Getting this out a bit early because everything’s closed up for the Good Friday holiday tomorrow. What’s up with the Real Money Portfolio? We did get a few final 2023 reports… and that led to some investment decisions on my part. The Boston Omaha (BOC) annual report came in a little later than last year, […]
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That’s the question that I receive from readers more often than any other — and my response is always disappointing, because I don’t and can’t really have one. And the real answer is getting to be a bit of an overused question here at Gumshoe HQ — a big “what do you think?” for the […]
Jim Mengel’s “Dividend Aristocrat”Can’t seem to find any info on this latest pitch from Jim. Anybody??
Most of you have probably seen the teasers rolling in from Dr. Kent Moors for The Energy Inner Circle, his new higher-priced and “more exclusive” service that provides weekly updates and buy and sell alerts about his “trigger list” of energy stocks. Most of you have just forwarded me the email ads, which is fine […]
[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 […]
We see absurd hyperbole every day here at Stock Gumshoe, with promises of stocks that double or massive “free income” from various “top secret” trading strategies or… well, you know the drill, you get most of those same emails. So after swimming in this sea of hype for almost a decade, I sometimes forget just […]
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 […]
The bad news: I regret to inform you that you missed your “last and final opportunity to join Bottarelli Research Small Cap.” They sent out a special teaser email giving a “unique opportunity” for new subscribers at the end of last week, but it was only good for eight hours. The good news: thanks in […]
The last time I looked in detail at some picks from the Motley Fool Income Investor, it was for their top “Peak Oil Picks,” all of which were at least interesting companies even if they’re all down by 10% or so following the decline in oil prices. (The latest version of that writeup is here, […]
We’ve looked at rare earth elements before (also called rare earth metals or minerals, and some of them are rare earth magnets), they’re a dozen different rare elements from the periodic table that have specific uses in lots of high tech gear, from batteries to missile guidance systems. China is widely credited with strategically undercutting […]
Dan Ferris is out with a new ad for his Extreme Value newsletter at Stansberry, and he’s again promising great gains and a realistic shot at a “10-bagger”… in fact, he says it has “more than a dozen” paths to 1,000% gains. So, naturally, Gumshoe readers are curious… what is this “Next Royalty Company” that […]
Braden Copeland used to work for Porter Stansberry, co-editing his Stansberry’s Investment Advisory and working on Inside Strategist (since shuttered) that picked stocks based on insider buying. Earlier this year, he moved down the street to a different Agora-affiliated office to work for Bill Bonner’s son, Will, at Bonner & Partners and launch a newsletter […]
Here we are again — folks start thinking about Warren Buffett again, now that he seems to be on CNBC every day and Berkshire Hathaway has had a remarkable year (up about 50%, not bad for one of the biggest companies in the country). And so the “next Warren Buffett” teasers start circulating again. I’m […]
I continue to get lots of questions about this Jim Rickards ad from Agora, and the ad itself has been (clumsily) updated a few times since we covered it back in November of 2017 (the latest “by March 19, 2019” ad even suggests that Yellen is still President of the Federal Reserve, and the date […]
I always like reading Dan Ferris’ stuff — he does the cranky loner act so well I can only assume that it’s real, and the latest ad for his Extreme Value newsletter is no different. This newsletter is slotted in as the “deep value” letter at Stansberry & Associates, and he has often recommended either […]
This piece was originally published as part of the Friday File two weeks ago, and we’re re-sharing this excerpt with all of our free readers because the ad is driving so many questions our way. It has not been edited or updated, though to our knowledge neither has the original “interview” ad from mid February. […]
I like to mix things up a bit, cover different newsletter “gurus” and their teaser picks and try to put a good variety of folks under the Gumshoe microscope — but Byron King’s latest ad has caused so many questions to come pouring through the floodgates here at Gumshoe HQ that I feel like I […]
Alexander Green has a new “special report” out to lure subscribers to a letter I haven’t seen before called The True Value Alert — Green has been the head honcho at The Oxford Club for a long time and has put out a bunch of interesting ideas (and has some refreshingly stable and non-hypey stuff […]
This one is all about the coming electricity crisis, and the coming “post oil” era when new energy sources will be in high demand. The teaser is for the Oxford Club, which is a newsletter service to which I know quite a few Gumshoe readers subscribe. They have a special report for you: “Drilling for […]
