Looking for Alpha’s Editorial Crew is worked up to announce a brand new article competitors: Greatest Contrarian Thought Competitors
Official Guidelines
No buy or cost is important to enter or win. A purchase order or cost of any type won’t improve your probabilities of profitable.
1. Eligibility
New Article Competitors: Greatest Contrarian Thought Competitors (the “Competitors”) is open solely to analysts who’re eighteen (18) years of age or older on the time of entry. Staff of Looking for Alpha and its respective dad or mum firm, associates, subsidiaries, distributors, gross sales representatives, and all different service suppliers concerned with the Competitors and members of their instant household (partner, mother and father, siblings and kids) and family members (whether or not associated or not) of every such worker aren’t eligible to take part or win. To enter the Competitors or obtain a prize, you could totally adjust to the Official Guidelines and, by getting into, you characterize and warrant that you simply comply with be sure by these Official Guidelines and the selections of the Sponsor, whose choices shall be binding and last in all respects referring to this Competitors. The Competitors is ruled by these Official Guidelines and is topic to all relevant legal guidelines and rules.
2. Sponsor
Looking for Alpha
3. Timing
Competitors begins on July 7 at 12:00 a.m. ET and ends July 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET (“Competitors Entry Interval”).
Vital: All articles have to be submitted (not essentially printed) by the abovementioned date.
4. Find out how to Enter
You have to be a Looking for Alpha analyst. If you’re not an analyst, you’ll be able to register without cost to change into an analyst. There isn’t any price related to registering because the Sponsor’s consumer and turning into an analyst.
Please submit an article coping with the next topic: evaluation of your Greatest Contrarian Thought – (the “Article”). We’re in search of a transparent and compelling thesis that highlights why a inventory is your Greatest Contrarian Thought.
5. Submission pointers
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You’ll be able to submit the Article through a submissions type.
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To be accepted into the Competitors, the Article have to be Unique. For extra details about Unique articles, you will discover right here.
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Please depart a remark within the “Word to the editor” part requesting that your Article be thought-about for the Greatest Contrarian Thought Competitors. With out that observe, the Article won’t be entered within the Competitors.
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Restrict of two (2) Articles per entrant. Any try by any participant to submit extra Articles than permitted by utilizing a number of/totally different registrations or another strategies will void that participant’s Articles and that participant could also be disqualified.
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Use of any automated system to take part within the Competitors is prohibited and can lead to disqualification.
6. Articles Pointers
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Every Article submission is topic to those Official Guidelines, our Article Submission Pointers and our Phrases of Use (“TOU”).
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It is usually beneficial that the Article meet the next pointers:
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The Article ought to current a transparent and compelling thesis that highlights why that is your finest contrarian thought. For big cap and well-known shares, it’s particularly essential on your article to incorporate distinctive and impartial insights.
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Article ought to deal with a inventory that’s tradable in the USA or Canada, for which Looking for Alpha has a ticker web page. The next minimums ought to apply: Shares ought to have a minimal of $200,000 in common each day buying and selling quantity.
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Solely lengthy concepts shall be accepted.
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Micro-cap shares are eligible, however Articles on micro-caps are topic to extra scrutiny. Please examine the common each day buying and selling quantity earlier than writing an article on a micro-cap inventory.
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The Article ought to embrace sections on valuation and dangers.
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Keep away from submitting Articles on shares that you’ve lately written about. The one exceptions are in case your thesis has modified – from bearish to bullish – or there’s a current main occasion or catalyst.
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Extremely suggest that every one monetary knowledge/visuals offered within the Article be within the type of screenshots from Looking for Alpha, hyperlinks to any information/filings (if obtainable), or utilizing YCharts, which is positioned on the precise finish of the toolbar.
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The Article might not function any particular person aside from the entrant except they’ve consent of the opposite particular person/folks which are included.
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The Article might not include, point out, refer or in any other case allude to any materials that’s violent, lewd, obscene, or in any other case include inappropriate content material or objectionable materials.
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The Article can not itself be in violation of any regulation.
