This teaser email comes in from the folks at the Oxford Club, who are selling what sounds like a new service from Alexander Green called the Insider Alert. It normally sells for $2,900, they tell us, but is currently available for $1,011. This service tracks insider buying, as do so many others, and tries to [...]
We’re getting a little bit off the beaten path here — this one was sent to me by a few British readers, though with the enthusiasm that I’ve seen from many of my readers for new energy technology companies I thought there might be some broader interest. The teaser (it’s here if you want to [...]
This teaser comes in from the folks at Stansberry’s Phase 1 Investor service, which is their uber-expensive $5,000 subscription newsletter that purports to find the best opportunities in the smallest stocks. They have developed what they call the L-2 Indicator that tells them when to buy stocks, in this case gold stocks: “the ‘L-2 Indicator’ [...]
Ah, another one from the Motley Fool! Like mother’s milk, it nourishes the Gumshoe so to pore through a ponderous Fool tome in search of clues to great stocks. Today, we’re blessed with a teaser letter for the Hidden Gems newsletter, with the letter coming from Bill Mann, who runs that newsletter in partnership with [...]
OK, so leaving aside the fact that if you ever see a subject line like that in your email, you’re probably better off just deleting it, let’s take a little Gumshoe gander at the latest campaign from Toby Smith’s ChangeWave MicroCap newsletter. For those who don’t know him — and how you could avoid his [...]
Every year I like to grab a big ‘ol pile of the investing magazines and see exactly what predictions they make for the year ahead. Many of them have “buy lists” of a dozen or so companies that they believe will succeed … and, to tell you the truth, it sometimes seems to me that [...]
Hello out there, happy investors of Gumshoe Land! For your pleasure this weekend I thought I’d revisit a couple old teasers that have been making the rounds again, since the emails about them have been piling up and, in some cases, the companies may have gotten more or less interesting. The first one is the [...]
Just wanted to share a few words about this teaser, mostly because I have gotten sooo many emails about this one. Which is not a surprise, of course — it’s no coincidence that this email ad has been circulating heavily over the last couple weeks as investors have nervously been watching the market make wild [...]
Apparently the sexy appeal of hedge funds has not worn off yet for individual investors, because the folks at Stansberry Research keep teasing their deep value picks by comparing them to hedge funds. Last time around it was the “secret penny hedge fund” that turned out to be Winthrop Realty Trust. This time around, the [...]
This one comes in from Karim Rahemtulla, and it’s my favorite kind of teaser: The one where they invent a fancy new term for a relatively commonplace investment strategy, and use it to convince you that the newsletter provides a connection to the deep, hidden world of Wall Street that can unlock the riches that [...]
Just a quick note to let you know that the third high-yield company teased by the Financial Intelligence Report was uncovered last month over at the Stock Gumshoe Forum (sorry, it was one I hadn’t read before or I would have shared it with you earlier). The folks on that thread did a solid job [...]
As I’ve noted a few times before, whenever folks start getting worried about a monster bear market or a recession, teasers for investments that have the ring of safety, and particularly including “income” investments, start coming out of the woodwork. This is one from a service I haven’t looked at before, the Financial
This one came in late last week in a flash email from Robert Hsu for his Asia Edge service — actually the ad was really for the commodities play that he tried to sell us a week or two back, which is written up here, but he added a little box teasing us about his [...]
I was just settling down for a nice teaser read from our friends at Stansberry and Associates — this time teasing the relatively new Advanced Income newsletter from Jeff Clark. And it started to sound a little bit familiar … “It’s the world’s best income secret, perfected by a California Millionaire over the past 20 [...]
This is an ad that I’ve been seeing lately from Neil George at KCI publishing, one of the big newsletter publishers. He edits or works on several different newsletters, but the one in question here is a new one: The Partnership, which seems well positioned to take advantage of recent investor enthusiasm for high yield [...]
“And collect up to $3,000 a month in TAX FREE income starting as early as Feb. 13, 2008.” That’s how a recent email teaser ad from Stansberry and Associates for Steve Sjuggerud’s True Wealth newsletter opens — and this kind of investment is always very appealing for folks when stocks are in crisis mode, as [...]
Ah, I’m back on the horse now after so many days of struggling with boring computer code … and now the Thinkolator can really get a warmup, because we have before us yet another epic tome of teaserdom in the form of a Motley Fool email. This one’s trying to sell us “the unstoppable ‘multimedia [...]
Well, after banging my head against the wall to get new articles posted for you for the past week, to no avail (thanks to those who noticed I was missing!), I’ve had to move the site to new hosting … and I’m taking this opportunity to do a quick on-the-fly redesign, as you’ll probably notice [...]
For the last couple days commodities stocks have been taking a serious beating, including the big lead horse for earnings season, Alcoa, which is down big today. But notwithstanding these few weak days, clearly commodities of all kinds (softs like the grains, metals, energy, even coffee and cocoa) have been shooting out the lights lately. [...]
This one comes in from Agora, selling us Christopher Hancock’s Free Market Investor. Hancock is fairly new on the scene, but I have been intrigued by the one other idea of his that I sleuthed out several months ago (back then he was selling the “Secret Pension Payout Plan.”) You’ll also see this teased as [...]