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The Reason Why I Rate JEPI A Sell Even Though It Has Done Its Job
JEPI is likely to outperform the overall market in the next few months, but here’s what you really need to consider.
Readers who follow me on Seeking Alpha may have noticed an interesting trend from me where I have become increasingly aggressive with my ratings. Of the last six ETFs I covered, I rated four a Sell or Strong Sell. These four funds weren’t necessarily garbage funds unsuitable to invest in. Some have done a very good job…
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Why I Sold 55.55% Yielding YMAX And 17.65% Yielding SVOL
The investing mindset that helps me control emotions and avoid costly mistakes.
Two articles I had recently written on Seeking Alpha were “YMAX: Paying Extra Management Fees For No Good Reason” and “SVOL: Low-Quality Holdings Increase Downside Potential Significantly.” I had given both funds, the YieldMax Universe Fund of Option Income ETFs (YMAX) and Simplify Volatility Premium ETF (SVOL), sell ratings. Like any Seeking Alpha article with…
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Will Cutting Daily $5 Lattes Really Make You Financially Free?
Extreme frugality is not the key, nor is overindulgence.
What started as a save and be ultra frugal to become financially free and retire early has come under fire in recent years. Content on social media has morphed from investing advice discussing how just investing $5 a day could completely change your life to satire around these strategies and how you’ll never be able…
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The Times When The S&P 500 Is Not The Best Investment
Why I’m a huge fan of value and dividend investing.
Almost everyone, including myself, recommends investing in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund over the long run. However, the long run is the keyword, and we’re not talking about five or even ten years. No, we’re looking much further at 20, 30, or even 40 years. I want you to take a look at the…
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This Article Paid Me $195 USD In 12 Hours (Don’t Neglect This Factor)
How variable earnings on Seeking Alpha could supercharge your blogging income.
Yesterday, I wrote an article on Seeking Alpha comparing two income ETFs, GPIQ and JEPQ. It was published a few hours later, around 10 PM here in Malaysia. I was out wandering the Pavilion Mall in Kuala Lumpur and decided to check how the article was performing while waiting for a Grab taxi back to my…
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This ETF Yields 25.79% And Is Beating The NASDAQ 100 (Get Paid Weekly)
Is Roundhill’s Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF — QDTE — a buy?
One of my most viewed articles published in the last few days on Seeking Alpha was one about the Roundhill Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF (QDTE) for a pretty good reason. Since its inception in March, QDTE has beaten its underlying index—the NASDAQ 100—in total returns while offering 20%+ yielding weekly distributions. Image From Seeking Alpha | QDTE…
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Top 5 High Yield S&P 500 Buy-Write ETFs (7–18% Yields)
My favorite S&P 500 covered call funds worth considering in your income portfolio.
Covered call funds have become extremely popular this decade, with numerous companies launching high-yield, monthly (and sometimes even weekly) paying ETFs. One of the most popular strategies companies have adopted is selling covered calls on indices like the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100, but every company has its own twists. Each time a new fund…
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XDTE Has Beaten The S&P 500 While Paying Weekly 18%+ Dividends
Why NAV decay is only part of the story and what you should also be looking at.
In this decade, options funds have become extremely popular. It started with covered calls on index ETFs like the S&P 500. Then we got covered calls on individual stocks and all sorts of assets, including Bitcoin, bonds, and other commodities. This doesn’t include all the innovations in the strategies we have been using with covered…
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Working Harder Is Killing Your Productivity (Don’t Fall Into This Trap)
The counterintuitive approach to work that’s helping me get more done.
About a week ago, I wrote an article detailing a productivity “hack” I implemented that increased my productivity tenfold. I Wish I Knew This Productivity Hack 5 Years Ago (533% More Blog Posts Published) It was a strategy where I added up what I completed, like the number of blog posts and videos published, and…
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How I Made My First $1K In One Month From Blogging
Beginning life as a digital nomad.
$1,311.07 USD. That’s how much I made this September from blogging alone, and the results are definitely replicable. September was a busy, breakthrough month. It’s the first time in a long time that I have felt, “Wow, I really got a lot done.” A big reason was that I had lit a fire underneath me.…