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ClearBridge Energy Midstream Opportunity Fund Inc.
stock NYSE Closed Ended Fund

fI started converting excess growth in my taxable account to dividned income Using SPYi and later QQQI and more recently added KGLD. which are all covered call funds but I also have inocme from UTF, UTG , PFF, and EMO from closed end funds. I reached my target of5K a month and retired. The peace of mind I got knowing I had a stable source of inocme that could covere most of may living expenses was substantial.

AMDY and CHPY are very risky covered call dividend funds. AMDY has massive NAV erosion The fund peaked about $118 per share it is down $46 a share 3 years later. So in the 3 years the fund has lost about 50% of the initial deposit and with this drop i share price the cash didivid payout is also dropping. What is happening is that the funds 48% dividend yield cannot be payed from the earning of the fund. So most of the time the fund has to sell of the stock it owns to pay the dividned. As the fund sells of shares the NAV of the fund drops and the cash dividned payment drops. You are loosing your initial investment and the cash dividend payment drops
SHPY is setup the same way But YieldMAX go t lucky with CHPY. The growing AI bubble inflated the value of the stock it owns so the NAV actually increased. but when the AI bubbler pops the fund will have NAV erosion. Yhid NAV erosion issues is common with yieldMax funds Avoid YieldMax funds.
There are funds with lower yield funds that don't have NAF erosion. QQQI 13% is a agod example These are know Now you could have a portfolio of covered call fund and generate substantial income But that would not be diversified sine all the fund would be using covered calls for income.
Covered call funds don't generate big unexpected tax bills because they Generate ROC dividend QQQI dividneds are tax free for about 7 years. After that they are taxed at the long term capital gains tax rate. So worst sase only 20% of the income would be taxed. This isa 80 discount from your work inocme tax rate. So there is no issue with have QQQI.
For diversification add dividend funds that generates qualified dividend that are taxed at the long term capital gains tax rate. So you could add funds like EMO 8.5% yeild, PEO 8%, ADX 8% UTF7% a UTG 6.2% each of These fund invest in different assets and don't use covered calls.

fI started converting excess growth in my taxable account to dividned income Using SPYi and later QQQI and more recently added KGLD. which are all covered call funds but I also have inocme from UTF, UTG , PFF, and EMO from closed end funds. I reached my target of5K a month and retired. The peace of mind I got knowing I had a stable source of inocme that could covere most of may living expenses was substantial.

AMDY and CHPY are very risky covered call dividend funds. AMDY has massive NAV erosion The fund peaked about $118 per share it is down $46 a share 3 years later. So in the 3 years the fund has lost about 50% of the initial deposit and with this drop i share price the cash didivid payout is also dropping. What is happening is that the funds 48% dividend yield cannot be payed from the earning of the fund. So most of the time the fund has to sell of the stock it owns to pay the dividned. As the fund sells of shares the NAV of the fund drops and the cash dividned payment drops. You are loosing your initial investment and the cash dividend payment drops
SHPY is setup the same way But YieldMAX go t lucky with CHPY. The growing AI bubble inflated the value of the stock it owns so the NAV actually increased. but when the AI bubbler pops the fund will have NAV erosion. Yhid NAV erosion issues is common with yieldMax funds Avoid YieldMax funds.
There are funds with lower yield funds that don't have NAF erosion. QQQI 13% is a agod example These are know Now you could have a portfolio of covered call fund and generate substantial income But that would not be diversified sine all the fund would be using covered calls for income.
Covered call funds don't generate big unexpected tax bills because they Generate ROC dividend QQQI dividneds are tax free for about 7 years. After that they are taxed at the long term capital gains tax rate. So worst sase only 20% of the income would be taxed. This isa 80 discount from your work inocme tax rate. So there is no issue with have QQQI.
For diversification add dividend funds that generates qualified dividend that are taxed at the long term capital gains tax rate. So you could add funds like EMO 8.5% yeild, PEO 8%, ADX 8% UTF7% a UTG 6.2% each of These fund invest in different assets and don't use covered calls.

