YQQQ YieldMax Short N100 Option Income Strategy ETF
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Over the year to Oct 30, 2026, YQQQ paid 27.1% in cash and returned 8.2% in total, against −13.4% for short QQQ.
Promise check: MissedOver the year to Oct 30, 2026, YQQQ paid 27.1% in cash and returned 8.2% in total, covering 30.3% of its payout.
YQQQ risk and return scorecard
vs short QQQ
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
Money in and out
Net fund flows · Oct 29, 2026What you earned
What it paid
13 distributions · latest Oct 29, 2026More on YQQQ
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$9.80+2.6%1 day, priceClose, Oct 30, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 30, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
| Window | Total return | Cash paid | Price | short QQQ | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 30 – Oct 30, 2026 | +6.1% | 1.9% | +4.1% | +6.7% | −0.6 pts |
| 3M Jul 31 – Oct 30, 2026 | +7.0% | 10.2% | −3.8% | −1.4% | +8.4 pts |
| 6M May 1 – Oct 30, 2026 | +6.3% | 15.4% | −10.3% | −5.0% | +11.3 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026 | +4.5% | 22.9% | −19.3% | −14.5% | +19.0 pts |
| 1Y Oct 30, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026 | +8.2% | 27.1% | −20.2% | −13.4% | +21.6 pts |
| Since launch Aug 15, 2024 – Oct 30, 2026 | −9.8% | 40.8% | −50.1% | −38.7% | +28.9 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Aug 15, 2024 – Oct 30, 2026 | −4.6% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Aug 2024: no 3 years windows.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
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How much of its payouts the fund's total return covered, ranked against 166 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 100 is best. How it is computed
YQQQ paid 27.1% in cash over the year and returned 8.2% in total, less than it paid out.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 29, 2026YQQQ: in the 20 trading days to Oct 29, 2026, net $11.7m went out, over 19 of 20 trading days.
Oct 26, 2026 to Oct 29, 2026
Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
YQQQ, net flow each trading day over the 64 sessions from Jul 31, 2026 to Oct 29, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 2 days, of the 19 days with daily data; the other 45 have none. Before Oct 2, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 0 days, out on 2. 45 days missing.
YQQQ, net flow each trading day over the 250 sessions from Oct 31, 2025 to Oct 29, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 2 days, of the 19 days with daily data; the other 231 have none. Before Oct 2, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 0 days, out on 2. 231 days missing.
YQQQ, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 28, 2025 to Oct 29, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 2 days, of the 19 days with daily data; the other 381 have none. Before Oct 2, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 0 days, out on 2. 381 days missing.
Daily data starts Oct 2, 2026.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from YieldMax’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for YQQQ, back to Aug 2024, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare YQQQ with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months19 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year5 weeks
Net flow into YQQQ each week, Oct 2, 2026 to Oct 29, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outAug 2024 to Oct 2026
YQQQ, money in and money out each month from Aug 2024 to Jul 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from YQQQ’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 25 months listed, money came in on net in 20 and went out in 4.
Every bar is from YQQQ’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 25 months listed, money came in on net in 20 and went out in 4.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 29, 2026. Last checked Oct 31, 2026.
YQQQ key stats
YQQQ return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 29, 2026
Liquid with care: its typical spread is 0.32% of its price.
YQQQ for holders outside the US
13 distributions for YQQQ, $0.0312 to $0.5733 a share and $0.0379 in the middle, Aug 6, 2026 to Oct 29, 2026. 6 further ex-dates are expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so they are not drawn.
YQQQ pays weekly. The last distribution was $0.0427 a share, which went ex on Oct 29, 2026, with payment about 1 day later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 7 days the ex-date falls near Nov 5, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for YQQQ. A projected row carries the fund’s own spacing forward from its last ex-date, at the last amount paid. Neither is an issuer statement. Source: ETFIQ.
Cash distributions per share for YQQQ. Source: ETFIQ from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
Source: ETFIQ, from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
How much of what it paid out did its total return cover?
That is the share of the 166 income ETFs not writing on a single company sitting at or below YQQQ.
One year only, and a ratio of two published numbers: it says nothing about where a distribution came from. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.
Total return as a share of the cash paid: 30.3% · 31st pct, −231.7% to 1,866.7% across 166.
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About YQQQ
How we measure
12 seats on YQQQ, as of Oct 30, 2026: 1 Supports, 5 Challenges, 6 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about YQQQ
- How much has YQQQ paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 30, 2026, YQQQ paid 27.1% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 20.2%.
- Is YQQQ ahead of short QQQ?
- Over the year to Oct 30, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, YQQQ returned +8.2% against −13.4% for Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) held short, so a holder was ahead of it by 21.6 points.
- How often does YQQQ pay, and how much?
- YQQQ pays weekly. The latest distribution annualizes to 22.7% at its price on Oct 30, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- When does YQQQ next pay a distribution?
- YQQQ pays weekly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 29, 2026 at $0.0427 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 7 days the ex-date falls near Nov 5, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 1 day.
- What does YQQQ cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 1.11% a year.
- How much of YQQQ’s distribution is return of capital?
- Across its notices for distributions paid Nov 7, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026, the estimate is 57.0%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Oct 31, 2025 puts it at 85.3% of distributions. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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