Seeking Alpha

Too many articles

The site is not bad, but you need to know to make the selection. There are some excellent contributors, but 80% is garbage written by armature contributors and don't have much value.

IncomeTrader1

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went downhill in the recent years

I used to write for Seeking Alpha until last year. This used to be a MUCH better place and MUCH more valuable. Now it offers absolutely nothing to investors. Since they started paying authors per click (for those that don't know, they pay their authors 1 cent per click), they started to attract all sorts of wrong people. In the past, most writers were actually investors with real experience. Now, most writers are college kids who happened to study finance and know a couple terms, trying to make some money on the side while studying. These people have no real investing experience and they usually don't even know what they are talking about. Also, many people try to generate clicks by using sensational headlines like "Amazon will double by next year!" or "3 reasons Ford is a terrible investment"

The place went downhill in the last few years. Most of the good writers have already left. Why would a good writer with a lot of investment experience write for 10-12 dollars per hour anyways? Before Seeking Alpha paid people to write, many people paid for enjoyment or getting their name out there but now none of the real investors write there.

Mikeppp

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Horrible site

No insight, nothing but fluff. They just throw there stuff up there just to sell advertising.

Mikeg0513

Written for experienced traders

all the articles from Seeking Alpha are geared towards the real trader and not the casual CNBC reader/listener. I will keep on being a member as long as the articles keep delivering.

Chadmorgan

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ALL FLUFF and NO REAL SUBSTANCE

it's just all a bunch of fluff. no real substance.

Fxman1972

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Stay Away

it's just not that good. all they are doing is trying to get their name out there by lots of bs articles. no substance and really not much help.

Nosympathy

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Grandfather? Makes me feel old, that.

Great place for ideas. Plenty of readers and discussions. You do need to be careful as some authors have other motives. Find some you like and trust and it's a site to go to every day.

Heresjohnny

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Some good articles.. but a lot of rubbish as well

Seeking alpha is pretty cluttered these days. There are for sure a lot of solid articles with real analysis on stocks that you are interested in. But as sites like these grow there becomes a lot of rubbish that gets saturated into it as well. I used to read SA a lot more than i do now.

Traderv13

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I agree. It feels like they are pumping for their own profit

And I also agree that they are not the smartest and prestigious investors on the block. Manipulation may be going on here for self benefit. A little scarely.

Charles282803

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It is fine, but

I would not rely on it alone at all and it is better than nothing, depending on who you are. They are not the smartest and prestigious investors on the block, obviously. I also think that they manipulate data to pump stocks that they are already in. Now the previous statement is something I don"t have proof of. They do have that reputation and I have heard from some very reliable sources that they hype stocks for their own benefit. However, some short stocks when they read a Seeking Alpha article where the author says that," they are long." I would not go that far. My conclusion about this is, if you are going to choose ONE thing to read, don"t let it be that. You definately do not want to make IMMEDIATE trading decisions based on an article, because of their reputation. However, if you know what you are doing, I do think that it is okay to take their opinion into consideration.

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