Frank Curzio’s latest pitch for his pricey Phase 1 Investor newsletter has the Gumshoe faithful mighty, mighty curious… he gets us going with a little intro about how he was at an “invite only” meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York that he said was about investing in Brazilian resources. The lead-in to the […]
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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 […]
I haven’t written about Martin Weiss and one of his picks in a little while, and Weiss Research is now promoting a special conference call and “inner circle” investment group that will identify his team’s best picks for 2010. Including, as apparently one of his favorites, a gold stock. Here’s the intro to the ad: […]
I cover Peter Schiff in this space from time to time, mostly because he sends out a newsletter every few months and includes some teaser picks that often sound interesting — of course, he runs a brokerage firm, not a newsletter, so he wants you to get a sales pitch from one of his brokers […]
I hate to pick on Chris Mayer too much, as he seems a nice enough fella and has teased some useful investing ideas in the past — but so many of my readers are asking about this “Golden Staircase” stock that I felt compelled to sniff it out for you … And, yes, to listen […]
There’s no more cyclical stock than a semiconductor stock, and we’re seeing the whipsaw slash through that market now as trade sentiment weakens and pundits begin to see some weakness in the economy, particularly in the employment numbers, and the Federal Reserve fuels that uncertainty by essentially promising a rate cut in their attempt to […]
Just returning from vacation, and I don’t have anything new for you just yet… but I see that the questions have been piling up about Frank Curzio’s new newsletter and the $1 gold stock he’s been touting as they drum up new subscribers. And, thankfully, that’s one I already took a quick look at — […]
The Money Map folks are currently selling their subscription service by offering to throw in a free copy of Peter Schiff’s Crash Proof … the book is a couple years old now, and will be updated by a new version this Fall, but they tease a few of the investment ideas Schiff focuses on — […]
So … if you’re breathing, and you can read, and you’ve ever subscribed to any investment service or resource of any kind, you’ve probably seen this ad. My readers have wildly varying opinions of Stansberry & Associates and their newsletters, but one thing is certain: They know how to get the word out. And the […]
I’ve been blathering about my own investments in these Friday Files for a couple weeks now, but for today we’re going back to sniffing out teaser picks … in this case, a teaser pick for “Gold Fracking” that Frank Curzio has been sending out pretty aggressively for a couple days in pitches for his Small Stock […]
This new teaser from Dan Ferris for his Extreme Value newsletter wins the prize for “most questions sent to the Gumshoe” over the weekend … so I thought I better jump right on it this morning. If you get any of the Agora or Stansberry free emails, or subscribe to any newsletters in those families, […]
Eric Roseman of the Sovereign Society has been blanketing the web with a teaser about a “different way to own gold” — one that he says might give you a discount of as much as $600 an ounce. Here’s what he says … “Recently, I’ve been researching different ways to own gold – and two months ago — I came across a little-known form of the yellow metal. The shocking thing is, it has outperformed “normal” gold investments by a factor of 10… or more!”
Nathan Slaughter edits the Half-Priced Stocks newsletter for StreetAuthority, which is a publisher that puts out a bunch of relatively inexpensive newsletters (you can see reviews of them here, if you’re curious — or add your own reviews). And as one of their advertising strategies, many of their newsletters write up “stock of the month” […]
This ad for Sid Riggs’ Small-Cap Rocket Alert has been pitched a bunch of different ways — starting in August with the promise that they had some special way to get in early with a “royalty” on these “gold chips” that are being sent out (the new EMV chips in credit cards that are beginning […]
I’ve owned shares of Sandstorm Gold (SAND) for several years, and it was one of my larger holdings for a while, so readers ask about it with some frequency — particularly during times like these, when it is wildly volatile. So is Sandstorm Gold a buy today? Well, I haven’t sold any shares recently. But […]
Secret Gold Deposit Stock from StansberryTravis… can you help with uncovering this very secret teaser? Below is the text from a Stansberry sales letter this is posted at: https://orders.stansberryresearch.com/chain?cid=MKT338092&eid=MKT338220&step=start&plcid=PLC024980&SNAID=SAC0003030416&encryptedSnaid=6X/oBXO7TP+xie6Y6wpG+FjYZ0Sp4SVC1c1fAm/4Cs8=&emailjobid=2514233&emailname=8.9%20-%20SGI%20Launch%20-%20A%20-%20reg%20VSL# Dear Reader, Recently, we received word of a major gold deposit… in a location you’d never guess in a thousand years. If this gold were buried underneath the Washington Monument… or […]
I’ve spent the past couple Fridays looking at stocks I like in this Friday File space, so I thought I’d get back into doing some teaser review for the delightful Stock Gumshoe Irregulars this week — and who better to take a look at than Larry Edelson, who is part of the oft-discussed Weiss universe […]
Stock Gumshoe has already moved offices, and that was traumatic enough… but now my family is also moving to a home that isn’t quite done, so this week is going to be another nutty one. And for that reason, if no other, I’m pleased to be able to get a quick teaser answer out for […]
“Last week everything was going down the drain, and now everything’s perfect” — that’s a comment I heard on CNBC this morning, facetious though it was, that goes a long way toward mirroring the movement in gold prices. Last week armageddon was coming and everyone wanted to own gold, today maybe the world financial system […]
Here’s what I can’t tell you: Where the price of gold is going. Here’s what I can tell you: Over the past several weeks, as investor enthusiasm for gold clearly reached the melting point in a big price spike to near $900, I’ve seen almost every gold teaser in the book. Gold is down a bit again today, but the gold bugs are still out in force and certain that they will be vindicated when inflation and dollar devaluation finally rear their ugly heads. What do the experts say now?
