Flagler Financial Group

Publishes “special reports” for subscribers on investment ideas, appears to have an irregular schedule. Print this

123 Advisor

IPO-focused advisory service. Print this

“The Great Bull Market in Silver Has Begun! And This Jr. Mining Company Is THE Best Way To Profit From The Surge.”

That headline sits atop a teaser ad that I started receiving on Tuesday this week from Tim Fields for his Untapped Wealth newsletter. Now, I should warn you up front that this newsletter has recommended some real doozies in the past, like that silly “forever battery,” and they’ve gotten involved in some stock promotion that [...]

“The Smart Grid: Bigger than Bill Gates”

Those of you who’ve been around the block with the Gumshoe a few times know that I’m always a little bit skeptical of most of the newsletter promotions I read, but I tend to give a wee bit of extra scrutiny to the stuff from Untapped Wealth — partly because they are responsible for the [...]

“Two Years from Now Life Without It Will Be Unimaginable…”

That’s the line that opens this teaser letter from Tim Fields for his Untapped Wealth newsletter. And if you’ve been with the Gumshoe from the very beginning, way back in the Spring of 2007, it might sound a little bit familiar. Because back then, over two years ago, he was sending out an almost identical [...]

Can You Trust a Teaser?

Most of us are quite familiar with investment newsletters and trading services. I focus on the newsletters that advertise heavily to retail investors, and the most successful type of ad is apparently the “teaser” letter, a well-argued case for a particular stock or investment … that withholds the actual name and ticker until you throw [...]

“At $4, this is a dream stock at a bargain price …”

Tim Fields is telling us that the next big wave will be personalized medicine, and using genetic testing to customize treatments. We’ve heard that before from several newsletter editors, and it has been an investment theme for years. Will this little stock really revolutionize medicine and lead to untold riches for investors? First, I’ve got to figure out who it is for you.

Forever … and ever … and ever … the Forever Battery

The Forever Battery newsletter teaser is back, still going strong … not unlike our friendly little Energizer Bunny, I suppose. I’ve seen quite a few emails on this one recently, and the ad is almost identical to the one I first saw back in early April. It’s an ad for Untapped Wealth, and unlike some [...]

Untapped Wealth Pushes the Envelope … in a bad way

I’ve looked at plenty of teaser email ads from Untapped Wealth over the last year or so — if you’re not familiar with these folks, this is a newsletter run by Tim Fields and Eric Dickson, and it’s described as the “flagship” publication of Trinity Research, one of a half-dozen or so relatively large financial [...]

“The Forever NanoBattery: Makes old batteries obsolete and investors wealthy”

This one has come up in questions from readers quite a few times over the past few weeks that it’s been circulating, and the shares have already moved up a little bit with the company trying to get some press coverage tomorrow as they demonstrate their technology. So now seemed like a good time to [...]

“Geothermal Energy: A situation you can’t ignore!”

Tim Fields and Eric Dickson over at Trinity Research have been selling subscriptions on the back of geothermal investing for a little while, and they’ve got a new brief “teaser” out about their pick for this sector. Geothermal energy is nothing new to the Gumshoe Faithful, of course, and those of us who’ve been paying [...]

Chinese Real Estate and the Tardy Gumshoe

I think we’ve probably all heard the big arguments about investing in China, but this particular teaser brings two specific points to mind: first, that the savings rate is huge in China; and second, that the Chinese have essentially nowhere to invest except in property or in the domestic stock market. And we’ve all seen [...]