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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
Yesterday, I wrote an article on Seeking Alpha comparing two income ETFs, GPIQ and JEPQ. It was published a few hours later, around 10 PM here in Malaysia. I was out wandering the Pavilion Mall in Kuala Lumpur and decided to check how the article was performing while waiting for a Grab taxi back to my … 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
$1,311.07 USD. That’s how much I made this September from blogging alone, and the results are definitely replicable. September was a busy, breakthrough month. It’s the first time in a long time that I have felt, “Wow, I really got a lot done.” A big reason was that I had lit a fire underneath me. … Read more
I did the unthinkable on Tuesday and booked a flight ticket to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It’s always been a dream of mine to travel the world playing badminton, but it was never genuinely realistic for me to do so. Finances were my biggest roadblock, as traveling and training would mean time away from work and … 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