Month: March 2022

Covered Calls On Inverse ETF Pairs?

This didn’t work out, so don’t try it. THESIS: Buy equal amounts of an ETF inverse pair. Dollar value of the hybrid position shouldn’t change much over time. Sell ATM Calls against it weekly to harvest the pure time value in the premiums. I had a crazy thought today while screening ETFs to be candidates for Covered Calls. I was aware of a few “inverse” ETF pairs: Siver, Gold Miners, and Biotech. But I’m finding there are others; many others. …

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Covered Calls II

In late February 2022 I discovered ETFs that implement a covered-call (CC) strategy on the major indices. XYLD, QYLD, & RYLD cover the S&P 500, NASDAQ, and Russell 2000 respectively, and I’ve read that historically they pay dividends of about 10% per year. As of September 2022 each of them has a forward yield of more than 12%. That’s a very respectable return any kind of normal investment, and if you could get that year after year your account would …

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