I’ll be on the road today, dear friends and Irregulars, so I’ll send this Friday File out in the morning since it’s (uncharacteristically) ready before the market open. Enjoy! Well, there’s no question about what Irregulars want covered in the Friday File this week… the latest pitch from Louis James at Casey Research about a […]
Just returning from vacation, and I don’t have anything new for you just yet… but I see that the questions have been piling up about Frank Curzio’s new newsletter and the $1 gold stock he’s been touting as they drum up new subscribers. And, thankfully, that’s one I already took a quick look at — […]
I like Frank Curzio’s podcast (now called Wall Street Unplugged), and I generally find his way of thinking interesting, so after he was laid off by Porter Stansberry I was half hoping he’d go off on his own and build his own newsletter business from scratch (he edited Phase 1 Investor and Small Cap Specialist […]
A quickie for the gold enthusiasts to discuss today, since several folks have asked about this “special gold fund” in the last week. And yes, it’s not a super-hard one… but it’s pretty timely, and I thought it might be worth batting it around a bit. Here’s the snippet from Stansberry that I got from […]
I’ve owned shares of Sandstorm Gold (SAND) for several years, and it was one of my larger holdings for a while, so readers ask about it with some frequency — particularly during times like these, when it is wildly volatile. So is Sandstorm Gold a buy today? Well, I haven’t sold any shares recently. But […]
Matt Badiali has a new promo out for his S&A Resource Report, and it’s all built on the eventual resurgence of gold. He teases a few stocks for us, and we’ll get to identifying them in a moment — but first, he goes through the long rationale for gold’s rise over the next five years […]
Frank Curzio’s latest pitch for his pricey Phase 1 Investor newsletter has the Gumshoe faithful mighty, mighty curious… he gets us going with a little intro about how he was at an “invite only” meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York that he said was about investing in Brazilian resources. The lead-in to the […]
[Ed. Note: Today we’re pleased to present the latest piece from Myron Martin, who writes primarily about junior miners. As always, his words and ideas are his own, and he has agreed to our trading restrictions.] Greetings Gumshoers. I still have a tremendous amount of material to go through from the PDAC Conference in early […]
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. I don’t know whether Eric Sprott has ever presented at a Value Investing Congress, but I have never seen him speak before. He is a giant figure in asset […]
I told you yesterday that we’d be looking for the balance of the stocks teased by Sean Brodrick after identifying the “Goldstone Strike” picked that he touted (that was Randgold Resources, you can see yesterday’s article and commentary on that one here if you missed it). So that’s just what we’re doing — there are […]
Sean Brodrick is hawking not a subscription this time, but a one-time publication he calls The Goldstone Strike Report. In this report, he claims to have the “greatest gold arbitrage play of the century” … a company that has benefitted by the fact that “The world’s richest country is practically giving away its gold at […]
Jeff Opdyke has a pretty inflammatory ad going around these days for The Sovereign Investor, it’s all about how the consistent export of gold from the US — as reported in form FT-900 — will lead to America experiencing it’s “next 9/11” moment in April of this year. The basic argument is that the US […]
Ed. note: Here the latest installment from longtime reader Myron Martin. He has agreed to our trading restrictions (he won’t trade the stocks he mentions for three days), and we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and the opinions he expresses are solely his own. Many of the stocks Myron covers are microcap “penny […]
Happy October Friday, Gumshoe friends — I shared a special teaser-solution article with the Irregulars this week on Agora’s “Miracle Water” tease and have written briefly about a new buy that I made during the week (that was TGS Nopec, which I wrote about briefly here — not ready to go into more detail on […]
We spent a fair amount of time talking about Chris Mayer’s favorite royalty stock yesterday — the main stock pitched in the newly reborn “Chaffee Royalty” teaser ad that’s been circulating lately. You can see that one and my thoughts on it here, the tease was for tiny little Sandstorm Metals & Energy. But Mayer’s […]
