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Author Archives: Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe
“Collect a $6,500 Payday Every Three Months”
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a teaser ad that says you can “collect a $X,000 payday” — and it’s obviously appealing, there aren’t many among us who don’t find their eyes drifting toward a headline like “$6,500 payday,” even if, like your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe, you light your cigars with $100 bills. OK, [...]
“MLP Yielding 10.2% Makes BIG, Bold, Bullish Move!”
Now that even Jim Cramer won’t shut up about Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) as a safer, high-yield, non-euro-exposed investment, perhaps we’ve “jumped the shark” on this investment? It’s always hard to tell — popular investments can always get more popular. But one thing’s for sure, Roger Conrad’s been talking up MLPs for quite a bit [...]
“Has Warren Buffett Gone Mad?” (Hilary Kramer)
That provocative headline is there to get your attention, of course — plenty of folks disagree with Warren Buffett on one thing or another, but few believe him to be “mad.” No, what Hilary Kramer is trying to do is to draw your attention to the fact that Buffett finally bought a tech stock, IBM [...]
“The Mother Lode Adventure: How to make a Fortune From Yukon Gold. “
I wrote recently about the teaser for Matt Badiali’s S&A Resource Report that pitched “the end of Silver” as the world runs out of that metal and prices are forecast (by him, at least) to skyrocket. But in that same teaser ad there was a brief hint about Badiali’s Yukon gold stocks, and so readers [...]
“These Government Bailout Contracts Can Hand You Profits As High As 63.6%, 102.8%, and 350.7% …”
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“The Next Big Thing: 3 Penny Stocks You Must Buy Now!” (Taste of the Friday File)
During our Holiday charitable membership drive I’ve been getting quite a few questions about what it means to be a Stock Gumshoe Irregular — so I thought I’d share another older Friday File for all of you, this is a piece that was originally published in the Friday File in early October, and it so [...]
Navellier’s Stock that will Gain 407% from the “Christmas Internet Outage”
What is this “Christmas Internet Outage” that Louis Navellier is teasing us about? Well, the short answer is that so many folks will get online goodies from Santa that they’ll swamp the Internet. Which is sort of possible, I guess — like most holidays, Christmas web traffic as a general rule is down substantially from [...]
“The Apple partner set for strongest 2012
This particular ad, or one very much like it with a few edits, has been running for about six weeks — it’s a pitch to get you to subscribe to Global Investment Strategist from Yiannis Mostrous ($497, thanks very much), and it’s all about a key Apple (AAPL) supplier. Which has been a hot investing [...]
Help Stock Gumshoe, Help a Good Cause
As we do around the holidays every year, we’re running a combination membership drive/charity campaign for the next few days. If you’ve been considering joining up with the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars, our paid membership, now is the time! If you join (or upgrade — such as from monthly to annual membership) anytime between now and [...]
“Obama’s Blunder: The Sorry Truth About Alternative Energy”
The Foolies are back in our inboxes — or in mine, at least, and I can’t imagine they’re not plying their promises to the rest of you as well. This time, they’re trying to sell subscriptions to their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter, along with their annual special report on stocks for next year. We’ve looked [...]
By Request: Checking up on an old Idea of the Month
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“How the strange disappearance of element ’107′ could make you a fortune”
There’s something about using the atomic number for an element that makes you feel extra smart and exclusive, isn’t there? Or at least, that’s what I’m forced to conclude from the fact that most of the newsletter jockeys appear to delight in intriguing and mysterious references to the “fortune making” fourth element or the “battle [...]
“Retro burger dynamo soars next to McDonald’s with ‘50s flair and modern wi-fi.”
Roger Conrad has been a well known fan of relatively stodgy income stocks for a long time, with his Canadian Edge and Utility Forecaster both ranking among the top income-focused newsletters according to Stock Gumshoe reviewers for most of the past several years. And today’s he’s teasing us with yet another somewhat unusual income investment, [...]
“Early Wal-tirement: How to get in from the Very Beginning. “
Time with family and bloated turkey-filled bellies did nothing to slow down the avalanche of newsletter teaser ads — heck, we even saw plenty of “black Friday” deals for all those folks who are hoping to stuff a newsletter subscription into little Timmy’s Christmas stocking (yay!) But perhaps the most popular one that’s been sent [...]
2011 Turkey of the Year
We have a charming little tradition here at Stock Gumshoe of picking out the stinkiest stock to have been teased over the past year, and calling it our “Turkey of the Year” come Thanksgiving time. It’s not particularly fair — certainly not to turkeys everywhere, and probably not to the newsletter folks who use breathless, [...]
“This Product Could Be Required On Every Electronic Device Made After January 3, 2012″ (Keith Fitz-Gerald)
There’s a bit of a tendency for some newsletter publishers to use military imagery in their letters, to try to convey an image that you’re like a Navy SEAL, sneaking up on your target to dispatch a terrorist leader with maximum prejudice (or, as the case may be, buy a stock and make some money, [...]
David Gardner’s “Ultimate ‘End of America’ Play”
I LOVE this ad. Not just because it’s fun to read, full of hyperbole, and fills our head with dreams of huge investment returns — they all do that. No, I love it because it’s great to see the big newsletter publishers answering each others’ challenges — you’ve certainly seen and heard Porter Stansberry’s “End [...]
Another Little Bite
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November Idea of the Month: OK, NOW the bad news is baked in to the price. Really.
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