11-06-2014, 10:03 AM
(11-06-2014, 08:29 AM)rapidacid Wrote: Like many of you I get email alerts from Seeking Alpha when an article is written about a company I have on file.
Some articles are great, a lot are not too good. Likewise, some authors tend to produce high quality articles weekly and others seem to pump out crap articles daily, or sometimes multiple times a day.
I hope no one on this forum is this Abba's Aces guy, because his stuff is consistently crap and is quite literally a mad libs style template where he simply plugs in metrics with zero deep dive into the company. I'd have to imagine that he's banging out a couple hundred bucks per article, and it's all the same rehashed crap with no insight.
So, with presumably no improved QA process on the horizon at SA, does anyone know how to follow a company, but only if its not written by a specific blacklist of authors?
I don't know of a way to follow a company by screening specific authors, other than by getting the daily e-mail alerts and clicking on only the articles written by authors you like. Otherwise, it doesn't take much of a quick scan to know if the the article is worth reading, you can usually figure that out in the first paragraph or two. I suppose its a bad aspect of a crowd-sourced site, but the good thing is the content is free so you aren't out anything other than the minute or two it takes to scan the article.
As for the a couple hundred bucks per article comment, the average income per article right now across the entire site is actually $71.50. You would have to pump out a ton of articles to make a living at that rate.