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Joining y'all with a nice 100% gain
I did pretty good on my tester SVOL call and I'm going deeper
Option premium ETFs (SVOL, QQQY, JEPI) a low-maintenance replacement for active trading?
SVOL is holding near 30% of itself? Lmao. This can’t be accurate right?
[Week 2] AI momentum trading journey guided by chat GPT/LLM. Feedback welcome
[Week 2] AI momentum trading journey guided by chat GPT/LLM . Feedback welcome
What is a sensible place to put $50,000 for a 70-year-old?
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Check out spdrs to diversify within the market for low fees, XLE, XLU, XLI, XLB etc. Find the unloved sectors and they'll shine again one day. I like MLPs better than REITS for income. For natural gas, EPD and ET have done well lately. I also own small positions in short volatility etfs like SVOL that have done well in certain markets, but might not buy them today, they just keep dripping. Some of the aforementioned distributions are capital gains instead of dividends. Different for tax purposes, i think lowering your cost basis so instead of paying taxes on the payouts, you just lower your cost basis for when you sell. Honestly not sure and I'm not really qualified to be discussing that. It's all ROTH so doesn't matter to me. I own some GDX and GLD and some leveraged precious metals ETFs that pay dividends but have higher fees. Look into equal/ historical weight SP500 ETFs if you want broader exposure with reduced tech volatility. That's my current recipe for diversification, but I've got several new ideas from others in this thread to get excited about, so thank you to all who have posted! Hope it helps, and as always, do your own research before allocating.
I have a portion of capital at work in an income generation account. I will occasionally write calls or open CSPs on these HIMU - 30% allocation (Muni fund - no options chain) SNSXX - 30% allocation (I use this money market fund as collateral for CSPs) F - 10% allocation ARCC - 10% allocation SVOL 5% allocation (I actively hedge this position to protect against NAV erosion) SCHD 10% allocation - modest capital appreciation IBIT 5% yes I know. :) Vol.premium usually attractive.
SVOL if you tolerance for risk
Appreciate the insight. The SVOL angle makes a lot of sense… I’ll definitely keep it in mind on the next VIX spike!
It’s been trending up since “liberation day” but will drop rapidly if VOL spikes for longer than a day or two or even escalates over a week or two. It’s great to buy SVOL when VOL spikes, as when it drops back down it rises quickly. But right now SVOL doesn’t have much room to go up in price, as you can’t be making too much shorting VOL when it starts the day at 15.
Makes sense keeping VIX calls short-dated, like 1-3 weeks. On the SVOL puts, I get the logic of time decay working in your favor. Do you usually scale into them on weakness, or wait for vol spikes to enter?
Right now I’ve only got 1 8/27 16c. Will likely average down a little bit. I don’t go too far out because you’re paying a premium. After 8/27 goes by, I’ll probably jump to 9/10. But like you said, since you can’t execute the option, it will sometimes trade less than what “Intrinsic” value should be. Without unexpected things, VOL should mostly trend down. I try to keep it 1-3 weeks out usually. I like playing SVOL because options can be executed. Only have 3 9/19 $17p, but will also keep averaging down or moving out and up. I like the SVOL longer dated puts because as a rule it should lose value over time (which is obviously priced into the puts but it makes me feel better haha).
SVOL puts is a clever angle. VIX calls can be tricky since they’re on 30-day futures, spot can rip and the call barely moves. What DTE would you look at if you think VIX won’t stay under 15 this week?
Not an options play, but event contracts, Fed keeps rate the unchanged in September. Thinking after Wednesday Fed meeting minutes come out, and Waller speaks, contract price will fall. Bostic speaking at 3pm may signal their bottom. Initial jobless claims on Thursday, could go either way really, but I’d buy weakness into J Pow speaking on Friday. As for options; to play the same setup around possible interest rate cuts(or lack thereof), I’m liking buy SVOL puts, or just straight up ViX calls (though these can be frustrating). IWM should be a little more hyper sensitive to the narrative becoming less dovish as well. RSP also looking like a possible classic double top. Either way, I find it hard to believe we make it through Friday with a VIX at 15, so now should be a good time to buy options ahead of an increase.
