[Invictus0]

> To me at least, being human-focused and sensitive enough to be a novelist is contrary to being a web personality selling questionable financial advice

These 2 things are completely unrelated; and btw, lots of people have done completely unrelated things and been successful at both of them. Einstein was a patent clerk. Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain was a scientist. TS Eliot a banker, ACDoyle a doctor. And who said you need to be a web personality? And why is the financial advice questionable?

> If the research is actually valuable, shouldn't your advice to the novelist be to exploit it directly?

No. Doubling your money at 100k invested is worth 200k. Doubling your money at 100M invested is 200M. Who is more likely to pay $100/mo for good stock research? The percentage is the same, the absolute value is massively different. And someone with 200M doesn't have time to sit around leafing through 10Qs, but they do have to time to read your executive summary analysis, particularly if you do well and get a name for yourself.