Please be sure to… Avoid choosing income-oriented alternative investments. For example: 🟢 S&P 500 Index Fund $SPY 🔵 S&P 500 High Yield ETF $SPYI Total Return (including dividend yield and earnings): • $SPY +79% • $SPYI +59% Sacrificing 20 percentage points of performance for the sake of so-called "earnings". You'll find that regardless of which underlying asset you focus on, the returns are far lower than the underlying asset, making it extremely inefficient. Consider this: 🟢 Strategy Fund $MSTR 🔵 Strategy Options Return ETF $MSTY +147% vs. +90% (including "earnings"). Here's the situation with gold mining stocks: 🟢 $GDX +134% 🔵 $GDXY +65% Total return is only half, including GDXY's earnings. This is utterly embarrassing, a complete trap. Here's a comparison of the following stocks: 🟢 Alphabet $GOOGL 🔵 Alphabet Options Income $GOOY Similarly, the total return since inception is only half. Investors were promised returns. They did receive returns. But even with those returns, their performance was far below expectations. The same applies to another stock under Mag 7: 🟢 Meta $META 🔵 Meta Option Income $FBY Do you think this is a good deal? Even if you "need" this income? Ultimately, many Bitcoin investors were scammed. They thought, "Great, I can invest in Bitcoin and get returns!" Yes, they did get a directional asset. But look at the returns of this Bitcoin Yield ETF since its inception: 🟢 Bitcoin ETF $IBIT 🔵 Bitcoin Yield ETF $YBIT Meanwhile, ETF companies are making a fortune from these products because investors are completely unaware of the inefficiencies. They see high dividend yields and monthly payouts, only to find that their holdings underperform the market due to the high fees charged by ETFs. The $MSTY ETF alone manages $1.8 billion in assets (with a 1% fee rate), generating approximately $18 million in fee revenue annually for ETF providers.