This is a post I sent out a few months ago, around the time of the launch of the Dividend Grabber service — it used to tease a “$9000 one day payout” and now teases “Wall Street Bonus Checks,” but the main stock teased is still the same one, and I’m just adding this note […]
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“Why China Worships America”
You might have seen this one circulating lately — it’s an ad for Ann Sosnowski’s MicroCap Hotsheet (Ann still sits at the top of the Gumshoe spreadsheet with her Lynas pick … though if you average in her other teaser companies we’d probably be looking at something much more average). It’s for a Chinese company […]
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This one comes in on a “ChangeWave Rant” from Toby Smith — for the “Google of business software.” Now before I get started, can I rant a little? I think we need some new benchmarks, if only to save the Gumshoe from boredom. Can someone please bring us the “next” something and NOT claim that […]
10 Comments Read MoreThe Finest Reruns … Gumshoe Back to the Future with me
For those of you who haven’t been with the Gumshoe since day one, you’ll probably notice that there are a lot of these teaser emails that come up again, and again, and again. Sometimes the email changes a little bit, sometimes they just update the stock prices in the teasers, sometimes there’s a new hook […]
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Well here we are, just a day or two after checking out Robert Hsu’s latest solar teaser and we’ve got another one for solar. No surprise, I suppose, when oil seems permanently stuck over $80 a barrel it’s certainly true that solar and all other alternative energy plays are getting even more attention than they […]
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This one comes in from Robert Hsu, for his very popular China Strategy service — I note that several folks in the forum have talked about liking this newsletter, so if you’re interested you might want to wander over there and chat with some self-reported subscribers about it. But boy, does he ever send out […]
4 Comments Read MoreUpdates on the Gumshoe’s portfolio … booooring.
Just wanted to let those of you who read my work here but don’t follow my portfolio over at One Guy’s Investments know that I’ve actually added positions to or strongly considered buying a few stocks that I have sleuthed out over the past few months, and I’ve been doing a flurry of writing trying […]
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That’s the way this teaser begins: “Government Ordinance 458 Guarantees Your Profits on the New “General Electric” of China” This is an ad not for a subscription, but for a special report from Michael Lombardi (who writes the free newsletter Profit Confidential) — the special report costs $95. I don’t see these very often, probably […]
5 Comments Read More“The First No-Fuel Power Plant”
This one is from Chris DeHaemer at Taipan’s Red Zone profits, and it looks like it circulated pretty heavily on Friday and over the weekend. It’s for a company that uses momentum, in Dehaemer’s description, to store electrical energy, and essentially runs a big “momentum battery” that they use to buy up electricity at low […]
20 Comments Read More“Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
I’ve had countless readers send me notes about this one, so I thought I should write something … but I regret to inform you that I don’t think it’s possible to be certain of a solution on this one without “cheating” and actually seeing the newsletter. So that can be the Gumshoe’s challenge to you […]
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This one came in a day or two ago from Louis Navellier, for his Emerging Growth newsletter service. One of my readers suggested a solution, and his solution seems to be a decent guess … but let me get to the details. Navellier thankfully spares us the story of Chinese overall growth — we do […]
2 Comments Read MoreMartin Weiss: Like Buying China in 1990
OK, so I’m departing from my typical sleuthing ways on this one a little bit. I spent a little time at an investing conference a few days ago, and many of the newsletter folks that you’ve all heard of were there, making their spiels or just lecturing. One of them that I happened to hear […]
8 Comments Read More“California Overnight Dividends”
“Is it really possible to safely make $5,500 or more, in cash, in the next 24 hours?” That’s how they open this teaser for a new investment newsletter from Stansberry and Associates, called Jeff Clark’s Advanced Income. And just as an aside, duh, of course you can safely make $5,500 or more in 24 hours […]
26 Comments Read More“Chinese Medicine and a ridiculous PE — $9 to $100?”
This came in the same email as the Chinese real estate brokerage play we looked at yesterday, and it’s an ad for another Trinity Investment Research product, the Recon Trade Alert that purports to be their exclusive fast trading advisory for small cap stocks. And we’ll look at the teaser here, but first I have […]
3 Comments Read MoreChinese 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 […]
1 Comment Read More“High Yield: Trader’s Dream Stock Set to Soar Again”
This one comes in from Mark Skousen, who we hear teasing new ideas with some regularity, but this particular ad is for his high-income alert, which I haven’t seem an ad for prior to now. I have heard him talking quite a bit about dividends of late, whenever he gives a talk or is quoted […]
8 Comments Read More“Like Buying $70 Barrels of Oil for just $3.60”
Of course, that oil happens to mostly be in Russia. Dang. Investing in Russia sometimes seems like it’s not that much more reviled than investing in North Korea these days, eh? I even think that there are probably plenty of folks out there, perhaps you included, who find the wildly uncertain investment in oil exploration […]
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