BALQ
iShares Nasdaq Premium Income Active ETF
stock NASDAQ ETF

In an IRA and so I can’t speak to tax implications.
If you are looking at higher yield ETFs, I recommend looking at things other than these two ETFs as they have lagged behind. For a tech sleeve, try pairing TDAQ with BALQ. TDAQ offers you a higher yield while BALQ will help support long-term growth. You can do the same with TSPY and BALI. Some people like GPIQ and GPIX as barbells. They are ok. Not bad choices. Just find the Blackrock ETFs, especially BALQ, much more compelling.
High yield income requires beta and so you could also look at crypto related ETFs. I combine BTCI with BITA under the same logic of higher yield with a better growth engine. While up from lows, it’s not a bad time to enter those still.
To be successful, you must reinvest back into your portfolio. I suggest putting back at least 5% of your capital annually to help offset NAV losses and inflation. Also think you need to help some lower yield options that offer higher dividend growth to help your long-term success.
CC ETFs are starting to get to the 2.5-3.0 generation. These newer ETFs are trying to solve issues with earlier versions. BALQ today is the best example of that that I’m aware of. Young fund but is beating QQQ by 30%. [Total Returns Comparison](https://totalrealreturns.com/s/QQQ,BALQ,TDAQ,QQQI)
Stay away from single stock funds, any crypto beyond BTC based and “basket” of stock funds especially any that rebalance regularly. They will all fail you eventually for different reasons.

BALQ?

