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Company Profile: Seeking Alpha

Name: Seeking Alpha

Website: www.seekingalpha.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What it does: Seeking Alpha’s roots are in investment opinion, aggregating analysis from investing blogs. The site has added its own short-form news stream, as well as stock and market data, making it a full-blown investing portal.

While many bloggers contribute their content to SA freely, the company does offer them payment via its premium program (details here).

Particular strengths: Check out Seeking Alpha’s ETF content, some of the best online. Seeking Alpha’s alerts system is also really valuable — you can get real-time emails with breaking opinion on stocks in your portfolio or watchlist. Also, if you’re looking for good ideas, check out SA’s long and short ideas.

How popular is it: On a monthly basis, Seeking Alpha reaches 5.3 million global users, serving up 75M pageviews. (Source)

The Company


Management: Seeking Alpha was founded by David Jackson, a former Morgan Stanley equity analyst.

Company size: Seeking Alpha has 11-50 employees (Source)

Outside investors: Benchmark Capital, DAG, and Accel Partners ($7 million) have invested in Seeking Alpha.

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Best resources: BorntoSell.com’s killer covered call screener (podcast)

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BorntoSell.com’s covered call screener replaces all those clunky spreadsheets investors used to use to track their positions. Good for producing income in retirement or just eking a few percentage points out of a portfolio, covered calls are a very common part of investing for many investors.

And founder, Mike Scanlin believes using covered call strategies will become more common as his company expands the market with easy-to-use and functional tools with quick and useful idea generation.

Founder of BTS, Scanlin is a technologist turned VC turned entrepreneur and he shares with us that transition and many of the tools and techniques he used to start, build and grow his young firm. Continue reading “Best resources: BorntoSell.com’s killer covered call screener (podcast)”