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Direxion quietly rolled out a set of defined income boost exchange-traded funds (ETF) that link payouts to the fortunes of six mega-cap names, including NVIDIA, Tesla, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Palantir and Micron. Bilal Little explained the idea on the NYSE: squeeze yield out of big tech, but now your income depends on single-stock swings rather than a broad bond-like cushion. That is important because the matched names show wildly different profit and revenue paths and mixed short-term price action, so these products can behave more like concentrated derivatives than steady income.