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Kevin Shan 
Friday, September 6th, 2024. 11:25 AM. I had been editing a badminton video since 9 AM and decided to take a small break to check my phone. That’s when I saw a Gmail notification, “Article Status Notification from Seeking Alpha Editors.” A sudden wave of excitement and nervousness rushed over me. I had written and … Read more
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash With $1.84B in assets under management in just two years, SPYI, the Neos S&P 500(R) High Income ETF, has quickly grown in popularity as one of the premier S&P 500 covered call funds, and for good reason. In the two years since its inception, SPYI has beaten competitors like JEPI and XYLD with … Read more
Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash I can’t believe it. A YouTube channel my brother and I began working on in mid-July this year has grown far faster than I had expected. In only two weeks, we had gotten our channel monetized, and in less than two months, we have amassed over 10K subscribers. Screenshot From Author With … Read more
In just a flash, summer has passed, and fall is starting to roll around. It’s September 1st, so of course, expect Medium writers everywhere to write about their past month’s performance and next month’s goals. I’m no different and will write one of these earnings reports, especially with how different August has been compared to … Read more
About a year ago, I wrote two articles about SVOL, the Simplify Volatility Premium ETF. SVOL Currently Yields 17.68%; Is This Dividend Sustainable? SVOL’s Strategy Has Changed. Can It Maintain Its 16.53% Yield? As you can see from the two article titles, SVOL pays a sizeable monthly distribution and has consistently yielded above 15% yearly, … Read more
Today marks a breakthrough in my writing career. After a week of researching, writing, and editing, I finally published my first article in Seeking Alpha. For those who don’t know what Seeking Alpha is, think of it like Medium but exclusively for stock investing. I first wanted to publish articles on the platform after seeing the … Read more
Seeing how I’ve been spending a large portion of my time working on a YouTube channel with my brother, I realized I could write more content, sharing our experiences and hopefully helping readers like you gain insight into what it’s like to be a YouTuber. Almost a week ago, I wrote an article detailing our … Read more
Given Nvidia’s recent success, my mother has often shown us how her $10K investment in the company a couple of years ago is now worth over $600K. Nvidia is single-handedly making my parents millionaires, and my brother often wonders why I didn’t have him invest in NVDA a few months back. Regrets like these are … Read more
If you’re an income investor, you’ve probably heard of YieldMax by now, with its massive yields from its individual stock synthetic-covered call strategies. For example, ETFs like TSLY, CONY, and NVDY are all funds from YieldMax, sporting respective yields of 48.00%, 99.36%, and 105.33%. Whether you like these funds or not, they certainly are popular. Since its inception in … Read more
When investors like Warren Buffett advise to invest in low-cost S&P 500 index funds, it isn’t necessarily because they think fund managers are incompetent. It’s that beating the market is already tricky, and even when you have a fund manager who beats it, it’s unlikely that you will beat the market after paying the management fees. … Read more