We’ve run across Yiannis Mostrous and his Silk Road Investor a few times before — and one of the companies he’s teasing us about today I’ve even written about before. But there’s some new stuff here, so perhaps it’s worth a look. Silk Road Investor is one of many newsletters that focus on Asia writ […]
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“Our Next 15-Bagger” Georges Yared
Most of us might not have heard of Georges Yared a year ago, but any individual investor with an email address will have a hard time avoiding him now — his is one of the latest investment newsletters launched by InvestorPlace Media, the folks who make sure we all know about newsletter advisers Robert Hsu, […]
10 Comments Read MoreJune Idea of the Month: Chinese Maple Tree
This is a little unusual, because typically I let investments percolate for a while before deciding whether or not they make sense. But today, I think the best idea for investing is one I wrote about just this week at StockGumshoe.com — Hanfeng Evergreen. In case you’re wondering about that title, Han is the ethnicity […]
9 Comments Read More“Must Own Pioneer of a New Industry: Undersea Mining”
This company always seems like a science fiction story when I read about them, but you never know … just because we’re not all wearing jetpacks doesn’t mean science fiction can’t come true. For those of you who aren’t already expert in undersea mining companies, let’s take a moment to examine what this is … […]
10 Comments Read MoreNavellier Continues Pounding Gran Table
Just a quick note for you, in case you happened to miss it … Navellier’s publisher is apparently enraptured with the “guaranteed double in one or two weeks or your money back” offer, and it’s happening again. For a stock we’ve already written about that failed it’s first couple tests. A few weeks ago Gran […]
9 Comments Read More“Tailpipe Riches: Car of the Future” Outstanding Investments
It’s been a little while since I looked at something from Outstanding Investments, so this one caught my eye. It was buried in a long teaser email that was all about Saudi Arabia lying about their oil reserves, and the various solutions to the oil crisis … but about halfway down, Byron King started teasing […]
35 Comments Read More“Profit from China’s Epic Hunt for Oil” Robert Hsu
Robert Hsu has been sending out several teasers related to Chinese oil demand lately, no big surprise as we watch oil toy with $140 a barrel (should we even pay attention to $10 moves anymore? Boooorrring …) In his words, “China’s hunt for oil is one of the most extraordinary, untold stories of our time. […]
21 Comments Read More“Corner the Chinese Fertilizer Market”
As another week of panic, fear, high oil prices, and skyrocketing food prices begins, let’s see if we can discover one of the folks likely to profit from the world’s hunger. Wow, that sounds much worse than I meant. OK, so we’re on the hunt for a fertilizer profiteer. Sorry. Just kidding! What we want […]
17 Comments Read More“$32 Fuel Conversion Stock to $64 by July 7” Navellier
I won’t be able to give this one the full Gumshoe treatment today, but it seems to me that every adult American received Louis Navellier’s latest advertising email over the last day or two … so I thought you’d like to know the company he’s teasing. The ad is for a company that works to […]
24 Comments Read MoreA Reminder of Buffett’s Humanity
I don’t mean to imply with that headline that we need any reminder of Buffett’s generosity to his fellow man — his massive gift to the Gates Foundation tells us all we need to know about his compassion. No, I mean this to be a reminder that he is human, and does make mistakes. Warren […]
2 Comments Read MoreSecret Code: 925335AD3 (More on Secured Investment Contracts)
I’ve had so many folks ask about this one over the last week since I first wrote about it that I thought I should quickly share an update. This is from the ad for True Income, the new bond service from Stansberry & Associates, and just as when it was going out under the headline […]
15 Comments Read More“Marine Energy: Power the Entire Globe” — Alternative Energy Speculator
Here we’ve got a rerun for your Friday enyoyment — I’ll probably get to some more good stuff for weekend to keep you all Gumshoe-d up, but for now this might keep you busy, I’ve had a few dozen emails about it just in the last day so this particular ad campaign must be heating […]
33 Comments Read MoreScorpion Brings Possible Trading Profits for Seadrill
It looks like the fight over Scorpion offshore, a small company (about $800 million) that has been subject of a minor skirmish between Seadrill and FSEM (a UAE private equity fund), may soon come to a head. Short history: FSEM made a takeover offer for Scorpion, which like Seadrill is Oslo-listed, several months ago at […]
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You may or may not remember this golden oldie, but Almost Family (AFAM) was a teaser stock from Ann Sosnowski last year — and it’s finally coming into it’s own a little bit. The sector has looked attractive for a long time, at least on a big picture basis — the demographic trends are undoubtedly […]
5 Comments Read MoreMy Portfolio — Top Ten
A few of you who are interested in the portfolio of stocks I currently own have asked me about which ones are my largest positions. I’m not going to try to keep a list up to date with the relative size of each position, and of course it fluctuates every day, but to give you […]
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CapitalSource (CSE), which I own, is raising some new capital — $400 million+ with the sale of 30 million shares. They say it’s because of opportunity that they see in the current credit markets, an opportunity that the CEO has said he’s been seeing coming all year with the credit crunch (borrowers are in need […]
7 Comments Read MoreSeadrill makes the NY Times
Sometimes by the time an important investing trend hits the NY Times the story is close to over, but I don’t think that’s true here. There’s a good story on the drillship shortage in the NY Times today, worth a read if you want to understand the demand picture a little better — or the […]
Leave a comment Read More“Greed, Fear, and Private Potash” from Andrew Mickey
Andrew Mickey runs Breakaway Investor and has a new service he’s selling now called Fear and Greed, and he must keep some solid copywriters on the speed dial because we’ve had any number of his teasers get our blood rushing over the past year. This one’s for a “secret market”, which is a technique he […]
15 Comments Read More“World’s Greatest Mutual Fund Re-opens — Could re-close any minute”
This teaser email came in a week or so ago, from another Stansberry service, Extreme Value by Dan Ferris. Here’s how they whet our appetite: “In 17 days… The 19,900% Mutual Fund Could Close for Good… “MSNBC says… “Get in line early for this fund.” “It’s been called the “Holy Grail” of mutual funds…” Nice, […]
21 Comments Read MoreVostok Nafta — Fair Value Requires a Time Machine
About a week ago Vostok Nafta released its estimate of Net Asset Value (NAV), the value of the investments held by the fund. They release this data every month, but only once a month, and they release the NAV at the close of the prior month on about the tenth — so on June 10th, […]
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