Save all $500 every month! You'll have a couple thousand in four months. Why is this hard? ... Oh. You want an *income* of about $2,000/mo and only have $500/mo currently. Um, OK. SVOL, one of the highest-income funds that might actually be sustainable, usually pays about $0.30/mo per share in dividends. You've already got $500/mo, so you need another $1500/mo. That would take around 5,000 shares. SVOL currently costs $17.82, so you'd just have to buy $89,100 worth, right now. It's a risky fund BTW. YMMV. But it seems like it should mostly work. But income is kinda dumb, when growth is tax-free until you sell. Maybe buy TQQQ instead. Or better yet, short SQQQ. Not such a tax advantage when shorting, I think, but making the vol drag is probably worth it. Beware borrow costs though. That's what, 60% CAGR if you keep compounding? It's not super consistent. Average in over at least a year though, because drawdowns are *extreme*. Like 75%. $30k ought to do it. Wait, we've only got 6 months? Oh. You don't even have that much to invest? Are we starting from zero here? Seems like you'd need to win a reckless YOLO gamble to win that big that fast. Short squeeze. Penny stocks. Crypto. Or learn day trading overnight and join a prop firm. These approaches are not likely to work, but nothing short of them has any chance of meeting your unrealistic goals.
I've been doing this strategy for about 2 years 70% TECL 30% low volatility ETFs; SVOL, DXJ, LVHI. With the goal of if the market does crash the low volatility stocks shouldn't crash much or at least 3x less than TECL. This allowed me to sell most of my low volatility ETFs and buy TECL at the super low $42 ! I've since sold some TECL and I'm at an 80/20 mix. If I never sell/convert into other ETFs I won't have any money to buy the next dip lol
My brother put his savings in a 16% dividend stock, SVOL I think, at the height of Tariff fever. I made a bunch off shorts in April and riding it back up from the dip, but he figures he made a good amount in the recovery and will just let it grow over time now to where it would take a global crash to go back down that far
I'm also holding some leveraged long volatility, but instead betting the entire farm on volatility I've also chosen a few other positions. 1 - ULE LEAPs. The situation is clearly going to challenge the dollar. 2 - calls on select European and UK stocks. Look at the FTSE, heck, even look at the ASX or TSX. They have since either recovered or well exceeded the pre Trump chaos while the American indexes are still down. I bought a number of Marex calls and am trying to figure out if my broker will let me buy options in Wise PLC. 3 - Another one people don't think about is puts on SVOL. I know it mostly trades flat during stable times, yet, I still don't pretend to totally understand why but the IV value of the premiums on SVOL never seems to rise on these, even when over the last month there has been lots of volatility. Using monthlies It's very easy to go from 0.05-0.10 to a full $1 / call when it moves ITM. When the market is recovering from a big drop I buy SVOL calls and it always beats the contago because the VIX drops faster than the market recovers as soon as the dust settles.
What do you think about calls on SVOL
How the hell is BlackJack rug pulling you faster than crypto. It’s the best odds game in the casino if played properly. Even playing sub-optimally the house has ~7% to 8% advantage. If played optimally it’s only house advantage 0.5%. Also you have to get a 3:2 which is usually based on money these days like getting into a $100 per hand minimum area but if you have the chart memorized and don’t get shitfaced like a moron if you get up big they will comp you a room etc…anything to keep you around and play more. I enjoy the money and free shit then leave. If I lose I cry like a little baby back bitch even though my investment account is probably doing worse somehow even though I’m in gold, $JEPI, $JEPQ, $PLTR, $SVOL (anytime volatility spikes it naturally reverts to the mean. It’s always one of my favorite plays but I always protect myself with way way OTM calls or puts depending on what product I’m using). Also after I sell after a year of holding (to get LT tax percentage of 20% instead of 40%) I don’t think I’ll use $SVOL again, it got shady with what they are buying.
Not bad from my perspective. I’ve been buying SVOL.
Premiums are elevated. Potential IV crush unless you see a pattern and can anticipate the measured moved to match your breakeven. Otherwise on VIX spikes buy SVOL outright and collect the monthly dividend while waiting for normalcy in the VIX.
I’ve just been going back and forth with UVIX SVIX and SVOL
Anyone have thoughts on buying SVOL? I'm wondering if that's a good way to profit from an eventual VIX decline. The yield is around 20%, which makes me wonder how safe it is.
