Today you have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a shocking new discovery that will change your life forever!

Sign up now to provide support for all the work of StockGumshoe.com, and to get access to the special members-only premium site, the “Idea of the Month” writeups, and the weekly Friday File.

And all it will cost you is about $1 a week. I think that’s what a packet of sugar costs at Starbucks.

OK, so that’s not really true. And I apologize for acting like the newsletter publishers I follow.

But the $1 a week part is true — I’m asking you to send me some money, to put it bluntly.

As you can imagine, sniffing out these companies and writing them up for your amusement, and maintaining this prime spot of online real estate, takes quite a bit of time — the Gumshoe is compensated emotionally by the thanks of his readers, and the thrill of discovery, but, frankly, he could use some more cash, too.

Stock Gumshoe carries advertising, which you might have noticed, but the other source of funds for my ongoing sleuthing efforts is the horde of happy Gumshoe readers, and they’ve got a name:

The Stock Gumshoe Irregulars (apologies to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

Intrigued? I thought so. Joining as an “Irregular” and getting access to the special Stock Gumshoe Irregulars premium site will cost just $4.50 a month, $13 a quarter, or $49 a year.

You can cancel future contributions at any time through your membership account (ie, through the PayPal or Amazon payments system), or by asking me to cancel it for you. No questions asked. This will prevent the next renewal of your membership from happening, and you will remain a member in good standing until the scheduled renewal date.

Please note that I don’t have an automatic refund system, but I’m always am willing to refund your last payment if you got an automatic renewal and had intended to cancel or anything like that, or really for pretty much any reason — you just have to ask me for a refund via email (please use a clear subject line so I don’t miss it) so I can process your refund manually.

Or of course, if you don’t want to make an ongoing commitment you can give whatever you want to the cause — I’ll prorate your membership term to match as long as it’s $5 or more.

If you’d rather join by check … or pay with gold bars, that’s fine, too — just make your check payable to Stock Gumshoe and send it to:
Stock Gumshoe
PO Box 61
Leeds, MA 01053

If you do pay by check, please remember to include your email address so I can set up your account access.

So what is the premium Irregulars site? If you don’t want to pay out of the goodness of your heart, what do you get?

If you join the Irregulars for $4.50 a month, $13 a quarter, or $49 a yearyou will immediately gain access to the Irregulars-only section of StockGumshoe.com. This includes an “Idea of the Month” article, an in-depth look at what I think is an intriguing investment idea, and it also includes one article per week that I call the Friday File — this is sometimes a teaser analysis, similar to what’s on the free site, and sometimes is followup on stocks I’ve written about before, or on my personal holdings. You will get email notification whenever one of these articles is published. As with the free site, all publishing is electronic — you will not receive anything in the mail, and we don’t have a hard-copy newsletter.

I also share my personal stock portfolio with all Irregulars, including any buy and sell decisions I make with my own money, just in case you’re interested (that’s just the individual stocks I own — I don’t usually write about my rare options trades, or my mutual fund holdings, but am happy to share about those if folks are interested).

I hope my ideas will help you make money, or at least will entertain, amuse, or educate to some degree, though that remains to be seen.

You do not need to send me money to keep getting the regular StockGumshoe.com email updates, or to keep reading the articles here at the main site, where I continue to try to publish at least four new articles every week. I very much hope that all of you will keep reading this site, whether you decided to contribute financially or not.

Joining the Irregulars won’t seem like much money to you (I hope), just another Starbucks Venti Caramel Latte every month, but the mighty hordes of Stock Gumshoe readers, acting as an overwhelming wave of humanity, can together make a real dent in the operating expenses of the Gumshoe and help motivate him to keep doing this work.

This will help to keep the Stock Gumshoe in the power bars and coffee that fuel his late-night sleuthing activities. And help pay for the medical treatment for his poor, afflicted typing fingers. And perhaps some psychiatric treatment to force him to stop speaking of himself in the third person.

Thanks to all the readers of this site, whether you choose to join as a paying member or not — I appreciate you reading and hope you keep coming back, this is fun work.

And keep sending me your stock spam, solved or unsolved, at ilovestockspam@gmail.com — the more the merrier (though don’t feel bad if I don’t answer yours — this has become a bit of a deluge, so I can’t quite get to them all. And if I can’t solve one, I’ll probably just be too embarrassed to tell you).