RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:covered callsAlways ignore the noise. Don't worry about drip influence. Investors that choose drip aren't sellers. If they want cash flow, they don't choose drip, they choose cash dividends. The shares for every drip I know of are funded from treasury. Ie new shares. Brokers or the company are not buying market shares to fulfill.
autofocus111 wrote: Maxmoe No doubt there's stock/options strategies to enhance yield on large-cap high yielders. Since the covid crash, volume around ex-dividend dates shows more pronounced spikes. Related to that, there appears to also be some stock price 'pushing' into payment dates... maybe associated with the drips that brokerage houses offer. Probably all programmed into fancy trading algos of these institutional players. Gotta just ignore the fluctuations these fuggers create.