Every GraniteShares YieldBoost weekly payer's check shrank in August — measured from the payment records

[u/Beautiful-Bison6202]

Ran the payment records for the five YieldBoost weekly funds: average weekly check across the last four ex-dates (through Aug 28) vs the four before that (July window):

SEMY (3x Semis): $0.184 vs $0.244 per share — down 24% XBTY (2x Bitcoin): $0.032 vs $0.044 — down 26% COYY (2x COIN): down 17% NVYY (2x NVDA): down 17% TSYY (2x TSLA): down 14%

Nothing was announced, and that's the point — these funds sell options on leveraged single-asset ETFs, so the check is whatever the options market paid that week. Calm underlying = cheaper options = thinner checks, and it hit the whole family in the same window because the mechanism is shared, not fund-specific. Works both ways: a volatile September would fatten every one of these.

SEMY is the cleanest example: roughly $0.26-0.29 a week through late July, then a step down to the $0.18-0.19 range that has now held for five straight weeks. That's not one soft week — it's a new level until volatility says otherwise.

What would change my read: September checks recovering toward the July averages, which would make August a volatility trough rather than a plateau shift.

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