Time to buy SVOL outright too.
Just having a bit of a look. SVIX is a newish ETF, that is -1x leveraged. There's also SVOL and SVXY
I like averaging into SVOL on vix spikes and back out as it normalizes. Monthly dividend near 16% annualized not a horrible way to ride out vol.
short answer is no. Buying options on a leveraged product is generally a bad idea because the leverage is accounted for with the IV. You have others like VXX and VIXY. Or you can buy the shares of short vix etfs/etps/etns out right like SVIX, SVOL, SVXY. Aside from the lagging from which month of futures, going short vol is statistical thing like you said. The key is making sure you have ample time for your trade to succeed. Google, chatgpt, youtube, parts of twitter are all good resources. Just be prepared for more legs down and how to manage that loss, you never know.
Not using options, but I have been doing some braindead martingale trades in SVOL when volatility spikes. It tends to snap back up pretty quick after vol spikes, as it is basically short vix. Bought in incrementally larger lots all the way down the current vol spike, currently above my cost average, despite VIX still being elevated. Monthly dividend towards end of month is about 16% annualized, so I'll probably just hold ex-dividend. It's not the most insanely profitable trade, but I can trade it without thinking whenever there's a fat red candle and I have spare cash.
SCHD, SVOL, BITO if it can remain stable
HYGH and SVOL, let it ride for a few decades.
Then short the vix too! lol SVOL and ZVOL for degens
Yeah I just told him about BUCK, AGGH, and SCYB. I do have like 30% of my Roth in SVOL actually.
I have shares in JEPI and JEPQ for the dividends. SVOL has good dividends but is trending downwards as of late.
9% pretty safely with CLOZ, and then you don't feel compelled to throw all of it in at once. Market is high right now, everyone predicting 10% next year with 3% per year average over the next decade (meaning they think a crash is coming at some point). Or you can just make 9% and chill. 16% with SVOL. Go wild.
I thought my 6, which includes SVOL was excessive
I actually believe it's a great if not the greatest time to try to grow in the storm. Back in 1999 with similar valuations the VIX usually traded in the mid-20s despite the market grinding sideways, so no free lunch back then(aside from collars thanks to very high interest rates). But now you have a low IV, low term premium(!) and low smile(!!!). So this is a chance for "long to short", a spin on Spitznagel's idea that hedging enables more long equity exposure vs diversifying into low yielding bonds. I have mostly \~$0.7 notional with SPY 27Jan500P-495P spreads "hedged" by each $ in XDTE(if dotcom double, if GFC flat, Ken & Jane will take care of the VIX1D). Long BSM on the front month and long bimodal on the far month. Plus some SVOL for longer complacency. After this VIX "bull steepening" episode I added a bit of diagonal strangle of 2Yr475P-2Mo400P+Jul670C-Jun675C. COST 50% otm put spread cherry on top. What if this passive flow insanity continues? What if it unravels? What if it stalls? GREAT. What if the anti-proverbial escalator down happens? I'll be down 5%. Now my living cost is covered by positive theta, plus responsive delta and hundreds of Vega. Thank you to ZVOL dip buyers. Where I truly differ is I think the student loan wage garnishment/delinquency being reported to credit bureaus(anti-stimmy checks) a much higher marginal impact on velocity of money. Leftover pandemic stimuli in local govs' budgets forced them to mass hire people until they have to fire them. So I believe unemployment to eventually be the catalyst. But that's the beauty of convexity, you don't need to predict the reason for a prospective move.
Buffet indicator says don't buy. Shiller index says market is overvalued. Trump is threatening tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, like we haven't seen since the ones that caused the great depression. Also the threat of massive deportations of cheap labor. Put it in SVOL and take your 16%.
If you look at some of the dividend oriented ETFs, you will see that the better managed ones are very consistent in both their payouts and share prices. Thus the dividends, reinvested, are buying more shares and increasing the holdings. In this environment where tech stocks seem to be in a bubble, I am shying away from risk and enjoying dividends. Such ETFs span the entire risk spectrum. You have SCHD on the growth/income side with a small 3% divy but mimicking S&P growth, so its good for long term investors. On the other end, you have SVOL paying 15-16% covered call dividends, but risking its share price to do so. And there are some utility ETFs paying 7% consistently if you don't mind the smaller share growth, but steady dividend. Of course, the good news is that either of them, positioned inside an IRA/401k, are shielded from taxes for the time being. And, if the market crashes, you can sell the ETFs and buy some tech stocks on the cheap.
