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YieldMax MRNA Option Income Strategy ETF (MRNY)

Derivative Income | Exchange Traded Fund | NYSEArca
18.62 USD -0.01 (-0.054%) ⇩ (April 21, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:☆☆☆☆☆Long-term:☆☆☆☆☆Dividends:★★☆☆☆
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 11:30 p.m. EDT

Selling into a 'YieldMax' option income ETF is a suicidal strategy; these instruments cease to function as income generators the moment the underlying stock rallies sharply, but the prospectus warns of NAV erosion on such moves rather than price appreciation. The combination of a catastrophic short-term technical rating (shit out of water from the recent spike), a structural long-term decay mechanism (selling options on a 150-day ETF dilutes principal), and an unsustainable dividend yield (88%) that appears to be an accelerated payout of dwindling NAV rather than sustainable yield, makes MRNY a 0 in all categories.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
MSTL ✓0.104895
AutoARIMA0.115860
AutoETS0.115865
AutoTheta0.155163

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL

Forecast Reliability
Score 49%
H-stat 4.41
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.097
Excess Kurtosis -0.53

As of April 18, 2026, 11:30 p.m. EDT: Speculators are exhibiting extreme defensive positioning. In the April 17 expiry (16 days out), there is massive Put Open Interest (OI) at strikes 2 and 3 (approx 146 combined contracts) compared to only 9 Call OI at 18.0. This creates a massive short gamma wall, forcing dealers to sell into any rally. While some near-term call flow exists at low strikes (2.0) or OTM (19.0), the volume of OTM puts (128 vol) dwarfs the OTM calls (13 vol), indicating a consensus bet on significant downside risk or a bet for the strategy to lose capital in an uptick.


Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
1.41% 135.75%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-04-16 0.263 1.408677
2026-04-09 0.260 1.455291
2026-04-02 0.275 1.578579
2026-03-26 0.272 1.487964
2026-03-19 0.381 2.127332
2026-03-12 0.391 2.164516
2026-03-05 0.383 2.119843
2026-02-26 0.378 2.145480
2026-02-19 0.317 1.852682
2026-02-12 0.347 2.361887
2026-02-05 0.266 1.794602
2026-01-29 0.479 2.902201
2026-01-22 0.374 2.081985
2026-01-15 0.248 1.727546
2026-01-08 0.177 1.394422
2026-01-02 0.160 1.362254
2025-12-26 0.393 3.293374
2025-12-18 0.223 1.876819
2025-12-11 0.230 1.976717
2025-12-04 0.277 2.590957
2025-11-28 0.230 2.125692
2025-11-20 0.250 2.605593
2025-11-13 0.260 2.482565
2025-11-06 0.220 2.135331
2025-10-30 0.320 2.784054
2025-10-23 0.230 2.116673
2025-10-16 0.220 2.003997
2025-10-09 1.150 10.364274
2025-09-11 0.760 7.176383
2025-08-14 0.950 8.545181
2025-07-17 2.000 15.048049
2025-06-20 1.900 16.641257
2025-05-22 1.220 10.928289
2025-04-24 1.260 11.094081
2025-03-27 1.830 14.020864
2025-02-27 2.310 18.176679
2025-01-30 2.730 16.811265
2025-01-03 2.510 14.072386
2024-12-05 2.220 12.452427
2024-11-07 4.010 19.142038
2024-10-10 3.760 16.730189
2024-09-06 4.790 17.617841
2024-08-07 4.660 16.156203
2024-07-05 4.900 12.451116
2024-06-06 8.450 17.463463
2024-05-06 9.470 19.317079
2024-04-04 7.830 17.186158
2024-03-06 11.310 25.782703
2024-02-07 5.940 13.992322
2024-01-05 26.540 57.981970
2023-12-07 4.130 11.588034
Additional Data
trailingAnnualDividendRate 0.0
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.0
dividendYield 88.03

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 260.0
All Time Low 10.38
Ask 0.0
Ask Size 100
Average Daily Volume10 Day 224,660
Average Daily Volume3 Month 235,088
Average Volume 235,088
Average Volume10Days 224,660
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 18.73
Bid Size 100
Category Derivative Income
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 18.9601
Day Low 17.7941
Dividend Yield 88.03
Esg Populated 0
Exchange PCX
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 18.9342
Fifty Day Average Change -0.31419945
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.016594281
Fifty Two Week Change Percent -29.201519
Fifty Two Week High 27.5
Fifty Two Week High Change -8.879999
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.32290906
Fifty Two Week Low 13.6
Fifty Two Week Low Change 5.0200005
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.36911768
Fifty Two Week Range 13.6 - 27.5
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,698,154,200,000
Full Exchange Name NYSEArca
Fund Family YieldMax ETFs
Fund Inception Date 1,698,019,200
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The fund advisor will employ the fund's investment strategy as the fund relates to MRNA regardless of whether there are periods of adverse market, economic, or other conditions and will take temporary defensive positions during such periods. The fund is non-diversified.
Long Name YieldMax MRNA Option Income Strategy ETF
Market us_market
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1850980312
Nav Price 18.5038
Net Assets 127,522,488.0
Net Expense Ratio 1.0
Open 18.52
Pre Market Change 0.25629997
Pre Market Change Percent 1.380183
Pre Market Price 18.8263
Pre Market Time 1,776,849,692
Previous Close 18.63
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.00999832
Regular Market Change Percent -0.0536679
Regular Market Day High 18.9601
Regular Market Day Low 17.7941
Regular Market Day Range 17.7941 - 18.9601
Regular Market Open 18.52
Regular Market Previous Close 18.63
Regular Market Price 18.62
Regular Market Time 1,776,801,600
Regular Market Volume 774,879
Short Name YieldMax MRNA Option Income Str
Source Interval 15
Symbol MRNY
Total Assets 127,522,488
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 53.71649
Trailing Three Month Returns 53.71649
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 18.419926
Two Hundred Day Average Change 0.20007515
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.010861887
Type Disp ETF
Volume 774,879
Yield 0.8803
Ytd Return 53.71649