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The Article should in any other case be in compliance with these Official Guidelines.
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The Article cannot embrace photographs from unknown supply or with out a particular license from the picture proprietor.
Sponsor reserves the precise to disqualify any Article that Sponsor believes, in its sole discretion, doesn’t adjust to or is in violation of those Official Guidelines or the talked about pointers or that in any other case comprises prohibited or inappropriate content material.
7. Grant of Rights
By getting into the Article, you characterize and warrant (along with your different representations made underneath Sponsor’s different phrases and pointers) that you’ve all proper, title and curiosity essential to grant the Sponsor the worldwide, irrevocable and unrestricted proper and license to adapt, publish, use, edit, create spinoff works and/or modify such Article in any manner and put up the Article on the web or use the Article in another manner and comply with indemnify and maintain Sponsor innocent from any claims on the contrary.
8. Representations and Warranties
You characterize and warrant as follows: (a) You’ve obtained any and all needed permissions required to submit the Article and for Sponsor’s proper to make use of the Article for any goal; (b) the Article is your personal unique work and owned by you; (c) The Article isn’t the topic of any precise or threatened litigation or declare; (d) the Article and any picture it comprises doesn’t and won’t violate or infringe upon the mental property rights or different rights of another particular person or entity, together with, however not restricted to, rights of privateness and publicity; and (e) the Article doesn’t and won’t violate any relevant legal guidelines; (f) You shall adjust to and be sure by these Official Guidelines and the selections of Sponsor that are binding and last in all issues referring to this Competitors.
You hereby comply with defend, indemnify, launch and maintain the Sponsor and its subsidiaries, associates, divisions, companions, representatives, brokers, successors, assigns, workers, officers, administrators and another particular person and group chargeable for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, promoting or selling the Competitors, and all of their respective previous and current representatives (collectively, the “Launched Events”) innocent from and in opposition to any and all third-party claims, actions or proceedings of any type and from any and all damages, liabilities together with however not restricted to negligence and damages of any type to individuals and property prices and bills together with however not restricted to invasion of privateness (underneath appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of personal details, false mild within the public eye or different authorized concept), defamation, slander, libel, violation of proper of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or different mental property rights, or loss of life referring to or arising out of any breach or alleged breach of any of those warranties and representations, these Official Guidelines, another Sponsor’s phrases and pointers or the relevant legal guidelines and rules.
9. Winner Dedication
After the top of the Competitors Entry Interval, a panel of judges decided by Sponsor in its sole discretion will choose the three (3) finest Articles from amongst all eligible Articles that have been submitted, primarily based on an utility of the next two standards:
If there’s a tie between two or extra Articles for one of many prime three spots, the one entrant that scored larger for the primary standards will win.
POTENTIAL WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL FROM THE SPONSOR AND WILL BE REQUIRED TO RESPOND WITHIN 72 HOURS OF NOTIFICATION, OR TIME OTHERWISE STATED IN THE COMPETITION WINNER NOTIFICATION.
Failure by a possible winner to answer any contact inside the acknowledged timeframe will lead to disqualification, and Sponsor will choose an alternate potential winner in the identical method.
The potential winner shall even be disqualified from the Competitors in one of many following: (a) potential winner can’t be reached for no matter motive after an affordable effort has been exerted, or the potential winner notification is returned as undeliverable, (b) potential winner declines or can not settle for, obtain or use the prize for any motive, (c) of noncompliance with these Official Guidelines or any of the aforesaid phrases or time intervals, (d) potential winner is discovered to be ineligible to enter the Competitors or obtain the prize, (e) tampering with the entry course of or the operation of the Competitors, or with any web site selling the Competitors, (f) getting into or trying to enter the Competitors a number of instances by way of using a number of e-mail addresses or using any robotic or automated gadgets to submit entries.
If Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, that technical difficulties or unexpected occasions compromise the integrity or viability of the Competitors, Sponsor reserves the precise to void the entries at subject, and/or terminate the related portion of the Competitors, together with your complete Competitors, and/or modify the Competitors and/or award the prize from all eligible entries obtained as of the termination date.
