LoadingAlphaYou vs Seeking Alpha Alpha Picks
Read the rules and the cost first.
Alpha Picks is Seeking Alpha's model portfolio: two "Strong Buy" quant-rated stocks a month under published buy and sell rules, aimed at holding for a year or more. Seeking Alpha's own renewal notice puts it at $399 a year. It is a hypothetical portfolio, not a real-money account, and its record is not audited, so judge it on the rules and the cost rather than a headline return.
| The job | AlphaYou | Seeking Alpha Alpha Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Public filings and company context | A quant model portfolio with published rules |
| Cost | Free plan, or Pro at $29 a month or $199 a year | Renews at $399 a year, per Seeking Alpha's notice read Oct 26, 2026 |
| What to inspect | Inspect the filing and the company context | Read the buy rules, the sell rules and the measurement notes |
| Research format | Source-linked records and stock research | Two Strong Buy picks a month with analysis |
| Timing | Source disclosure date is separate from notification speed | Picks near the 1st and the 15th; alert speed not measured here |
| Trade execution | Stock research places no brokerage share orders; user-directed Hyperliquid copy trading is separate | Hypothetical model portfolio; no trades are placed |
Spotting a move is half the job. AlphaYou also lets you act on it: pick a qualified Hyperliquid trader and copy them from an account you own.
0.05% per copied trade, plus Hyperliquid's own fee. No subscription. No profit share.
Copy trading involves risk, including losing your whole deposit on leveraged positions. Past results do not predict future results. Copied results differ from the trader's because of timing, fees and account size. A stop-loss is an instruction, not a guaranteed price, and continuous trading does not guarantee a fill. Availability depends on where you live. Not investment advice.
Two new picks a month, one on the first trading day and one on the 15th or the next trading day. Each comes with analysis, plus the full portfolio, Hold and Sell alerts and webinars with the Quant team. Seeking Alpha says each pick comes from its Quant system's highest-rated ideas and is scored on more than 100 metrics.
At publication each pick must have held a "Strong Buy" quant rating for at least 75 consecutive days, be a U.S. common stock (its list says no ADRs) and not a REIT, have a 3-month average market cap above $500 million and a share price above $10, and not have been recommended in the past year.
Seeking Alpha sells a whole position if the rating falls to Sell or Strong Sell, if it stays at Hold for 180 consecutive days, or if the company becomes an acquisition target or announces a merger of equals. A position that reaches 15 percent of the portfolio is cut back to 10 percent. A stock that has doubled is treated differently: after 180 days at Hold, only the original investment is sold and the gain stays in. Subscribers are told by email when a position is closed or reduced.
Seeking Alpha does not show the Alpha Picks price on its public pages. The subscribe page asks for a free account first. Its renewal notice, read on October 26, 2026, says Alpha Picks renews automatically at $399 a year plus tax. The notice is undated and does not give the first-year price for new subscribers, so check the checkout before you pay.
Premium, whose Strong Buy ratings feed the picks, was listed on October 26, 2026 at $4.95 for the first month for new subscribers, renewing at $299 a year. The pages we read do not say whether Alpha Picks includes Premium.
Alpha Picks is a hypothetical model portfolio. Seeking Alpha says it is not a real-money account, does not reflect actual trading and is not an audited GIPS-compliant product. From July 1, 2022 to July 30, 2024 each pick is assumed bought at the opening price on its pick date and sold at the closing price on its exit date. From July 31, 2024 the model uses volume-weighted average prices. The S&P 500 comparison assumes an equal amount of SPY bought at the open on each pick date, with dividends reinvested.
Seeking Alpha publishes a since-launch comparison with the S&P 500. This review does not reproduce it: it is the provider's own model figure, and a subscriber's results depend on when and at what price each pick was bought.
Three checks. First, the holding period: Seeking Alpha says it aims to hold positions for at least a year, with 2 to 3 trades a month, so the rules fit someone who will hold. Second, the entry: the model's prices are not your fills. Third, the cost against what you will use: two picks a month, the analysis and the alerts. A headline return does not answer any of these.
AlphaYou combines public-source stock activity with stock research. It offers a different investigation workflow, rather than a directly equivalent quant model portfolio. Congress and White House trades are free in full, and Pro is $29 a month or $199 a year. Its pricing page lists the current access limits.
That depends on whether you will hold for a year or more, follow the sell rules and accept a hypothetical record. Compare its rules and cost with what you need. A headline return does not settle it.
Seeking Alpha's renewal notice, read October 26, 2026, says it renews at $399 a year plus tax. The first-year price is shown after you create a free account.
Two a month: one on the first trading day and one on the 15th or the next trading day.
No. Seeking Alpha says it is a hypothetical model portfolio, not a brokerage account and not an audited product.
The September 24 review of its terms described a 30-day membership-fee refund subject to conditions. Read the current terms before subscribing.
No. It explains how the model is measured without reproducing a return figure.
AlphaYou is filing-led stock research, not a model portfolio. The models and holding expectations differ.
Every answer links to its filing.
Funds, Congress and insiders, read the moment they file. Free, and one unsubscribe click.
Written by AlphaYou. Based on the linked product documentation and our current product, reviewed October 26, 2026. This is a workflow comparison, not a head-to-head speed or returns test. Access varies by plan.
