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As the title says. Sold most of my MRNY position.
I believe Moderna will follow a common pharmaceutical stock price pattern after good news and return to a much lower number within a couple weeks. At that point I am buying back in.
I have enjoyed owning MRNY and want to keep it in my portfolio.

Edit: cleaned up the wording.

As of this morning's announcement, I am 100.84% house money on AMDY with a total return of 73.87%. Also, MRNY is looking awesome this morning.

LOL at all the FUD Bros in this sub.

Cheers everyone 🍻

I don't see the usual pinned thread from @lottadot .. and yes 2026. Shouldn't do this while driving :).

ETF

Ticker1 ETF Name Distribution

Frequency Distribution

per Share Distribution

Rate2,4, 5 30-Day

SEC Yield3

CHPY YieldMax® Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF Weekly $0.5702 40.84% -0.49%

GPTY YieldMax® AI & Tech Portfolio Option Income ETF Weekly $0.2946 35.58% -0.41%

LFGY YieldMax® Crypto Industry & Tech Portfolio Option Income ETF Weekly $0.1686 45.08% -0.28%

MINY YieldMax® Strategic Metals & Mining Portfolio Option Income ETF Weekly $0.2282 30.22% 0.55%

QDTY YieldMax® Nasdaq 100 0DTE Covered Call ETF Weekly $0.2190 28.60% -0.94%

RDTY YieldMax® R2000 0DTE Covered Call ETF Weekly $0.2478 33.80% -0.62%

SDTY YieldMax® S&P 500 0DTE Covered Call ETF Weekly $0.1667 20.80% -0.41%

SLTY YieldMax® Ultra Short Option Income Strategy ETF Weekly $0.2244 55.07% 1.96%

ULTY YieldMax® Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF Weekly $0.3197 60.33% -0.78%

YMAG YieldMax® Magnificent 7 Fund of Option Income ETFs Weekly $0.1055 48.66% 63.97%

YMAX YieldMax® Universe Fund of Option Income ETFs Weekly $0.0599 40.67% 85.00%

(EDIT: Title says 4 in 5 days — it's actually 5 in 2 days. ProShares launched ACQQ in the same suite, and Reddit doesn't allow title edits. Corrected list below, plus the autocall explainer the mods asked for and a credit to a commenter who caught something I missed.)

Since fund launches get discussed here, flagging a category arrival this week — autocallable income strategies (the stuff that's lived inside bank structured notes for decades) just arrived in ETF form, five times over.

Aug 12 — m+ funds (Valued Advisers Trust):

• MPDY — m+ DualYield Autocall ETF (S&P 500 Futures 40% Defined Volatility Autocall Index, NYSE Arca, 0.70% ER)

• MPIA — m+ Nasdaq-100 Accelerator Autocall ETF (Barclays index, Nasdaq, 0.70% ER)

Aug 13 — ProShares, the full suite:

• ACSP — ProShares S&P 500 Autocallable Income ETF

• ACQQ — ProShares Nasdaq-100 Autocallable Income ETF

• ACRT — ProShares Russell 2000 Autocallable Income ETF

WHAT'S AN AUTOCALLABLE FUND? (mods asked, so here's the plain-English version)

An autocallable fund earns a fixed coupon for taking crash risk — kind of the mirror image of what YieldMax does.

• Covered-call funds (YieldMax etc.) SELL UPSIDE to generate income — they cap the good months and keep most of the downside.

• Autocallable funds SELL CRASH INSURANCE to generate income — they earn a fixed coupon as long as the index doesn't fall through a deep barrier (typically -30% to -40%). Market flat, up, or mildly down? You collect coupons. Market crashes through the barrier? You eat losses like you owned the index.

• "Autocall" means the note can automatically end early ("get called") when the index is at or above its start level on a check date — you get your money back plus coupons, and the fund rolls into a new note.

So: covered calls hurt in melt-UPs (capped), autocallables hurt in melt-DOWNs (barrier breach). Steady checks in calm markets either way — they just fail in opposite directions. That's why some people pair them.

CREDIT WHERE DUE: u/Nytemaresxbl pointed out in the comments that these five aren't the first — Calamos pioneered the category in 2025 with CAIE (June) and CAIQ (November), which have real payment histories and over $1B gathered between them. So this week isn't the category being born — it's the category going mainstream after Calamos spent a year proving it works. If you want to see how these things actually trade and pay before the new five have any track record, CAIE/CAIQ are the reference points.

Notable: ProShares followed a startup issuer into this category within one day — and Calamos' billion dollars is probably why. Giants don't usually do that by accident.

None of the five new funds has declared a first distribution yet — any yield number you see is a target, not a track record. The first few payments will tell the real story.

Not financial advice, just filings-and-listings reading.

