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Fixed Payments Based on Supply Scarcity
We offer a fixed payment for articles that focus on a single stock (“primary ticker articles”) where the stock is under-covered. There is a fixed payment of $40 for articles about stocks with fewer than 2 articles (ie. there is one or zero articles about the stock) in the last 30 days.
If a stock has no article written on it for 56 days, instead of earning a $40 fixed fee, the article earns a fixed fee of $41, with the fee climbing by $1 per day from there, to a maximum of $60 if no article has been published on the stock for 75 days. This is true for ETFs as well as stocks.
Variable Payments Based on Consumption by Paid Subscribers
A variable payment is calculated based on how many Premium and PRO subscribers read your article. We set an overall budget each month and divide it into an allocated budget for each subscriber. Each subscriber’s “budget” is then distributed to authors proportionally based on how many articles that subscriber read during the month. The more your articles are read by Premium and PRO subscribers, the more money you will earn. We plan to increase the overall budget over time as our subscriber-base grows.
Notes
Only articles which are exclusive to Seeking Alpha are eligible for payments.
Top Idea articles are excluded from this calculation (absolute exclusion). They receive a fixed payment of $500.
Subscriber page views are counted from all platforms (desktop, mobile web, and mobile apps).
We retain the right to change the fixed payment time-frame and amount at any time.
Earnings for fixed payments will appear on your author board immediately. Variable payments are only finalized at the end of each month. However, an estimated payment is shown mid-month for variable payments. The final number may be higher or lower depending on subscriber readership during the remaining days of the month.
Under-covered stocks display on the eligibility list when the company has a market cap greater than $25M, more than 1,000 symbol page views in the last 90 days and no article written on it within the last 15 days.
Pre-IPOs will be eligible for $60 for the first article regardless of Market Cap & symbol page views.
Recent IPOs with no previous articles will be eligible for a $60 payment if they meet the market cap requirement. The symbol page view requirement does not need to be met.
There is a grace period for publishing an article on the same stock which had a recently published article. If the submission time of the article is within 48 hours of the publish time of the other article, it will still be eligible for 80% of the payment.
