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A few months ago, in July, I published my first article on Seeking Alpha. It was a tough run. I had spent hours researching Yonex stock and thought I had written my most in-depth article ever, only to spend another week revising and resubmitting it. It took me nearly two weeks to get one article out, … Read more
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
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
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
One of the hottest investment products in the new decade has been actively managed income funds. Many new ETFs have been launched in the last few years that employ an options strategy to generate ultra-high yields, often exceeding 10%. The most popular strategy has been selling covered calls, which have been applied to nearly every … Read more
Three days ago, I wrote an article titled “Reacting To This Redditor’s $93K Dividend Portfolio” as a mini experiment. Reacting To This Redditor’s $93K Dividend Portfolio My articles on stock investment portfolios have frequently garnered significant viewership, and I enjoy practicing portfolio construction using hypothetical scenarios. At the end of January, I published an immensely … Read more
In my previous position working for a luxury real estate auction house, I had phenomenal opportunities to interact and learn from wealthy individuals whose net worth often exceeded $10 million. As many would expect, these ultra-high-net-worth individuals are quite different from the average person in how they think and work. When you spend so much … Read more