I often get questions from readers about my personal portfolio, and how I weight or invest in things and what kinds of options or mutual funds I own, since I don’t typically write about option or fund positions or keep an updated list of those positions on my portfolio page (which is just the list, […]
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“Earnings Breakout Begins Monday: Act Now”
Earlier in the week we took a look at a “short” case for a tech stock, so today I thought I’d spend a few minutes tracking down some of Louis Navellier’s favorite picks to buy on what he predicts will be blockbuster earnings in the days ahead. Navellier has a bunch of both fans and […]
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Today I thought I’d finally take a look at the “warrior antibodies” teaser that’s been circulating for a few weeks now — I know a few of my readers have already figured this one out, but I continue to get questions about this tease every day. So … answers? The teaser is that there’s a […]
18 Comments Read More“Starting On November 1, this ‘Can’t Lose’ Tech Stock Will Crash and Burn”
I always like to write about a bear case on a stock, or a put-buying or short-selling teaser, because they’re so rare — most people wouldn’t consider shorting stocks because of the different risk profile and the unfamiliar process, and many folks even think there’s something vaguely un-American about betting against a stock. And, of […]
18 Comments Read More“One .62 Company Just Perfected Sunless Solar”
“It’s over 300% more efficient than rooftop solar panels… It generates electricity on any surface… And I recently infiltrated a university lab to see it work for myself…” That’s how the teaser opens from Jeff Siegel for Green Chip Stocks Premium opens for us — and it certainly has gotten many of my delightful readers […]
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“World’s Greatest Gold Prospector cuts us in on his NEW Strike worth up to $12.5 BILLION”
Here we are on Friday again, and as luck would have it we have before us an interesting teaser for a teensy little company that might have some merit — just the kind of thing I like to focus on for the Friday File, since sending out a stock like this to the whole free […]
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I wrote quite a bit about one of the Greenland rare earths stocks earlier in the week, but I just wanted to clarify the situation in teaser-land a little bit today. There are two Greenland rare earth explorers that are being actively teased by big newsletter publishers right now — the one that uses the […]
22 Comments Read More“New ‘Active Shares’ Let You Influence the Price of Your Stocks”
That headline came across my desk on a tease from Marc Lichtenfeld, who I’ve certainly covered in the past — but this time, he’s teasing a brand new advisory called The Activist Trader that apparently hasn’t even started publishing yet. So in case you’re tempted to become one of his guinea pigs, let’s look and […]
5 Comments Read MoreThe Missing B-52 and Greenland’s Uranium and Rare Earths Future (and some other Rare Earths Ideas)
Does President Obama Want to Confiscate Your Gold?
Here’s how the headline reads for this latest teaser from the Taipan folks, for Zachary Scheidt’s New Growth Investor: “Urgent Gold Investing Alert: “President Obama Wants to Confiscate Your Gold “Buried deep inside the healthcare reform bill is a law that could set the stage for the federal government to take away ALL your gold. […]
15 Comments Read MoreOctober Idea of the Month: Toll Roads and Airports
As most of you know, I spent a couple days learning at the Value Investing Congress in New York last week, a wonderful conference that attracts some of the best and brightest in value investing and gives them a great forum for sharing their ideas and methods. The stars of the Congress are usually the […]
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Post-Election Confidence Boost? (Elliott Gue)
Value Investing Congress, Day Two
A quick note for you during the lunch break for today’s congress: I heard some very good presentations backed up by stupendously thorough analysis this morning, including a great presentation by Kyle Bass on Japan’s debt and the debt of other heavily leveraged countries, and an argument from Michael Kao that the convertible bonds of […]
2 Comments Read MoreNot Friday, but still: Value Investing Congress, Day One
I mentioned last week that I would try to send out an update or two to the Irregulars while I’m here in Manhattan attending the Value Investing Congress … and whaddya know, I’m actually doing it! There won’t be a “regular” Friday File this week, but I’ll share this note and hopefully another one tomorrow, […]
Leave a comment Read More“Buy Signal of the Decade … this stock is about to take off …” (Alexander Green)
Before I get started with today’s note, I want to let you know that the next week or so will be a little bit different — I’ll be attending the Value Investing Congress in New York next week to learn from some masters and get some new ideas for my fabulous readers, and we’ve got […]
2 Comments Read More“Extreme Value” World Dominating Business for October
Today’s tease didn’t come to me directly and I haven’t seen the original ad or letter where it appeared, but this excerpt was forwarded by a large number of folks who appear to have some interest in a good ‘ol blue chip-type investment. The tease must have been in some kind of subscribers-only letter for […]
14 Comments Read More“Takeover Target Poised to Explode!” (Friday File Rerun)
A confession: I just made a huge rookie mistake — I was finishing up a different article for you and kicked the computer’s plug out of the wall … plenty of cussing going on here at Gumshoe HQ today. And worse, I screwed up my backup system and wasn’t logged in right, so I lost […]
6 Comments Read MoreCopper, Nukes and Chinese Agriculture
Before I get into the main focus of today’s note, I want to share two things: First, a quick solution to another teaser, this one circulating mostly to Australians as an ad for the Diggers and Drillers newsletter from the Aussie affiliate of Agora (Port Phillip Publishing). The stock in question doesn’t trade on the […]
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