For Covered-Call & Income ETF Investors

Trade Income Funds the Right Way.

Total return is the real paycheck. If you can turn a 100% total return experience into 200% over time - through better ownership timing - that's more wealth, more future income capacity, and more retirement resilience. EdgeMax is not about finding the biggest distribution. It's about owning these products in a way that puts more money in your pocket.

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The Platform

The World's First Income Fund Scanner

Engineered by Hans Albrecht, Who Built and Managed $800 Million in Income Funds.

Every call. What to own and when for maximum edge. Updated daily.

EdgeMax shows you the signal for every covered-call ETF and its underlying stock in real time. INCOME ETF. STOCK. CASH. No guessing.

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"When I ran $800 million dollars in these funds my clients relied on me to constantly assess this question: Am I getting paid enough premium for the risk of giving up upside? I want an advantage, and if it isn't there... the answer is clear."

- Hans Albrecht, Founder of EdgeMax

Who Built This

I answered this question every day.
Now you can too.

Hans Albrecht

Options Market Maker · Income Fund Manager

The question every income ETF investor eventually asks is the same one Hans answered every single trading day at institutional level: does the covered-call structure add edge right now, or is it working against me? He built EdgeMax because individual investors deserved the same answer he had access to.

Hans Albrecht spent 15 years as a professional options and volatility market maker - where edge is brutally simple: make money and get paid. Don't make money, no check. He then moved to institutional portfolio management, directly running ~$800 million in covered-call and income ETF strategies. 12 funds that delivered almost a billion dollars in options cash flow to investors, members and clients around the world - the exact YieldMax-type income strategies investors know and love.

Hans didn't just build and run these types of funds, he revolutionized the way they were managed.

That experience taught him one thing above all: these products are not set-it-and-forget-it. There are environments where the edge is owning the stock. And environments where the edge is harvesting the premium. Knowing when is the secret. EdgeMax is that system - available for the first time to individual investors.

25+ Years

Options + Funds

~$800M

Covered-Call AUM

12 Funds

Built + Managed

Lipper Award

Proven Industry Recognition

As seen on

BNN Bloomberg

Portfolio Manager & Options Strategist

TD Ameritrade Network

Featured Market Expert

The Problem

The deposit looks the same.
The source is everything.

Every month the number hits your account. NVDY. CONY. TSLY. The distribution is real. But nobody tells you what it's actually made of.

01 - Underperformance regret

"Even with distributions, why am I lagging the underlying so badly?"

Covered calls cap your upside while keeping much of the downside. When the market runs, you don't. When it drops, you drop. The monthly deposit feels like income -but your total return tells a different story. Most investors only realize this 12 months too late.

02 - No framework for timing

"Do I own TSLY right now, or TSLA -and how would I even know?"

There are environments where the edge is harvesting option premium. And environments where the edge is owning the stock. Nobody teaches you the difference. Without a system, you're guessing -and the fund never tells you when the conditions have changed.

03 - Decision fatigue

Too many tickers. Too many takes. Zero structure.

TSLY, NVDY, MSFO, QDTE, JEPI, JEPQ. Each one with its own fans, its own X posts, its own monthly drama. You're spending more time researching than your portfolio is earning. EdgeMax replaces the noise with a single, rules-based call.

Total return is the real paycheck. If you can turn a 100% total return experience into 200% over time -through better ownership timing -that's more wealth, more future income capacity, and more retirement resilience. EdgeMax is not about finding the biggest distribution. It's about owning these products in a way that stops the silent bleed.

How It Works

Three steps. One number.
Full clarity.

EdgeMax does the work that used to take a quant analyst three hours -in under ten seconds.

Check the Hotlist

EdgeMax keeps a Hotlist of dozens of income ETFs for you to monitor every day - with exactly what to own. Pin your favorites at the top to keep track.

The dozen-factor framework runs

EdgeMax evaluates 12 market factors to assess whether current conditions favor the income ETF, the underlying stock, or cash. The same analytical process Hans used managing institutional covered-call portfolios -now automated.

You get the call

One clear output per position: own the income ETF, own the stock, or stand aside. Plus the distribution breakdown so you know what the fund is actually paying you with. Updated as conditions change.

How EdgeMax Works in Practice

Two modes.
One system.

Yield investors come in different shapes. Some need cash flow now. Others want to build wealth without sacrificing income. EdgeMax gives you both -just choose your mode.

EdgeMax

Total Return Mode

Rotates between the income ETF, the underlying stock, and sometimes cash when conditions are unfavorable. Built for investors who want the income lifestyle -without sacrificing long-run performance.

Best for: Investors who want income ETF exposure with a performance edge over time

SuperMax

Income Tilt Mode

Prioritizes more time inside the income ETF to support consistent distributions -while still aiming to outperform buy-and-hold over time. Keep the cash-flow mindset, upgrade the process.

Best for: Retirees or investors who need reliable monthly income and can't sacrifice distributions

What happens without EdgeMax

Don't just measure the bleed.
Avoid it.

