I got a good laugh today compliments of an email from the administrators of PhatInvestor.com. When I first started trying to get users to the READ section of HEDGEfolios, I asked for it to be included in their aggregation site. That was about 6 months ago and to be honest, since I never heard back from them, I forgot they existed.

Since then, HEDGEfolios has really taken off and some of the bloggers I respect like Charles Kirk, Barry Ritholtz, and TickerSense (see my blogroll) consider my commentary to be a blog. To be honest, as much as I like to write, the READ section is just a mechanism to summarize my thoughts on the market and the individual stocks I cover. I’d much rather be regarded for the database sections of HEDGEfolios and the quality of the UP and DOWN signals that you can find there. To those of you that consider me a blogger, I am not offended but I recommend you try out the rest of the site. To those of you that prefer the signals, I hope you enjoy my blog.

Back to my email from PhatInvestor - here it is in its entirety:

Thanks for submitting your blog to PhatInvestor.
We have reviewed your blog and found that this is not suitable for our directory.

If you have any questions regarding this decision, please write back an email justifying why you should be added

to our directory and how your blog is useful to the financial community.
not a blog

thanks

I replied by thanking them for the laugh and suggested that they contact me if they ever change their mind. I am not holding my breath and I am not going to try to “justify” anything.   In the meantime, I think I will go back to blogging or not blogging, whichever the case may be.  And I do hope that my thing that is “not a blog” is “useful to the financial community” or at least to the part of the community that actually reads it.

By the way, I’ve had a positive experience with the leading finance blog aggregator, Pfblogs.org and they actually consider the READ section worthy of being called a blog. Go figure!