Exchange Traded Funds
Gold and silver stole the precious metals story over the past year. Platinum and palladium sat it out. That gap sets up the choice between three physically-backed trusts: abrdn Platinum ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:PPLT), abrdn…
The AI data-center power crunch has turned utilities from bond proxies into growth stocks, and two funds sit at the center of that trade: the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLU) and the Vanguard…
The iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (NASDAQ:ETHA) and the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT) look like siblings from the same BlackRock nursery: identical wrappers, same Coinbase custodian, spot crypto exposure through a familiar ticker. The…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the hottest financial sector right now, based on expectation and anticipation. The expectations are over its far-reaching productivity boosting capabilities to generate huge profits in practically every industrial…
The Roundhill Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF (CBOE:QDTE) pays income every single week, and that cadence is the entire reason people own it. QDTE sells zero-days-to-expiration call options against synthetic NASDAQ-100 exposure, then…
The NEOS S&P 500 High Income ETF (CBOE:SPYI) has become one of the largest derivative-income funds in the U.S., paying monthly distributions that annualize to roughly 12% on a share price around $53. Income…
A bitcoin miner ETF has quietly outrun the most famous corporate bitcoin holder on the market this year, and it did so without owning a single share of that company. The CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin…
The VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SMHX) has ripped higher in 2026, gaining 58.48% year to date through July 6, and it does not own a single share of the world’s largest chipmaker. Taiwan Semiconductor…
The iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) has ridden the AI chip boom to a 93.3% year-to-date gain through July 6, 2026, nearly doubling investor capital in roughly six months. Over the trailing year, the fund…
The Invesco Semiconductors ETF (NYSEARCA:PSI) has roughly doubled this year, gaining 102.37% from December 31, 2025 through July 6, 2026. The surprise: the fund carries the word “semiconductors” in its name yet holds zero…
The Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (CBOE:COWZ) is having a solid 2026, up 6.4% year to date and 14.81% over the past year through July 6. Yet a fund built expressly to own…
The Global X Defense Tech ETF (NYSEARCA:SHLD) and the SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (NYSEARCA:XAR) look like two ways to buy the same rearmament story, but they take structurally different bets. One is…
The choice between Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:VNQ) and Schwab U.S. REIT ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHH) looks like a wash on the surface. Both promise diversified U.S. real estate exposure at rock-bottom fees. But the two…
YieldMax NVDA Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:NVDY) monetizes NVIDIA‘s (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) volatility through a synthetic covered-call strategy, converting option premiums into weekly cash distributions. The fund once ranked among the highest-yielding…
YieldMax’s Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:ULTY) has become one of the most talked-about weekly income vehicles on the market, and the pitch is straightforward: sell options on the most volatile stocks in tech,…
