Chris Mayer is an interesting newsletter guy, a former bank analyst who now writes a newsletter that is typically half looking for undervalued, boring stocks like banks and insurance companies and half looking for far riskier “hidden values” overseas in frontier markets. Or at least, that’s how it appears from the teaser pitches we see […]
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“The New Alaskan ‘Oil Gush’ Is Underway… “Forget the greedy oil tycoons of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran… Forget the oil giants Exxon, BP and Chevron… “This Tiny Exploration Company could deliver you a quick and early retirement…” That’s the intro from Chris Mayer in our newest tease — he’s trying to recruit new subscribers […]
Chris Mayer’s “Biggest fire sale in history”For your consideration: I stumbled across Chris Mayer’s tease of “The biggest fire sale in history”. http://dailyreckoning.com/the-biggest-fire-sale-in-history/ Some highlights: “This is our opportunity. There is no better, more-reliable way to make money than to buy something from someone who has to sell. Bankers are the best people in the world to buy from. Believe me, […]
For your consideration: I stumbled across Chris Mayer’s tease of “The biggest fire sale in history”. http://dailyreckoning.com/the-biggest-fire-sale-in-history/ Some highlights: “This is our opportunity. There is no better, more-reliable way to make money than to buy something from someone who has to sell. Bankers are the best people in the world to buy from. Believe me, […]
I don’t usually write about the same editor twice in one week, but in a land where ads like this hit my mailbox every day I can’t have any hard and fast rules along those lines … and I couldn’t resist taking a look at this latest ad from Chris Mayer, and again it’s for […]
What do you know about Chris Mayer’s NOVA Code. Chris is associated with Agora Financial.
[note: this older piece is from 2008, The “Chaffee Royalty” is being teased again in 2013 but it’s pointed at different stocks, you can see our updated take on the new version of the ad here.] The people of Gumshoedom have spoken, and they have said, “what is this Chaffee Royalty thing?” This is one […]
Here’s how today’s ad opens: “The biggest opportunity of the new world economy… “‘Hard Luck’ Scheele’s Discovery Could Quadruple Your Money by July 14, 2010 “Every country in the developing world needs this 231-year-old discovery, but… “Only 10 companies in the world have it… “Only 3 of them are pure plays… “Only ONE can actually […]
This is a note about a teaser that you can probably solve yourself — and many of you doubtless have. And it’s also about a company I’ve written about before, about a year ago … but the questions are piling up and the enthusiasm behind this stock over the last week is a little ridiculous […]
This one comes in from Chris Mayer for his Capital & Crisis newsletter. Chris has brought us, via teaser email, several investing ideas over the past year — from one of many “next Berkshire Hathaway” picks (down about 15%) to an interesting under-the-radar natural gas company (up 75% or so). But this one actually includes […]
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 […]
Gobble Gobble! It’s that time again! Stock Gumshoe is mostly closed down for the holiday week, but we do have to continue our annual tradition of calling out our “Turkey of the Year” … so take a pause from that turkey brining and join us, won’t you? What is this tradition, you ask? Every year, […]
[note: this older piece is from 2008, The “Chaffee Royalty” is being teased again in 2013 but it’s pointed at different stocks, you can see our updated take on the new version of the ad here.] If anyone was in danger of forgetting the “Chaffee Royalties” teaser ad for Chris Mayer’s Special Situations newsletter, the […]
This one came in last week as an ad for Chris Mayer’s Special Situations Newsletter … he also writes the Capital and Crisis newsletter, and this is certainly a trend, hot newsletter editors creating “more exclusive” newsletters with higher prices that address smaller companies or unusual opportunities. I imagine the Capital and Crisis subscribers are […]
From what little I know about visitors to this website, it appears that the recent ramp-up in the emails from Chris Mayer’s Special Situations regarding mining royalties is having an impact … and folks are once again excited by what Chris called the “Chaffee Royalty” payments that all investors should want to receive. If that’s […]
Edited by Chris Mayer, a stock picking newsletter that looks for undervalued and “hidden” stocks. Ceased publishing when Mayer left to write a couple new letters for Bonner & Partners.