Every month the deposit lands. Every month the NAV moves a little. You keep holding because nobody told you the covered-call structure stopped making sense three months ago. There was a moment to rotate -you just didn't have a system that saw it.

With EdgeMax

Know now · Act now

→

Without EdgeMax

Know in 12 months · After it happened

In twelve months you'll know either way whether the fund was paying you with its gains or with your principal. EdgeMax is the difference between knowing that in real time -or reading about it in your year-end statement.

What Members Say

Numbers that change
what you hold.

The people who get the most out of EdgeMax already know the space. They use it to see what they couldn't see before.

★★★★★

"I'd been holding QDTE for eight months and thought it was the best payer in my portfolio. EdgeMax showed me that 63% of Q3 distributions came from return of capital, not option premium. I moved the position that same week."

Robert M. Income ETF investor · Texas

★★★★★

"What I spent three hours finding in the prospectus of two ETFs, EdgeMax gives me in one screen. I use it every distribution day -it's the first thing I open after the YieldMax announcement."

David L. Options trader · 12 years experience

Real Results

$10,000 invested.
Here's what EdgeMax delivered.

Five pairs tested. Every single one outperformed the ETF benchmark. Average strategy alpha: +32.1%

Pairs tested

Avg strategy alpha

+32.1%

Best extra gain ($10k)

+$6,125

Pair	ETF Benchmark	EdgeMax Strategy	Alpha
GOOGL / GOOY	$14,225	$20,350	+$6,125
META / FBY	$13,871	$18,072	+$4,201
MSTR / MSTY	$15,839	$18,812	+$2,973
GDX / GDXY	$15,760	$17,601	+$1,841
PYPL / PYPY	$10,990	$11,890	+$900

GOOGL / GOOY Alphabet

+$6,125 extra on $10k

ETF benchmark

+42.25%

EdgeMax strategy

+103.5%

Biggest alpha of all 5. ETF's covered call cap cost investors when GOOGL ran hard; strategy captured that upside.

META / FBY Meta Platforms

+$4,201 extra on $10k

ETF benchmark

+38.71%

EdgeMax strategy

+80.72%

Total return more than doubles, capturing META's strong underlying run that FBY's covered calls left on the table.

MSTR / MSTY MicroStrategy

+$2,973 extra on $10k

ETF benchmark

+58.39%

EdgeMax strategy

+88.12%

Strategy wins on total return AND distributions. Highest AUM from capital preservation compounds into more income.

GDX / GDXY Gold Miners

+$1,841 extra on $10k

ETF benchmark

+57.60%

EdgeMax strategy

+76.01%

Total return +32% better, with distributions slightly lower but more money in pocket at the end.

PYPL / PYPY PayPal

+$900 extra on $10k

ETF benchmark

+9.90%

EdgeMax strategy

+18.90%

Difficult underlying stock. Strategy nearly doubles total return AND maintains identical distributions.

Bar width = total return. Distributions shown as additional context. $10k extra gain assumes distributions reinvested.

Hans Albrecht

Founder, EdgeMax

A note from Hans

When I was managing covered-call portfolios at an institutional level, the question I answered every day was simple: does the covered-call structure add edge right now, or does it work against me? There are times to harvest the premium. And times to own the stock. The retail world has no system for this -so investors just hold and hope.

EdgeMax is that system. The same dozen-factor framework I used on $800 million in strategies -now giving you a clear call on every position. Not just what your fund paid you with. But whether you should be holding it at all.

Pricing

One number. The exact trade to make.
Full accountability.

You Don't Need to Leave Income ETFs, You Just Need to Own Them Smarter.

If EdgeMax catches one misallocated position in your portfolio, the tool pays for itself many times over.

Stop guessing.
Get the call.

The comparison posts tell you who pays more. EdgeMax tells you when to hold it, when to own the stock instead, and when to go to cash.

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Trade Income Funds the Right Way.

The World's First Income Fund Scanner

I answered this question every day.Now you can too.

The deposit looks the same.The source is everything.

"Even with distributions, why am I lagging the underlying so badly?"

"Do I own TSLY right now, or TSLA -and how would I even know?"

Too many tickers. Too many takes. Zero structure.

Three steps. One number.Full clarity.

Check the Hotlist

The dozen-factor framework runs

You get the call

Two modes.One system.

Total Return Mode

Income Tilt Mode

Don't just measure the bleed.Avoid it.

Numbers that changewhat you hold.

$10,000 invested.Here's what EdgeMax delivered.

One number. The exact trade to make.Full accountability.

Stop guessing.Get the call.

I answered this question every day.
Now you can too.

The deposit looks the same.
The source is everything.

Three steps. One number.
Full clarity.

Two modes.
One system.

Don't just measure the bleed.
Avoid it.

Numbers that change
what you hold.

$10,000 invested.
Here's what EdgeMax delivered.

One number. The exact trade to make.
Full accountability.

Stop guessing.
Get the call.