I’m rerunning this writeup for you, with just one added point here at the top to identify a fourth company that they snuck in since I first saw the ad. This particular ad is running hot and heavy again from the Motley Fool, popping up all over my mailbox, so I’m sure quite a few […]
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July Idea of the Month: Chinese Steelmaker GSI
This one will probably not be a shock to you, because unlike some of the others I’ve featured in this space it is a company that I wrote about on StockGumshoe.com fairly recently, and fairly positively. I’ve since had some time to look over the company’s fundamentals and market more thoroughly, and I think now […]
Leave a comment Read MoreNavellier and Mechel — Cautionary Tale
Greetings from the road, everyone — my time is limited today so I’m sharing a very interesting comment that a reader sent in … we’ll call him Carlo. Carlo looked into Louis Navellier’s recent history with the formerly highflying Russian steel (and coal) stock, Mechel (MTL). This was also a Robert Hsu pick for a […]
52 Comments Read MoreTuesday Promise: Skousen’s safe bank
I mentioned that I wanted to get to this one today — it’s probably not in time for most of you to catch it in the Monday email alert, but here it is anyway. Mark Skousen is touting a bank stock for his Forecasts and Strategies newsletter, and more specifically he’s predicting that the bank […]
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Apologies for folks who are seeing this comment a second time, but the site had severe server problems yesterday and was down for much of the day — so I’m republishing it to make sure that you have a chance to read this note if you want to. This is not going to be a […]
14 Comments Read More“Warren Buffett Style 10-Bagger in China” Skousen
Taking a brief break from dissecting Ann Sosnowski’s latest 13F teasers, we move along to look at one that just started cropping up in my inbox from Mark Skousen and his Forecasts and Strategies newsletter. I’ve looked at lots of Skousen’s teasers before — he has picked some good ones like China Medical, which he […]
6 Comments Read MoreAntacids for Russia Investors
I’ve been skeptical of investing in Russia for quite some time, though I also do personally have some money invested in that country through a closed end fund (Vostok Nafta, trades in Sweden). It has not been an easy few weeks for those who are invested in the Great Bear. Why? It’s still largely political, […]
2 Comments Read More“Free Money — the Ultimate Recession Stock”
I mentioned yesterday that I would be spending a little time running through the teaser stocks in Ann Sosnowski’s latest teaser ad for her Safe Haven Investor newsletter … so without further ado, here we go! This one is called the “Ultimate Recession Stock” in the ad, and whether or not you think we’re in […]
16 Comments Read More“13F Disbursement Plans: Wall Street’s Free Money Factory” Ann Sosnowski
This one is from an old friend (in the sense of, “I’ve never met her, but I’ve had plenty of practice spelling her name) — and the one who still has the top position on the Stock Gumshoe tracking spreadsheet with her pick of Lynas for a different newsletter (though that spot is being challenged […]
10 Comments Read MoreWestport Coming to America
Westport Innovations, the natural gas engine company that was teased a while back by the Alternative Energy Speculator, continues to develop. We should all be cautious, because this company has been around for a long time and gotten hyped up several times in the past before falling back down. It seems different to me this […]
Leave a comment Read More“Battery Boom: Lithium Power Tripler by Thanksgiving” Navellier
I’ve written probably far too many notes here about teasers from the esteemed Louis Navellier of late, but I can’t help it — his ads are making fairly huge promises (none yet kept), and they are arriving in a deluge. Perhaps ignoring them would be the saner path, but no one ever accused the Stock […]
27 Comments Read MoreAnyone Remember Aussie Soles?
Aussie Soles (AUSE) was the focus of a concerted stock promotion/advertising campaign a couple months ago, centered around an “analyst for hire” letter by Tim Fields at Untapped Wealth. I was just thinking about them again in preparation for a talk I’m giving, and I ran across a good follow-up article about the company, the […]
1 Comment Read More“59 Chemists Corner Game Changing Ideas” Georges Yared
Anyone who has been wandering around the halls here at Gumshoe University for any length of time will know that Georges Yared has been getting a heck of a push from the publisher of his new newsletter of late — if you haven’t gotten an ad for Game Changers, your spam filter is better than […]
9 Comments Read More“10 Billion Barrels of British Oil Ready to Drill”
This comes from our mates across the pond, the folks at the Red Hot Penny Shares newsletter. And they’re just as worried about oil in Merrie Old England as we are here in grumpy new Washington, so clearly the newsletter editors over there are just as eager to get your blood bubbling about a hot […]
11 Comments Read More“Quarterly Paychecks from America’s Most Hated Company”
Today I’m looking at a teaser ad from Andrew Gordon of Investors Daily Edge — I’ve looked at a couple of Gordon’s teaser picks over the past year or so, one good (SunPower) and one very bad (Microvision). Apparently now his focus has moved a bit, he’s not talking about breakout high tech companies these […]
8 Comments Read MoreStars Lining Up for GSI?
Just a quick note to give the Irregulars a little bonus information: it looks like both Louis Navellier and the Motley Fool’s Bill Mann are currently touting the same company, General Steel Holdings (GSI). That doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a great pick, but after reading Bill Mann’s ad for the Global Gains service and […]
2 Comments Read More“Billion Dollar SSE: Locking Down China’s Steel Industry”
This one comes in from Bill Mann at the Motley Fool’s Global Gains service, which I’ve looked at several times before — and I’ve also liked a lot of their picks and have invested in a few of the same companies personally, so I usually pay extra attention to their ads. Which doesn’t make them […]
10 Comments Read MoreSeadrill Delivery Delay — Stock Suffers
Seadrill, the stock I’ve written most about in this space and the first idea that I shared with Irregulars, is doing quite poorly — and today brought some more unfortunate news. Seadrill’s West Polaris has been delivered and is leaving Korea for Brazil tomorrow, which is good, but another newbuild has been delayed for a […]
8 Comments Read MoreAgriculture Investing
Third Avenue Funds management has fallen on a bit of a rough patch this year, as Martin Whitman’s big bets on distressed companies have not yet paid off (I still wouldn’t bet against him in the long run), but they also just mailed out their latest quarterly shareholder letter, and I find this to be […]
Leave a comment Read More“Water $$: A valve maker with a better idea” Navellier
I think a few readers and some folks in the forum have already called attention to this teaser ad, one in a recent avalanche of teaser ads from Louis Navellier’s various newsletter services — I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little bit sick of the guy. On the other hand, during times […]
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