It should come as no surprise that after only a couple weeks of posting my teaser sleuthing on this site, I’m already on my second “next Berkshire Hathaway” — as I’ve written on my other blog several times, and been guilty of myself, the search for the next Warren Buffett is one of the most […]
For those who were interested in the spiel about Chris Mayer’s special “Skype Call” that I wrote about earlier in the week, I thought I’d loop around on that — yes, he was talking up the potential of mutual conversions (he usually calls them “thrift conversions”), and I actually listened to most of the presentation […]
This article was first published in late February, and was lightly updated in April, the last time the ad ran heavily — and now the ad is circulating again in mid-August, so I’ve made some slight updates again. What follows is mostly unchanged from 2/28. The price of the stock is also again close to […]
Today we check in again on Chris Mayer, he’s sending out ads for his Chris Mayer’s FOCUS newsletter ($2,500) over at Bonner & Partners, and his ideas are often interesting. His big focus in recent years has been trying to back-test qualitatively to identify the things that made huge investment successes possible — and specifically […]
William McMorrow of Kennedy-Wilson spoke at the conference with a talk called, “lessons learned from 30 years of real estate value investing.” This is a company I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while, they were very opportunistic at building up real estate investments during the various Euro crises over the past decade, particularly […]
I watched the Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Conference this week via webcast, and it continues to be one of my favorite events — though I’d rather be there in person. These are some of my notes about the presentations I found most interesting… no “quick take” here, sorry, these are mostly notes and my responses. […]
Sometimes we just need to take a step back. On Tuesday, we were headed into a devastating trade war, with a third of our exports to China subject to punishing tariffs (in response to the tariffs proposed on more than 10% of their exports to the US)… by mid-afternoon on Wednesday, the trade war is […]
Every year we resolve to do better, right? That’s the human condition — we are frail, weak, and conflicted… we are busy, irritable, and unfocused… and we want to do better. It’s no different for your friends here at Stock Gumshoe… so today, as we recover from the Ides of March, I offer up some […]
So… what’s been happening to the Real Money Portfolio stocks this week? What else caught my eye? No transactions this week, but plenty of stuff to think about… Clean TeQ Holdings (CLQ.AX, CLQ.TO, CTEQF) announced a somewhat surprising equity raise a couple days ago. It seems inspired largely by urgency — they can’t really claim […]
We will no longer be publishing the commentary of Dr. KSS, who wrote about biotech stocks for the Irregulars for several years. Late last week, he decided to move on and resign from his work here. I imagine he will likely start his own publication of some sort in the future — all I know […]
This latest ad for Motley Fool Hidden Gems caught my eye over the weekend, partly because, yes, I am bitter about not investing in Netflix (NFLX) when the Motley Fool folks were teasing it as the “next Dell” back in 2007… but I also like a challenge sometimes, and this one’s a little short on […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for our Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions. Visit his Stock Gumshoe page for more.] Bacteria are prokaryotes. Animal cells, fungi and plants are eukaryotes. Prokaryotes tend to be acellular and […]
I have always had six to eight subscriptions to newsletters. generally in the $50 to $80 range. I am particularly fond of the Agora publication set, but I have other subscriptions, too. Over past 12 months or so, I have decided to end my subscriptions to Jim Rickard’s Strategic Intelligence and True Alpha (formerly Capital […]
I’m on vacation this week so won’t be penning my regular Friday File, but I did want to note that I just did get an order filled for a small position in PCSB Financial (PCSB), the bank that did a mutual conversion offering to its account holders last month and went public on the Nasdaq […]
For those who were interested in the spiel about Chris Mayer’s special “Skype Call” that I wrote about earlier in the week, I thought I’d loop around on that — yes, he was talking up the potential of mutual conversions (he usually calls them “thrift conversions”), and I actually listened to most of the presentation […]
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this latest pitch from Chris Mayer… and, honestly, I probably can’t provide an exact answer for you — not enough clues have leaked out just yet. But I’ll dig into it and make some guesses. The pitch is that Mayer is about to make an “urgent announcement” – […]
