I usually have a nearly endless stream of teaser emails to sift through as I choose which “secret stock” to sniff out for you each day, and one way that I narrow them down is by looking at editors who’ve made similar claims about other stocks and been proven right — it’s no guarantee that […]
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Verizon Gave me some Frontier Shares. Meh, OK.
In updating my portfolio on these pages for some odd and not really fundamentally-driven transactions, I also need to note that I’m now an owner of Frontier Communications, the big regional wireline telecom company. I picked up the shares as a reward for my Verizon shares, a special dividend that they made as part of […]
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I’ve closed two positions recently, neither for fundamental reasons — I’m a little embarrassed to tell you this, but I failed to notice that one of the few stocks I held a stop loss order on, Energy Recovery (ERII) was indeed stopped out when I was preoccupied with other things, but that is now no […]
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If the last few years of Stock Gumshoe-ing have taught me anything, it’s that many of my readers love gold, and many more of them love dividends. So when the folks at Lombardi issued this email blast promoting Inya Ivkovic’s Explosive Mine Stocks newsletter, it caught my eye — they tease us that you can […]
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Peter Schiff’s TV Pick — Can Euro Pacific Catch Chinese TV Lightning in a Bottle again?
Peter Schiff appears to be on the verge of an embarrassing clobbering today in his primary bid for the Republican Senate nomination down in the nutmeg state (see, I’m adjusting to Massachussets residency already — a few weeks ago I would have had to say “up” in the nutmeg state). Or I suppose I could […]
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Just when I thought my Monday morning might be a big gloomy, with the clouds rolling in for a day of humid thunderstorms, here comes a ray of sunshine to brighten my outlook: The Foolies have a new ad out! Yay! This one’s for their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter, the one that pits bros Tom […]
6 Comments Read MoreA $6 Stock for 7 Cents … and a 12% yield to boot?
I’ve been saving this one for the Friday File, since it’s one of several similar stocks I’ve been thinking about for my own account — though I haven’t invested in the company as of now (and won’t for at least three days, per my rules). The teaser came from the same ad as the SVB […]
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Well, it appears the secret’s out on how to get the Gumshoe’s attention: It’s not enough to have a hype-filled ad that promises huge gains, the ones that float to the top of my to-do list often also have perfect, pithy headlines like the one I’ve quoted above: who can resist “The Almost Perfect Stock?” […]
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Now this is a pitch: “Everyone knows gold is a great investment. Since 2000, it’s gone from $275 to $1,250 an ounce. “But what if I told you there’s a special type of investment out there that’s not only beaten gold over the past decade but has practically destroyed every asset class on the market […]
20 Comments Read More“You’re going to see this $17 stock jump to $34 in the blink of an eye.”
Louis Navellier sent out an email ad on Sunday telling us that we would see the stock he’s naming in his current Emerging Growth newsletter double “in the blink of an eye.” And you know, despite the fact that I know better (he makes essentially the same promise, throwing on that this will double “with […]
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