Island Time Investments

High-yield income investor | Real monthly dividend & option trades in my personal portfolio | CEFs, ETFs, BDCs & options | Not financial advice🏝️

[Island Time Investments @ITTInvestments]

I share real trades from my personal high-yield income portfolio.
My focus:
• Monthly and weekly paying ETFs, CEFs, BDCs, & cash-secured put options
• 8–20%+ yield opportunities
Recent Activity:
• Added to $SLJY (11%+ yield)
• Added to $KCOP (16% yield)
• Added to $XV (19% yield)
All positions are my own money. This is not financial advice — just one investor’s journey.
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@DevotedDividend @stock_analysisx Consider $NYYY

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$FSCO, FS Credit Opportunities Corp.
Sold this underperforming closed end fund (CEF) and replaced it with a new high yield autocallable ETF from VegaShares.
I was down over 30% on this fund.

$VAIE, VegaShares US Equity Autocallable Income ETF
Bought 161 shares @ $24.72 ($3,979.12)
New fund targeting 15% yield
Pays weekly

I am slowly transitioning out of single stock high yield ETFs to high yield autocallable ETFs from:
@VegaSharesETFs, $VAIE
@graniteshares, $ANV, $TLA
Simplify Funds $SBAR, $XV
@Calamos, $CAIE, $CAIQ

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@Alice_MiaX I added to my $KSLV today

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On expiration Friday, my cash-secured puts on $BAC and $AS expired worthless, allowing me to keep the previously-earned premiums. My covered calls on $AGRO and $FNF expired worthless, allowing me to keep the previously-earned premiums.

My $SOFI put went against me; I had 200 shares assigned to me at the price of $18. Current price is $17.33. This is a stock I wanted to own anyway. Rated STRONG BUY by Seeking Alpha Analysts.

My $D covered call went against me; I sold 100 shares @ $65. Current price $68.90.

Sold 2 underperforming positions today: $FBY, $MAGY

Added these new positions:

$CAIE, Calamos Autocallable Income ETF
Yield (TTM) 13.22%
Pays monthly

$CAIQ, Calamos Nasdaq Autocallable Income ETF
Yield (TTM) 8.51%
Pays monthly

$QVOL, Infrastructure Capital Nasdaq Option Income ETF
New fund, will be targeting 12% yield
Pays monthly

Sold two more cash-secured puts:

$CNC, Centene Corporation (all green-rated SA top stock)
Sold 1 July $57.5 put @ $1.21 ($121)
Annualized yield 30.72%

$DINO, HF Sinclair Corporation (all green-rated SA top stock)
Sold 1 July $62.5 put @ $1.89 ($189)
Annualized yield 44.15%

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Recent Investments:

$SPCX, Space Exploration Technologies
Bought 26 shares @ $135
Added shares to these:

$FOXY, Simplify Currency Strategy ETF
Yield (TTM) 8.17%
Pays monthly

$CHPY, YieldMax Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF
Yield (TTM) 29.16%
Pays weekly

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Friday was a good dividend day

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This week's trades:

$XOM, Exxon Mobil
My two short May $150 call options resulted in 200 shares of my $XOM being called away. Although I lost on the option position, my cost basis on the shares was only $73.23, so I had a very nice gain on the stock.

Funds were redeployed as follows:

$RCL, Royal Caribbean
Sold 1 July $240 cash secured put option @ $11.68 ($1168), annualized yield on the option 28.20%
This is a stock I would like to own.

$B, Barrick Mining
Sold 2 July $38 cash secured put options @ $1.625 ($325), annualized yield on the options 24.78%
Stock is rated all green on @SeekingAlpha

This week I added to:

$MAIN, Main Street Capital
Yield (FWD) 8.52%
Pays monthly and special dividends

$NUKX, Nicholas Nuclear Income ETF
Yield 12%
Pays weekly

$FOXY, Simplify Currency Strategy ETF
Yield (TTM) 7.45%
Pays monthly

$ANV, GraniteShares Autocallable NVDA ETF
Yield 16.65%
Pays monthly

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Sold two underperforming assets: $ULTY, $MPT

Re-deployed the funds into:

$CHPY, YieldMax Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF
Yield (TTM) 33.40%
Pays weekly

$SOXY, YieldMax Target 12 Semiconductor Option Income ETF
Yield (TTM) 8.27%
Pays monthly

$FOXY, Simplify Currency Strategy ETF
Yield (TTM) 7.45%
Pays monthly

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Busy day yesterday. I sold 5 underperformers. I want to get out of the mortgage REIT business.
Sold: $STWD, $CIM, $RITM, $ABR, $DOC