You are all over the place. Buy some ETFs and chill. QQQM or SCHG for growth. SCHD or ??? for value/dividend. If you want some things that don't correlate to the stock market, add in SVOL. If you want an alternative cash sweep use CLOX. Covered call, stick to JEPQ, JEPI, and XDTE and you'll do fine. Any Bitcoin ETF is fine if you want some crypto (it will probably be gamed next year, so a reasonable bet). Don't pick stocks unless you have spent time to learn how to value them. You will get eaten alive, and you won't know why.
If you don't already know, you can check out the Simplify website; it's pretty informative and has a lot of information about this specific product. I believe I've heard Mike Green say it's meant to be a maximum of 20% of your total S&P 500 allocation, or at least that's how he designed it. I don't currently have a SVOL allocation, but I own other Simplify products.
34(M) in the US So I just sold my primary home, and now have $100k of the proceeds tied up in a 3-month CD at 5.1%. The rest ($10k) I'm looking to put into ETFs and stocks. Given all of the political craziness on the US side, I was looking for some foreign diversification. This is my first time really investing outside of my 401k since 2018. These are what I'm looking at to split the 10k so far: **SPBO** SPDR PORTFOLIO CORPORATE BOND ETF 50% **SVOL** SIMPLIFY VOLATILITY PREMIUM ETF 20% And here's the tricky one: **VEMLY** 30% I know this is a relatively small amount of money--I'm just trying to dip my toes in the water and start building my own diversified portfolio. What are you opinions regarding investing in OTC ADRs? Particularly in Asian markets, like Singapore? I'm bullish on Southeast Asian growth in general, but something about trading OTC seems sketchy to me.
SVOL at the moment. We'll see if I eventually get burned
If you want to use it near term, less than 5 years, you should put it into something that is lower volatility and lower risk than the S&P 500. Maybe something like HELO, which will not give you the same performance but has some pretty good protection against market crashes, and alternate investments like bonds? Low volatility, loss protection. I like a little SVOL as it lowers volatility, but it is not good in a taxable account. If you are going to put it away for 20 years, nevermind. :)
You simply back test using income ETF such such as SVOL, QYLD, RYLD, QDTE or monthly dividend payers like O. Your plan works well, when stock goes sideways, looses when stocks fall (slightly set off by the premium collected) and limited upside during bull runs.
So I don't have a lot of long term experience, and my returns are pretty much break even considering we are currently in the middle of a big drop. I came up with the strategy after scrolling through years of index charts and thinking of ways I could get through them. I am constantly modifying my strategy over time aswell. Currently, I am buying a bit after each small dip, the kind that happened between 6/18 and 6/24 earlier this year. As it continues to dip further I buy more and once it gets far enough I commit and get a long dated TQQQ call(Currently I am holding a Jan 2026 100C). The big trick is to make sure you can survive if things go wrong. I like to think of this strategy as a magical box that has a 95% chance of increasing the money put into it by 10%, but with a 5% chance of losing everything. If you put everything into the box every time, eventually it will go wrong and you lose everything, however, if you are smart about it you can make money. Because of this I keep the majority of my money in safer things. IMO the best for this purpose especially right now is TLT for its dividend, hedging potential, and potential for a massive return as interest rates drop. Other than that I also have some money in SVOL since it is performing incredibly after the recent volatility spike. The last thing of note I have is a call on SQQQ expiring mid October(I have a very small account so SQQQ lets me keep my positions small, a put would do the same job). That call on SQQQ should hopefully return quite a bit in case this recent pullback resumes, if that were to happen I would use some of that money to buy a further out SQQQ call and the rest of that money to average down on the levereged etfs. I am not certain how well that part will work though. The point is, if the market goes back to ATH soon I make money. If it goes down more before going back up I make money. If it crashes tomorrow I will survive. If we are going into a big recession and things go down for a while, that might be tough, but I think I can survive.
VXX is also 1.5x. I don’t like SVOL
No it isn't uvxy is 1.5. You could also add SVOL as an option instead of SVXY.
