Tuesday, July 1, 2025
The financial news media generally ignore gold and silver. You should not. While stocks now trade flat year-to-date, gold is up 29%, and the yellow metal has gained 45% over the past 12 months. It seems likely that the gold rally will continue. Foreign central banks are accumulating gold, while Chinese citizens are also increasing […]
With our ETF Income Edge service, we discuss, educate, and recommend ETFs from the newish—and rapidly growing—universe of high-yield option-strategy ETFs. With mid-year approaching, I thought it would be a good time to review year-to-date results. You may recall that the U.S. stock market experienced a rapid and steep decline from mid-February through early April. […]
Confession: I had little interest in cryptocurrencies until companies started offering covered call strategy ETFs using Bitcoin. These funds provide me and my subscribers with an excellent opportunity to make money. However, even with the income from option selling, accumulating shares of these Bitcoin funds should happen over time and methodically. From its history, it […]
The term “Magnificent Seven” was coined in 2023 by a Bank of America analyst to label the mega-cap tech stocks of Apple, Alphabet (Google), Amazon.com, Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook), Microsoft, NVIDIA Corp., and Tesla. These stocks account for up to 40% of the market capitalization of major indexes, and they largely drove the 2023-2025 bull […]
The world of high-yield, option-strategy ETFs continues to expand. Nasdaq recently released updated data, showing the growth in assets. We launched our ETF Income Edge newsletter service in February 2024 and have been busy keeping up with fund launches, new strategies, and comparing returns. When we were preparing to launch ETF Income Edge, I had […]
So far this year, the U.S. stock market has experienced a bear market, followed by a recovery. As I write this, the S&P 500 is right at breakeven for the year to date. It makes for an interesting time to see how the ETFs using covered call/option strategies to generate income have fared. Of the […]
The gains from the so-called “Magnificent Seven” stocks powered the 2023–2024 bull market. These mega-cap tech stocks—Tesla, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta Platforms, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), and Apple—comprise over a third of the cap-weighted stock market indexes. The only Magnificent Seven tracking ETF, the Roundhill Magnificent Seven Covered Call ETF (MAGY), launched on April 11, 2023, and […]
Seven large “mega-cap” stocks drove the bull market returns of 2023 and 2024. Due to their market values, these stocks—Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Tesla—drive the returns of the S&P 500 and QQQ indexes. They are also widely owned by individual investors. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (MAGS) launched in April 2023. […]
ETFs that use covered call option strategies to generate cash and pay big yields have become hugely popular. My database includes more than 100 funds, with new ones launching every week. Fund sponsors continue to develop new strategies to counter the one big negative of covered call trading. I have found one ETF that has […]
Gold has marched new record highs this year. You are a happy camper if you own gold or gold mining stocks. Silver has not yet joined in with gold for these record-setting gains; however, it seems very possible that investors will start looking for silver to mirror the gains in gold. The popularity and price […]
