The short version
- StocksAce.com is owned and operated by Stock Ships LLC. Ownership is public in the domain's WHOIS record.
- We publish two different things. Editorial content — guides, tools, the glossary — is never paid for by anyone. Sponsored content is paid for by issuers or their agents.
- Every sponsored item carries a Section 17(b) disclosure at the top of the item itself, naming who paid, how much, and in what form. If you don't see that box, nobody paid for what you're reading.
- Sponsored content is advertising. It is one-sided by construction, it is not our opinion, and it is not a recommendation.
- Nothing here is investment advice. We are not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer.
- Small-cap and micro-cap securities can lose all of their value.
1. Ownership
StocksAce.com is owned and operated by Stock Ships LLC. The domain registration is held in the company's name without privacy shielding, so the registrant is verifiable independently.
Stock Ships LLC operates other financial media properties. Currently publishing: Stock Ships (stockships.com), BuybackStocks (buybackstocks.com) and AceTicker (aceticker.com). Each is operated as an editorially independent publication. They do not coordinate coverage, and we do not place links between them for the purpose of influencing search rankings.
Stock Ships LLC additionally holds domains in this sector that are not currently publishing, including marketripper.com, tickerripper.com and stockriot.com. This list is updated if any of them launches.
Common ownership of multiple financial media properties is legal and common. We disclose it because readers are entitled to know it, and because failing to disclose it is the practice that has repeatedly drawn regulatory attention in this sector.
2. Compensation policy
StocksAce publishes two kinds of content, and the distinction between them is the most important thing on this page.
| Editorial | Sponsored | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Guides, tools, the glossary, the newsletter | Paid promotion of a specific company or security |
| Who pays for it | Nobody. Never for sale, at any price | An issuer, or a party acting for one |
| How you can tell | No disclosure box | A red disclosure box at the very top |
| Whose opinion it is | Ours | The payer's. Not ours |
| Names a ticker? | Only to illustrate a mechanism | Yes — that's what was paid for |
Editorial content is never for sale
No payment of any kind buys coverage, inclusion, mention, or favourable treatment in our editorial content. That covers our guides, our calculators, the glossary, and the newsletter. It applies to payment in cash, securities, options, warrants, or anything else, and it applies whether the requested treatment is favourable, neutral or unfavourable.
Where a ticker appears in an editorial piece, it illustrates a mechanism — what a resale registration looks like, how warrant overhang shows up on a chart. It is never a recommendation and never paid placement.
Sponsored content: what we accept
StocksAce does accept paid advertising and sponsored content from public companies and from investor-relations firms, agencies and other parties acting on their behalf. We are telling you this plainly because the alternative — burying it — is what makes most small-cap media untrustworthy.
Standing rules for anything paid:
- Labelled at the top. A prominent disclosure box appears above the content, before you read a word of it. Never only in a footer, never only on this page.
- Full 17(b) terms. Payer, their relationship to the issuer, the amount, the form of payment, the coverage period, and any securities of the issuer held by us or our personnel.
- Cash only. We do not accept payment in the issuer's stock, warrants, options or other securities. Being paid in the thing we are promoting creates an interest in the price that no disclosure fully cures.
- No editorial endorsement. Sponsored material is not reviewed, approved or endorsed by our editorial team as an investment view, and never appears under our editorial byline.
- Never disguised. Sponsored material will not be styled to imitate an editorial guide, will not appear in the guides, tools or glossary sections, and will not be sent as though it were editorial.
- No price targets or performance promises in material we publish, and no claims we have been given no basis to believe.
- We can decline, and do. Payment does not oblige us to publish. See our advertising standards for what we turn down.
Section 17(b)
Section 17(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 makes it unlawful to publish a description of a security for consideration received from an issuer, underwriter or dealer without fully disclosing that consideration and its amount. Our disclosure format is built to satisfy this on its own terms rather than minimally: the box states who paid, the relationship, the amount, and the form.
Mechanically, the disclosure is generated from the record of the deal when the page is built. A sponsored page on this site cannot be published without a complete disclosure attached — it is not left to anyone to remember.
As of the date at the top of this page, no sponsored content has been published on StocksAce. This section describes the policy that will apply when it is.
3. Affiliated businesses
Stock Ships LLC and its principals have interests in other businesses in the financial-communications sector, including an investor-awareness business that receives compensation from public companies for services provided to those companies. That business may place sponsored content on StocksAce on behalf of its clients.
Where that happens, it is treated exactly like any other paid placement and receives no preferential handling:
- The disclosure box names the paying entity and the amount, the same as for an unrelated advertiser.
- It buys no editorial coverage, because editorial coverage is not available for purchase from anyone.
- It does not commission, review, approve or suggest editorial content, and has no access to it before publication.