Don't worry about DCAing so much. If you are doing individual stocks, you need to hold 20 or more. Just buy when they present you the opportunity, or when you feel like it is a good time. If you aren't in 20 stocks, limit yourself to maybe invest a few percent of your portfolio into any one stock and put the rest in ETFs. When you find opportunities in stocks, you can a have a few percent of cash lying around to buy. There will be times when you don't feel like you can buy anything. Put the cash into sweep, bonds, or something like SVOL until you are ready to use it.
What happens if we hit a recession, your SCHD, JEPI, JEPQ, and SVOL lose 40% or more of their value, and you get margin called and have to sell at the bottom?
Yeh, if you want a good passive yield for income, just invest your capital in AGNC or SVOL. Giving about 1% returns paid out monthly (12% per annum). On a $30000 account, that's $300 a month passive income; and then you won't have all the stress of trading. AGNC has had a bit of capital depreciation over the years but the current interest environment is good for the stock so really not much risk involved I would say. #notfinancialadvice
have you looked at those charts man, what is appealing about these ETFs to you? SVOL is just being short in an ETF, but far as I can tell has similar problems, but honestly haven't really looked at that one specifically, and don't really plan too. those instruments are designed for institutional investors that have restrictions on the kind of assets they can own or have to be long only. This way they get exposure to futures and sell side, by still owning long only equities.
Good point, any thoughts on SVOL?
what wrong with SPY calls? there is also something called SVOL, not saying either of these are "best instrument", just brainstorming.
ETFs make it easy now, GPIX GPIQ SPYI QQQI SVOL and PDI make up the majority of my income, no growth.
Hhmmmm... It's probably a bad time to hold SVOL if I wasn't already 20% in on it.
I shifted out of some higher risk holding and took the opportunity to buy some better quality funds at a very price. I had to recognize a loss, but was looking to sell those holdings today anyway, but I did not see this level of selling today. Future were pointing down all weekend. I also added to SVOL and VTI at very good prices.
Why shouldn't I load up on SVOL? It's paying 16% premium. It's traded in a narrow range for 2 years. It's near the bottom of its all-time range. It's unaffected by earnings and interest rates. What market conditions are liable to cause a large loss?
I'm waiting to add to my position. If history repeats itself, OXLC will be in the mid to upper 4 range once everything finally comes down. Tech is dropping. Everything else shortly,in my opinion will also drop. I have a completely different approach to these funds now. The goal is to just add at the lows and hold at the highs. Collect the income,get maximum yield on cost. Patience pays to wait. At 4.90/share, that's a 22% yield on cost with the distribution increase. I'm seriously considering à portfolio of just OXLC,ECC,EIC,OCCI, XFLT,GOF,FCO, SVOL Maybe skip OCCI as it has yet to recover to 2023 highs or buy a large position in the 6 range or less. ACP as well. It may be down 66% since inception but for me it's been an 18-19% yield stock that goes back and forth from 6.60 to 7/share and pays 0.10/share monthly. It'll probably drop back to 6 or less and that would be the time to add to the position. I've set my portfolio up to take advantage of crashes. I just added an additional 62% cash to the portfolio. With these types of cefs ,they're boring but they do exactly what I want=produce income without the need to baby sit The pricing on these are fairly predictable as far as identifying bottoms as they behave the same way every year. OXLC drops to to the mid to upper 4 range Not a big deal. I expect it now. I just wait to buy low. Then,you're pretty much set,barring a catastrophe. I have a few Yieldmax and options etfs with megayields. Im not sure they're worth the risk when you have easy,income producing,low volatility stocks like these. Every 250k produces close to 50k with minimal volatility. May dump the options etfs altogether. OXLC ECC EIC CCIF XFLT ACP GOF SVOL=cream of the crop high yield in my opinion
SVOL 16% annual return paid in monthly dividends. Just keep buying more with the divided it will compound rather quickly.
Look at SVOL for dividends.
You're welcome. I am glad the information is helpful. You may feel that I do that funds from YieldMax or the funds like QDTE and SVOL have their place, but you should also focus on growth assets too. I still old a few shares of Apple from years past. I think my cost is around $30. It pays to hold good growth companies or put money into index funds too.
