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21Mar2014

Seeking Alpha Caught In Small Cap Stock Crosshairs, Faces Einhorn

The financial news web site SeekingAlpha.com has itself, quite unusually, been the subject of news for some rather significant issues recently. The site was subject of an academic study that touted the success of its contributing writers in determining the direction of stock prices.  Great news, except in the following days Seeking Alpha was included as one of the targets in a Fortune magazine article that questioned authors on the site who were paid to write articles by those seeking to promote certain stocks. Seeking Alpha, in an interview with ValueWalk, addressed the problem, noting they are implementing more sophisticated...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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