Wednesday, January 28, 2026
YieldMax ETFs began offering single-stock covered call exchange-traded funds in November 2022, with Tesla as the underlying stock. These funds use the traditional call option selling strategy to generate income to pay dividends. They turn low-yield, popular stocks into high-yield investments. Currently, YieldMax offers almost 40 ETFs with underlying individual stocks. On October 30, 2024, […]
I recently learned about two relatively new zero-day-to-expiration (0DTE) covered call ETFs. I want to compare them against our current standards for this type of ETF. A 0DTE ETF employs an options strategy that involves selling calls that will expire the same day. A benefit of this strategy is that the funds are not exposed […]
My database of option strategy ETFs now tops 120 funds including many funds from different companies that duplicate their competitors. My interest piques when a fund sponsor develops a unique strategy. Recently, VistaShares launched a couple of ETFs that offer high yields and aim to track returns from famous hedge funds. The VistaShares Target 15 […]
To support research for our ETF Income Edge newsletter service, I maintain a database of all options strategy ETFs—at least the ones I become aware of. I currently track more than 110 ETFs; however, I do not include single-stock covered call ETFs in my research. During the first week of January, I pulled up the […]
While there are ETFs using covered call option strategies that have been around for years, the number of funds using options trading strategies to pay eye-popping yields has exploded over the last two years. With hundreds of ETFs now in the space, picking the best ones is a huge challenge. I keep a database of […]
It has been an excellent year for gold as an investment. Year to date, as I write this, the precious metal is up 65%, and the momentum to higher prices doesn’t seem ready to abate. I believe gold will continue to move higher, possibly much higher. I could be wrong; I often talk to subscribers […]
Silver, the precious metal, has gained over 100% this year, starting under $30 per ounce and now trading above $60. It took sustained effort for silver to finally crack the $60 level after breaking $50 in early October, climbing into the high $50s by late November, and repeatedly testing resistance. That ceiling gave way on […]
Out of the couple of hundred publicly traded high-yield, option-strategy exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (ULTY) is the one about which I get the most questions. And ULTY is not a recommended ETF in any of my newsletter portfolios. ULTY aims to achieve a high distribution yield (currently 83.56%, as […]
Investors in some of the new breed of ultra-high-yield option strategy ETFs have seen significant share price erosion. I regularly get asked whether the share price can go to zero, and whether the investors in it will lose all their money. The good news is that the ETFs’ share prices won’t go to zero. The […]
Fears that a lot of bad debt is lurking in the private lending sector have investors worried about results for business development companies (BDCs). The VanEck BDC Income ETF (BIZD) has fallen 17.5% over the last four months. Even with a double-digit yield, that level of loss is hard to watch. The business of a […]
