The world of newsletter email advertising is a big one, with lots of money swirling around, but it’s not all that complicated. You can see the same triggers bring about the same effect time and time again. And one of the biggest triggers for many investors is the price of oil — high oil prices, […]
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“Invest in America’s Super Car Today!”
This ad comes in from Greg Guenthner (who likes to call himself “Gunner”) and the good folks at Bulletin Board Elite, a subscription service that will run you $2,000 a year … and he backs up his claim to your money by sharing stories of several bulletin board and OTC stocks that had remarkable runs […]
10 Comments Read More“Albania’s Forgotten Commodity Treasure”
AlbaniaAlbaniaYou border on the AdriaticYour land is mostly mountainousAnd your chief export is chrome OK, so for those who are not old Cheers fans, I just had to include that little snippet for you … one of my favorites. Feeling very old now. But how often does one have the opportunity to write about Albania? […]
5 Comments Read More“November Income Security — 35.1% Yield!”
I hope that everyone who reads the teaser email from StreetAuthority.com for Carla Pasternak’s High-Yield Investing takes their claims of a 35% forward dividend yield with a little bit of a grain of salt. Obviously, there’s no way to get a 35% annual dividend that’s sustainable and/or safe, so there must be something unusual going […]
7 Comments Read More“The Penny Stock Behind the NYSE”
This one came in as part of a teaser for a larger program, in an ad for the Alliance from Stansberry & Associates (that’s their package deal that gets you all their newsletters for one giant $5,000 upfront payment plus some kind of annual fee). The teaser was very brief, but I thought it was […]
2 Comments Read More“Slow Volcano Power”
In all the time I’ve put in as your friendly neighborhood Stock Gumshoe, I think this might be the most-forwarded email ad I’ve seen yet. People are clearly intrigued by this teaser for the “slow volcano power” company … either that, or it’s the Gumshoe’s smoldering, soulful and sensuous eyes that make everyone think “volcano!” […]
15 Comments Read More“An Army of Bees Hunting Bin Laden”
That’s the intriguing subject line of a forwarded email a reader sent in, advertising the Untapped Wealth Newsletter that can come your way for $99 a year. It’s a nanotechnology and defense teaser, which is where that idea comes from — they’re building, or at least envisioning, little drones that are the size of bumblebees. […]
5 Comments Read More“The Next Starbucks … in China”
This one comes in from Jeff Siegel for Green Chip Stocks — kind of an odd selection for a green newsletter, but it is a “fair trade” coffee company, so I suppose that must be the connection. The special report that you’ll get for subscribing to Green Chip Stocks is called “Coffee Coup: How to […]
11 Comments Read MoreRobert Hsu and the Motley Fool are both saying…
This isn’t a real sleuth job, just a quick note because the email box is heating up with two competing teaser recommendations for the same stock … and the company reports earnings after the close on Wednesday, so now’s a decent time to be paying attention to it. The first recommender is Robert Hsu, whose […]
5 Comments Read More“Tiny $5 MicroCap Dazzles Cell Phone Titans”
This one comes to us from Christian DeHaemer at Taipan, whose “reliable source” tells him that this stock could go from $5 to $15 in a matter of months … sounds like something we ought to take a look at, eh? This is an ad for his Volume Spike Alert, by the way — one […]
9 Comments Read More“Last Mile Revolution: Rural WiMax Broadband”
This one has been floating around for a week or so, and if I’m right about the company that’s being teased it has already taken flight thanks in part, I expect, to the incessant marketing from Jonathan Kolber’s Emerging Capital Report. Whether it will stay up in the intermediate term, I don’t know. But I’m […]
6 Comments Read More“Favorite Small Cap Tech Surges 28%!”
OK, so this one is kind of cheating again, because I’ve written about this company before. Andew Mickey of Breakaway Investor is pushing his favorite small cap technology stock again, the cell phone GPS company, and he is crowing about the fact that he stuck with it through the naysaying and watched it jump 28% […]
5 Comments Read More“HIRAs — Funding Retirement with Healthcare Trusts?”
This one comes in from Rob Fannon’s Medical Investor, another publication of Stansberry and Associates — we’ve seen a few of his teasers before, with actually some quite good results on their ideas for “SNiP Investments” and a few others. This time, as with so many Stansberry ads, there’s again an invented term to juice […]
3 Comments Read MoreMotley Fool’s “Brand Inside a Brand: The Next Intel”
OK, so I’m starting to think that Fyodor Dostoyevsky has been reincarnated as a Motley Fool copywriter — the amount of text they throw into their teaser emails, many of them ten pages long or longer, is a bit ridiculous … I’d say they lead the industry in that category. But more to the point, […]
51 Comments Read MoreForbes: “Emerging Market Stocks You Must Own Now!”
The folks at Forbes are out with a new investing newsletter, the aptly titled International Stock Advisory by John Christy. Doesn’t have a track record yet, of course, but at least they’re doing a little teasing about their favorite stocks … so the Gumshoe is on the case! The newsletter will run you about $200 […]
1 Comment Read MoreNavellier’s “Christmas in October”
I think we’ve all probably seen Louis Navellier out there in front of every camera or microphone available recently, thanks to the fact that he’s got a new book out, the Little Book that Makes You Rich, from the same Little Book series that brought us my favorite short investing tome, The Little Book that […]
4 Comments Read More“Undervalued Stock of the Month — October”
Well, I referred obliquely to this one in my writeup of a few days ago, but thought I’d take a closer look and see if I was right in my assumptions. Turns out, I was (for once, at least). The undervalued stock of the month in April, according to the Half Priced Stocks service, was […]
6 Comments Read MoreiPhone Sosnowski Component Quickie
A commenter noted that Sosnowski has a new pick out that I haven’t yet seen the teaser ads for — I’ll copy the comments here: "Sosnowski has a new teaser - a niche tech company: 'For example, recently I offered a recommendation on a company that makes a specific $2 part for the Apple iPhone […]
1 Comment Read MoreWe have a new leader!
For the first time in a very long time, there’s a new stock atop the leader board on the Gumshoe Spreadsheet! (The spreadsheet, for those who don’t know, tracks all the picks I’ve sleuthed out in real time, and tells you which ones would have been good buys on the day the email came out, […]
2 Comments Read More“Huge Profits from Polysilicon Shortage”
The following was submitted by loyal Gumshoe reader and Irregular Streetsifter, who has solved and written up a few for us before. Your friendly Gumshoe has done almost no editing, so this is Streetsifter’s work through and through … thanks! Using their words, a “measly dollar” will buy you the solution to the two matching […]
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