Submit an article

To submit an article for consideration for publication on Seeking Alpha, you must first post the article to your personal Instablog. When publishing, you’ll see an option to, "Submit to Seeking Alpha's Editors for article publication and distribution." You must upload a photo and bio to submit.

Seeking Alpha aims to provide the finest opinion and analysis from independent investors. We therefore will not publish articles submitted by research firms or authors who are directly compensated by a company for coverage of that company's stock or business. We also do not publish articles written by authors who work in Investor Relations.

Guidelines for article acceptance

• For U.S. market investors

Write about a  stock, sector, ETF or theme that are actionable to U.S.-based investors.

• Fundamental, opinionated and logical

Address the company’s competitive environment, management, products, corporate strategy, earnings outlook, valuation and/or balance sheet. We appreciate informed opinion based on rigorous analysis presented clearly. We welcome ‘long cases’ and ‘short cases’ for stocks, but make sure you provide sound, in-depth reasoning for your positions. We do not generally publish pure technical analysis.

• Market-oriented

We do publish macro-economic, market actionable posts, but if your submission focuses mainly on politics, marketing, economic theory, or non-business related trends, it’s probably not for Seeking Alpha.

• Disclosure

All articles must contain in the footer a disclosure statement letting the reader know if you hold any positions in the stocks mentioned. If you don’t have a position, please mention that as well.

• Uniqueness

If you are writing about well-covered issues, bring a new perspective that others may have missed.

• Brevity

We prefer submissions that are no longer than 1,000 words. Articles running 2,500 words and longer should be broken into two or more parts for publication.

• Grammatical

If your submission requires heavy copy editing, in all likelihood we won’t be able to publish it.

• Be known 

Providing your real identity builds credibility. We do, however, publish material under a pseudonym, but we require full identity disclosure for our confidential files. See policy for anonymous submissions.

• No penny stocks

We generally avoid articles on penny stocks due to concern over manipulation. Currently, however, some broadly-held mid- and large-cap stocks have traded below $1. Therefore, in some cases we will consider articles about sub-dollar stocks. Here’s more information on our interim policy on penny stocks.

The human factor

We strive to consistently select the best articles submitted for consideration. Above, we have outlined guidelines that hopefully illuminate some of the factors involved in our decision process.

In the end, however, the selection of articles and Editors' Picks is highly discretionary, and can be impacted by many factors including: our editorial resources on a given day; the number of articles addressing similar themes; the timeliness of the topic; and a sense of how much a given article adds to the discussion.

We strive to maintain an open and constructive dialog with our contributors. But we are regretfully unable to provide detailed explanations about why a certain article was or wasn't accepted, or made an Editors' Pick.

Questions?

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