>As I say that some funds have different approaches. SPYT for example try to utilize and approach that will allow for more upside potential. SVOL hedges to reduce downside risk. The list can go on. Didnt know that. Thank you for the info. Im looking for more protection to downside at SPX 5600 which is already greater than 10% of annual appreciation in average in last 100+years at this point (we started SPX around 4750-4800 in 2024) Similarly i use collar strategy for specific big ticker name (i.e BTO 100 shares/Sell 10% OTM covered calls/Buy 5% OTM Long put) >Due to the nature of covered call ETFs (or manually selling covered calls) you will underperform a bullish underlying stock. Typically that's fine given valuation of big tech at this point which has been questioned a lot. I just want protection in case market goes bear again >My expectation from YieldMax is not appreciation, but income. I think this is dilemma to me or many others because unless small portion of portfolio is 500K and 50% of dividend from NVDY (then imagine 1% of expense ratios equaling to 5K!), it's not enough income for most individual investors but i see your points that it's more onto income than appreciation. I certainly dont have that much in my portfolio diversification Also another note for your point is that if one had bought AAPL back in 2009 with 3-4$ ranges and have 5000 shares, not only the networth from appreciation is 50-80X, but also it's probably enough stacks to sell OTM covered calls to pay rent/mortgage Im taking it that yieldmax etf wont do this kind of jobs but if one has enough seed money then it could be a good investment to pay monthly bills With that in mind, i have been DCAing in TSLA and buying TSLY here and there whenever i saved some money Thank you again. Definitely helpful
Anyone else holding the SVOL ETF? Thing's been rock solid for awhile and has been giving me cash every month. Seems to be good management as well. Anyone got a bearish case on it?
Not really a hedge but I keep some money in bond funds like SVOL and it the market tanks I will use the funds to buy VOO at discount. Double down
Add few dividend paying stocks and ETFs too. When market goes down none of this stock will help you losing money. Add IBM, ABBV, BMY for dividend stocks Add JEPI, JEPQ, SVOL, SPYT for monthly dividends Replace SPY with VOO as VOL has less expense ration. Just a suggestion you can pick any dividend laying stocks or ETFs.
FEPI dividend yield per stock analysis is 17.15%, paid $9.31 per share. Still nice and comparable to SVOL and some other income ETFs.
This may not be popular but I would take a look at SVOL, QDTE, and XDTE in addition to HYSA and Muni bonds that are tax free. You want high(er) returns while limiting downside risk. I believe a major correction is coming and I've sold off most of my stocks and index ETFs and most of my cash is in a 5% HYSA plus the above ETFs.
$800K into SVOL gets you 16% so $128K a year while you look for golden buy opportunities. I’ve been doing it since January, switched over from QYLD that was making me 10-11%.
There are safe investments, like a money market fund, which is currently paying around 5%. You can do something like HELO, which is a leveraged low volatility fund designed to mute losses, but also mute gains, giving you some upside but trying to limit losses at any point. You can go with a balanced portfolio, with a growth ETF, a value ETF, some money in small caps, some money in foreign, mix in a bit of SVOL maybe because of low correlation. Maybe some bonds, as they are likely to do well in the next year or so. That is a normal investment portfolio that rises and falls with the markets. If you invest in Bitcoin, understand that it is as volatile as owning a single stock. It might drop 50% in one month, or go up 50% in one month. The main risk in owning stocks or ETFs is your own mind. If you buy when the market is going up and you sell after it goes down, you are going to lose money. If you can recognize good buys and buy when things are low and sell when they are overvalued, you are more likely to do well. If you can buy more when you are down 50%, you have the right attitude. If you would panic-sell after a 50% drop, you may want to stay in cash for a while.
Put it all in SVOL until late summer when the correction ends and sell to buy the dip.
Try investing in SVOL or FTHI. SVOL pays monthly dividends with a current yield of about 16%. The fund is very volatile since it sells options on the VIX, and at any moment you might incur significant losses. However, this is temporary as volatility always returns to normal levels. If you need to withdraw $4,000 from the market monthly, this is one of the best options. Generally, you would need to invest $300,000 to receive this amount, but I would recommend investing $500,000 and keeping the excess dividends as a reserve. With this reserve, you can buy more SVOL during downturns, thus increasing your position. I have tested this strategy with backtesting, and it has performed very well. FTHI operates similarly, but in addition to selling options, it also buys stocks. It has a dividend yield of about 10% per year and also pays dividends every month.