Used those funds to add to:

$PFFA, $TSPY, $GPIX, $GPIQ, $ANV, $TLA, $SLJY, $KGLD, $KCOP

Sold a cash-secured put option on a stock I wouldn't mind owning if it gets assigned to me:

$BAC, Bank of America
Sold 1 June $50 put option @ $.78 ($78)
Annualized yield 11.62%

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Started three new positions:

$FCPT, Four Corners Property Trust
Many green ratings from Seeking Alpha
Yield (FWD) 5.74%
$BNL, Broadstone Net Lease
Nearly all green ratings from Seeking Alpha
Yield (FWD) 5.84%
$UPS, United Parcel Service
Yield (FWD) 6.31%

Sold an under-performing closed end fund:
$IFN, Aberdeen India Fund
Sell rated by Seeking Alpha
Made this preferred stock ETF swap:

Replaced $PFFD, Global X US Preferred ETF (sell rated by Seeking Alpha) with
$PFFA, Virtus InfraCap US Preferred Stock ETF
Higher yield, (TTM) 9.61%
Added to these holdings:

$XV, Simplify Target 15 Distribution ETF
Yield (TTM) 20.65%
Pays monthly

$TSLY, YieldMax TSLA Option Income Strategy ETF
Yield (TTM) 93.39%
Pays weekly

$GDXW, Roundhill Gold Miners WeeklyPay ETF
Yield (TTM) 31.37%
Pays weekly

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@Alice_MiaX You're ahead! Great job

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This Week's Trades: $XV, $SOFI, $AGRO, $D, $FNF

$XV, Simplify Target 15 Distribution ETF
Continued to buy/add all week, now 124 shares
Yield (TTM) 19.20%

$SOFI, SoFi Technologies
Sold 2 June $18 cash secured put options @ $1.29 ($258)
44.34% annualized yield

$FNF, Fidelity National Financial
Sold 1 June $55 covered call @ $1 ($100)
12.12% annualized yield

$AGRO, Adecoagro
Sold 2 June $15 covered calls @ $.60 ($120)
27.86% annualized yield

$D, Dominion Energy
Sold 1 June $65 covered call @ $.67 ($67)
6.85% annualized yield

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Two of my short options positions expired out of the money, allowing me to keep the previously-received premiums and sell them again.

$AGRO, Adecoagro
Expired April $12.5 Call

$ALLY, Ally Financial
Expired April $38 Put

$XV, Simplify Target 15 Distribution ETF
Bought 30.317 shares @ $24.64
Yield (TTM) 19.14%
Pays monthly

$KCOP, Kurv Copper & Mining Enhanced Income ETF
Added shares
Distribution rate 16%
Pays monthly

$SLJY, Amplify SILJ Junior Silver Miners Covered Call ETF
Added shares
Yield (TTM) 11.13%
Pays monthly

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Sold two underperforming positions this week:

$PLTW, Roundhill PLTR WeeklyPay ETF

$VTS, Vitesse Energy

Using proceeds and earned dividends, I added to these positions this week:

$CSQ, Calamos Strategic Total Return
Yield (FWD) 8.91%

Pays monthly
$SLJY, Amplify SILJ Junior Silver Miners Covered Call ETF
Yield (FWD) 10.87%
Pays monthly

$WEEI, Westwood Salient Enhanced Energy Income ETF
Yield (FWD) 10.95%

$KCOP, Kurv Copper & Mining Enhanced Income ETF
New fund

$GDXW, Roundhill Gold Miners WeeklyPay ETF
Yield (FWD) 24.81%
Pays weekly

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@Alice_MiaX I only post about once a week, but I have been taking this opportunity to add! $SLJY, $ANV, $WEEI, $TSPY, $KCOP

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Sold an underperforming asset: $EPRF, Innovator S&P Investment Grade Preferred ETF

Used the proceeds as follows:

$CSQ, Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund
Added shares
Currently trading at a discount -9.51%
Just increased dividend in January
Yield (FWD) 8.26%
Pays monthly

$BST, BlackRock Science and Technology Trust
Bought shares, new position
Currently trading at a discount -5.92%
Very low leverage and expenses, uses no ROC
Rated strong buy Seeking Alpha
Yield (FWD) 7.86%
Pays monthly

$EXG, Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Dvsfd Eqty Inc Fund
Bought shares, new position
Currently trading at a discount -6.62%
Uses no leverage, very low expenses, used no ROC
Wall Street strong buy on Seeking Alpha
Yield (FWD) 8.87%
Pays monthly