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Author Archives: Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe
“The Google of Natural Gas, with a Game-Changing Innovation That Could Hand You a 157% Gain!”
A quick one for you today, as much to distract me from personal issues as to help sniff out an interesting investment idea for you. The pitch is from Sean Brodrick for his Red-Hot Global Resources newsletter that’s published by Weiss, we’ve looked at some of his teaser picks before — most recently a bunch [...]
Add-on Purchase of an Old Favorite
Small increase to a past "idea of the month" holding.
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“The Single Most Profitable Company in the Oil Patch Today” Revealed
The latest teaser from Keith Schaefer for his Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin has spurred quite a bit of chatter among Gumshoe readers, including questions from Irregulars and some speculation about possible matches … … so I thought it was high time to put the Thinkolator to work sniffing out this water-related oil services stock. [...]
“The Next Big Thing … Be Among the First”
The folks at the Money Map Press are pitching one of those “kitchen sink” deals where you pay up front to get all of their newsletters for life — these are usually in the neighborhood of $3,000-5,000 with an “annual maintenance fee” that’s generally around a hundred bucks, and this one is right in line [...]
Annual Review: The Big List
Compiled list, in order of affection, of our past "Idea of the Month" picks with updated opinions
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“Insider Pumps $31.6 Million into this Company as The Stock is Ready to Sky Rocket on February 13″
Mark Skousen has spent the past few days touting a stock that’s supposed to skyrocket TODAY — and your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe was busy lolling about over the weekend, so we’re just getting to it now. And don’t worry, the stock is actually down a bit over the last week or so, so if there’s [...]
Annual Review — Insurance, tech, and all the rest
Finishing up our "buy, sell or hold" survey of past "Idea of the month" stocks.
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Annual Review — Emerging Markets Ideas
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Annual Review — Commodities Stocks and Related Picks
Continuing the annual update of opinion on past "idea of the month" picks.
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“A Silver Company You Need to Own NOW” (Dudley Pierce Baker)
I don’t believe I’ve ever written about Dudley Baker and his Precious Metals Warrants subscription service, but several folks sent in his latest pitch for subscribers, and it has exactly the kind of teaser promise that we love to unravel, so I thought I’d have a look for you. Baker has been a warrants/options/futures trader [...]
“Canada’s Game-Changing Mine” (Alternative Energy Speculator tease)
If you have a pulse and an email address, odds are pretty good that you’ve seen the ad from Angel Investing for their “game-changing mine” discovery in Canada as they tease and tease and tease to get new subscribers for Alternative Energy Speculator … and frankly, the pulse is optional. I wrote about this pick [...]
Re-building a Position
Tax-losses harvested, time to buy again.
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Nick Vardy’s “Never-Wrong Indicator” Predicts Dow 15,000 by October
Nicholas Vardy has a splashy new ad out predicting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will hit 15,014 by October of this year — which would be about a 17% gain from today’s price (the DOW is at 12,880 or so right now). And naturally, he’s got the best way for you to profit from [...]
Doug Casey’s “Fortunes in the New World”
There’s been a big push on in recent days for subscriptions to some of Doug Casey’s newsletters, with the ad that I’ve been most recently asked about being for a “combo deal” that gets you subscriptions to Casey International Speculator and their flagship Casey Report (for a “discount” price, naturally, though it renews at a [...]
Annual Revisit: Income Ideas (Part two)
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“‘Privatized TIPS’ … absolutely dominate inflation … leave oil, gold and everything else in the dust”
This ad is not exactly brand new, but folks have been sending in queries about it for a few weeks, and pretty steadily, so I thought I’d try to get some answers out for you. The pitch is from Ian Wyatt, who’s trying to sell his Top Stock Insights newsletter by throwing in a “special [...]
Top Stocks and “Buffett No Brainers” For 2012 (Paul Tracy)
There was a lot of interest in the “Top Ten Forever Stocks” that Paul Tracy was pitching last year, partly because people love the idea of a “buy and hold forever” pick that will perform for them just like their grandmother’s 100 shares of IBM from 1962 that bought her a nice condo in Florida [...]
“Magic Drug” Oil Recovery Technique Brings “$31.5 Billion Bonanza?”
Today it’s time to come back to Chris Mayer, who’s teasing a small oil stock with a “magic drug” and that owns a massive $31.5 billion “oil bonanza” right here in the US of A. Sounds intriguing, right? Several of my readers thought so and passed it along, so let’s see if we can sleuthify [...]
“The Secret ‘Mutual Fund’ that NEVER GOES DOWN”
Steve Sjuggerud is teasing us with something genuinely compelling as he urges us to subscribe to his True Wealth newsletter: investments that NEVER go down. Really? Yep, his pitch is that he has three kinds of investments that, if taken together, can be considered to be a “mutual fund” that never goes down. They’re not [...]