It's not a bad stratagy but SCHD right now yield less than government bond funds which have lower risk. So SCHD is not getting you much. it's mostly growth. And then you have individual companes. And one risk unique to individual companes is that occationally one goes bankrupt suddenly. And if that happens you will lose everything you earned. CEF and ETF fund are much safer.
The followiong CEFs generate qualified dividends EMO 8%% yield, UTF 7%, UTG .6.2% and they pay monthly dividend. ADX 8% yield and PEO 8% pay quarterly
The following pay regular dividned ( higher tax ) ARDC 9% yield, PBDC 9%, CLOZ 8%, PFFR 8%, JAAA 5.5%

I have a brokerage account and retirement account Most of my growth is in the retirement acount. MY dividneds are in brokerage account. I would not recomend investing in individual companes. Instead by sector focused ETF and CEF funds and pay dividneds, Owning indivual companie ihas higher risk since one of your stocks may go bankrupt suddenly at any time and you can lose your entire invemsent in that company. But you have 40 stocks so if you keep the money spread out equally over the 40 stock your risk will be lower.
In my case I have EMO 8.5% yield invests in MLP companies which by law are requried to pay a dividned and as a result the yield is higher. I also have UTF 7% yeidl and UTG 6.4% yield both are invested in infrastructure and utilities. Both surprisingly have very different holdings so I have both. These all pay monthly and they generate qualified dividends. which are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income tax.
PEO i8% and ADX 8% both pay quarterly.
I also have PBDC which invests in BDC a group of companes that are requried to pay a dividned. So the field is high 9%. Many avoid funds like this because they see the high yield and assume it is a bad fund. Another issues with it is the SEC has a bad rule that says the fund has to include the expenses of the BDC it holds. Even though the fund never pays BDC expenses. So the reported expenses are about 13%.But in reality the expenses are under 1% PBDC pays quarterly but the dividneds by law are taxed as ordinary income.
These 6 funds have more stocks than you have in your portfolio. And since they are sector specific there if very little overlap in there investments..

First you need to use a brokerage account fidelity. schwab or Vangard are good ones. Calll them open a account and then transfer money to the brokerage account. So good divinend funds to start out with are SPYI 11% yield , EMO 8.5%, UTF 7% and UTG 6.4%

UTF 7% yield and UTG 6.4% yield are good coaches. the have a 20 year history of no dividned cuts even in 2008 which was the worst market year since great depression. EMO is also god at 8.5%. Thee all generate qualified dividned so lower than than money market fund and they pay montly.

Keep in mind this article is only talking about regular companies in theS&P500 index these companies are not required to pay dividends. and in general once you get to about 5% they can have a harder time paying the dividends.
Bt there are other types of companies that are not in the S&P500 index and in in fact you won't find them in most indexes and they are required by law to pay out dividend and some are large enough to qualify for the S&P500.
These companies are known as BDC (Business development companies and MLPs (Master Limited :
BDC often have yields of about 9% and many have peen paying this high yield for decades. BDC were created by a law passed by congress at about 1960. BDCs are loan money to companies and there businesses often find BDC easier to work with on getting loans. One issues ETF and CEF funds must list the epenses of the BDC they hold as part of the funds expenses. OF the threat these funds never pay BDC expenses. The real expenses of these funds is comparable with all the ETFs and ECFs. I have PBDC 9% yield.
MLPs master limited partnerships are companes that run oil as and gas pipelines and oil refineries. The first ones appeared around 1980. Many pay around 6 6 to 7% yeilds. They don't drill formal or gas they just transport it and refine it. One issues is that these companies generate K1 tax forms. Which complicate taxes. and they can create a taxable event in a Roth or IRA. So most avoid them. But there are many ETFs and CEDs that invest in these companies. Since the CEFs and ETFs are the registered owners of these stocks the fund has to deal with the K-1 taxes. So you the investor nabber have to. So for MLP don't invest in individual companies. Invest in ETFs and CEF funds that own them. I have EMO 8.5% yield in my Roth and brokerage account.
These issues with BDCs and MLP many index funds don't want them because fund expense will go up due to the extra tax work and the special rules that apply to BDC. And fund are applying pressure to indexes to keep these companies out of indexes. And many investors don't know that these companies are required to pay dividend and when they see yields their high and articles like this one people just avoid them. So over all many don't know about these companies live with lower yields.