The Magnificent Seven stocks have become popular covered call candidates for a few reasons. First, they have highly liquid options chains with dozens of strike prices and expiration dates, making it easy to enter…
As a general rule of thumb, covered call ETFs tend to underperform their long-only counterparts. The tax drag from frequent distributions, the higher fees, and the simple reality that your upside is capped while…
Artificial intelligence and robotics remain among the most popular investment themes on the market. Rather than trying to identify the next moonshot startup before everyone else, thematic ETFs offer a more structured entry point.…
If you own an ETF tracking the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq-100, the Magnificent Seven are unavoidable. They’re a major part of both benchmarks, where a handful of technology giants continue to dominate index…
Artificial intelligence (AI) remains one of the most popular investment themes on the market. But if you’re going to invest in a thematic ETF, I think the first consideration should be position sizing. In…
As of June 9, Bitcoin is firmly in a bear market. I’m literally watching the price as I write this. It has slipped below $62,000 and is now sitting around $61,790 per coin. That…
As of June 9, 2026, after the market close, Bitcoin is down 29.3% year-to-date and trading at approximately $61,798 per coin. That also represents a decline of roughly 50% from its all-time high of…
There are a lot of different ways to make money from Bitcoin. Some traders attempt to profit from every up and down move, often using leverage. Others simply buy and HODL, trusting that over…
Reddit investors never cease to amuse me with their short-termism and tendency to performance chase. Case in point is the subreddit dedicated to the JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI). Yes, one of the…
The launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States in January 2024 did more than simply make cryptocurrency easier to access. It also created a regulated ecosystem around Bitcoin that could support options…
The SpaceX IPO is scheduled to debut on Friday, June 12, on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker SPCX. Priced at $135 per share, the offering is expected to raise roughly $75 billion and…
Traditionally, investors seeking maximum income have sold at-the-money covered calls. The problem is that this caps much of the portfolio’s upside potential. Another approach has emerged in recent years. Instead of selling monthly options,…
One common criticism of cryptocurrency ownership is that the assets themselves do not generate income. If you own a rental property, you can collect rent. If you own stocks, many pay dividends. If you…
Weekly distribution ETFs have attracted a lot of attention from income investors. But before chasing those payouts, it is important to understand how distributions work. When an ETF goes ex-distribution, its net asset value…
Gone are the days when zero-days-to-expiration, or 0DTE options were reserved for degenerate traders on WallStreetBets looking to blow up their portfolios. Wall Street has stepped in and essentially said, “Instead of buying short-dated…
I’m really not a fan of these weekly distribution ETFs. Sure, getting paid every week sounds great if you’re withdrawing from your portfolio on a weekly basis. But you know what achieves essentially the…
Your bond ETF could be costing you thousands of dollars a year, and I’m not just talking about years like 2022 where rising rates and inflation pushed bond prices down almost as much as…
One of the more revealing data points in fixed-income investing is watching which ETFs institutional investors are quietly accumulating through their 13F filings. A 13F is a quarterly regulatory filing required by the SEC…
Vanguard’s most popular bond ETF is also the largest U.S.-listed bond ETF by assets under management (AUM). It is the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (NASDAQ:BND). For a 0.03% expense ratio, investors get exposure…
A lot of investors associate Vanguard almost exclusively with low-cost passive indexing on the equity side. But what many people may not realize is that in recent years, Vanguard has also built a fairly…
