Solar bulls love to point at the 12-month chart for Invesco Solar ETF (NYSEARCA:TAN) and call it a comeback story. The fund is up 82.81% over the past year. What that chart…
Bitcoin is up 84.59% over the past five years. ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:BITO), the fund millions of investors bought to ride that exact wave, is down 24.26% over the same window.…
The cheapest fund on the shelf still has a price tag. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) charges almost nothing, brags about it constantly, and just crossed $1 trillion in assets. The real…
If you bought ProShares UltraPro QQQ (NASDAQ:TQQQ) thinking you were getting three times the Nasdaq-100, the math has a quiet message for you: over the past five years, the underlying index ETF…
If you own KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (NYSEARCA:KWEB), the fund’s fact sheet sells you a clean story: pure-play access to China’s internet giants in one ticker. What it does not put…
If you bought Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:TMF) five years ago expecting triple the returns of long Treasuries, your $10,000 is now worth roughly $1,527. The unleveraged version,…
Gold is supposed to be the panic asset. The thing you own when everything else breaks. So why does the most famous gold ETF on Wall Street skim more from your bullion…
A Georgia attorney described the scene to clients more than once: adult children sitting across the desk after a parent’s funeral, learning that a large six-figure sum in their father’s 401(k) was…
Marc Guberti JEPQ markets itself as a premium income machine on the Nasdaq-100. The pitch sells. The math is less convincing. Over the past year, holders collected fat monthly checks and still trailed the…
Picture a 62-year-old who just left their job, eyeing the Social Security application online. The check could start landing in the bank account next month. The temptation is enormous, and most people…
Michael Williams The fact sheet says JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) charges just 0.35%, but that number is a magician’s misdirection. The real cost of owning JEPI is the upside the fund hands…
If you bought United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) a decade ago because you thought oil was cheap, the spot price proved you right, but the fund did not. Spot West Texas Intermediate…
On a recent episode of The Ramsey Show, a 25-year-old caller named Connor said he was loading money into a taxable brokerage account instead of a Roth. Dave Ramsey’s reaction was blunt:…
Michael Williams If you own a Roth IRA, you already know the headline perk: no required minimum distributions during your lifetime. You can let it grow, tax-free, for as long as you live. But…
Michael Williams We get this scenario in our inbox almost every week. Someone has crossed the line into their late sixties, has roughly seven figures saved, and wants to know if they can spend…
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