These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. Most investors know Muddy Waters and Carson Block, who build his short-selling investment portfolio by pulling away the veil that covered up the many China frauds several years ago, […]
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It seems we’ve officially entered a period of another “Fed Put” — Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s statements yesterday were widely interpreted to mean that there will be no interest rate hikes this year, or maybe ever again, and that the Fed will stop its “quantitative tightening” in six months or so, leaving a huge and […]
These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. Kerrisdale Capital is a little bit unusual — they are a value-oriented investment manager, but they also publish pretty heavily, including on their own free email distribution list and […]
So what’s going on in the world this week? Uranium caught my eye… dominant uranium miner Cameco (CCJ) is suspending production at some of their Saskatchewan operations, so the other uranium names took that as a good sign, with the juniors in the space seeing their stock prices pop (the whole sector, as represented by […]
OK, I know, it’s getting a little ridiculous that I still haven’t covered the whole portfolio of stocks with my annual review updates — but for some I’m waiting to see what the quarterly update tells me, and for others, well, I’m just trying to catch up. Here’s what I’ve got for you by way […]
That’s the headline of the latest ad for the Oxford Club, which is teasing us with a special report on the “Black Ops Resource” and the huge wealth it will create for you and yours. And no, you can’t be cynical yet — it’s only January 5th, for pete’s sake! Let’s read the ad with […]
I got stuck in a writing quagmire today, so no new teaser solution for you — but we’ve got one from February that’s still relevant that we can share. It first appeared in a Friday File for our Irregulars on February 22, and I’ve continued to get questions about it over the past couple months. […]
Today we’re going to start you out with a quickie teaser solution, and I’m going to keep it quick mostly because this one is largely a connect-the-dots guess, given the limited number of clues that were dropped in the ad. The ad is from Marin Katusa, who went off on his own after leaving Casey […]
China stocks are back, but China newsletters not so much. That’s a little bit unusual, actually — typically, newsletter publishers are quick to produce new “niche” letters or repurpose faltering letters to take advantage of big swings in the market, and just as quick to shut those newsletters down if that “niche” loses the interest […]
There’s no shortage of long-winded teaser pitches to sit through today, but we haven’t looked at an energy teaser in a while… so let’s check out this latest spiel from Christian DeHaemer about “Energy Megafields” and see if the Thinkolator can identify some interesting oil and gas stocks for you to research. We’ve looked at […]
Stephen Leeb is teasing a new pick that is, you guessed it, “top secret” for his subscribers only … But we prefer, of course, to figure out these “hot” new ideas for free — there’s no reason not to subscribe to a newsletter here and there if you like them or learn something from them, […]
Brad Hoppmann at Uncommon Wisdom Daily is pitching his “entry level” Cash Flow Kings newsletter by promising two “secret” investments that will help you profit from the “Fall of the Wall” … so what’s he talking about? Well, the “Wall” is, of course, his metaphor for what a lot of folks, particularly the small investors […]
This ad has been running again and generating a lot of questions from Gumshoe readers, so we’re re-posting the answer here. The article below has not been updated or revised since it was published on July 20, 2015, other than an update to the Irregulars “Quick Take” box and an updated disclosure at the bottom […]
David Galland at Casey Research sent out an email last night that has lots of Gumshoe readers guessing — it’s a bit of an odd “stream of consciousness” walk around the offices at Casey Research to check on the “abundance of opportunities” his team sees across all of the sectors they follow with their various […]
Anatabloc at GNC Star ScientificI have been on Anatabloc for two months and it has changed my life completely. Anatabloc nutraceutical supplement available at GNC Thyroid Thyroid / Thyroiditis Overview In the USA alone over 70 million THYROID prescriptions are written at a value of about $2 billion; it’s the 4th most prescribed prescriptions for any disease. In the […]
[ed note: We got a lot of questions about this pitch after we solved a different DeHaemer teaser yesterday, so we’ve brought it up for all to see again. The stock spiked up in the Spring, a few months after this article first ran back in January, but has come back down to a bit […]
New Jersey just OK’ed online gambling. Nevada will soon go full tilt, as well. As my state (Maryland) is doing every thing legal to compete with casinos in West Virginia, I believe that over the next few years, most states that currently allow lotteries and gambling will not want to fall behind their neighboring states […]
“One unique type of gold investment (that most Americans have never heard of) based in British Columbia has outperformed every asset class in existence – rising twice as fast as gold. “The average investor in this gold secret made over 80% a year for 20 straight years – even after gold crashed last year. “But […]
I was reading earlier today about Porter Stansberry’s aggressive short bet against the computer hard drive makers, who seem to have been the canaries in the coal mine regarding computer sales for several years — and at the same time I received a teaser from Louis Navellier for his Blue Chip Growth teasing that the […]
