June 22nd, 2008 by StockGumshoe
I won’t be able to give this one the full Gumshoe treatment today, but it seems to me that every adult American received Louis Navellier’s latest advertising email over the last day or two … so I thought you’d like to know the company he’s teasing.
The ad is for a company that works to expand Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) usage in the transportation sector, as a cleaner replacement fuel. Well, to be clear, the ad is for Navellier’s Quantum Growth newsletter, but the stock he’s teasing is related to CNG.
And he promises that the stock will double in the next two weeks, or your money back.
“All thanks to this company’s breakthrough fuel injection systems that convert $4-a-gallon gas guzzlers into 63-cent-a-gallon clean air machines.
“Buy this one stock today and I guarantee you’ll thank me a thousand times on July 7th —or you won’t pay a dime.”
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May 21st, 2008 by StockGumshoe
I haven’t looked at an investment teaser from Christian DeHaemer’s Crisis Trader in a while, but he usually has some interesting ones — he wrote to us late last year about lifting the blockade in the gunboat basin, and for some of his other newsletters he spun tales of a secret nickel project in the Philippines, and about the tiny company that got in under the gunfire to buy the rights to Somalia’s oil.
If you’re guessing that these kinds of tiny exploration companies in energy and minerals can be very hit-or-miss … you’re right. DeHaemer has actually had one of the worst records for teaser picks in the history of the Stock Gumshoe — some of them have had quick runs up in conjunction with the newsletter ad campaign, but almost all of them then fell rather quickly. None have yet to reach his stated potential of several hundred percent gains … though to be fair, some of those “promises” were for a year or two, and I don’t think any of his picks that I’ve tracked is quite a year old yet.
Regardless — I like a good story almost as much as I like a good stock idea, so let’s see if this is either. Sometimes these little guys work out pretty well and spin a good yarn (like Centamin Egypt, subject of the “Gold of the Pharaohs” teaser from a different newsletter, or the fight against China’s rare earth minerals monopoly that brought us Lynas. I own both of those stocks, just FYI).
So what are we dealing with here? Read the rest of this entry »
May 5th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
This delightful ad has clearly graced many an inbox over the past few days — I know I’ve gotten it about a dozen times myself, not to mention the hundreds of Gumshoe readers who have also been kind enough to send it along.
OK, dozens. Still.
So the marketing push is on …
… but, just in case you don’t feel like shelling out $999 for a subscription to Pure Energy Trader, let’s look into this and see if we can figure out what they’re talking about. Read the rest of this entry »
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