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NEOS Nasdaq 100 High Income ETF
stock NASDAQ ETF

There's never enough information.
I presume you have a job. The answer to this question is how much of a difference you'd make if you reallocated that real cashflow since selling your investment incurs taxes which are based on your earnings bracket, which is theoretically high enough to comfortably afford a 660 payment for a truck, so it's not really 40k going towards the truck for one, and recreating that 40k at 660/mo. would take 5 years presuming perfect discipline, and this is presuming you don't invest in this QQQI now of course, which represents lost dividends and DRIP opportunity therefore it isn't even the nominal 40k.
This is not a capital allocation question, it's a cashflow question, and while the immediate answer between the two states at the capital allocation level is a given the second you dig into cashflow it can change drastically. My guess is, if we ran the numbers seriously, you're actually better off financing the truck and, as someone else said, using the dividends to partially pay ahead. How much depends on the DRIP advantages which also have to be independently calculated.
This is a really intensive problem to solve though so if you don't want to spreadsheet it out for the actual answer then treating it like an allocation problem might be your better outcome, but again, it presumes perfect discipline for far more than a single year. Perfect.

Nope. The cost reduction would happen regardless of the market. QQQI offers a dividend, period. The dripped dividend reduces the cost basis. Nothing to do with "at the time."

Use the QQQI money to make an additional principal only payment each month. I think that's a good compromise.

Why not go with SPYI or QQQI over MLPI? With covered call ETF's the stability of the underlying is very important (see BTCI for example). SPY and even QQQ are much more stable than the MLP space and importantly have track record of consistent capital appreciation to offset NAV erosion. You aren't getting higher distribution with MLPI but taking on more a lot more risk IMO.

Your portfolio is looking good to me. Can I suggest watching a chap on YT called Armchair Income? You can download a pdf of his portfolio for some good ideas. PFFA, ARCC, ADX, QQQI, SPYI, TDAQ....there's lots of good ones to choose from.

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I'm twice your age, I'm 52. I just bought 1,000 shares of each SPYI, QQQI, and MLPI last week.
I'm hoping to do what you are doing and using the income to contribute to other dividend payers and continue diversifying adding some into a Roth.

I’ve lost too much money on trying to time pullbacks with puts. If I’m worried about the market I’ll go cash or dump everything into QQQI like a savings account. If I think it’ll pump back I move back into TQQQ to grab the rip. It’s been working really well. Then I’ve been buying 2-7 DTE calls but only on calm, low IV red days. That’s hit or miss. I probably close too soon instead of letting winners run

Tqqq shares, QQQI shares, and QQQ calls. My entire portfolio and trading strategy

we own a bit over 10,000 shares of QQQI in my regular brokerage account and use the tax deferred $6,500 each month for living expenses and travel. our combined SS is less than $3,000 so QQQI is a big help. in a few years our RMD will kick in so we should be quite comfortable. The tax deferred benifit should continue through 2033. I intend on passing this on to my heirs and the can sell or get a step up in basis and start the whole process again. We specifically chose QQQI for the tax deferred dividend.
We also have VOO, SPMO, SCHG, QQQ and various stocks that we let grow and compound which can be sold and used if needed. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!

You can generate whatever montly ammount you want given time and money. I am currently getting enough dividends to cover all of my living expenses of 5K a month The only issue you need to pay attention to is taxes. In US tax law there are 3 types of dividneds all taxed differently.
1. regular dividned are taxed like work income 100% of the income is taxable income.
2. Qualified dividends are taxed at the long term capital gains tax rate . Most case only 20% of the income is taxable income
3. ROC dividends are generated by a fund that does tax loss harvesting. The ROC dividned transfer this tax loss to you. When you recieve this dividend it reduces the cost basis of the shares she shares you own. If theist basis is above zero you owe no taxes on theROC income. However over time the cost basis drops to zero. At that point the ROC dividiedds are taxed at the long term capital gains rate. The approximate time it takes to reach zero cost basis is 1000 dividend by the dividned. So a fund with a dividends of 10% and 100% ROC dividned will be tax free for about 10 years.
GPIQ QQQI and JEPQ all generate income by selling covered calls on the NASDAQ 100 index. The only real difference between these funds are
QQQI 14% yield 95% of the income is ROC income.
GPIQ 10% yeidl 80% of the income if ROC income.
JEPQ 10% yield, 100% of the income regular dividneds.
The reason why JEPQ is taxed very differently is because it incorporates ELN (Equity Linked Notes) a type of bond in it covered call stratagy QQQI aims for maximum tax efficiency and yeidl. GPIQ aims for more growth in share price at the expense of yield and tax efficientcy.
For my taxable brokerage account I focus on d# 1 and 2 to keep my taxes low. And this account currently covers all of my living expenses. But since the dividend can drop in a crash this account generates more income than I need and funds that don't generate ROC dividend and a history of dividned stability. I have more dividends in my roth account but with a mix of #1,2,3 dividned andthere are no taxes in the ROTH. I am assuming I will need assisted living lat in my life So the Roth if for income later in life ( I am a few years away from age 60 when I can easily withdrawal money from it.

