[GooberNS]

Because of people who just want to get a few extra clicks with a shocking headline like this:



And then when the market opens real life looks like this:



BlackBerry is actually up not down like the headline.

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[sweetsopi]

When that email was sent, premarket was down the 6%. And premarket is more volatile than normal markets.

[GooberNS]

Yes I know that, thanks. It's the author that perhaps doesn't, or he does and thinks we don't.

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[rthonpm]

Seeking Alpha is barely a step up from Motley Fool in terms of investment advice. With the amount of sloppy analysis coming from the investment houses themselves looking at a third party site where there's even less access to information is nothing more than a fool's errand.

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[Omnitech]

The main reason to dislike them is because seemingly almost any bonehead can submit articles to them.

They don't seem to care as long as you generate clicks.

[Alex Keb]

Boneheads just as good picking stocks than real analysts.

There a was research done a few months back which showed a monkey randomly picking stocks fared better than most hedge funds.

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[KermEd]

Boneheads just as good picking stocks than real analysts.

There a was research done a few months back which showed a monkey randomly picking stocks fared better than most hedge funds.

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The problem is most analysts are self proclaimed or don't really analyze anything these days. And they take a biases approach to analysis.

Analysis can be great but only when the person doing the work gives a darn about the quality and objectivity . And that's rare.

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