This latest pitch coming through from the Wealth Daily folks, for Jimmy Mengel’s The Crow’s Nest advisory, has caught the attention of plenty of Gumshoe readers — it starts with a long spiel about tapping into the “secret” holdings of billionaires by using a SEC disclosure rule that these rich folks are all fighting tooth […]
The folks at Unconventional Wealth do make an effort to be, well, unconventional — over the years they’ve been pretty aggressive at pitching alternative investment ideas like stamps and other collectibles, but they also do pick the odd stock now and then. And, of course, tease us about it until we feel compelled to find […]
Tom Dyson at the Palm Beach Letter has generally been a relatively low-risk, income-focused guy — he used to run the 12% Letter for Stansberry, before starting Palm Beach Letter with Mark Ford a couple years ago, and for a newsletter guy he does relatively little of the “swing for the fences” stuff. Not that […]
[Ed. Note: Here is the latest contribution from Dr. KSS, who writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biomedical stocks. As always, he has agreed to our trading restrictions and his words and thoughts are his own.] The Belle of the Everglades How To Profit From The Cure First of Two Parts Of the many […]
As of May 14, Leeb is also now pitching this as a major holding of the “other Oracle of Omaha”, though the rest of the ad is mostly unchanged… that’s a reference to fund manager Wally Weitz, who I mention more below and whose funds are large holders of the stock teased. Stephen Leeb has […]
A pre-emptive tease: no newsletters are yet touting this company, but like many stocks that they do tease, it is small, cheap, almost unknown, and even has the exotic appeal of being Australian. Sort of. At Stock Gumshoe we not only deconstruct pitched stocks, we find teasable stocks before the newsletters do! Let’s return to […]
[ed note: Longtime commenter and reader Dr. KSS, a medical doctor and biotech investor, has agreed to share his thoughts with the Irregulars as one of our guest authors, educating us on health and medicine and sharing some of his biotech investing ideas. He has agreed to the same basic trading restrictions as other paid […]
[Ed. Note: Here is our second installment from Dr. KSS, formerly known as “karmaswimswami” in Gumshoe discussion threads. Dr. KSS has agreed to our trading and disclosure restrictions, and he’s not offering you personal investment or medical advice. As with all of our columnists, we don’t assign topics or opinions and do just a bit of light […]
These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. Daniel Miller runs the “Focus five” portfolio at Gabelli, which is designed to overweight a small number of the very best ideas that that money management shop. They look […]
These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. Kerrisdale Capital is a little bit unusual — they are a value-oriented investment manager, but they also publish pretty heavily, including on their own free email distribution list and […]
[Ed. note: Today we have another article from Jim Skelton, the Blind Squirrel, who writes to share what he learned about investing in his many years in the trenches as a financial advisor. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, the opinions he expresses are his own, and we haven’t reviewed, approved or screened his […]
I bought a few more shares of Altius Minerals today, after looking into them and Sandstorm Gold following some recent reader questions, and I’ll get to that in a moment … but first, I thought I’d toss out a quick Friday File teaser solution for you if you’re curious about what’s being teased in China […]
This is going to be a quickie for our friends across the pond — according to the info we receive from the Google overlords, the UK edges out Australia for being the land where Stock Gumshoe is most popular outside of the US and Canada, so we do like to look at the occasional pitch […]
Usually when you hear “little-known Canadian stock” you think, “hey, that’s probably some miner lying about their assay samples out of a storefront office in Vancouver” … but this one’s a little different. To start with, it’s not a mining stock, and has nothing to do with gold or tar sands or pipelines or any […]
That “top stock” headline is the promise of Ian Wyatt, not myself, just to be clear. Wyatt and Taylor Laundon put out a letter called Top Stock Insights, the text of the ad for that letter says it’s from Taylor and the letter is “signed” by Ian Wyatt, so I guess we’ll assume it’s a […]
Today I’m selling my shares of Golar LNG (GLNG), at the market price at the open (just letting you know this up front to be as transparent as possible, since I’m sending out my note before the market opens — normally I’d use limit orders). Why? Well, because they announced tremendous weakness in the business […]
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Well, after spending last month catching up and revising my thoughts and opinions about the dozens of stocks I’ve covered for the Irregulars in this space, it’s time to again look for something interesting for your consideration. First, I should let you know that I’ve become less worried about about Seadrill (SDRL) this week after […]
I’ll warn you up front: if you’ve been sailing the seas with us here on the good ship Gumshoe for more than a couple years, you’ve already seen this one. But Benjamin Shepherd at the Global Investment Strategist is now saying that it’s “The One Stock You Must Buy in 2014” so I thought we […]
I’ve been putting out my updated thoughts on each of our Irregulars spreadsheet companies (mostly past “Idea of the Month” stocks) over the last couple weeks, and now that I’m done looking at all of the “Speculations” on that list I thought I should combine them into one document to make it a bit easier […]
Well, we took a brief break yesterday but I’m now back at it — looking at Hilary Kramer’s “Barn Burner” pitches for her Breakout Stocks Under $10 newsletter. The basic idea, if you’ll recall, is that she’s picking low-priced stocks (that’s the “Under $10” part) that she thinks will break out either because they are […]