The folks at Stansberry and Associates have come out with a new newsletter, perfectly designed to focus on exactly what everyone seems to want right now: Foreign Stocks. This one is called International Strategist, and they’ve got a teaser campaign designed to get you on board with a trial subscription. The teaser campaign is generally […]
Well, we have here today another of those stinkin’ teaser ad “presentations” that doesn’t allow access direct to the transcript … so I’ve got to listen to the whole dang thing. Never doubt how much I love you, dear Gumshoe Faithful! Here’s the pitch from the Sovereign Society, from Jeff Opdyke (he’s teasing to tempt […]
Those of you who’ve been around these parts for a while probably know that I think food and agriculture are likely to be important investment sectors in the decades to come — there’s simply no getting around the fact that the population continues to rise and arable land declines, which means the produce of that […]
Most of you have probably seen the teasers rolling in from Dr. Kent Moors for The Energy Inner Circle, his new higher-priced and “more exclusive” service that provides weekly updates and buy and sell alerts about his “trigger list” of energy stocks. Most of you have just forwarded me the email ads, which is fine […]
I wrote quite a bit about one of the Greenland rare earths stocks earlier in the week, but I just wanted to clarify the situation in teaser-land a little bit today. There are two Greenland rare earth explorers that are being actively teased by big newsletter publishers right now — the one that uses the […]
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 ad from Jim Nelson for his Lifetime Income Report caught my eye, in part because most of my ancestors came here from Sweden a few generations back to farm the upper Midwest and, apparently, strike stern poses for photographers. Today, though, the “Scandinavian Income” we’re being teased about is from the really wealthy part […]
I always like reading Dan Ferris’ stuff — he does the cranky loner act so well I can only assume that it’s real, and the latest ad for his Extreme Value newsletter is no different. This newsletter is slotted in as the “deep value” letter at Stansberry & Associates, and he has often recommended either […]
There are many significant trends and themes that you can use to develop investing ideas, but one of them stands out above most: The population is growing, and people have to eat. Add on top of that the fact that more people want to eat more protein, and the demand for agricultural products should grow […]
There are many significant trends and themes that you can use to develop investing ideas, but one of them stands out above most: The population is growing, and people have to eat. Add on top of that the fact that more people want to eat more protein, and the demand for agricultural products should grow […]
We’ve looked at rare earth elements before (also called rare earth metals or minerals, and some of them are rare earth magnets), they’re a dozen different rare elements from the periodic table that have specific uses in lots of high tech gear, from batteries to missile guidance systems. China is widely credited with strategically undercutting […]
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 […]
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 […]
Focuses on special situation investing — spinoffs, buybacks, etc. Ceased publication when Mayer moved to Bonner & Partners.
Well, if you’re a loyal Stock Gumshoe reader (and really, who wouldn’t be?), you may have noticed that I looked into an ad from Taipan’s Safe Haven Investor that teased us about the untold riches just waiting for us in the “Gulf Coast Vaults” … but I only got to the first “Vault Target” company […]
Today’s ad for our review comes in from Bryan Tycango, who writes the Asian Growth Stocks newsletter — we’ve looked at a few of his ideas before, but it’s been a while. This time, the ad is for a company that’s going to “jerk the rug out from under today’s tottering automobile giants.” Which just […]
Capital preservation and hard-asset focused newsletter. Formerly helmed by the late Larry Edelson.
The ad I’ll start to look at today is from Roger Conrad for his Utility Forecaster service — a newsletter that looks primarily at, you guessed it, utility stocks. He has over the years considered the word “utility” fairly broadly, so if there’s any company that provides an essential service and pays a good dividend […]
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.
Edited by Adam Lass, uses charting to target options trades.
[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 […]
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What are Chris Mayer's newest picks since Bonner has started his new letter ???...
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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…...
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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:…...
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