A Smarter Buy-Write: How to Harvest ~7.5% From ITWO While Keeping Upside Optionality
ITWO is a small, liquid buy-write ETF on the Russell 2000 that pays monthly distributions and uses swaps to sell daily calls. At $46.02, the fund's distribution run rate (~$2.60 annualized) already yields roughly 5.6%. A modest, repeatable covered-call overlay can plausibly lift that to a 7.5% annualized yield while leaving room for price appreciat…