● LAUNCHED Began trading Sep 24, 2026. Payment history will be charted here from the first distribution.
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What XVAZ Does, Per the Filing
XVAZ began trading on September 24, 2026, its first day on the tape. First Trust's own fund page gives it an expense ratio of 0.85%, gross and net, and an inception date of September 22, 2026. Those are different things: inception is the date a fund becomes effective, not its first day on the exchange. Three of the six opened on September 23 and the other three on September 24, so the single inception date on the fund pages does not describe when any of them actually started trading. The six cover AMD, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Palantir, and follow the 4 funds of the same family from August, bringing the group to 10.
The stated objective is current income, with capital appreciation second. The fund holds the stock alongside standardized listed options and FLEX Options on it, writing calls and puts, with an S&P 500 Mini Index box spread in the mix. That is an options-income design rather than the plain covered-call structure most single-stock income ETFs use, and it is why comparing it to a covered-call fund on headline yield alone will mislead you.
Amazon has been the quiet one of this group, and that matters more than it sounds. Option premium is paid for uncertainty, so a calmer stock produces smaller checks without anything going wrong with the fund. The incumbent on this name has demonstrated exactly that effect over the past year.
No distribution has been declared and First Trust's fund page states no distribution frequency, so nobody can quote a yield for it yet, including anyone who publishes one this week. The first payment is the moment that settles the rhythm and the size, and our radar is watching for it; when it lands, every payment gets charted here from the first one.
AMZN already has an income fund with a real record: AMZY, paying since September 2023. Its full payment history, trailing totals and year-over-year change are charted and recomputed nightly on AMZY's page — the honest baseline to judge a brand-new fund against, since XVAZ has no record of its own yet.
What Nobody Can Know Yet
XVAZ is trading, but it has not paid yet, so there is no payment history, no real yield, and no evidence of how its strategy behaves in live markets — any number you hear before launch is a target or a guess. Filings also get delayed, renamed, or quietly abandoned; this page's status updates daily either way. When XVAZ does launch, we chart every payment from its very first one, free.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When did XVAZ launch?
It launched Sep 24, 2026. our market-wide sweep of new US listings caught it the morning after it started trading, rather than its SEC registration. The status box above updates daily, and the launch tracker shows everything else on the runway.
What will XVAZ pay?
Unknowable until it pays — there is no payment history yet and the filing promises no rate. The strategy is option-income, so distributions would depend on real option premiums once live.
Will XVAZ pay as much as a YieldMax fund on Amazon?
Nobody can say, and be suspicious of anyone who does. XVAZ has declared nothing and publishes no distribution schedule. What can be checked is that income from selling options on Amazon depends on how volatile Amazon is, and that the fund which has been doing it since September 2023 has seen its annual totals move a long way as that volatility changed.