- Its clients receive no favourable treatment in our guides, tools or glossary.
Common ownership between a publisher and an awareness business is not unusual in this sector. What is unusual is saying so. If you believe you have seen anything on this site inconsistent with the above, tell us: editor@stocksace.com.
4. Not investment advice
StocksAce publishes general educational information about markets, trading mechanics, research methods and public disclosure documents. It is directed at a general audience and takes no account of any individual's financial situation, objectives, risk tolerance or tax position.
Nothing published on this site is:
- A recommendation, solicitation, or offer to buy or sell any security
- Personalised investment, legal, accounting or tax advice
- A statement that any security, strategy or approach is suitable for you
Stock Ships LLC is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner, and no member of its staff is acting as your fiduciary. Consult a qualified professional who knows your circumstances before making an investment decision.
5. Positions and holdings
- Personnel who contribute to StocksAce may hold positions in securities, including small-cap securities.
- Where a specific issuer is discussed substantively and a contributor holds a position in it, that position is disclosed within the content.
- We are not paid in the securities we publish about. Sponsored content is paid for in cash only — never in the issuer's stock, warrants or options.
- The sponsored disclosure box carries a dedicated line stating what securities of that issuer, if any, are held by the publisher or its personnel.
- No contributor trades on the basis of an upcoming publication, and no contributor may establish a position in a security in anticipation of coverage of it — editorial or sponsored.
6. Accuracy, data and limitations
We make a genuine effort to be accurate and to work from primary sources. We do not guarantee accuracy, and you should not rely on this site as your sole source for anything that matters.
Specific limitations worth knowing:
| Item | Limitation |
|---|---|
| Rules and thresholds | Exchange listing standards, FINRA rules and SEC requirements change. Descriptions are current as of the page's last-updated date and may not be current now. |
| Float figures | Vendor estimates, not reported figures. Different vendors disagree materially. |
| Short interest | Reported twice monthly and published on a lag. Always historical. |
| Fundamental data | Reflects the last filed period, which may be months old. |
| Illustrative figures | Examples, screening thresholds and funnel counts in our guides are illustrative starting points, not standards or recommendations. |
| Calculator outputs | Arithmetic performed on figures you supply. Not a valuation, forecast or guarantee. |
Where we make a material error, we correct it on the page with a dated note rather than editing it away silently. Report errors to editor@stocksace.com.
7. No performance claims
We make no claims about investment results — ours, our readers', or anyone else's. We publish no track record, no model portfolio, and no hypothetical or back-tested performance figures. Past performance of any security or strategy does not indicate future results.
8. Third-party links and advertising
We may link to third-party sites — regulators, exchanges, data providers, news outlets. We don't control them and aren't responsible for their content, accuracy or privacy practices.
StocksAce accepts advertising. Two categories, handled differently:
- Issuer-paid content — sponsored material about a specific company or security. Covered by the compensation policy and 17(b) disclosure above.
- Product advertising and affiliate links — brokers, data services, trading tools. These relate to a product or service rather than to a security, and are labelled where they appear. Where a link pays us a commission, that is stated.
As of the last-updated date of this page, the site carries no advertising, no sponsored content and no affiliate links. This section describes the policy that applies when it does.
9. Forward-looking statements
Content on this site may include forward-looking observations about markets, regulation or company behaviour. These are opinions about an uncertain future, not statements of fact, and they carry no guarantee. We undertake no obligation to update them.
10. Risk disclaimer
Investing in equities involves risk, including the loss of principal. Small-cap and micro-cap securities involve substantially greater risk than larger listed companies. Specific risks include, without limitation:
- Dilution — share counts can increase rapidly through offerings, warrant exercises and note conversions
- Illiquidity — thin trading and wide spreads can make positions difficult or impossible to exit at quoted prices
- Volatility — moves of tens of percent in a single session are routine in this segment
- Halts and gaps — stop orders cannot execute during a trading halt, and overnight gaps can exceed any stop level
- Delisting — failure to meet continued-listing standards can move a security to a market with far less liquidity
- Information asymmetry — limited analyst coverage and delayed or delinquent filings
- Total loss — companies in this segment fail, and equity holders are last in line
Never invest money you cannot afford to lose entirely.
11. Jurisdiction
This site is published from the United States and describes US markets, US exchanges and US securities regulation. It is not directed at residents of any jurisdiction where publication or availability would be contrary to local law. If you are outside the United States, the rules described here likely do not apply to you.
12. Contact
Questions about these disclosures, corrections, or concerns about anything published here:
Email: editor@stocksace.com
Postal: Stock Ships LLC, 1007 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304.
These disclosures apply to StocksAce.com. Other properties operated by Stock Ships LLC publish their own disclosures, which may differ; read the disclosures on the site you are reading.