Options Education8 min
How Dividends Affect Stock Price
How Do Dividends Affect Stock Price? Dividends and stock price are directly connected: when a company pays a dividend, it distributes cash from its balance…
Bernardo Rocha
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Options Education8 min
REIT Dividend Income Explained
What Is a REIT? A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a company that owns, operates, or finances income-producing real estate. REITs let individual…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education7 min
What Is Dividend Per Share? Definition and How It Works
What Is Dividend Per Share? Dividend per share (DPS) is the total amount of dividends a company pays out over a given period, divided by the total number of…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education8 min
Dividend Growth Investing Strategy Explained
What Is Dividend Growth Investing? Dividend growth investing is a strategy built on buying stocks from companies that raise their dividend payments…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education8 min
Covered Call Dividend Capture Strategy: Does It Work?
What Is Dividend Capture? Dividend capture is a strategy where an investor buys a stock just before its ex-dividend date to collect the dividend payment, then…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education6 min
SPY Dividend Yield Explained
Does SPY Pay Dividends? Yes, SPY (SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust) pays dividends. SPY tracks the S&P 500 index, which includes 500 of the largest US companies — many…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education6 min
Dividend Dates Explained: Ex-Dividend, Record, and Payment Dates
What Are the Four Dividend Dates? When a company declares a dividend, four dates matter: the declaration date, ex-dividend date, record date, and payment date.…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education6 min
QQQ Dividend Yield Explained
Does QQQ Pay Dividends? Yes, QQQ (Invesco QQQ Trust) pays dividends — but the yield is very low compared to income-oriented ETFs. QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education7 min
What Is a Dividend Stock? Definition and How It Works
What Is a Dividend Stock? A dividend stock is a share of ownership in a company that regularly distributes a portion of its earnings to shareholders in the…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education9 min
How Options Income Addresses the Core Limitations of Dividend Portfolios
Dividend portfolios are effective long-term wealth-building tools. They also have five structural limitations that make them a poor fit for specific income…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education8 min
Switching From Dividend Investing to Options Income: What You Need to Know
Switching from a dividend portfolio to options income changes the income mechanism, income timing, risk structure, capital requirements, and tax treatment —…
Bernardo Rocha
Options Education7 min
How Tradematic Generates Monthly Income Without Dividends
Tradematic is an automated iron condor trading platform that generates monthly income without dividend stocks, without waiting quarters for payments, and…
Bernardo Rocha