Ed. note: Here is another installment from longtime reader Myron Martin. Myron has agreed to our trading restrictions (he won’t trade the stocks he mentions for three days), but we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and the opinions he expresses are solely his own. Myron’s past commentaries can be seen […]
Ed. note: Here is another installment from longtime reader Myron Martin. Myron has agreed to our trading restrictions (he won’t trade the stocks he mentions for three days), but we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and the opinions he expresses are solely his own. Myron’s past commentaries can be seen […]
Shah Gilani has a new pitch going around for his Capital Wave Forecast, all about how the short-selling and manipulation by the six big bullion-trading banks brought the “flash crash” in gold and drove it lower … but will certainly drive it higher now that the move is done, with his expected price of $2,500 […]
“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 […]
This week there were a couple things that cropped up on the site as articles for the Irregulars — I made one purchase, adding Ligand Pharmaceuticals to my personal portfolio, I answered a more detailed question about a Thai investment I had covered in the past, and I took a quick look at a legal […]
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Will take a look, but that sounds a lot like New Found Gold, which Williams' colleague Luke Burgess was pitching a while back....
That's a different type of firm -- more of a commodity trading company, right? Interesting call, sort of a play on the interest in gold rather than the gold price…...
Travis asked for a new mining company for his Thinkolator, I have it! Jason Williams, promoting his Future Giants publication, is touting a $4 gold mining company in Newfoundland which…...
AMRK was my best pick in the gold sector this year, well above RGLD....
That one has certainly demanded some patience. I remain somewhat assured that Nolan Watson has been saying that they've already bought their growth, so they'll likely just be paying down…...
Thanks Travis,always enjoy your gold analysis. I think it plays into my overall pessimistic view of the other market valuations. It's probably why some 7 years ago when I first…...
I purchased a year ago (August 2023) when you reported PPTA and the stock was at 3.57 and I am currently at a 134%profit. I am ready to continue to…...
Great and realistic analysis, Travis. A longterm game of numbers and market recognition. Consider the Bema Gold, Kinross and now B2Gold story, timeframe since the 70's by Clive Johnson &…...
Travis, thanks very much for what certainly is a Gold Star analysis! I like the mining stock life cycle blocks, as it is easy to understand at a glance .…...
The announcement referred to that would happen before September 30th which could produced a short-term 1000% increase in the stock price? Well, that announcement came a little early and guess…...
These companies/subscriptions are the worst thing that ever happened to me Paradigm press/Mastermind, etc. have lost m e money with every pic. Last October 23, 2023, Rickards gave me a…...
Ethereum is a cryptocurrency you have to buy at an exchange. It may get you some profits in the next bull run but it won't last very long against the…...
Hi Travis, What is your take on ARRNF and the huge deposit of rare Earth's in Wyoming?...
Bit late reading this. Fantastic as always. Was just going to ask about your thoughts on ARM holdings as I've often thought about buying it as it was a UK…...
As Always Travis, Thank you for your research and this time for your comments about gold mining companies. Your writings brought a smile as I remember years ago, following Ivan…...
Gold Mining stocks and a story that brings a smile...
Travis, I think it's worthwhile to be cautious about investing in anything that could be affected by Chinese overproduction or "dumping" or just plain superiority. To wit, I avoid the…...
Alan Gula recommended STR a few months ago. His research report was utterly erroneous and completely contradicted by readily available facts. I wrote to Stansberry about this and copied 5…...
Central banks have done most of the gold buying during the past year or so, this recent runup in price was mostly not driven by individual buyers. I'd still bet…...
I'm hearing that countries, China, Russia and others, have been stock piling gold for the past ten years. I also hear of banks doing the same. I have read that…...
