Iain Little is a name that hasn’t come up here at Stock Gumshoe before, but he’s launching a new (I think) letter from Investorplace that focuses on international stocks called Global Wealth — charter subscribers are being asked to cough up $1,000, which is, of course, half of the “normal” price. And the pitch to […]
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“Screaming Buy: The Next McDonald’s” (Silk Road Investor)
I haven’t written about Yiannis Mostrous in a while, but his latest ad that teases a hot investment that he calls “The Next McDonald’s” definitely got my attention. It’s a big promise, after all: “Thousands of investors became millionaires and lived their dreams as 100 shares of McDonald’s split 12 times and turned into a […]
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The limit order I had sitting on my account to pick up some additional Activision (ATVI) shares triggered today at $10.78 — that happened to be very close to the low of the day, but obviously ATVI is having more than its share of headline risk lately so that may very well not be the […]
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Well, if the last ten years have taught us nothing else, we should have learned that this has been a spectacular time to promise that your investments are like Warren Buffett’s, or to sell folks on the idea of the “next” Berkshire Hathaway or Oracle of Omaha. I’ve written about probably dozens of stocks that […]
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Schiff’s China Picks, Part II — Electricity and Construction
I started writing about Peter Schiff’s new “special report” last week, so today it’s time to finish up on that before I forget — you can see the original article and the first two ideas here, and now we’ll move along to cover Companiess three and four that were teased out for us in the […]
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That headline carries the promise of Robert Hsu’s latest tease, and since I shared some “rerun” articles of his with subscribers to the Stock Gumshoe Daily Update on Friday, I thought I might as well have a look at a “fresh” one today. And yes, he puts right in the headline that “Hint: It’s not […]
9 Comments Read MoreStalin’s Lost Oil
The teaser ad that has been buoyant enough to float to the top of the tank today is a good one for a Friday File treatment — it’s a stock that trades in low volume and has a low market cap, and I always worry about writing about such stocks when sharing things with the […]
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The folks at Euro Pacific Capital, led by senatorial candidate Peter Schiff, are looking for clients for their international-focused brokerage house, which generally solicits US clients for building accounts focused on dividend-paying foreign stocks and precious metals, in keeping with Schiff’s basic strategies (which as far as I can tell is, in brief: dollar will […]
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Ian Cooper is teasing us about an options trade on a little biotech stock again — you might remember that about a year ago he and a few others were throwing out hyperactive teaser ads regarding Arena Pharmaceuticals, the company with a new weight loss drug that was on the verge of releasing results of […]
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On this bright and sunny Spring day our thoughts turn … to Mark Skousen. He’s selling subscriptions to his Forecasts & Strategies newsletter, and his pitch is that he predicted the 1980s boom, and warned investors that corporate profits were peaking in early 2007 … and that he’s got the best ideas for you to […]
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This teaser was sent my way several times right around Tax Day last week, and I must say I’m intrigued … it’s an ad for Peter Krauth’s Global Resource Alert, a commodities-focused newsletter, and it’s all about making money by following in the footsteps of the big banks who are trying to control a particular […]
24 Comments Read MoreApril Idea of the Month: Cambodian Slot Machines
If it looks like I’m shying away from US stocks with many of my recent ideas and investments, well, it kind of feels that way to me, too. I’d hate to have to start with a cash portfolio and have to throw it all into an index fund at current prices, with so many companies […]
4 Comments Read MoreQuick Note: Buying More Altius
I don’t have anything new or noteworthy to share about Altius Minerals today, but I have promised to update you on my portfolio as changes are made, so I need to let you know that I increased my Altius holdings by about 30% this morning when the shares dipped near $9.50. I continue to have […]
8 Comments Read MoreIs 2010 the “Year of the Hard Disk Drives?”
I was reading earlier today about Porter Stansberry’s aggressive short bet against the computer hard drive makers, who seem to have been the canaries in the coal mine regarding computer sales for several years — and at the same time I received a teaser from Louis Navellier for his Blue Chip Growth teasing that the […]
23 Comments Read More“Turn $4k into $107,280 with the Biggest Metals Investment of the 21st Century”
Here’s today’s big fat promise: “YOU can cash in up to 2,682%… “As a tiny Canadian mining company taps into a $60 billion deposit of one of the most crucial metals ever discovered.” Sounds pretty good, eh? I confess to only having had a couple investments show that kind of return in my life, and […]
12 Comments Read More“The Next 8,539% Biotech Breakout … Beginning April 26”
Ah, a good old promise of biotech riches — I haven’t dug into one of these in ages, nothing beats the wild biotech stocks that can see their share price climb 200% (or fall 90%) on a single bit of news. This tease is from Marc Lichtenfeld, whose biotech stuff we’ve looked at several times […]
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“Bulletproof Paychecks: Income for Life?”
Buying and Researching A Gold Streamer
I just added shares of Sandstorm Resources to my portfolio, after having it brought to my attention by one persistent reader and digging into the basics, so for today’s Friday File I thought I’d explore this stock for you, getting into some of the detail and the reasons why I bought. Before that, though, I […]
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