If you’re not an analyst or asset manager who specializes in the financial sector, and you don’t count on AIG, Lehman Brothers, or their many near competitors for a paycheck, right now might be a good time to take a step back, breathe a little, and thank whatever deity or lucky totem you might carry, […]
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Stopped out of Chipotle
I sold off my remaining shares of Chipotle class B shares at a loss today — the stock took a significant hit on disappointing earnings and the company’s projections that growth would be very weak in same store sales over the coming year. I don’t generally like to use stops to sell, since I prefer […]
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I don’t write much about the various investment services available from Zack’s, simply because they don’t use teaser ads all that often (or at least, they don’t use fun ones that catch my interest). But one crossed my screen just today that I thought some of you might be interested in — it’s an ad […]
13 Comments Read More“Obama and McCain’s Favorite Company?” Navellier
Louis Navellier believes that our wildly entertaining presidential candidates have at least one thing in common: Their administrations will both push for the kinds of policy changes that will make one particular stock shoot for the stars. Not bad, eh? I’ve seen dozens of emails about preparing for President McCain, or panicking about President Obama, […]
17 Comments Read MoreA Rare Index Speculation
I opened a small position in the Ultrashort Financials ETF from PowerShares (SKF). This ETF returns 2X the negative return of the financial sector index, so it’s a leveraged bet that the financials will continue to fall. This is really a speculation that the collapse in the financial stocks will continue, and that shoes will […]
1 Comment Read More“Ten Minute Work Week: The Greatest Business in America” Ferris Extreme Value
Now this one sounds exciting, eh? I don’t want to say that the mighty, mighty Gumshoe is a lazy man, but I must admit that the idea of a work week that lasts only ten minutes has some appeal … what the heck are they talking about? It’ll take me longer than ten minutes, but […]
16 Comments Read More“Tiny Oil Stock, Drilling in the Hottest Region” Penny Oil Speculator
This teaser ad has been around for a while, but I’ve recently been seeing it again, and even got a print copy in the mail recently, so I thought I’d give it a look. It’s from Chuck de Castro, who brought us one rapid riser earlier this year in Eromanga Hydrocarbons, which a few weeks […]
14 Comments Read More“I Gave up my FBI Security Clearance to Send you This Letter!”
Today’s ad is yet another one that claims a newsletter editor can provide safe passage through the stormy shoals of government data, and lead you to the soft, warm beaches of the millionaires on the other side. It’s for Inside Strategist, a Stansberry and Associates publication that’s edited by a former FBI employee. Here’s how […]
20 Comments Read MoreRemember the “Ultimate Recession Stock?”
It’s now the “ultimate inflation stock” — I wrote a few months ago about what Ann Sosnowski called her ultimate recession stock in an ad for Safe Haven Investor. And she has been right to pick this one, at least for this short time period, since the shares went up from about $7 to today’s […]
Leave a comment Read More“Operation Global Rescue #2: A VERY Precious Commodity”
I enjoyed reading all the comments about Monsanto in yesterday’s article — there certainly are strong opinions on both sides of the broad debate over genetically modified food products, and it’s great to see some back and forth that remained civil and thoughtful. Great stuff! So now we move on to something a little less […]
6 Comments Read MoreCSE Cuts Dividend, As Expected
CapitalSource is no longer the high dividend stock you thought you knew and loved. This mortgage REIT, which in effect always operated as a commercial lender and merely held a mortgage portfolio in order to satisfy the requirements for tax-reporting as a REIT, is not going to be a REIT much longer. At least, that’s […]
Leave a comment Read MoreBuying more Google
The only time I’ve written about Google on this site was a couple months back, when my broker sold several of my positions against my wishes (complicated story involving margin calls and an argument over offsetting option protection), and in the process sold off about a third of my Google shares. I have owned Google […]
2 Comments Read MoreStopped out of Natural Gas Services
I stopped myself out of my remaining holdings in Natural Gas Services (NGS) today. This is a stock that performed pretty well on the demand for equipment from the various burgeoning natural gas shale plays, but it remains premium priced and I’m not as confident as I would like to be in their competitive positioning. […]
Leave a comment Read More“Operation Global Rescue” Stocks — Breakaway Investor
On a day when the faces walking by my house on their way to work at Fannie Mae headquarters are looking a little bit glum and uncertain, let’s stroll over to an entirely different section of the investing neighborhood. This is the subject line that has been filling up my inbox of late: “Controversial ‘Relief […]
35 Comments Read MoreChinese Steel Threatened by WTO Action?
General Steel Holdings, which I have written about a couple times, keeps getting beaten up. The shares are falling again today (OK, almost everything’s falling today, but GSI is falling pretty hard, down almost 8% at one point a few minutes ago). Why? Well, other than the general ugliness over small cap Chinese stocks and […]
1 Comment Read More“Hunt Down Cancer Cells and Zap them Dead” Access Group
Today’s teaser ad is from Marc Lichtenfeld and his Access Group — they specialize in part on medical and biotech stocks, and the first two ads we’ve looked at them are in that area. The first one was for the “$4 Cancer Detection Device that could go to $196,” which you might remember turned out […]
30 Comments Read More“The Next Franco-Nevada” and Nickel Prices
From what little I know about visitors to this website, it appears that the recent ramp-up in the emails from Chris Mayer’s Special Situations regarding mining royalties is having an impact … and folks are once again excited by what Chris called the “Chaffee Royalty” payments that all investors should want to receive. If that’s […]
4 Comments Read MoreGeneral Steel Acquires Again
General Steel (GSI), which I wrote about in detail for my July “Idea of the Month”, is continuing on its established path — it has made another acquisition, again in cooperation with the acquiree. This time, GSI has announced that it entered into a letter of intent to buy Yantai Steel Pipe, yet another specialty […]
Leave a comment Read MoreLouis Navellier’s “Glitch”
Just a quick note for those of you who might be getting inundated with Louis Navellier’s latest email barrage — this time, he’s telling us that we have just a few more hours to take advantage of the special sale he’s offering on Blue Chip Growth, one of his newsletters. What’s the special hook? Apparently […]
11 Comments Read More“Better Than Buffett: The Blue Chip Trading at Blue Light Prices” Philip Durell
“Bite the bullet now and buy this 100-year-old company cheap if you can” … that’s how Philip Durell introduces us to a favorite investment that’s owned by Warren Buffett and has been clobbered this year (for good reason, some would argue). This is in an ad for his Inside Value newsletter at the Motley Fool, […]
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