I must confess having made another iconoclastic little investment this week — even as I make clear that although I’ve really invested in it, and it’s in my Real Money Portfolio (with a likelihood that I will ignore it for a while as it settles in as a newly public company), it’s extremely illiquid and […]
Lots of readers have been sending questions our way about Porter Stansberry’s new high-cost Stansberry Venture Value newsletter, which is his attempt to build a service that essentially recommends small cap value stocks for long-term compounding value. An admirable goal, and I guess we’ll start to learn in the coming year or two how it’s […]
Does anyone know the 6 ”Free Stocks” from the watch list that were a bonus for watching the presentation? Due to either technical issues on their end, or my computer, I was unable to watch the presentation. Not interested in signing up for their service, but I was hoping to see what was on the […]
I always like paying attention to Chris Mayer’s recommendations — not because they’re infallible, but because he has a solid and logical process for choosing stocks, and I’ve found his arguments pretty compelling the few times I’ve heard him speak (and, of course, some of those stocks he has profiled have done well — though […]
“Real Money” portfolio with the Bonner family’s money, guided by the investment decisions from Chris Mayer — generally more conservative and longer-term than Chris Mayer’s Focus from the same publisher. Newsletter has closed.
I spent a day and a half in Manhattan to attend the conference run by Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and Jim Grant, and I’ll probably write some additional things about my take on the various presenters and the ideas they might inspire as my thoughts percolate… but these are my initial reactions. First, investment conferences […]
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I was burned by Agora a while back. I had subscribed to Capital and Crisis. The price was great and the author was very good., Chris Mayer. Once the newsletter…...
Not fair! Chris Mayer is a real guru with a great investing track record and even though Indivior certainly turned into a horrible 75% loss he doesn't deserve the turkey!...
I’m a new (paid) subscriber to Stock Gumshoe, and am really impressed with Travis Johnson’s analyses, and thus thrilled to have stumbled onto his website. But about Jim Rickards: I…...
I truly appreciate all y’all at Gumshoe. No B.S. No hardsell, just straight forward analysis. Real world information. I haven’t gotten into the stock market for one major reason: my…...
Years ago I subscribed to one of Chris Mayers newsletters. several of his recommendations made me some money, but some lost out badly in 2008, and have never recovered. One,…...
And yes, I’m noticing now that Boston Omaha is down about 18% today — no news drove the shift, and that doesn’t really mean anything, it’s just an illiquid stock…...
Great thesis Travis, you remind me of the great Chris Mayer. I followed him when he was with Agora and respected his wisdom. I know you are friends with him…...
I hot it the same way. I also got Jeff Clark somehow and he is amazing. He recommends options on mostly gold but earnings also. Overall I find I make…...
Thanks for all you do Cleveland and Dr Kss. I read every post of both of yours with full attention. The lavishness of riches you two gentlemen have provided us…...
The 3 traits per Chris Mayer at Palm Beach - All 100-Baggers Share These Three Traits: 1) The ability to expand into national and/or international markets, 2) Strong returns on…...
Yeah, I lost 24% on Iconix thanks to Chris Mayer's Capital & Crisis letter. Sold it to us as a mega cash cow. But at least I sold quickly instead…...
$all Love this community to death but we basically got nothing productive done today as a whole. I understand where everyone is coming from with trolls and people throwing off…...
Chris Mayer is one of the few analysts I trust, partly because he writes with humility, versus bombastic hyperbole. I have held several of his recommendations for 3-4 years; several…...
I am giving this subscription time before I praise it or walk away. I do believe that Chris Mayer does his homework but the entire Agora publication family cross sells…...
Chris Mayer and his promoters are pushing to generate excitement so that persons subscribe to their services. On that issue I do not have axes to grind.. Sales pitch is…...
Travis, thank you for being a teacher, versus a snake-oil salesman. Do you have an opinion on USAA's USAGX, USAA Precious Metals and Minerals mutual fund? I used to pay…...
This is a great post for any who want to invest in tech and biotech, as I do. But I think one of your basic assumptions is utterly wrong: ".…...
