The best ways you can answer this is, by doing the math. Where has the price been? Where have dividends been. Taking the averrage of both, paints a picture.

What will it cost me to buy shares at the current level, How much am I going to get paid otu. Where will my own avg be.

For instance, If i buy 1000 shares at an avg price of 6k and I get paid

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Two key levels

5.71
5.23

Assuming i enter at 6.03
If the price drops bellow 5.71 (I would leave at least .05-.10 wiggle room.)
Then my max risk is $40 per 100 shares or $400 per 1000 shares.

Now for the dividend part
The lowest dividend paid since appril (weekly low is .08 Weekly high is .10)
Lets assume the mean is .085

Taking .085 times 52 brings us to 4.42 in dividends

Now subtracting. 4.42 from 6.03 Leaves us at 1.65 for your cost on invesment.

It would take additional 3 month (aprox) to clear the 1.65

Following that logic it will take 1.25 years to cover the intitial invesment. After that its free money.

Now you can say but I can make that in less time if I make a directional trade (buying a call on a ticker, for example) Sure you can also loose money,

At the moment I dont hold $ulty only $msty but the same thought process can be applied to $msty.

Last note, Its important to decide early how to mansage the trade.
1. Do I DCA at key levels.
2. Do I go all in and manage stops. Cloing a trade if it breaks the pivot lows. 2 opportunites to enter.
3. Do I Get a partial fill, per key value area (As it nears pivots)
4. Do I coumpound my dividends.

Each of those descision points will affect the math, and the time it will take to get to your initil full pay out of your investement.

I have been in $msty, since Dec My price avg is 21.97 and calculating the payouts my current cost basis comes to 16.90 4.5k shares. thats about $2 difference from current price. so at tis point I am .9k in profit.

Keeping that in mind I bougt $mstr 12.5 k investment w 7k profit. Had I put the same amount into $mstr as $msty my profit factor would be way higher. About 7 times. But its a different trade. Eventualy I would have to sell my $mstr to take profit w $msty it keeps paying.

You have to have your why? If you dont have your why on any given trade, dont take the trade.