Reference Asset	Stock Price	Harvest	Purpose	Ninepoint	Winner
AAPL	305.93	APLE	APLY		APLE
AMD	514.39	AMDY	YAMD		YAMD
AMZN	262.65	AMHE	YAMZ		AMHE
AVGO	392.99	AVGY	YAVG		YAVG
BRK	1405		BRKY		BRKY
BTC	27.81		BTCY		BTCY
COIN	148.47	CNYE	YCON		COIN
COST	961.1	COSY	YCST		YCST
CRCL	71.6	CRCY			CRCY
CRWD	216.95	CRWY			CRWY
ETH	17.93		ETHY		ETHY
GOOGL	345.9	GOGY	YGOG	GOHI	GOOGL
HOOD	95.56	HODY			HODY
INTC	102.5			INHI	INHI
JNJ	260.35	JNJY			JNJY
JPM	362.84	JPHE	JPYS		JPM
LLY	1180.16	LLHE			LLHE
META	589.85	METE	YMET		META
MSFT	495.4	MSHE	MSFY		MSFT
MSTR	93.04	MSTE			MSTE
NFLX	78.16	NFLY	YNET		NFLX
NVDA	225.16	NVHE	YNVD	NVHI	NVHE
NVO	45.89	NOVY			NOVY
ORCL	150.52	ORCY			ORCY
PLTR	174.04	PLTE	YPLT	PLHI	PLTE
RDDT	178.09	RDDY			RDDY
SOFI	18.29	SOFY			SOFY
TSLA	342.27	TSLY	YTSL	TSHI	YTSL
UNH	401.73		YUNH		YUNH
XYZ	82.88	BLKY			BLKY
TSX:ABX	57.8			ABHI	ABHI
TSX:AEM	258.85	AEME			AEME
TSX:ATD	91.96		ATDY		ATDY
TSX:BCE	32.57	BCEE		BCHI	BCE
TSX:BN	60.86		BNY		BNY
TSX:BNS	126.98		BNSY		BNSY
TSX:CLS	465.23			CLHI	CLHI
TSX:CCO	135.56	CCOE		CCHI	CCHI
TSX:CNQ	66.41	CNQE	CNQY	CQHI	CNQ
TSX:CNR	175.87			CRHI	CRHI
TSX:CSU	3089.46			CSHI	CSHI
TSX:DOL	191.58		DOLY		DOLY
TSX:ENB	70.61	ENBE	ENBY	ENHI	ENB
TSX:K	37.89			KGHI	KGHI
TSX:RY	300.7	RYHE	RBCY	RYHI	RBCY
TSX:SHOP	214.35	SHPE	SHPY	SHHI	SHHI
TSX:SU	91.44	SUHE		SUHI	SUHE
TSX:T	13.54	TEHE	TY		T
TSX:TD	172.61	TDHE	TDY	TDHI	TDY

Columns marked in green mark the winner in total return since the most recent funds inception date. Marked in yellow means the underlying stock is the winner in total return. (formatting issues, thanks reddit. no green or yellow. last column denotes the best performing fund or stock)

38 out of 48 tracked funds beat their underlying stock. (yes big caveat because of recent inception date for some of these and good overall market)

Don't tell me CC fund can't overperform. With the right strategy and conditions, they well overperform.

Disclaimer - I don't know what I'm talking about and am not a financial advisor. Most of this is probably wrong.

I wrote some code to compare divs vs the underlying using a same day purchase and amount.

https://preview.redd.it/98ueudfexijh1.png?width=423&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b7c76e90e2ffa884bf4afb472849950de1b477b

AMDY is the YM I have had the best return with as a percentage but compared to buy and hold this tells the story of the capped upside like no other.

I bought a small lot of AMDY Wednesday because the underlying is doing well. I sold it Friday at a small profit and adding the divs out performed AMD in that time span. I did this to test my assertion that div hoping can be successful.

https://preview.redd.it/bvq926p3zijh1.png?width=426&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f31152a183b3f140662f5cd2e75a9349815d5c2

And then there is MSTY. The NAV erosion is real. But so are the divs.

I had a chance to sell this position for a 30k profit but I held instead.

I have had it longer than AMDY so more divs. Each of these funds hit a break even and then the divs feel like real returns on a sunk cost.

This position has well exceeded its costs in total returns and has paid out 2500 in the last 30 days.

I cannot buy a rental house, pay it off in 2 years and get that margin.

FYI I take most divs and buy NVDA at any dip.

Feedback welcome.

Everything is showing positive total return.

https://preview.redd.it/0ta3a1xtb8jh1.png?width=856&format=png&auto=webp&s=4066b0c730b7be7055a30056880e34b8880107cc

Edited to show the headers.

About a month ago I noticed on the Bitwise site that their ICOI fund was being shut down 7/31. Never having been through one of these fund closures, I posted asking if anyone had any experience and or thoughts. A few replies, including several people saying they'd sell now and not wait for the closure, believing it would drop badly. I had a small position and wasn't afraid of a loss, so I decided on an experiment: I sold half my shares on 7/14 and let the others sit until the closure. From when I sold to when they closed, the price dropped 2.68%.

As for what happened overall, I received no notification of the closure, I stumbled on that myself. I received cash in my account (Fidelity) on 8/10, as the ICOI site predicted.

Only down $253 right now.

As of this morning's announcement, I am just $59.19 away from house money on AMDY with a total return of 74.77%. This will be ETF #4 in house money.

Damn it feels good to be a "bagholder."

Cheers everyone! 🍻

I know SMYY is not actually “YieldMax”, but maybe that means you all can give me critical thoughts. I bought SMYY a couple weeks ago, after which the underlying (SMCI) has risen 50%! Yet I’m breakeven on SMYY. How the hell can it be flat when SMCI rallied 50%?! Will it take another week or two to reflect gains, or is the fund broken?

I was considering putting 10k into CHPY to use the income to pay down 2 bills for the next 2 years... do we think it'll hold fairly steady for another 2 years?

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