Reviewing Seeking Alpha

A good idea, clouded by junk writing and pseudo-financial advice

Before writing for Medium, I tried writing for Seeking Alpha, which has a similar concept to Medium, only it’s specific to financial advice. I like the idea of having generic platforms like Medium and specific ones like S.A.

What is Seeking Alpha?

Well, according to their own site, SA is described as follows.

We are an industry leader in mining the wisdom of the crowds for insights on every topic of interest to investors. Our editors curate content from a network of stock analysts, traders, economists, academics, financial advisors and industry experts — all who engage in our community. 13.5 million+ visitors come to us not only to consume content, but to contribute and to participate in the conversation.

The wisdom of the crowd is a powerful thing, and I do love that there’s a platform out there so that people with good ideas can express them, without necessarily having to work on Wall Street. What ruined Seeking Alpha for me, even though I was starting to see revenue being generated from my articles, was the absurdity of some of their more popular writers, and their editor’s desire to protect those writers. I will not go into specifics, but there was one author in particular that would write about market analyses from a…