The Contrarian Edge

Substack by Patrick Martin · launched Aug 4, 2025

A Schaeffer's publication. A place for against-the-grain investing ideas, options observations, and general life musings.

Top in Finance
#229
Followers
12K
Recommends
2

other newsletters

Growth history

Subscribers (thousands, nightly)

12K on Sep 10, 2026 → 12K on Oct 21, 2026

Followers (thousands, nightly)

Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #229 today · #231 a week ago · #261 a month ago

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 62 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile
Top 44%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen
#227

on Nov 9, 2026

Rank, 7 days
+2 places
Rank, 30 days
+32 places
Followers added
−284

since tracking began

Posts
3

last 30 days

Reactions per post
6

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked
127

across 20 posts

Tickers covered
2

in tracked posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: One Stock to Watch If This is a Dead Cat Bounce — 10 reactions on Aug 1, 2026.

The Contrarian Edge — rank, subscribers and growth, tracked by Stock Market Watch
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Data: Substack public leaderboards and publication archives, refreshed nightly, plus public beehiiv sitemaps and recommendation pages, refreshed weekly. Source for this page: The Contrarian Edge. Subscriber counts are Substack’s own rounded public figures, so week-on-week changes move in steps. beehiiv audience sizes are self-reported by the publisher and are not verified. Last snapshot: Nov 10, 2026.