I also thought of FRGI because of Chris Mayer's influence, but like you mentioned, they are not a burger chain. So I thought it was Sonic, but I missed the…...
I received an email from Stansberry about the Chris Mayer Focus Webinar. (I have the Stansberry lifetime Flex alliance) and they send me e-mails for other services. I watched the…...
I haven't seen the latest presentation but these are from Chris Myer's Focus Watchlist (UPDATED DECEMBER 20, 2016) Chris Mayer with Thompson Clark --- Nomad Foods (NOMD) Green Brick Partners…...
I also watched the on line Chris Mayer sales pitch ( Bonner and Stansberry ) as I was interested in his 6 watch list stocks. My understanding from the initial…...
Chris Mayer is my fav; solid recommendations, without the hype of his peers. Loved his service at 49/yr...not worth 3k/yr. Travis, thank you for this post!...
Chris Mayer said in the Focus webinar that the Bonner & Partners newsletter covered large cap stocks. Focus newsletter covers small cap stocks....
I bit the bullet a few months ago and joined (lifetime) Chris Mayer's stock picking subscription because of Bill Bonner. Like you, I believe in his reasonings for choosing stocks,…...
I participated in Chris Mayer's conference call about his new Focus newsletter. My thoughts were the same as you kind of allude to. To pay $3,000 to get a recommendation…...
The other five stocks being "watched" (aka teased) by Chris Mayer as a come-on to drop 3K on his new newsletter are FOGO, GRBK, CLNY, NOMD, and SCU....
came across the newest Chris Mayer newsletter pitch, to sell the "The Mayer Method: Focus" reading: "Chris Mayer’s Focus normally costs $5,000 per year. But when you reply to this…...
I don't know if it is PBL's pick, but Dynacor has been recommended by Doug Casey and Chris Mayer. Thankfully, I bought it this January and have done well with…...
What are Chris Mayer's newest picks since Bonner has started his new letter ???...
Edited by J. Reeves | August 04, 2016 | Delray Beach, Fla. It’s not earnings or fundamentals driving the stock market today (it’s something much more powerful)... Where to find…...
Excellent points . I agree this stock has pretty impressive backers deserves some personal investigation despite the dubious people at Money M. They and Agora and Stansbury Research have pretty…...
He recommends some very dangerous smallcaps at risk of bankruptcy, saying he gets his ideas from a network of "smart money" hedge fund superinvestors. Recommendation LXU is down 75% within…...
Yes, a few times by Chris Mayer. Not very aggresively....
The key is for silver to move ASAP into its historic gold to silver ratio position of 16:1. Gold at its current spot value at $1,250/oz. and spot silver at…...
The "Executive Dividends" teased by Chris Mayer were warrants -- like the TARP Warrants that have been so profitable in recent years. I covered Mayer's ad here last year: http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/capital-and-crisis/whats-the-executive-dividend-program/…...
Dividend Aristocrats are know by several different names , however, commonly known as "Executive Dividends". A favotite investment by warren buffet and refuses to invest in any company unles Executive…...
Dear Gumshoe readers, I have followed Chris Mayer for at least 10 years and he does in fact have a really good track record. I currently subscribe to his newsletter…...
The Perfect Commodity Producer "Did you know There were only 13 instances when the price of a single commodity rose by 500% or more in the 20th century. Only eight…...
I follow many of the Agora folks e-mails without investing in their newsletters, after losing some money on Chris Mayer's recommendations (although he is one of the more honest writers,…...
I missed on buying that one as well -- has indeed done very well, I think it was a Chris Mayer suggestion from a conference but don't remember for sure.…...
Travis, Thanks. I missed this Chris Mayer tease last Spring, but just got teased by him via Agora Financial email for his newsletter. Any thoughts about Chris' "Research Report #3:…...
This is a recent teaser request for the mighty thinkolator to reveal:: Chris Mayer of Agora Financial is teasing us to buy his newsletter in order to find the "Executive…...
While not my area of expertise or personal interest, I can report that another analyst Travis and I both like, (Chris Mayer) a former banker and deep value investor has…...