“By This Time Next Year … a Huge Winner” Tobin Smith’s ChangeWave

April 5th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

This one was sent in by a reader earlier today, so I thought I’d quickly get out a note about … this will be shorter than your average Gumshoe writeup, but hopefully still packed with pithy comments and one interesting stock idea.

This is from Toby Smith for his $79 ChangeWave service, and it’s for a specialty chip maker.

Here’s the basics:

This is a company that has bet big on Blu-Ray and should benefit from pent up demand now that there is a single HD standard for DVDs and sales should pick up. He said the ChangeWave alliance, which is a market research group of people who get his newsletter for free in exchange for answering surveys, notes that 44% of people are planning to buy a Blu Ray player this year.

He compares the pent up demand to the Read the rest of this entry »

Toby Smith: “Product X Kills Bugs Dead”

February 9th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

This one is a teaser that we’ve actually looked at before, but I’m getting a lot of email on it so perhaps it got lost in the shuffle — it was solved as part of a multi-part teaser a while back, and it remains one of Tobin Smith’s favorites — and the subject of his “ChangeWave Rant” today.

So what is it? Read the rest of this entry »

Tobin Smith’s “99% Sure Thing to Double Your Money”

January 28th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

OK, so leaving aside the fact that if you ever see a subject line like that in your email, you’re probably better off just deleting it, let’s take a little Gumshoe gander at the latest campaign from Toby Smith’s ChangeWave MicroCap newsletter.

For those who don’t know him — and how you could avoid his presence, I don’t know — Toby is a frenetic, glad-handing, bombastic, and very Read the rest of this entry »