Submit an article

Simply click on one of the many “Submit Article” buttons throughout the site, or click here. Next you may choose what type of article you would like to submit:

• Premium articles are those that are published exclusively to Seeking Alpha and are not available anywhere else on the web for free. Contributors earn $10.00 per 1,000 pageviews for articles submitted and accepted as premium content. For details on Premium content submissions, see our FAQ.
• Regular articles are those you submit to our Editorial team for publication on Seeking Alpha that you've also posted to other blogs or websites.
• Instablog posts are those that contain content you do not plan to submit to our Editorial team for publication.

Note: First time submitters will be contacted by our editorial team for some contact details. You must upload a photo or other image and a bio to submit an article for publication.

Seeking Alpha receives close to one thousand submissions a day, of which we publish about 250. If accepted, your article will usually be published within 24 hours of submission (48 hours on weekends).

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.

Tips for getting published on SA

• For U.S. market investors

Write about a  stock, sector, ETF or theme that is actionable for 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 We do not publish pure technical analysis. The more in-depth your analysis, the better the chance of publication. 

• 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.

Due to the large volume of submissions, we are unfortunately not able to publish every seemingly good article. This is one of the reasons we began Instablogs - to allow exposure for articles that don't make it onto the main site.

We strive to maintain an open and constructive dialogue 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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