● LAUNCHED Began trading Aug 13, 2026. First of 2 distributions $0.0120, ex-dividend Aug 26, 2026. Every payment charted from that first one.
This fund is paying. Its record starts at the first check and every distribution is charted as it lands. A green LAUNCHED badge here means it's live and our launch tracker has logged it.
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What YLDY Does, Per the Filing
YLDY launched on August 13, 2026 — our market-wide radar spotted it the morning after listing, making it the first entry in our launch log. Per the issuer's description and its filings, the Horizon High Income ETF is an actively managed fund of dividend-paying U.S. large-cap stocks — companies screened for high profitability, stable earnings, and reasonable valuations — with an options layer that sells call options on broad equity indexes to boost income and damp volatility.
If that recipe sounds familiar, it should: quality large-caps plus index call-selling is the same general architecture as JPMorgan's JEPI and Goldman's GPIX — the moderate-yield, lower-drama end of the income spectrum, not the ultra-high-yield single-stock world. Horizon Funds is an advisor-platform trust, so YLDY may show up in managed portfolios before it shows up in Reddit threads.
The paper trail was textbook: exchange listing application July 23, SEC certification August 7, prospectus supplement August 11, first session August 13 — starting with 10,000 seed shares. Two distributions have landed since: $0.0120 ex-dividend August 26 and $0.2030 ex-dividend September 25, so the second was roughly seventeen times the first and the shape of this income is not settled yet.
What Nobody Can Know Yet
YLDY has paid twice, so there is a short record rather than a settled one, no real yield, and no evidence of how its strategy behaves across a full cycle. One check cannot be annualised into a yield, and anyone doing it is quoting a projection. Filings also get delayed, renamed, or quietly abandoned; this page's status updates daily either way. From here we chart every payment from its very first one, free.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When did YLDY launch?
It launched Aug 13, 2026. The registration was first seen in SEC records dated Jul 23, 2026; issuers typically launch within months of filing, but filings can also stall. The status box above updates daily, and the launch tracker shows everything else on the runway.
What will YLDY pay?
It has paid twice. The first was $0.0120, ex-dividend Aug 26, 2026. One check is a data point, not a yield, and this page will not annualise it. The strategy is option-income, so distributions would depend on real option premiums once live.
How does YLDY compare to JEPI?
Same family of strategy, different manager: both hold quality U.S. large-cap stocks and sell index call options to convert volatility into income. JEPI has a multi-year payment record to judge; YLDY has paid twice since launching August 13, 2026 — $0.0120 ex-dividend August 26 and $0.2030 ex-dividend September 25. Once it declares its first distributions, we'll chart every payment so the comparison becomes data instead of description.