Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Over the past few weeks, I’ve received questions about the volatility indicator I reference in my weekly trading services and how it was developed. The answer goes back to my research, which earned the 2015 Charles H. Dow Award. Like many investors, I was intrigued by the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, commonly known as […]
On June 12, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp, a/k/a SpaceX (SPCX), launched the highest-market-value IPO in history, valuing the company at about $1.8 trillion. The current market value is $2.44 trillion. There is a great debate among investors over whether SPCX is overvalued ($155 per share as I write this), because it trades at many […]
When YieldMax launched the YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (ULTY) at the end of February 2024, investors got very excited about the 50%-plus (currently 60.16%) distribution yield. Over the last two years, realized total returns have disappointed. But now that there are a couple of newer competitors, let’s compare recent results. The investment thesis […]
If you spend enough time studying markets, patterns begin to emerge that have very little to do with price and everything to do with behavior. I recently revisited a historical overview of early market participation and the development of Wall Street. While it presents itself as a timeline, what stands out is not the sequence […]
Many years ago, I was at an event in New York City when a colleague told me that while he respected the research that earned me the 2015 Charles H. Dow Award, he believed options were simply a playground for traders chasing quick, risky profits. I did not respond at the time, but I also […]
March 7 marked two years since Roundhill Investments launched the first two zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) covered call ETFs, the Roundhill S&P 500 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF (XDTE) and the Roundhill Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF (QDTE). (A third fund, the Roundhill Russell 2000 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF (RDTE), launched on September 9, 2024.) […]
The major stock market indices peaked at the end of October 2025 and have essentially moved sideways, with considerable volatility, for the last three and a half months. You can see it graphically with the charted returns of QQQ and SPY. The option strategy ETFs with QQQ or SPY as their underlying assets are outperforming […]
ETF evolution over the past few years has come at a frenetic pace. For years, income-focused ETFs have paid monthly dividends, which investors appreciated, especially compared to the usual quarterly payouts from individual stocks. With the advent of what are called zero-day-to-expiration (0DTE) covered call ETFs, there are now funds that pay weekly dividends. With […]
In February, we launched the ETF Income Edge service to help investors sort through the rapidly growing world of high-yield (mostly) option-strategy ETFs. To find the best ETFs to recommend to subscribers, I maintain a database of this type of fund. As I write this, I have 82 option strategy ETFs on my results tracking […]
