I’ve just added the last bit I can justify buying to my Seadril position, which was already my largest holding. I bought more shares this morning at a hair under $31, and now have an average cost basis of about $23. Clearly, I’ve written more about Seadrill in the short history of this site than […]
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“Secured Investment Contracts: Legally Obligated 181% Gains” Stansberry
Phew, just when you think things are slowing down for the summer … out comes a new concept in Gumshoe teaserdom. Porter Stansberry’s folks are launching a new service, called True Income, which invests in something a little bit different … something that they’re teasing as “finally, a safe alternative to stocks!” The service is […]
79 Comments Read More“Microsoft of Biotech”
Many of you saw this email last week, the latest in a long string of Mark Skousen’s attempts to predict breakout stock performance on earnings dates. His past history of this is spotty, and I’ve written a few times about earnings pops he has predicted — some good, some bad. Alas, I didn’t get a […]
22 Comments Read MoreWhy Not the Rig Builders?
I’ve written several times lately about deepwater drilling rigs, including, of course, my enthusiasm for Seadrill — but until earlier this year I also owned one of the bigger rig builders, a position I closed in the Spring. Why? And why wouldn’t one want to own the big shipyards and rig builders at a time […]
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Of course, the big question is: does anyone really have a speculative fervor to find the next ExxonMobil? I suppose if you can find an oil major before it becomes a major you’re going to do great, but in recent history XOM has not been such a great deal. Oil has gone from roughly $30 […]
24 Comments Read MoreCapitalSource ex-div Hit: Opportunity?
Sometimes companies that have huge dividends trade very erratically around the ex-div date (the date that the shares first trade without the right to receive the dividend). That’s today for CapitalSource (CSE), a mortgage REIT that is in my portfolio, and that was aggressively touted by the Motley Fool’s Income Investor service as the “one […]
2 Comments Read MoreIs Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) worth a flier?
I didn’t want to note this on the main site, because I don’t want to encourage that much larger number of people to look into a speculative trade on a small stock, but I’m finding Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) to be pretty impressive at first glance — if I were able to trade in it […]
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This is another one from Louis Navellier, this time for his Global Growth newsletter — he’s going out on a bit of a limb with this one, saying that the stock will double in less than a week … “All thanks to its mammoth Colombian, Argentinean, and Peruvian reserves. Buy this one today and I […]
32 Comments Read More“Gambling in a top Asian tourist destination”
I promised to close out the look at the Asian Growth Stocks ad and see which company was teased by Bryan Tycango … and this third Asian stock recommendation sounds like it has some potential — Tycango says it could triple your money in 18 months. So what is the spiel? “Asians love to gamble. […]
3 Comments Read More“China’s $50 Billion Shocker” Part 3 … Navellier
For those who thought it would never end … at last, we come to the end of the latest Navellier teaser. Hot Money Stock No. 3, poised to ride the rails to riches when the Chinese investment funds come rolling in, chasing the hot growth stocks on the US markets. This one is a consumer […]
13 Comments Read More“China’s $50 Billion Shocker” Part 2 … Navellier
Not long ago we took a little gander at a stock Navellier has been touting as a potential recipient of hot, incoming Chinese investment funds. I promised a glance at the others, too, so here we go. “Hot Money Stock No 2: As I regularly remind my readers, the master key to investing in stocks […]
7 Comments Read More“Multiply Your Money by Solving China’s Water Problem”
Well, I promised that I would catch up and get you the rest of the Asian Growth Stocks teaser companies … this is the one I looked at a couple days ago, a paper mailing from Bryan Tycango that teased three stocks. The first one was a stock I’d never heard of … Travelsky. Let’s […]
18 Comments Read MoreThe Power to Move Markets — CBAK and Sagami
Lest anyone doubt the power of a newsletter tout to move the market, just take a look at the chart of CBAK today. Remember, this is a stock that we sleuthed out at the Gumshoe as a possible Tony Sagami pick after his planned visit to the company on his current Asian tour. Some of […]
6 Comments Read MoreA Tale of Two Fund-raisings
If you happen to follow any of the stocks I own, you might have noticed two big movers lately, in opposite directions — Exelixis moving up, and ABB Grain moving down. In my opinion, neither one has huge implications, but both of these moves are because the company is raising money for future projects. In […]
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It seems as though interest in China is again growing, after a Fall and Winter when even rabid China bulls like Robert Hsu were somewhat cautiously looking for “greater China” opportunities and China resource plays in places like Brazil and Australia. Now, it seems, China is cheap enough to be back on the radar — […]
7 Comments Read More“Monopoly on Chinese Air Travel?”
This one came to me in an actual envelope, believe it or not … and it was on paper! Wow, these guys have some crazy ideas! Actually, I hear anecdotally that the direct mail efforts by a lot of the newsletters are still quite active — it’s a lot more expensive for them, but they […]
11 Comments Read MoreNewsletter Convergence Happy for Sadia
In the time that I’ve been watching newsletter ads, I’ve seen precious few companies that have been “teaser favorites” of multiple newsletters. One of those is the Brazilian poultry and processed foods company. It was teased by Mark Skousen in February, and then by Tom Dyson at Stansberry & Associates in March … and before […]
Leave a comment Read More“Unclaimed Dividends: 2-page form, collect $2,100” Jeff Clark
“If you complete and return the 2-page form sampled above, your broker could pay you $2,100 in less than 2 weeks. What’s even more incredible is that soon after you could receive an additional check for about $1,200.” That’s the latest “free money” tease from the folks at Stansberry & Associates — leading us into […]
30 Comments Read More“Financial Behemoth Set to Double … Send Shockwaves” Skousen
I’ve written about various teasers from Mark Skousen’s services several times over the last year or so, and he is, at least, always confident. He has teased several good stocks that have performed well, including Sadia, ABB, and CVRD, and several that have stunk — like Volcano and Centerline Holdings (to be fair, I thought […]
36 Comments Read More“Blue Chip Forced by Law to Embarrass Itself”
This teaser starts out with a promising … um, promise: “We just uncovered one of the largest opportunities we’ve ever seen. One of the fat cat financial firms on Wall Street just received some bad news. By June 17, it could be forced by law to reveal some really embarrassing data. That’s not what’s so […]
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