I’ve written a few times about Westport Innovations (WPT in Toronto, WPRT on the Nasdaq) in the past, and I own shares at a price about 20-25% below where they’re currently trading. But I’ve been reluctant to call extra attention to them, or to single them out as a good investing idea, because of the […]
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“Slow Volcano” — collected Geothermal writeups
Best estimates from the Gumshoe are that roughly 1% of my readers will be online this weekend and actively keeping up with the exciting Gumshoe news … so while I love you all, and most especially adore the faithful readers who sit in their seats at Gumshoe University even on Labor Day weekend, I must […]
56 Comments Read MoreForever … and ever … and ever … the Forever Battery
The Forever Battery newsletter teaser is back, still going strong … not unlike our friendly little Energizer Bunny, I suppose. I’ve seen quite a few emails on this one recently, and the ad is almost identical to the one I first saw back in early April. It’s an ad for Untapped Wealth, and unlike some […]
18 Comments Read More“100% Green Super Material — Invest in the Radical MIT Startup”
This ad comes to us from James DiGeorgia, who apparently ran a newsletter called 21st Century Investor and sold that service a while back — this ad is for a new service that he’s launching called SuperStock Investor. He’d like $79 from you for your charter subscription (though of course, it has a “value” of […]
26 Comments Read MoreSeadrill Earnings Tomorrow Morning — Estimates
We should see earnings from Seadrill after the close of the Oslo market tomorrow morning — should be interesting. I thought that those of you who hold shares might like to see what analysts are saying. Seadrill has had a couple upgrades recently, and they have a ton of analysts covering the stock (even though […]
4 Comments Read More“The Endless Paycheck Portfolio” Chris Mayer
“Using this three-step “paycheck portfolio” plan… tap into an endless stream of income, for as long as you’ll need it… starting with as many as 75 checks, sent automatically to your account.” Not bad, eh? That’s the tease from Chris Mayer and the Capital and Crisis newsletter from Agora (which is not to be confused […]
20 Comments Read More“Billion Dollar China SSE to Own RIGHT NOW” Bill Mann
This is part of an ad that we’ve looked at before in slightly different form — the other “Billion Dollar SSE” we looked at was General Steel Holdings back in July. What the folks at the Motley Fool’s Global Gains newsletter mean when they call something a “SSE” is a “state sponsored entrepreneur” or “state […]
11 Comments Read MoreFake Names for Options Trading … a Vacation Special
OK, so the vacation rerun pile is getting a little thin here … thought you might be interested in seeing all of the many ads that have been sent in the past year promising that you can get cash payouts that are better than dividends, and easy as pie. These ads all tout one version […]
54 Comments Read More“Profit from the Pickens Plan” Alternative Energy Speculator
Aha! You think for a moment that the Gumshoe has returned from vacation early to jump on a hot new stock tip … but you’re wrong, my friend. I’m still not here, but my ethereal presence is calmly posting a rerun of a stock we snooped out many months ago, with a few new notes […]
20 Comments Read More“The Nuclear Monopoly that Cannot Fail” Wealth Advisory
OK, I’m just about out of time as I rush to begin the fabulous Gumshoe vacation, but I’ve got a quick new one to share with you before I get sand between my toes. This one is from an ad for the Wealth Advisory, by Steve Christ, and it’s about uranium enrichment. I can’t go […]
15 Comments Read More“3 Kings of Cloud Computing” Motley Fool
This one has drummed up a fair amount of interest from the mighty horde of Gumshoe readers, I’ve been seeing it for a couple weeks now and it appears to still be actively pushed as I type. So … you might like to know the names of these three cloud computing giants, no? Read on […]
34 Comments Read MoreBuy Before GE Does — “Day in the Sun” for Solar Innovator (Tobin Smith)
I haven’t written much about Toby Smith lately, though his ChangeWave rants are always good entertainment and he sometimes pulls a good idea to light for us (or at least pumps up the shares of a microcap stock). Bear markets aren’t usually a good friend to the kinds of microcap technology stocks he often likes […]
17 Comments Read MoreWestport’s New Address
You can now find Westport Innovations on the Nasdaq — they got their US listing and IPO today, so if you’ve been dying to buy this developer of alternative fuel engines but didn’t like the pink sheet or Canadian listings, you’re in luck. It’s trading under the ticker symbol WPRT, if you happened to own […]
Leave a comment Read More“Tiny $4 Solar Stock Cures Baldness!” Georges Yared
This is another rerun for you, but if I’m to judge by the number of emails I’ve gotten about this one was missed by many folks the first time around. The ad is for Georges Yared and his Game Changers newsletter, which is being pushed like a Michael Phelps appearance on the Today Show. We’ve […]
7 Comments Read MoreAnother Hanfeng Purchase
Not much to add here, as I’ve commented on Hanfeng Evergreen a few times recently, but I continued averaging into a position today — I bought more shares at US$8.09, right around the current fair price in Toronto. I still like the future, and the company’s execution. Chinese small caps continue to get beaten up, […]
5 Comments Read MoreGeneral Steel Earnings — in-line, big charge
GSI posted earnings that were just about in-line with analyst estimates of 13 cents a share in profit, though they had a big derivative writedown that gave them an accounting loss for the quarter. Sales were significantly higher than estimates, beating by about 10%. Volumes just about doubled in the quarter, thanks to the big […]
Leave a comment Read MoreSelling the Barbarians
OK, so they’re not really the Barbarians at the Gate — that was another private equity firm. But I’m today liquidating my position in Blackstone units (BX). I bought Blackstone because I believed that they would maintain a leadership position in their core alternative asset management business — and I still think that business is […]
Leave a comment Read MoreShaving the tarnished, hedging the Russians
Just a quick note on some things I’ve done with my portfolio recently: I continue to hold Vostok Nafta shares, though that has been an awful investment thus far, but I do hold some puts on the Russia index (as represented by the RSX). In effect, this is a bet that Vostok Nafta has a […]
4 Comments Read MoreAlgerian Gas Update — First Calgary
You probably remember seeing the inflammatory ads for Christian DeHaemer’s Crisis Trader newsletter — he painted a pretty picture for a little company called First Calgary Petroleum that has the rights to a couple promising natural gas exploration blocks in Algeria. The sell when this ad began was that this was a way for Europe […]
1 Comment Read MoreAttention for Singapore Water co’s: Hyflux Trust
Hyflux is a fairly large cap company in Singapore, probably the largest of all the Singapore water companies (and there are many of them — water is big business in Singapore), but it’s not much noticed here in the U.S. And beyond that, the company recently spun off a Trust that owns the actual water […]
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