Great new research tool at Seeking Alpha
Some of you have noticed that occasional articles from this space are being republished on Seeking Alpha, which is a site run by David Jackson that compiles investing commentary from nearly a hundred authors -- most of them much wiser than me.
There's a great new tool now available from Seeking Alpha -- you can now get a Firefox toolbar plugin for SA that will let you pull up any articles from the site that match a particular ticker without taking the extra step to navigate to seekingalpha.com. As an example, this is what the page for GOL looks like (I'm the only one actively writing about it so far).
I can tell from the site statistics I get that less than a third of you are using Firefox. I'd encourage everyone who is allowed to choose the browser they use to switch -- Internet Explorer is dramatically inferior and slower, in my opinion, and this Firefox toolbar is one part of the reason. The toolbar gives you a little search box that will let you enter a search into Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Amazon, Seeking Alpha, or, using plugins that are released almost daily, any one of hundreds of other content rich sites online.
The other dramatic difference with Firefox, one that I've grown addicted to, is tabbed browsing. You can easily open dozens of other sites without opening any more windows. For research purposes, it's a fabulous way to keep track of a lot of links while reading useful articles -- just right click on each link and open them in a new tab to go back and read later. Microsoft's next version of IE will likely have this and Safari has it in a non-free package for the Mac ... but why wait or pay?
You can download Firefox by clicking on the orange link at the top left of the page, or by going directly to the Mozilla foundation (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/updated). If you use the link from my page I get a small referral fee, but either way works fine.
Once you've downloaded Firefox and are running it, use it to go to this page to get the plugin -- all you have to do is click on the Seeking Alpha link and the plugin will be installed immediately (you'll have to click to approve in the dialog box, but that's it). Then go to the tool bar, enter a ticker, and click on the little arrow to select the SA search, and your page of useful articles on that stock from Seeking Alpha contributors will come right up.
Great work, David -- thanks for making your excellent site that much more useful.
And apologies for two posts in a row that aren't about companies or stocks, but I think many of us can profit from learning about new sources of investing information. I'll get back to my portfolio for the next article.
There's a great new tool now available from Seeking Alpha -- you can now get a Firefox toolbar plugin for SA that will let you pull up any articles from the site that match a particular ticker without taking the extra step to navigate to seekingalpha.com. As an example, this is what the page for GOL looks like (I'm the only one actively writing about it so far).
I can tell from the site statistics I get that less than a third of you are using Firefox. I'd encourage everyone who is allowed to choose the browser they use to switch -- Internet Explorer is dramatically inferior and slower, in my opinion, and this Firefox toolbar is one part of the reason. The toolbar gives you a little search box that will let you enter a search into Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Amazon, Seeking Alpha, or, using plugins that are released almost daily, any one of hundreds of other content rich sites online.
The other dramatic difference with Firefox, one that I've grown addicted to, is tabbed browsing. You can easily open dozens of other sites without opening any more windows. For research purposes, it's a fabulous way to keep track of a lot of links while reading useful articles -- just right click on each link and open them in a new tab to go back and read later. Microsoft's next version of IE will likely have this and Safari has it in a non-free package for the Mac ... but why wait or pay?
You can download Firefox by clicking on the orange link at the top left of the page, or by going directly to the Mozilla foundation (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/updated). If you use the link from my page I get a small referral fee, but either way works fine.
Once you've downloaded Firefox and are running it, use it to go to this page to get the plugin -- all you have to do is click on the Seeking Alpha link and the plugin will be installed immediately (you'll have to click to approve in the dialog box, but that's it). Then go to the tool bar, enter a ticker, and click on the little arrow to select the SA search, and your page of useful articles on that stock from Seeking Alpha contributors will come right up.
Great work, David -- thanks for making your excellent site that much more useful.
And apologies for two posts in a row that aren't about companies or stocks, but I think many of us can profit from learning about new sources of investing information. I'll get back to my portfolio for the next article.
This article posted by One Guy @ 3/16/2006 10:18:00 AM 1 comments
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