It could be argued that YieldMax and GraniteShares are worse. At least some of their products when the market turns against the bullish thesis.
I'm currently up 5% price return on $QLDY, personally. I'm up on all of the tickers I mentioned because I bought heavily during the March dip.
It's not accurate to say that they are ALL leveraged. It's true that the strategy for $QLDY means that it will drop lower than its underlying on down says, but I'm happy with how it recovers. Besides, it has a 40% distribution so you can choose to invest the excess of the safe withdrawal rate either into the underlying or a more conservative high income ETF.
Aren’t Roundhill and Defiance like the WORST long term income ETFs?
They’re all leveraged. QLDY lost 25% during the March dip and is still down 8% this year.
Don’t invest in high yield ETFs that have dropping share prices in bull markets. They are not built to last.
I am talking about distribution yield and not growth. High income ETFs have been around for a couple of years, and now you can do that in ETFs based on the major indexes.
These are for INCOME, not wealth accumulation. I would just feel better knowing that my investments COULD cover my living expenses for a few months if anything happened.
I'm not recommending any specific ticker but: $QLDY, $SDTY, and $GIAX are examples.
@dividendvision has a great news page with an aggregate of X, YouTube and Blog posts for more education on the matter.
Ya'll I was being TAME when I threw out 20% yield as a number
- signed someone who has been living off her 50% yielding portfolio for the last 10 months.
It might not be TRADITIONAL advice, but $QLDY and $QQQI exist 🤷♀️
(and SO many others).
Think that 20% is too high? Then invest in a diversified growth leaning portfolio for however many years it takes you to get to your target yield.
I just don't think that it's BAD advice to keep this $100k as an emergency fund that's invested and save another 3% as the down payment.
Personally: I would invest it. If you earn an average of 20% yield on that you're earning $1.6k a month. I wouldn't convert it to high income ETFs right away, but that would be the maximum total payment for the house I'd want. Then just save up another 3% for a down payment
These tickers are not advice, but a starting point of ETFs yielding around 20%
Nasdaq 100 based: $QLDY, $QQQI, $QDTE, $QDTY
S&P500 based: $XDTE, $SDTY
International: $GIAX
There are plenty of more that pay more or less. It's done through options, not magic. DYOR, but the major drawback is that you won't grow 100% as much as its underlying.
I don't know about ya'll, but I feel better knowing that I COULD convert my portfolio to a decently diversified high income portfolio and cover my mortgage rather than using $100k as my 20% down and then having to go through foreclosure if I lose my job.
#DefianceETFs declares it’s latest distribution on $QLDY payable on 06/15/26, to shareholders of record as of 06/12/26 The Ex-Dividend date is 06/12/26.
Standardized performance link:
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Prospectus link:
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The performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost and current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Performance current to the most recent month-end can be obtained by calling 833.333.9383. Short term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns. Market price is the price at which shares in the ETF can be bought or sold on the exchanges during trading hours, while the net asset value (NAV) represents the value of each share’s portion of the fund’s underlying assets and cash at the end of the trading day.
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Defiance ETFs just announced their latest distribution for $QLDY:
Nasdaq 100 LightningSpread Income ETF $QLDY
Distribution: $0.1753/share
Distribution Rate: 40.00%
Ex-Date: June 12, 2026
Payable Date: June 15, 2026
⚠️ Distributions are not guaranteed and may vary. 100% of this distribution is estimated return of capital. This does not represent total return.
Ok so you won't get rich but a stock strategy is biweekly ,weekly ,monthly, quarter so qldy,xdte ,arr,schd buy 1 of each every week it's about 140 dollars and continue for 50 years and you have streamlines money machine do nothing get paid.
My daily pay high yield portfolio. Tuesday and Wednesday are a bit light. Building a base from QLDY, ULTY, BLOX and USOY. Goal is eventually to replace myself with the cash flow from this portfolio. In the mean time I will keep trading options for myself. 😉👍
That be awesome. I bought back into NVII small position as I transferred over to WMTI and COSW but bought some QLDY plus WNTR,so give this a try but look forward to how well it would have down with up/down last six months.
Great question. To answer that accurately I'd need to pull every NVII distribution, every QLDY purchase, and every QLDY payout. I'll add it to my list for a future deep dive.
🤖 Tech & AI Income System
Powered by NVIDIA and the Nasdaq-100
$250K in $NVII generates ~$2,313/week.
That income buys $QLDY.
$QLDY pays 2x/week:
💰 Payout #1 → Buy More $NVII
💵 Payout #2 → Reinvest or Take Cash
One Income Engine. Three Payday Days.
🔄 Repeat.
#DefianceETFs declares it’s latest distributions on $QLDY and $MST payable on 06/11/26, to shareholders of record as of 06/10/26 The Ex-Dividend date is 06/10/26.
Standardized performance links:
defianceetfs.com/qldy/perfor…defianceetfs.com/mst/perform…
Prospectus links:
defianceetfs.com/qldy/prospe…defianceetfs.com/mst/prospec…
The performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost and current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Performance current to the most recent month-end can be obtained by calling 833.333.9383. Short term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns. Market price is the price at which shares in the ETF can be bought or sold on the exchanges during trading hours, while the net asset value (NAV) represents the value of each share’s portion of the fund’s underlying assets and cash at the end of the trading day.
This material must be preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
The Defiance ETFs are distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC