TOP 40 HIGH YIELD ETFS OF THE WEEK COUNTDOWN

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:01]Hey guys, my name is Max. Happy Saturday. Welcome to the top 40 high yield covered call of the week show.

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[00:00:39]Number 40 is Goop, yielding more than 11. NAV is up 21%. Goop has a one-year total return of nearly 80% and a stable DEX of 31%.

[00:00:55]Goop is dropping six places from last week. Number 39 is QYLG from Global X only yields about 5%. NAV is plus about 11 and a half, but QLG unlike Goop pretty dang stable. It's stable X is an 87%. It's almost three times as stable as Goop and it's about 87% as stable as the S&P 500. That's what the stable deck tells us. QyG is dropping six spots from last week. Number 38, BSTZ. This is a closedin fund. This uh this one always does a nice job. Uh or lots of times it does. You'll need about 8.3%.

[00:01:40]The NAV just this quarter's gone from 23 to 30 basically.

[00:01:46]You know, that's seven points on something that just got cost 23 bucks.

[00:01:50]That's a NAV return of 31.77%.

[00:01:54]BSTZ has a one-year total return of 55% and a stable of only 37%.

[00:02:03]BSTZ is dropping seven spots from last week. Next is number 37, BTX from Black Rockck, yielding 8.04%.

[00:02:17]NAV is plus 36% this quarter as the price has gone from $672 to $918 as of Friday. BTX also offers a one-year total return of around 30%.

[00:02:34]And a stable of 40%.

[00:02:37]BTX is dropping 10 spots from last week. Next is number 36, Meme Y from Tuttle Capital. Now, this one is one of those funds that owns the underlying exposure to the underlying stocks and these are meme stocks primarily thematic meme type stocks. Uh definitely you call it high beta type stocks kind of on the riskier side.

[00:03:06]However, they have uncapped exposure to the upside as they own exposure to the upside and then they sell put spreads for income. Well, the put spreads generate an income of about 14.66%.

[00:03:18]And their portfolio is up about 20% on NAV. 21% really hasn't been around for a year yet. So, we don't know what the one-year total return is. Not super stable. Like I said, these are high beta meme type stocks.

[00:03:35]Stable X is uh 30%. Meanwhile, it's dropping 13 spots from last week. Number 35 is GIX from Xfunds. David Nicholas, the owner of the company, has been on the channel multiple times. Good guy. Runs a pretty good fund. He also has Blocks and some other funds that you guys may know, but Blocks and GX are the kind of the main ones.

[00:04:01]GX yields 22 and a half% almost. The NAV is up 16 and 3/4%.

[00:04:09]Not super stable. We only have a 41 on the stable decks. Let's see who number 34 is. TDVI from First Trust yield is about 6.5%.

[00:04:21]The NAV is about 21 and 34%.

[00:04:25]Not bad. NAV return is the price has gone from 28 to 34 recently. We'll take that. one-year total return is almost 38% and this one is fairly stable. It's a 63% on the stable decks. Unfortunately, it is dropping 16 spots from last week.

[00:04:45]Number 33 is SPUT from Innovator. This is a hedged equity strategy. Yield is only about 5.5%. NAV's gone recently from $2653 to $2866.

[00:05:03]That's only about a $2, you know, rise in NAV.

[00:05:08]So that's still a solid NAV return of about 8%. One year total return is 12%.

[00:05:14]The stable deck is what these hedged equity funds are known for and in true to form sput has 169% on the stable decks. SPUT is up one rank from last week. We also have another category on the Max Factor called yield safety. And if you look over here, YS ranked number one. SPUT is number one ranked for yield safety and sustainability.

[00:05:43]But as far as the Max Factor goes, and the Max Factor wants the highest yield possible, the highest everything possible. It's what the Max Factor is optimizing for.

[00:05:56]highest stability, highest NAV return, highest yield, and highest sustainability. Well, when you throw all those in together, Sput's only number 33 on the Max Factor, but that's still not too bad considering there's 402 stocks on the list right now. So, it's actually really good. Sput's in the top 10%.

[00:06:16]Easily in the top 10%, more like the top 7%. Good job, Sput. Next is number 32, QSIX.

[00:06:26]This is a leveraged dividend fund based on the S&P 500. The dividends are levered four times. The Q means quad.

[00:06:36]Anyway, you get four times dividend. It comes out to about 3.84% yield. The index has been doing pretty well lately. And you can see QSIX is up 19% on NAV. one-year total return of more than 31% and we have a stable ETF here 75% on the stable index. That's not as stable as SPUT to be sure.

[00:07:02]QSIX has dropped six spots from last week. Number 31 is UNHW yielding 34%.

[00:07:11]The NAV recently has gone from 40 bucks to 4950 a little bit more actually.

[00:07:17]Well, that's a 23.39% NAV return, which is really good.

[00:07:22]Stableex leaves a little to be desired considering it's only 30%.

[00:07:28]UNHW is dropping 22 spots from last week. Number 30 is EGY from Nest Yield.

[00:07:37]Yield is 26.75%.

[00:07:41]The NAV is plus 22.66%.

[00:07:44]Pretty good nav return there, right?

[00:07:48]One year total return is only 7.8%.

[00:07:52]The stable X is 31%.

[00:07:56]Number 29 is BST from Black Rockck, another closedin fund. Yields about 8.5%. The NAV is up nearly 23%. Man, we have a lot of NAV, a lot of good NAV momentum here on these stocks here. the past three stocks or the past four stocks have been up 19 23 22 22 remember those numbers don't include dividends that's not a total return number that's a NAV return number only and it's only for the past quarter BSTZ is also up about 33% on a total return basis over the past year and the stables is a 49% number 28 is Trinity Capital T R I N is the ticker This one is yielding about 14% and the NAV is up about 13%. Trinity Capital has a stable X of 58% and is jumping two spots from last week. Number 27 is QLDY yielding 33.72%.

[00:09:04]The NAV is up more than 12.5%.

[00:09:08]QLDY is decently stable with the 64% on the stable decks. QLDY is entering the rankings this week, entering the top 40.

[00:09:19]It was 50 or something last week, I forget. 55. Anyway, good to see you.

[00:09:24]QLDY triple QI from Neos. This is a blue chip high yield covered call fund. Neos uses monthly options.

[00:09:39]Um they they do a nice job. Uh yields about 13 and a quarter. Nav's plus about 9%. One year total return is 12.39%.

[00:09:51]We have a stable DEX of 89%. This one's pretty pretty dang stable.

[00:09:58]Triple Qi is jumping 10 spots from last week. Let's see who's next.

[00:10:06]F A this is a commodity absolute return fund from first trust yields 9.16% NAV's up about 8 and a3 one-year total return is more than 26% and FAR is stable we have 111% on the stable decks unfortunately FAR is dropping gain 23 spots from last week. Next is number 24, Triple Qi. This is an oldie but a goldie. I don't know, longtime Max fans may remember when I first started my station, we followed the trades of Triple Qi every day and we estimated the dividends and did all that kind of stuff.

[00:10:56]Triple Qi has gone through a few changes and lately they're 30% target fund, but lowering the target. They used to pay about 60 or 70%. They used to be unconstrained and have problems with NAV. Well, what do you know? They lowered the they lowered the yield to about 30%. Now they catch all kinds of NAV. They've caught nearly 12% NAV just this quarter. Pretty good. If they keep up that pace, that'd be a 50% return on NAV plus a 34% yield. In this pace, I'm not saying it's going to continue. This is insane. But at this pace, this this fund right here would be make like 75 85% total return.

[00:11:36]Next is number 23. S ATA from Strive yields 14 and a quarter almost. The NAV is up more than 6% this quarter and this one is stable. It's more like a fixed income type return profile. It has a stable X of 156%.

[00:11:57]So far, SATA, F AR, and SPUT have been our stability champions.

[00:12:09]Number 22 is BLQ, Ball Q from Eyesshares. This yields about 7 and 2/3 of a percent.

[00:12:19]The NAV is up almost 20% this quarter.

[00:12:22]It's gone from 48 to 58 basically.

[00:12:26]I rounded those off, but I mean pretty close. Stable DEX is a 65% and Ball Q unfortunately is dropping five spots from last week. Number 21 is next and it is QVO from Amplify. This is a very popular fund amongst people that I talked to. It yields about 10%. The NAV is plus 10%. That's a very balanced fund, right? 10 and 10. We're going to see one in a second that has a 15 and 15 balance. Yields 15. NAV up 15. In any event, one-year total return is plus is up 15% on this. QVO is pretty dang stable. It's an 87% on the stable decks and QVO's jumping eight spots from the prior week. Number 20 is double QA from Invesco yields about 9 and a3% and the NAV is plus nearly 11% this quarter. One year total return is solid at 18 and a half almost.

[00:13:28]This thing has an 87% stable deck. So it's very similar in its risk profile to something like a QVO and that's also probably why they're ranked together.

[00:13:39]They both also have similar yield, similar nav return, and identical stability. And sure enough, they're ranked number 20 and 21. All right, so we're halfway through the list. The other the rest of these are going to be even better than these have been. And these have been no haven't been any slouches to to be sure. Number 19 is Hackey from Amplify, yielding nearly 15%. Nav is up about 22 a.5%. Hackey is not known for its stability. It's only a 38% on the stable decks and it's dropping three spots from last week.

[00:14:13]Number 18 is C AIQ from Calamos. This is like a hedged equity fund. It's actually an auto callable, but an autocallable is uh it probably is it's very similar to hedged equity. We generally expect these to be pretty safe. Sure enough, autocolables to be pretty stable. Safe may be the wrong word, but fairly stable. CIQ has a stable deck of 80. That's That's really good. Nav's up 10 and a half%. Great job, Calamos. Great job. CIQ, hope to see more of you on the top 40. Number 17 is Speepy. This one is an old one and it is a good one. Yielding nearly 23% lately.

[00:14:59]The Navs plus more than 12%.

[00:15:03]One-year total return kind of leaves a little bit to be desired, but the stable decks is a 69. Not too bad. Feep jumping 23 spots from last week. Next is number 16, FTGC from First Trust. Yield is 15%.

[00:15:22]NAV is plus nearly 11%.

[00:15:26]One-year total return is almost 18.5% and we have a pretty stable asset here.

[00:15:31]just 78% on the stable decks.

[00:15:34]Unfortunately, FTGC is dropping 15 spots from last week as it was number one last week. It's been knocked off its perch. Well, let's see who Let's see who took it over.

[00:15:51]Number 15 is Ty LG from Global X. Only yields about 7 and a half%. The NAVS plus nearly 21% though. That's pretty good. You have a decent stable exit of 68%. TYLG's dropping two spots from last week. Number 14 is AIO from Verdis. This is a closedin fund. These guys are doing a great job lately. Price has gone from almost 23 to almost 27. That's about a 17% NAV return. Not bad. One year total return is nearly 12%. AIO is about a 62% on the stable decks. And AIO is uh rising eight spots from last week.

[00:16:36]It was 22 last week, 14 this week.

[00:16:40]Number 13 is TUGN from STV management yields about 10.5%.

[00:16:48]NAV is plus 17 and a4 one-year total return is 20.68% 68% and we have a decent stable DEX of 63%.

[00:17:00]TUGN and AIO are very similar as far as stability goes. TUGN is also jumping eight spots from the prior week. Number 12, EDGQ from Global X. These are fairly new. Just got added to the list I think in the past week, week and a half.

[00:17:22]yields 11 and a quarter. NAV is plus 14 and a half. A little bit better actually.

[00:17:30]Stable X is a 77%.

[00:17:32]EDGQ. It's dropping four spots from last week. Number 11 is AMZP.

[00:17:40]This one is from Curve yielding about 17.8% but the NAV is up 28 and a quarter.

[00:17:49]That's really good. Obviously one-year total return not great only a 9% one-year total return. It should be said the one-year total return is here forformational purposes only. The one-year total return is is not a factor in the factor. The factor considers income. It considers NAV momentum. It considers yield sustainability and it considers volatility.

[00:18:17]All right, let's look at number 10.

[00:18:21]Chippy.

[00:18:23]Chippy is a favorite of a lot of people, especially lately. Yields almost 30%, but the NAV is more than 35%.

[00:18:32]One year total return is 55%, which is kind of why it's a favorite. A lot of people have made a lot of money on this one. Not known for its stability. To be sure, it's only a 36% on the stable decks. And this one actually dropping one spot from last week. Next is number nine, AMD.

[00:18:56]This one's from YieldMax yielding nearly 30%. The price lately, the the NAV momentum. We can look at it here. It's gone from nearly 31 bucks to just over 57 bucks. That's amazing. That's an 85% profit on NAV return only. It doesn't even factor in the dividend. NAV only, you're up 85%.

[00:19:18]And it's paying a 29% yield. That's why it's ranked so highly. This thing is doing pretty much everything you could ask. All of these are one-year total return on AMDY is 51.76.

[00:19:31]Now, it should be said AMDY is one of the least stable ones we've looked at so far. The stable DEX is only a 19%. Now remember, it's only based on one company where some of these like EDGQ that have a stable X of like 77% are based on an entire index. So that makes a big difference as far as stability goes if that's something that uh interests you.

[00:19:54]You may want to try to concentrate on the ones with the stable decks of, you know, at least 60 70%.

[00:20:00]Number eight is ARM W. Speaking of unstable, this thing's only at 10% on the stable decks.

[00:20:09]This is our most volatile fund that we're going to look at today. Yield is 26 and a half%. The NAV is plus 188 almost 189 well 188 12%. The NAV's gone from $2842 to $81.99 just this quarter.

[00:20:32]That is absolutely amazing. RMW is dropping four spots from last week.

[00:20:39]Number seven is GPIQ. This is a blue chip high yield cover call fund from Goldman Sachs. It has a good low expense ratio. These guys do a great job.

[00:20:52]Yield's only about 9%. However, the NAV is doing great. It's plus 15% a little bit more than 15%. One year total return is a respectable 24%.

[00:21:06]As far as the stable decks goes, it's an 81%.

[00:21:09]This one has good yield sustainability, good nav momentum, kind of a little bit of a lower yield, but you know, all the you add it all in together and it's about the seventh best this week, jumping eight spots from last week. Number six is TDAQ.

[00:21:30]This one hasn't been around long enough to call it a blue chip, but this is a future, in my opinion, this is a future blue chip. you. A lot of people like Tap Alpha Scikitar has been on the channel multiple times. Good guy. We'll have him on again soon here. Maybe sometime this summer or fall I'll ask him to come back on the channel. Sharp sharp guy.

[00:21:53]Uh he's not a stock bro either. He's a he's a finance or not a finance bro. He is uh his background is in technology.

[00:22:00]He I I believe he worked in Sil Yeah, he worked in Silicon Valley, sold a company anyway and decided to get into the ETF business kind of later in life. He's probably I don't know, he's probably 40 or something. Great guy. Can't wait to get him back on the channel. Look at this. He's a good good manager, too. And it should be said that uh Matthew Tuttle is his subadvisor and helps to manage this. We've seen some Tuttle funds on this list. Well, I think all we've seen so far is meme Y from Tuttle, but in any event, these guys do a great job with TDAC. Yields 15.27%.

[00:22:35]The NAV is plus 14.64%.

[00:22:40]TDAQ's at 67% on the stable decks and TDAQ is doing great, jumping 13 spots from last week. Number five is Kleq.

[00:22:53]This one is managed by Howard Chan from Curve. Now, Curve's had several other funds on here. We've also had AMCP and maybe one other don't really remember.

[00:23:04]Yield is 13.61%.

[00:23:08]The NAV is plus about 22.5% just this quarter. Gone from gone from 2574 to 3153. That's not too bad at all.

[00:23:18]One-year total return is very respectable at 24.62.

[00:23:22]Now, this one's not quite as stable as some of the other ones. This is called their Kings of Tech. It's an actively managed portfolio of tech stocks with a covered call overlay. In any event, it's only a 53% on the stable decks. Kleq is doing a great job. It's jumping two spots from last week as it was number seven last week. Next is number four.

[00:23:45]We're getting into pretty rarified air up here.

[00:23:49]AMDW from Roundhill. Roundhill does a great job. Of course, this is based on AMD, a single stock. The Roundill uses leverage and you can see that leverage working.

[00:24:00]Look at this quarterly NAV return is 166%.

[00:24:06]Now, AMDY from YieldMax follows the same underlying AMD but does not use leverage. And AMDY is only up 85.26%.

[00:24:18]So you could see that leverage really working. Great job Round Hill. They've got yield maxes upside doubled from 85 to you know nearly nearly doubled. Well, not really not quite doubled, but but they've got a they've have a large premium on it thanks to that leverage.

[00:24:38]Now there's always a give up. The give up is in the stable decks. It's only 13% on the stable decks. That leverage makes it kind of a wild ride, but it's been a wild ride in the right direction lately as the price has gone from $41.40 to $110, more than $110.

[00:24:57]AMDW's dropping one spot from last week.

[00:25:00]I don't know how it's dropping. Number three, two and one must be pretty dang impressive to be to do better than this.

[00:25:07]My gosh.

[00:25:08]All right, number three is GPTY. This is an impressive one. This is a very impressive one. I had this one last summer and did very well in it. The last time the market ran up really big last summer, this was one of the ones I used. Had it for about six months, sold it and did great. Yield is probably should have kept it, right? Look at this thing. Uh yield is 32.29%.

[00:25:36]The NAV is plus 28%.

[00:25:40]One-ear total return is only 5.8%. And I think maybe you could see why I why I dropped it. It did great for a while and uh but I and I got it and then it did kind of it did kind of uh stutter for a while. So in any event stable is a 48%. This is kind of like Kleq. It's an actively managed portfolio of big tech stocks basically. This one's from the guys over at YieldMax and it's jumping eight spots from last week. Next is number two. Number two is oh look at this triple QT from Defiance. Now Defiance has you know we know Defiance from USOY had been dominating the charts the the top 40 whenever the war broke out you know a few months ago. Well USOI has kind of backed off the charts as the price of oil has come back down. USOI is a covered call overlay on oil. Well, triple QT is a covered call overlay on tech stocks and this is just the entire index. They own the entire index and they sell covered call spreads on top of the t entire index and they only sell enough covered call spreads to make about a 20% yield. Lately, the maths come out to about 18.8% but they aim for a a 20% yield. So, we checked the other day on the afternoon live stream and they use covered call spreads like I say, but only on a fourth of the account. So, three4s of the account is just the triple Q uncapped upside. And on a quarter of the account, it's also partially uncapped upside because it's a covered call spread, not a covered call. So, these guys do great catching upside. I think we can see it.

[00:27:29]The NAV is plus 16.87%.

[00:27:33]That's really good. Like I said, the yield is nearly 19%. We'll take that.

[00:27:37]It's also a fairly stable investment.

[00:27:39]Stable DEX is a 72%. Of course, it's based on the entire NASDAQ. That helps the stability.

[00:27:47]And it also helps the stability that these guys aren't going for max yield.

[00:27:51]This isn't like a, you know, one that's just trying to max out the yield, which adds a little extra risk. So the target fund is working nicely lately to be sure. Triple QT is dropped as jumping 12 spots from last week. All right. Who do you guys think is number one? I know it is XLKI from State Street. This one is uh impressive. This one checks all the boxes. It has pretty high yield at 15%.

[00:28:25]It has pretty high nav return. This is the one I was talking about that's balanced. 15 and 15. 15% nav return, 15% yield. That may not seem like that much, but at this rate, this thing is is has a has a annualized return of around 75%.

[00:28:44]Speaking of 75%, the stable deck is also 75%. This is jumping 11 spots from last week. So number one and two XLKI and Triple QT were on the stable side. Well, and and really GPTY wasn't unstable, but then also in the top five, we had some very aggressive uh aggressively unstable uh entrance like AMDW and uh and ARMW. I guess in the top 10, ARMW was number eight, but we had a good mix of some stable ones and and a few that are just absolutely on the list because the underlying on fire despite the fact they aren't that stable. Anyway, you throw them all in together and you look at all four factors and that's what we come out with this week. Top five is XLKI, triple QT, GPTY, AMDW, and KQ.

[00:29:40]There are some good ones on there.

[00:29:44]Please remember this is not financial advice. Consult a financial advisor. I have one myself. A uh I've had one for years of good financial advisors. Uh it's uh he's probably saved me from making a lot of mistakes and I always appreciate him. It's always a it's always a good thing. These these videos you see on YouTube are for fun and entertainment only. I put a lot of time and effort into this index. This index is just one way of looking at trading these. There's jillions of other factors. I think I've isolated some good factors as far as making a good index for swing trading these or, you know, getting in and out every six months.

[00:30:25]That's kind of what this is designed for. Kind of a um not a buy and hold index. The Max Factor is an index for people that swing trade these because I notice a lot of you guys do swing trade these. you're in the hottest ones this this month and then next month you may be in something else. Anyway, I think the Max Factor does add value, but it's one of many ways to evaluate these funds. So, consult an advisor, use caution, do your own due diligence. If you like this kind of content and you'd like to support the station, please go to PayPal. memaxconvexity.

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[00:31:15]So, go check it out and tell me what you think of it and maybe consider signing up for a membership whenever I start memberships. All right, guys. Well, thank you so much for being here. I appreciate each and every one of you guys. Now, tonight at 8:00 PM, we're going to have a good time. It's going to be S&P Saturday night. We're going to isolate these funds for the ones that are based directly on the S&P and directly on the NASDAQ, the index funds, so to speak. We'll go over those. Then in addition to that, we're also going to look back at the list. We're going to review this top 40 list. We're also going to check out the top issuer families. We're going to see, hey, how's First Trust doing? Are they doing better than Defiance as a family? What does YieldMax look like? What does Roundhill look like? We're going to check out all that stuff tonight and we'll look at we'll uh we can also talk about the funds that just missed the list. There's a lot of good funds that weren't on this top 40. Remember this list is 400 strong. So the top 40 is only the top 10%. There is plenty of good funds that are ranked 55th 62nd. You know 62nd is Snowy right now.

[00:32:24]Snowy's had a heck of a run lately. It was up 33% in one day the other day.

[00:32:31]All right, guys. We'll check all that stuff out tonight. I will see you this evening. Thank you very much and have a great day.