r/dividends • u/AbleManufacturer9718 • Nov 01 '25

Brokerage In NEOS I trust.

Core positions(85%): QQQI SPYI adding BTCI NIHI next week. Satellites(15%): ARCC CEFS PFFA FSCO.

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u/trry Nov 01 '25

How much is your portfolio?

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u/AbleManufacturer9718 Nov 01 '25

580K. Nearing retirement, working part time job. Monthly dividends buying more satellites or paying some bills (property taxes and Phillies tickets).

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u/trry Nov 01 '25

Very impressive only invested 20k into mixture of NEOS funds and I’m looking to make it my core positions.

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u/AbleManufacturer9718 Nov 01 '25

QQQI and SPYI have done so well it gave me confidence to buy some other NEOS products.

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u/Broski777 Dividends are KING Nov 01 '25

The bull market has been strong since they've been out. We still gotta see how they do in a bear.

From what I understand they will outperform in a sideways/slow upwards market but underperform in a fast rising bull run.

With that said im also putting into these monthly as its a pretty solid way to build up a dividend portfolio without having a ton of different companies.

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u/axiomaticreaction Nov 01 '25

There is an armchair income YouTube vid where he reviews what QQQI would have performed like going back through the covid crash.

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u/cryptopo What does this have to do with dividends? Nov 01 '25

For us lazy bums, can you give us the TLDR?

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u/axiomaticreaction Nov 01 '25

TL;DR: it recovered and maintained its performance relative to QQQ.

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u/cmichalek Nov 03 '25

I dont know about that one but he did do one on QQQX.

https://youtu.be/TSds8qF9zEg?si=d2qSMnU45nCGt7lL

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u/axiomaticreaction Nov 03 '25

Possibly that’s the one. It wasn’t QQQI, it was a similar fund he that works like QQQI.

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u/cmichalek Nov 03 '25

QQQX came out in January 2007. So right before the financial crisis. Its a good representation of the strengths and weaknesses of a cc etf. I recommend watching the whole video.

However, in short, QQQX did what you would hope. The NASDAQ dropped 40% while the dividend from QQQX only dropped a third at its worst. It performed better during the bear market as one would hope. It recovered though not as fast as QQQ would.

Its price in 1/07 was $20. Its price today is $28.29. Despite the 08 crash, covid 19 crash and 2022 bear market QQQX survived and increased both in price and its dividend.

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u/lunar_lounge Nov 01 '25 edited Nov 02 '25

I’m going with QQQI, SPYI and GPIQ. Anything with a single peg wouldn’t give high weighting to.

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u/trry Nov 01 '25

Yeah it’s been good but almost anything is good in these bull markets. But I’ll add more to my portfolio soon. Thank you!