What’s with the Stansberry ads?I thought you were all about uncovering teasers and bypassing the ads, why do you have a Stansberry ad in your email?
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Thanks to Travis’s live price listings of all the teased stocks per year it is possible to pick the four best tipsters of 2012 whose picks were reviewed by Gumshoe.
They are: The Gardeners at Motley Fool 11 picks, 2 losers, average gain 31.09% to Feb 6 2013; Matt Badiali at Stansberry 8 picks 2 losers, average gain 21%; Alex Daley at Caseys E T. 4 picks 1 loser average gain 48%; Nick Vardy at Eagle F 4 picks 0 losers average gain 41%.
So if you are itching to subscribe these may be the hot tipsters.
regards Ian Shearer
Thanks Ian — note that those best ideas for three or four different newsletters were all the momentum-driven 3D printing stocks, either DDD or SSYS or both.
What’s your opinion of the new All Weather Investor being offered by Douglas Davenport?
I saw this offer as well and checked out the video. When something sounds too good to be true, it is. Apparently this guy developed a model by fitting the previous 5 or so years of data. This is all hindsight and it’s likely flawed to use it to predict the future.
Just my 2 cents on Douglas Davenport,
This sounds to good to be true and would not do it for the following reasons:
1) In the video he said he got called by Sir John himself and in fact it was Sir John’s son;
2) During those years, he was instructed to mirror Warren Buffet. Hence, Berkshire’s legal counsel sent them a legal letter telling them to remove all references to Berkshire in their literature. Plus if Douglas was that good, why do you need to imitate someone else? WHY… because he doesn’t have an idea on his own that can beat the indexes.
3) In the video, they keep referencing “model” portfolio not an actual portfolio with published results. Martin has pulled this BS with other offerings like Claus and MCP. It was a back tested model…. BIG SECRET: His back tested model will always beat the S&P by a country model because you keep tweaking it for what would have worked. When it comes time to implement it going forward, it BOMBS OUT MISERABLE.
If you would listen to the clowns at Weiss, you would have sold out at the bottom waiting for the Great Depression 2 and in fact you would have gotten back to even by not listening to their scare tactics. I lost a lot of money with them, please do not do the same.