About StocksAce

Why this site exists

There is an enormous amount of content aimed at people who trade small and micro-cap stocks, and almost all of it is about which stock. Very little of it is about how the instrument works.

That gap costs people real money. An investor who cannot tell a primary offering from a resale registration, or who doesn't know what an at-the-market programme is, is not going to be saved by a better pick. They are going to be diluted by a filing that was public two weeks before it mattered.

So StocksAce covers the plumbing. It is less exciting than a watchlist and considerably more durable.

What we publish

• Long-form guides on screening, market mechanics, risk management and SEC filings. Each is written to be complete enough that you don't need to read five more articles afterwards.
• Free browser-based tools — calculators that run locally, store nothing, and require no account.
• An email list, The Ace Playbook: one mechanic explained, one research tip, one filing worth understanding — sent when there is something worth sending, not on a schedule.

What we don't publish

When a ticker appears in our editorial content, it is illustrating a concept — what a resale registration looks like, how warrant overhang shows up on a chart. It is never a suggestion to trade it, and nobody has paid for it to be there.

We do also publish sponsored issuer content, which is advertising and is marked as such. It sits behind a red disclosure box naming who paid and how much, it never carries our editorial byline, and it never appears in the guides, tools or glossary. Our editorial standards set out exactly where that line runs.

Who we are

StocksAce.com is owned and operated by Stock Ships LLC. Our registrant details are public in the WHOIS record for this domain; we don't use privacy shielding.

Stock Ships LLC operates other financial media properties. They are run as editorially independent publications with their own voice and coverage, and they do not exchange links or coordinate coverage. Currently publishing:

• Stock Ships (stockships.com)
• BuybackStocks (buybackstocks.com)
• AceTicker (aceticker.com)

Stock Ships LLC also holds other domains in this sector that are not currently publishing, including marketripper.com, tickerripper.com and stockriot.com. If any of them launches, it will be added to this list and to our disclosures.

We list them because you're entitled to know who publishes what you read, and because common ownership across financial media is far more prevalent than it appears from the outside. Our disclosures page covers the affiliated-business relationships that matter more than shared ownership of a domain name does — specifically, our relationship to an investor-awareness business that does receive compensation from public companies, and the firewall between it and this site.

How this site makes money

Honestly: right now, it doesn't. StocksAce is early, and no advertising or sponsored content has run on it yet.

The model is advertising — including sponsored content paid for by public companies and their agencies — alongside product advertising and, in time, paid educational products.

Plenty of publishers in this sector do the same thing and arrange the site so you can't tell. Our answer is structural rather than a promise about our own restraint:

• Editorial is not for sale at any price. Guides, tools, the glossary and the newsletter cannot be bought into. Not by an advertiser, not by an affiliated business, not by anyone.
• Paid content is fenced off and labelled at the top, with the payer and the amount named, per Section 17(b).
• The disclosure is generated by the publishing system, not by a person. A sponsored page on this site cannot be built without a complete disclosure attached.
• We take cash, not stock. We won't be paid in the securities we're promoting.

If you want the detail, it's all in our disclosures, and what we accept and refuse is in our advertising standards.

Editorial standards

1. Primary sources. Filings, exchange rules and regulator publications — not a summary of a summary.
2. Stated uncertainty. Where data is estimated, stale or vendor-dependent — float figures and short interest above all — we say so rather than presenting a clean number.
3. Corrections in place. Material errors are corrected on the page with a note, not quietly edited away.
4. No fabricated credibility. No invented track records, no testimonials we didn't receive, no reviews written by us or on our behalf.
5. Dated content. Every guide carries a visible last-updated date, because rules change.

Get in touch

Corrections, questions, and requests for topics are all welcome at editor@stocksace.com. Corrections get priority. See our contact page for what we can and can't respond to.