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Right now, there is a lot of uncertainty in the stock market. While stocks have bounced off their recent lows, the major market indices are still well off their highs and prone to volatility.

In this article, I answer the question, "Should I buy QQQ or JEPQ?" Both funds track an index primarily made of tech stocks and carry significant volatility, with one of the two incurring losses YTD. The answer relies on investors' outlook of markets, which I see as mixed for various reasons.

Broadly speaking, U.S. companies remain devoted buyers of their own shares. New data from S&P Dow Jones Indices confirms that 2024 buybacks among members of the S&P 500 surged 18.5% on a year-over-year basis.

The stock market has been ugly (particularly growth stocks), and it could get much worse. Thankfully, however, there is another way. Income investing focuses on big, steady dividend and interest payments, thereby allowing investors to worry far less about price volatility (as long as those big income payments keep coming in). This report shares 5 big safe yield strategies (including a variety of top income ideas), and then concludes with an important takeaway about succeeding in this market.

Many retail investors love to examine the favorite holdings of active fund managers and buy some of those stocks for themselves. That's not a terrible strategy, but obviously the outcomes hinge on how good the active manager is.

The Invesco QQQ ETF has become one of the best-performing funds in the United States in the past few decades by tracking the Nasdaq 100 index. It has soared from about $40 during its inception and moved to the current $513.

Over the past few years, ETFs have become an integral part of every investor's portfolio.

With Nvidia (NVDA) the most greatly impacted, the Magnificent Seven stocks were recently slammed. That's because news broke that China AI company DeepSeek has made significant progress in AI.

ETFs that help investors minimize the heft of Big Tech stocks, or altogether avoid seven closely watched megacap companies, have outperformed in the past month.

The 'Undercovered' Dozen series highlights lesser-covered ETFs, offering insights from various authors on potential opportunities and trends in this space. The Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF (JAAA) invests in AAA tranches of CLOs, providing lower risk through diversification and predictable outcomes, according to John Bowman. Stratos Capital Partners views the Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (EDV) as attractive for its high-yield and potential bond price appreciation as interest rates decline.