SLTY vs TCAL

SLTYFYieldMax Ultra Short Option Income Strategy ETF

TCALAT. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Premium Income ETF

In short

SLTY Most option income funds sell calls on stocks they own. SLTY flips it: short exposure to 15 to 30 high-volatility US names, with put strategies written against them. The bear side of the YieldMax playbook.

TCAL An active stock picker's take on the covered-call trade: roughly 70 hand-chosen holdings, calls written on top, cash paid out monthly, all for 0.34% a year.

Stated mandate

SLTY The Fund seeks current income and inverse exposure to the share price of select U.S.-listed securities, with participation in potential gains subject to limits.

TCAL The fund seeks regular distributions while aiming to preserve capital and potentially achieve capital appreciation. It invests in equities and writes covered calls to generate cash flow alongside dividends.

Why people hold it

• SLTY Short (inverse) exposure to 15 to 30 US-listed names picked mainly on implied volatility, with options sold on those same names: bearish tilt plus premium harvesting in one wrapper.yieldmaxetfs.com
• No margin account or stock borrow to arrange yourself. The short book is built directly or synthetically with options inside a 1940 Act ETF, at a declared -1x exposure.yieldmaxetfs.com
• Actively rotated, not one fixed overlay: the adviser can move among covered puts, calendar put spreads and debit spreads as its outlook shifts.sec.govyieldmaxetfs.com
• Option premium funds the payout, which lands on YieldMax's weekly distribution schedule.yieldmaxetfs.com

• TCAL At 0.34% a year, it undercuts most active options-income funds, including DIVO at 0.56%, so more of the option premium stays in the portfolio instead of the fee line.
• Active all the way down: roughly 70 equities picked by T. Rowe Price, with covered calls layered on to generate cash alongside dividends. No index sitting underneath.
• Pays monthly, and the stated mandate ties those distributions to preserving capital and seeking appreciation rather than maximizing headline yield.
• Ranks among the strongest implementations in a crowded options-income field, with cost the clearest edge.

Worth knowing

• SLTY Costs 1.25% net of a waiver through February 28, 2027 (1.35% gross), above the category median; RECI charges 0.30%. It is also a small, thinly traded fund.
• Payouts can include a large share of return of capital, which hands back part of your own money and can drag NAV lower over time. The headline rate is not interest earned.yieldmaxetfs.comyieldmaxetfs.com 2
• Direction cuts both ways: built to rise when its names fall and fall when they rally, and the options sold against the book limit how much of a decline it keeps.yieldmaxetfs.com

• TCAL Written calls trade upside for cash. When the stock picks run hard, the calls limit how much of that move the fund keeps.
• Launched in 2025, so there is no full market-cycle record to judge the strategy against yet.
• The fund discloses that distributions can include return of capital, meaning part of a payout may be your own money coming back rather than income earned.

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