-yield, monthly (and sometimes even weekly) paying ETFs. One of the most popular strategies companies have adopted is selling covered calls on indices like the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100, but every company has its own twists. Each time a new fund … Read more
In this decade, options funds have become extremely popular. It started with covered calls on index ETFs like the S&P 500. Then we got covered calls on individual stocks and all sorts of assets, including Bitcoin, bonds, and other commodities. This doesn’t include all the innovations in the strategies we have been using with covered … Read more
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash With $1.84B in assets under management in just two years, SPYI, the Neos S&P 500(R) High Income ETF, has quickly grown in popularity as one of the premier S&P 500 covered call funds, and for good reason. In the two years since its inception, SPYI has beaten competitors like JEPI and XYLD with … Read more
About a year ago, I wrote two articles about SVOL, the Simplify Volatility Premium ETF. SVOL Currently Yields 17.68%; Is This Dividend Sustainable? SVOL’s Strategy Has Changed. Can It Maintain Its 16.53% Yield? As you can see from the two article titles, SVOL pays a sizeable monthly distribution and has consistently yielded above 15% yearly, … Read more
If you’re an income investor, you’ve probably heard of YieldMax by now, with its massive yields from its individual stock synthetic-covered call strategies. For example, ETFs like TSLY, CONY, and NVDY are all funds from YieldMax, sporting respective yields of 48.00%, 99.36%, and 105.33%. Whether you like these funds or not, they certainly are popular. Since its inception in … Read more