SeekingAlpha.com - Stock Market Opinion & Analysis

Looking for an in depth-coverage of the stock market? Interested in following developments in your industry? Seeking Alpha provides you with stock market opinion and analysis from blogs, money managers and investment newsletters, plus its own financial content. You’ll also find a one page daily summary of top market and stock related stories, hundreds of conference call transcripts, daily summaries of Jim Cramer's stock picks, comprehensive coverage of new IPO filings and a regular housing market roundup. Over 200 finance professionals provide articles for Seeking Alpha. When you search for a stock symbol you’ll find a range of opinions about the stock by money managers, bloggers and newsletters; summaries of important stories about the stock from the Wall Street Journal; transcripts of the most recent conference calls; coverage of competitors who may have filed IPOs recently; and charts showing the stock's comparative performance and valuation to others in its sector. Seeking Alpha allows you to follow and analyze developments in your industry and regularly read the coverage of sectors you are interested in, such as gold or energy and to follow short personal finance tips every day. By signing up for the free email service, you can get articles about stocks in your portfolio and on your watch list automatically sent to you.

“Seeking Alpha was founded by David Jackson, who previously worked as a technology research analyst for Morgan Stanley in New York covering the communications equipment sector. “Alpha” is a finance term referring to a stock's performance relative to the market; it's used more loosely by fund managers to describe beating their index, so every stock picker is "seeking alpha".) Seeking Alpha's editors are tasked with selecting outstanding articles from credible authors and editing them for clarity, consistency and impact. We select the most interesting articles from over 500 contributors, edit them to guarantee quality and consistency, and arrange and tag them so they can be easily found and subscribed to by stock ticker, sector and theme. Because Seeking Alpha's editors have no input into which stocks are covered or the nature of the commentary on them, they are not required to disclose positions in articles they edit.”

Seeking Alpha is a one-stop shop for stock research. But Seeking Alpha is different from other finance sites because it focuses on opinion and analysis rather than news, and is primarily written by investors who describe their personal approach to stock picking and portfolio management rather than by journalists. Seeking Alpha opens possibilities for not just investors, both for advertisers too. Advertisers can reach a select demographic of finance professionals, money managers, research analysts, investment bankers and individual investors.

How they will be able to compete with a growing number of stock forums and online financial communities? How many other sites are competing for the same pool of people? Will they add some other networking features? Are all contributors stock market savvy?