“Colorado Oil Jackpot: 2 cents to $2″ Badiali

May 30th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

This one is from Matt Badiali at the S&A Oil Report, which we’ve seen a few times already. It teases a couple little companies, but first starts us out with a long-winded teaser about the idea of investing in penny oil stocks.

That’s really all the “Colorado Oil Jackpot” is — the concept that in order to make massive returns in resource stocks, you need to buy penny stocks. The Colorado part comes from the fact that there were so many tiny resource companies selling royalty rights and shares for pennies in Denver way back when the West Was Won.

That idea is teased with a few snippets from the mainstream press to give it the ring of truth — first is one about a Fortune Magazine article that told the story of how former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm took advantage of this “oil jackpot” to make $44,900.

That story, by the way, is from 1987. And it’s Read the rest of this entry »

“Chaffee Royalty Program: Mining Profits without the costs”

May 19th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

The people of Gumshoedom have spoken, and they have said, “what is this Chaffee Royalty thing?”

This is one of the more heavily emailed promotions in recent weeks, an ad for Chris Mayer’s more expensive newsletter, Mayer’s Special Situations that touts a few mining royalty companies that you should own …

… companies that he’d be happy to tell you all about, if you’ll just take out a subscription to his newsletter at the “sale” price of $750.

Mayer may be spot on target, and he might be brilliant … but we don’t have to subscribe to his newsletter just to find out what this Chaffee Royalty company is (or companies … he mentions a couple). Not while the Gumshoe is on the case! Read the rest of this entry »