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Opinions Michael Bowman
Horizons Enhanced Income Energy ETFENCC.TOCOMMENTFeb 07, 2014
Michael BowmanUnknown
$5.99
Stock price when the opinion was issued
$12.32
As of Jun 19, 2026. Market Open.
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COMMENT
This depends on your view of energy. It has a very nice yield. If he wants an energy play and wants to be conservative, he would definitely buy this. In most cases, when he is dealing with a commodity like this, he prefers it to be unhedged with a covered call. On anything that is of a riskier commodity nature, he wants to have the full growth.
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As bond yields have gone down, we have seen a lot of income generating ETF's. This one, like many others, sell Call Options on the securities that they actually hold, which generates a certain stream of income on a regular basis. In the last couple of years, the market has been so volatile that these have tended to underperform their plain vanilla cousins.
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Enhanced Income Energy ETF. If you believe it is compelling to buy oil stocks, which he does, this is a good way to do it, especially for a person who is at or near retirement. You get a margin of safety with the covered call strategy. The only problem is that if it goes up quickly, you won't participate fully on the upside.
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Enhanced Income Energy ETF. A covered call writing ETF. The reason there is a 21% distribution is because they are taking all of the option premiums that they sold initially and paying it out to you. That is not a realistic number for covered call writing on a long-term basis. If you own, take half the distribution and reinvest the other half back into the fund.
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An ETF of energy stocks and “covered calls” are written on all the positions. Understand what covered calls are all about. Hypothetically you have stock trading at $28 and you write a covered call option for $30 which will bring in $0.40. The cost is now $27.60 but if the price now goes to $30, then you are obligated to sell. If the stock goes to $35, $40, too bad, you have to sell at $30. Covered calls work wonderful in ranging markets. If you think things are going higher, you don’t want to do covered calls.