OK, so I’m starting to think that Fyodor Dostoyevsky has been reincarnated as a Motley Fool copywriter — the amount of text they throw into their teaser emails, many of them ten pages long or longer, is a bit ridiculous … I’d say they lead the industry in that category. But more to the point, [...]
The folks at Forbes are out with a new investing newsletter, the aptly titled International Stock Advisory by John Christy. Doesn’t have a track record yet, of course, but at least they’re doing a little teasing about their favorite stocks … so the Gumshoe is on the case! The newsletter will run you about $200 [...]
I think we’ve all probably seen Louis Navellier out there in front of every camera or microphone available recently, thanks to the fact that he’s got a new book out, the Little Book that Makes You Rich, from the same Little Book series that brought us my favorite short investing tome, The Little Book that [...]
Well, I referred obliquely to this one in my writeup of a few days ago, but thought I’d take a closer look and see if I was right in my assumptions. Turns out, I was (for once, at least). The undervalued stock of the month in April, according to the Half Priced Stocks service, was [...]
A commenter noted that Sosnowski has a new pick out that I haven’t yet seen the teaser ads for — I’ll copy the comments here: “Sosnowski has a new teaser – a niche tech company: ‘For example, recently I offered a recommendation on a company that makes a specific $2 part for the Apple iPhone [...]
For the first time in a very long time, there’s a new stock atop the leader board on the Gumshoe Spreadsheet! (The spreadsheet, for those who don’t know, tracks all the picks I’ve sleuthed out in real time, and tells you which ones would have been good buys on the day the email came out, [...]
The following was submitted by loyal Gumshoe reader and Irregular Streetsifter, who has solved and written up a few for us before. Your friendly Gumshoe has done almost no editing, so this is Streetsifter’s work through and through … thanks! Using their words, a “measly dollar” will buy you the solution to the two matching [...]
This one comes in from Andrew Mickey’s Breakaway Investor — we’ve seen a few of his ideas in the past, with mixed results. Not surprising, since a lot of the companies he likes are very small and make for some volatile investing at times. And it’s a good story, whether or not you end up [...]
I spent a few minutes yesterday looking at one of the teaser recommendations from Philip Durell’s Inside Value newsletter at the Motley Fool, and it’s time to move on to the second company that he teased. In the Fool’s words, “It’s another familiar name and a wonderfully run business, but with a twist. You see, [...]
This teaser came in recently for the Motley Fool Inside Value newsletter — the main company they’re teasing as the “next Berkshire Hathaway” hasn’t changed over the past couple years that I’ve been seeing this ad (it’s Markel, as I’ve written about before, and I do own shares of that one), but the secondary teaser [...]
This email came in today from Mark Skousen, and since it’s a quick and dirty one I thought I’d throw it into the mix for y’all. Skousen’s Hedge Fund Trader, which is what’s being advertised here, is predicting that this Brazilian company will report earnings on October 25 and blow the market away. Now, before [...]
So, will the Gumshoe be wrong again? I was very skeptical of J. Christoph Amberger’s plan to buy in to stocks before they IPO in China, as a way of riding the wave of the Chinese stock market’s incredible growth. And the one time I saw a specific teaser that advocated this, I didn’t see [...]
Hi folks — got an interesting one today that came in connected to the “Taipan chart of the day” — the chart itself was actually for Millicom, the fast-growing Latin American cell phone company, and they also talked about Vimpelcom, the phenomenally successful Russian cell phone company. But the meat of the ad was focused [...]
This is one that was sent in by a reader — it’s for a brief teaser that was squeezeed in to the end of a Stansberry & Associates email (the secret societies one that the Gumshoe worked on last week). But this one has nothing to do with secret societies, it’s just another example given, [...]
Well, this is something that doesn’t happen every day: we’ve got a repeat customer for one of the stocks we teased out in the past. This is a new teaser from Karim Rahemtulla for the Xcelerated Profits newsletter, but it happens to be for a stock that was previously recommended, in a poorly timed pre-earnings [...]
OK, so now we close out the list of “The 5 most important ‘Secret Investment Societies’ in America,” according to Porter Stansberry and the gang at Porter Stansberry’s Investment Advisory. If you’d like to see the other four, start here with the Pasadena Investment Society and you’ll see links to the others. These secret investment [...]
OK, so moving on … this one took a little more time, but I think we’ve worked out the ‘The Canary Warf Estate” so it can join the first four secret socieities we’ve sniffed out from the Porter Stansberry Investment Advisory teaser. Here’s what this one owns: Part of Canary Wharf (a big London office [...]
You probably won’t find this shocking, but the Gumshoe is, at heart, a lazy man. So I’m skipping 3 and 4 while I work on them a little more, since they’re gumming up my brain cells, and moving on to the other “easy” teaser from the “secret societies” ad from Stansberry and Associates. This one [...]
So here we go again — I’ve already had a few readers trying to beat me to the punch and figure out the other four “secret societies” teased by the Porter Stansberry Investment Advisory, and this particular one, secret society #2, was suggested by a couple readers. Of course, they didn’t all agree on what [...]
This is a follow-up to our look at the “Pasadena Secret Investment Society,” which teased us with five other holding companies that the Porter Stansberry Investment Advisory thinks are great investments. In the words of Stansberry & Associates, “If you’d like to make a small fortune in America today, we believe the only safe and [...]