Sponsor reserves the precise to change the notification procedures in reference to the number of alternate potential winners, if any.
The winner’s username shall be printed on the Sponsor’s web site.
Restrict of 1 prize per particular person.
SPONSOR’S DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE ADMINISTRATION, OPERATION, SELECTION OF THE WINNER AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE COMPETITION.
10. Prizes
First Prize: US$1,500
Second Prize: US$1,250
Third Prize: US$1,000
For all Prizes: Prize is non-transferable, and any substitution shall be made on the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the precise to substitute the listed prize for one among equal or better worth for any motive. The winner is chargeable for all taxes and charges related to prize receipt and/or use, in addition to another prices and bills not specified herein as being awarded are the only accountability of the Winner. For analysts primarily based within the USA—the winner could also be required to finish and return an IRS W-9 type (i.e. Request for Taxpayer Identification Quantity and Certification).
Prize awarding pointers:
Sponsor and its subsidiaries, associates, companions, representatives, brokers, successors, assigns, workers, officers and administrators shall not have any obligation or accountability, together with any accountability to award any prize to you, with regard to:
(a) Entries that include inaccurate data or don’t adjust to or violate these Official Guidelines or the talked about phrases or pointers
(b) Entries, prize claims or notifications which are misplaced, late, incomplete, illegible or in any other case not obtained, in entire or partially due to laptop, human or technical error of any type
(c) Entrants who’ve dedicated fraud or deception in getting into or collaborating within the Competitors or claiming the prize
(d) Phone, digital, {hardware}, software program, community, Web or laptop malfunctions, failures or difficulties
(e) Any incapacity of the winner to simply accept the prize for any motive
(f) If a prize can’t be awarded because of delays or interruptions because of Acts of God, pure disasters, terrorism, climate or another related occasion past Sponsor’s affordable management
(g) Any damages, accidents or losses of any type brought on by any prize or ensuing from awarding, acceptance, use, lack of any prize or ensuing from collaborating on this Competitors or any promotion or prize associated actions
11. Publicity
Besides the place prohibited or restricted by regulation, winner’s acceptance of prize constitutes the winner’s settlement and consent for Sponsor and any of its designees to make use of and/or publish winner’s username, worldwide and in perpetuity for any and all functions, together with, however not restricted to, promoting, commerce and/or promotion on behalf of Sponsor, in any and all types of media, now recognized or hereafter devised, with out additional limitation, restriction, compensation, discover, evaluate, or approval.
12. Limitations of Legal responsibility
The Launched Events aren’t chargeable for: (a) any incorrect or inaccurate data, whether or not brought on by you, printing errors or by any of the gear or programming related to or utilized within the Competitors; (b) technical failures of any type, together with, however not restricted to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in telephone strains or community {hardware} or software program; (c) technical or human error within the administration of the Competitors or the processing of registrations; (d) any harm or injury to individuals or property which can be brought about, straight or not directly, in entire or partially, out of your participation within the Competitors or receipt of any prize. If for any motive your registration is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, misplaced, or in any other case destroyed or corrupted, your sole treatment is one other entry within the Competitors.
13. Disputes
Besides the place prohibited, by collaborating, you agree that every one points and questions regarding the development, validity, interpretation, administration, and enforceability of the Official Guidelines, or your rights and obligations or those of the Sponsor shall be ruled by and construed completely in accordance with the legal guidelines of the state of New York with out giving impact to any rules of conflicts of regulation of any jurisdiction, you comply with be topic to jurisdiction within the courts of New York County, New York and agree that every one disputes relating in any method to this Competitors have to be resolved within the courts of New York. You agree to not elevate the protection of discussion board non comfort.
You additionally agree and that: (a) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of actions arising out of, or linked with the Competitors, shall be resolved individually, with out resort to any type of class motion; (b) You hereby waive all rights to say punitive, incidental and consequential damages and another damages, (aside from for precise out-of-pocket bills) and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or in any other case elevated.
Better of luck! When you’ve got any questions, please contact the Analysts Success Crew straight at analysts@seekingalpha.com.