That’s what I do I started with a few shares kept tossing money at it I have about 400 shares of JEPQ AND 400 QQQI with drip on . It’s just amazing if you can be discipline the mental factor of earning a monthly paycheck from them is amazing .

I'd sell, and I wouldn't drag it out. One or two chunks is fine. ORC's dividend quality is 27/100 (weak), the payout is only about 0.67x covered by cash flow, and NAV keeps falling, so that 25% yield is partly paying you with your own money and the discount to NAV is a value trap. Your numbers show it too: $6,980 collected but down $5,300 on the shares, with the trend still pointed down.
SCHD is the easy upgrade, dividend quality 100/100 and a payout that's grown about 9% a year. I'd keep QQQI to a smaller slice. It's rated low risk, but it's too new for a dividend quality score and its coverage is thin at about 1.16x, so don't count on that 13.75% yield holding.

By your own math, going all in gets you about 3K a month, so 4K needs more money in. And yes, you guessed right: when the Nasdaq drops, both the price and the payout drop with it.
Bigger issue: QQQI and JEPQ hold the same big tech names you already own (NVDA, AAPL), so it's one bet three times. I'd pick one. JEPQ looks sturdier (dividend quality 90/100, low risk 2/5), while QQQI is too new to rate. Then add something outside the Nasdaq, like SCHD, and keep some cash as a buffer for bad stretches.

I’d work backwards from the $48k/year you need rather than starting with the highest-yielding ETF. The key question isn’t “what pays the most today?” but “what can reasonably keep paying enough for decades while keeping up with inflation?” QQQI/JEPQ distributions can vary, and a falling share price doesn’t automatically mean the distribution per share falls

Long story short: I’m an American who is living abroad in Chengdu, China (almost 9 years). I’m married to a Chinese woman and I currently work as an English teacher. We are both in our 30s and of good health, 1 dog, no kids (no plans to have kids).
Our life (converted from local currency to USD) is roughly 4K usd per month.
Can I build a portfolio that pays me monthly dividends that equal to that roughly 4K amount?
I’m currently sitting on about 70% cash 30% invested in some of the big tech companies (APPL, MU, NVDA etc).
What would be the best options to go all in on dividen portfolio to make this possible?
I’ve seen QQQI and JEPQ as two of the more prominent options that can get me to about 3k usd per month if I went all in.
Any drawbacks to this other than not beating the SP500? If I don’t have any need for the initial capital and the stock goes down, I’m guessing the dividend per share drops as well?
Thanks for any advice.

My top div payers are
PFE, VZ, T, XOM.
SPYI, QQQI, JEPQ

A good qualifite covered call fund would be my choice. QQQI 14% yield, SPYI 12%, IWMI 14%, and MLPI 14%.These funds have a yeidl high enough that they should be vclose to doubling in value 7 years with all dividends reinvested. And in addition to this they are very tax efficient due to tax loss harvesting and and the resulting ROC dividneds they produce.
Now the dividneds may go up and down with he market but they won't go to zero But VOO in a bad market can have negative earnings or ever zero for an extended period of time. And governmentbondds don'tprodcue any meaningful yields.

its better to understand Chatgpt or any llm what was the context for asking you to do this . i am not a llm ,
this is what i personally think its going on .
housing sector is right now bearish due to many reasons , there are mid terms and then looks like it will be hung assembly so that means market will do well , will housing sector do well dont know . imo i may recover it may not , most likely it will not ,
it this market does will you benefit if you have SCHD and QQQI yes you will its down now so good time to buy and looks like it will be bullish early next year , .
and SCHD is low expense ( i own this etf in my pension fund ) along with others its a great etf to have QQQI i dont know much or have not looked into it in detail , i believe its a income etf on nasdaq 100 / they should have rally , once the election results are out . what if the market stays bearish for long time then you can do is split your investment into bonds short term long term and may be some corporate junk with at least BBB rating + other etfs or above ones ,
so that you at least have some income with sgov and others if the market tanks or goes sideways

I have 3,071 shares of ORC currently making $300/month in dividends but as we can see it’s going down quickly. In 4 years I have made $6,980 in dividends but I am down $5,300 based on stock price. ChatGPT says to slowly sell it off and put more in SCHD and QQQI. What do you think?