They have a few similar ads rolling this year... could be ASML (https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/motley-fool-stock-advisor/answers-apples-ai-trojan-horse-teased-by-motley-fool-stock-advisor/) Or cybersecurity picks (https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/motley-fool-stock-advisor/fools-next-big-ai-investment-wave/) Perhaps their ongoing tease of ANET (https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/motley-fool-stock-advisor/motley-fools-ai-phase-2-stock-whos-the-main-supplier-of-a-next-gen-ai-hardware-thats-needed-to-run-ais-invisible-goldmines/) Or even the AI Disruption picks…...
I too really follow Jason Bodner and what he ssuggests. He tells logic for why or why not certain stocks are in his portfolio. I learned to do tradestops when…...
Interesting, thanks. SSR really got whacked by that Turkish tailings dam collapse (which put more delays on the Hod Maden project they took over from Sandstorm Gold), and Seabridge is…...
That's a good question, partly because I don't use that term "core" very often, I guess it slipped in. I'd say the core positions are those where I hold large…...
I'm sure they neither asked for approval to use the quote, nor for the big splashy photo of him on their website (Warren Buffett's there, too, as are Mark Cuban…...
Interesting take Travis, but buying gold still in the ground...i dunno. There have been a number of gold crypto coins available for some time now. Not sure i trust any…...
There is probably a seed of a good idea buried somewhere in this. Maybe someday someone will figure it out and put something real together. For now, though, you can…...
So this is a real company with a real plan. I just don't understand quite how they plan to tokenize gold reserves into digital currency. Definitely a new concept, but…...
I've noted recently that AMRK, a precious metals trading company, was a much better option to have exposure to gold than the royalty companies were, that is in last 3…...
I can't help it, they asked for it - we need a comment about the "Foole's Gold!"...
I love this letter! I hate the little green circle in the bottom right corner that gets in the way of the copy when I print out the letter....
The first SMR I heard of was brought in by truck to a mountain top in Wyoming for the Air Force in about 1960. Why can't the general public have…...
I have owned SA for awhile. I believe that sooner or later that they will find a well capitalized partner to develop the KSM property.and the stock will soar. In…...
Stansberry Research was teasing a $7 gold trade 3 years ago that they predicted would make all kinds of money, then went to a $6 gold trade in their promotions,…...
His offer? Waste of money and extremely da5to your financial health. IIRC correctly, his wins in 2024 YTD have been gains % 18 40 20 10 5.5% " let's take…...
Could be, but they may not have any great prescience about timing -- Paulson has bought up a couple gold mining stocks and held them for something like a decade…...
Well, Michael Burry just invested close to 8M in Sprott Physical Gold. John Paulson also is betting in gold. Perhaps they know something...
Why hold physical gold if you can hold digital gold (bitcoin)? Apparently about 50 million or so Americans agree. Gold had it's purpose....
No, I've never seen the gold market surge like this without much retail investor interest. Folks are saying it's all central bank buying driving the price -- dunno if that's…...
You probably simply made a typo, but the phrase should be, "With all due respect ..." Also, I agree completely that if you do not own physical gold, you do…...
Travis, have you seen a past gold cycle like this, where the price is nearing ATH, but the domestic US demand seems very low? Costco notwithstanding, I remember back in…...
As gold and copper prices rise and fall, Seabridge stock will follow. Yes it has enormous acreage in a rocky and rolly region of northern B.C. close to Alaska, but…...
With all do respect you know far more about RGLD than you I do, with the exception that I believe their business is shuffling paper contracts not the physical gold.…...
Good analysis as usual Travis. It is interesting to look at GDXJ (Junior Miners)and look at their list of mines to see about silver stocks. 7% of their portfolio is…...
Travis Look at the stock price on GDX, GOLD and other gold stocks(ETFs) in May to June/July timetable in each year from 2020 to 2023. You'll see a drop in…...
Good question, but I don't follow a lot of silver miners and don't remember coming across anyone that was similarly a "hoarder" of in-the-ground silver (since the Hunt brothers, at…...
Seabridge sounds good, but silver is about to break away from gold. What's a similar silver opportunity?...
Rio Tinto (RIO) has done well over the past decade, almost keeping up with the S&P 500. I don't have any negative feelings about them... they give good exposure to…...
I have a few hundred coins (silver) that came to me randomly over the decades (so I know little in terms of collecting). Seems like only 1 of 3 variables…...
I started buying K-Rands in the late '70's from a local coin shop. In December '79 the coin shop owner was interviewed on local Public Television. The gold price was…...