# Today is Thursday, the 1st of October
## Upcoming events for Thursday, October 1st
- Stock splits:
- BGM @ **1:30**
- KUST @ **1:10**
- MYPS @ **1:10**
- Expected earnings:
ACN, ALAR, AYI, BTTC, CMMB, DAVA, EONR, HUBG, IPST, ITP, MKC, MKC.V, NKE, SMXT, VFS, VRAX
- Ex-div:
ACQQ, ACRT, ACSP, ADAML, ADAMM, ADAMN, ADAMZ, AGNCL, AGNCM, AGNCN, AGNCO, AGNCP, AGNCZ, AMUN, ANDE, ANGL, BALQ, BCLO, BEDY, BGRN, BKMI, BKMS, BMOP, BND, BNDP, BNDW, BNDX, BREM, BRHY, BRTR, CAIQ, CALI, CANQ, CHAD, CLOA, CPB, CPLS, CWCO, DVAL, EMB, EYEG, FALN, FIMU, FSTB, FULT, GNMA, GOLI, GPIQ, GPIX, GPRF, HBANL, HBANP, HOVNP, HYXF, IBGA, IBGB, IBGC, IBGK, IBGL, IBGM, IBTG, IBTH, IBTI, IBTJ, IBTK, IBTL, IBTM, IBTO, IBTP, IBTQ, IBTR, IEF, IEI, IGIB, IGSB, INBK, IQQQ, ISTB, IUSB, JEPQ, MBB, MULT, MYCF, MYCG, MYCH, MYCI, MYCJ, MYCK, MYCL, MYCM, MYCN, MYCO, MYCP, MYHA, MYHB, MYHC, MYHD, MYHE, MYHF, MYMF, MYMG, MYMH, MYMI, MYMJ, MYMK, MYML, NCPB, NPFI, NUSB, ODTE, PCMM, PEGA, PFF, PLPC, PMBS, PPH, PSC, PSET, PY, QQQT, QQQY, ROCQ, ROCY, SATA, SHY, SKOR, SLQD, SUSB, SUSC, TAXI, TAXS, TAXT, THFF, TLT, TRUC, TRUD, TRUF, TRUH, TRUI, TRUM, TRUN, TRUO, TRUR, TRUT, TRUU, ULTI, USFI, USIG, USMC, USOY, VBCA, VBCB, VBCC, VBCD, VBCE, VBCF, VBCG, VBCH, VBCI, VBCJ, VBIL, VCIT, VCLT, VCRB, VCSH, VGIT, VGLT, VGSH, VGUS, VLGEA, VMBS, VPLS, VSNT, VTC, VTIP, VWOB, WABF, WASH, WTFCN, YLDE, YQQQ
- Economic events and announcements:
- ADP Nonfarm Employment Change (actual: 90K, consensus: 73K, previous: 36K)
- Atlanta Fed GDPNow (actual: 3.7%, consensus: 5.0%, previous: 5.0%)
- Chicago PMI (actual: 58.8, consensus: 51.2, previous: 47.1)
- Core PCE Price Index (actual: 0.2%, consensus: 0.3%, previous: 0.1%)
- Core PCE Price Index (actual: 3.0%, consensus: 3.3%, previous: 3.0%)
- Core PCE Prices (actual: 3.30%, consensus: 3.60%, previous: 4.40%)
- Corporate Profits (actual: 7.7%, consensus: 8.2%, previous: 0.5%)
- Crude Oil Imports (actual: -0.468M, previous: 0.369M)
- Crude Oil Inventories (actual: 0.922M, consensus: -0.700M, previous: 2.969M)
- Cushing Crude Oil Inventories (actual: 0.553M, previous: 2.266M)
- Dallas Fed PCE (actual: 1.90%, previous: 1.90%)
- Distillate Fuel Production (actual: -0.156M, previous: -0.068M)
- EIA Refinery Crude Runs (actual: -0.554M, previous: -0.519M)
- EIA Weekly Distillates Stocks (actual: -2.251M, consensus: -0.200M, previous: -0.428M)
- EIA Weekly Refinery Utilization Rates (actual: -1.5%, previous: -2.8%)
- FOMC Member Barkin Speaks
- FOMC Member Kashkari Speaks
- Fed Goolsbee Speaks
- Fed Governor Cook Speaks
- GDP (actual: 2.2%, consensus: 1.5%, previous: 2.1%)
- GDP Price Index (actual: 6.1%, consensus: 6.4%, previous: 3.6%)
- GDP Sales (actual: 2.8%, consensus: 2.2%, previous: 1.9%)
- Gasoline Inventories (actual: -1.684M, consensus: -0.500M, previous: -1.686M)
- Gasoline Production (actual: -0.124M, previous: -0.054M)
- Goods Trade Balance (actual: -132.60B, consensus: -116.30B, previous: -118.80B)
- Heating Oil Stockpiles (actual: -0.620M, previous: 0.346M)
- MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate (actual: 7.30%, previous: 7.12%)
- MBA Mortgage Applications (actual: -6.0%, previous: -1.5%)
- MBA Purchase Index (actual: 148.2, previous: 154.9)
- Mortgage Market Index (actual: 213.6, previous: 227.3)
- Mortgage Refinance Index (actual: 557.8, previous: 611.0)
- PCE Price index (actual: 3.4%, consensus: 3.7%, previous: 3.4%)
- PCE Prices (actual: 5.0%, consensus: 5.3%, previous: 4.6%)
- PCE price index (actual: 0.3%, consensus: 0.4%, previous: 0.1%)
- Personal Income (actual: 0.2%, consensus: 0.5%, previous: 0.3%)
- Personal Spending (actual: 0.9%, consensus: 0.8%, previous: 0.1%)
- Real Consumer Spending (actual: 3.8%, consensus: 3.4%, previous: 0.5%)
- Real Personal Consumption (actual: 0.6%, previous: 0.1%)
- Retail Inventories Ex Auto (actual: 0.1%, previous: 0.8%)
- U.S. President Trump Speaks
- Wholesale Inventories (actual: 0.7%, consensus: 0.5%, previous: 1.3%)
## Upcoming events for Friday, October 2nd
- Stock splits:
- RETO @ **1:20**
- ZCMD @ **1:2**
- Expected earnings:
CELU, ENLV, HTLM, LNAI
- Ex-div:
ALCO, ATNI, CHAD, CSCO, HBNC, LFMDP, MORN, PKBK, RGLD, ROP, SATA, THRM
## Upcoming events for Saturday, October 3rd
- Economic events and announcements:
- Average Hourly Earnings (YoY) (previous: 3.1%)
- Average Hourly Earnings (consensus: 0.3%, previous: 0.3%)
- Average Weekly Hours (consensus: 34.3, previous: 34.4)
- CFTC Aluminium speculative net positions (previous: -0.8K)
- CFTC Copper speculative net positions (previous: 90.5K)
- CFTC Corn speculative net positions (previous: 535.8K)
- CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions (previous: 141.1K)
- CFTC Gold speculative net positions (previous: 225.9K)
- CFTC Nasdaq 100 speculative net positions (previous: 56.1K)
- CFTC Natural Gas speculative net positions (previous: -216.5K)
- CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions (previous: -133.2K)
- CFTC Silver speculative net positions (previous: 25.4K)
- CFTC Soybeans speculative net positions (previous: 281.6K)
- CFTC Wheat speculative net positions (previous: -7.4K)
- Durables Excluding Defense (previous: 0.1%)
- Durables Excluding Transport (previous: 0.3%)
- Factory Orders (consensus: 0.1%, previous: 0.9%)
- Factory orders ex transportation (previous: 0.6%)
- Fed Logan Speaks
- Government Payrolls (previous: 35.0K)
- Manufacturing Payrolls (consensus: 10K, previous: 16K)
- Nonfarm Payrolls (consensus: 89K, previous: 162K)
- Participation Rate (previous: 61.6%)
- Private Nonfarm Payrolls (consensus: 82K, previous: 127K)
- Total Vehicle Sales (consensus: 16.30M, previous: 16.80M)
- U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count (previous: 455)
- U.S. Baker Hughes Total Rig Count (previous: 599)
- U6 Unemployment Rate (previous: 7.7%)
- Unemployment Rate (consensus: 4.1%, previous: 4.1%)
^^^^2026-10-01