QYLD - 10-11% SVOL - 16% Research them if your goal is cash generation over capital appreciation.
In the current A.I. driven environment all of FEPI's holdings are companies who have invested heavily into A.I. Since I hold individual positions with most of them I view my significant position in FEPI as a way to generate sufficient monthly income to cover my RMDs without having to sell out of any of these core positions in my retirement portfolio. For the past couple of years holding positions in JEPI, JEPQ and SVOL have fulfilled their purposes of capital preservation while generating sufficient monthly dividends. FEPI now allows me to get more done with less invested. I have experimented with the YieldMax funds and with the exception of NVDY all of the yields are quite seductive however there has been capital depreciation. So I believe, after I take the dividends in June, I will sell out of most of those postions.
You can put your money in short treasures and get 5.5 percent. Or buy SVOL and get 16 percent return. But if you want to get rich you have to make a big move. AMC and GME are dead money. The last great short squeeze is gonna be DJT.
Dump it and put it in SVOL and make 16 percent annually with monthly divided payments. At least until you find something better.
Income investing. SPYI QQQI SPYT SVOL JEPQ
Say no to Global X. Buy SPYI, QQQI, SVOL, SPYT, FEPI, JEPQ
SVOL is paying a divided monthly, and it's a 16 percent annual return. 1 million bucks is 160,000 per year, compounding doubles your mil pretty quick.
I like SVOL during these volatile times. When markets bottom yield will drop. But in the meantime it’s a fair play. Long gold/silver royalty companies like FNV and WPM. I’d sell some very long term leaps on the QQQ to play downside.
I'd rather stick with JEPI or JEPQ. Even SVOL is better.
Yeah I just went to that. SVOL is pretty good. If it's still around in 15 years I'll probably put a chunk of my retirement into that. Also looked at Yieldmax, which has 90% Div but a neg TMR. Not so good there. Thanks for showing these.
Hi, I'm back, SVOL seems to have a solid DIV coupon. Not a bad deal if I were looking for an income ETF.
There is a whole universe of ETFs that make money off you regards. Check out JEPI, SVOL, Yieldmax
Look into stuff like SVOL, QYLD, SVXY, etc. There are easier ways to get the volatility premium. If you can't beat SVOL, why bother?
Now thar the USDJPY is seeing the worst highs since the 1990's expect the Buy Button to be deleted again when VIX prolapses from the Yen Carry Trade blows up. Warning messages have already rolled out on SVOL.
Start taking most of your money and put it into VOO and don't touch it for 36 years. ROTH IRA, too. There's also stuff like covered call income ETFs like JEPI, YMAX, QQQY, JEPY, and SVOL.
It just measures changes in the prices of options on the S&P500. They have changed the exact formula several times and in my opinion is a shit measure of volatility. Normally an institutional investor would use it for a short hedge against events and things of that nature. It's not something you would ever continuously hold like some of the comments seem to think looking at performance since inception. An interesting ETF that basically shorts VIX SVOL would be worth looking for a strategy that uses it available to retail investors if you're curious.
The only vix etfs that can be long term holds are short vix etfs that have low leverage. So something like SVXY or SVOL. Anything higher than -0.5x VIX is a problem because vix futures sometimes have massive spikes which crushed -1x SVXY in 2018 forcing it to reduce leverage to -0.5x. Even with a another massive spike in VIX in 2020, SVXY is up 60% since pre-covid levels. A low vix leverage makes it possible to be held long term and outperform during times of low stock returns but also low volatility.
I can use options and I believe you can do the same thing using options I'm just not very familiar with it. But I was trying to buy volatility products like SVOL.
Yep, that sounds like either inverse volatility (something like SVOL) a synthetic covered call ETF (TSLY, NVDY, et al.) Yeah you get current income, but some of that is essentially a return of principal, and with the popular covered call funds you’re usually better just [holding the underlying](https://portfolioslab.com/tools/stock-comparison/TSLY/TSLA#:~:text=TSLA%20%2D%20Volatility%20Comparison,TSLA%20based%20on%20this%20measure.).