I’ve gotten quite a few questions recently about “income” and “buy stocks cheap” letters that are clearly veiled hints about put option selling… so I thought I’d take a look at one of them. The ad in question today is from Karim Rahemtulla, who calls himself “The Frugal Millionaire” in this spiel and has been […]
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Each year I go through all of the stocks that I either own personally or have brought to the attention of the Irregulars (there’s quite a bit of overlap on those lists), and I make sure to update my thoughts and opinion on that stock in an organized and, hopefully, disciplined way — that helps […]
I’ve spent the past couple weeks going over my updated opinions on all of the past “Idea of the Month” stocks (or at least, those that haven’t already been dropped from coverage over the years), and I promised to put them all in one big list in order of likingness (yes, I know it’s not […]
I’ve spent the past couple weeks going over my updated opinions on all of the past “Idea of the Month” stocks (or at least, those that haven’t already been dropped from coverage over the years), and I promised to put them all in one big list in order of likingness (yes, I know it’s not […]
We haven’t looked into a Motley Fool teaser pitch for a while, so let’s all settle down in our desks and get out our pencils — we’ve got a long one to look at today, and it’s all about the kind of “rule breaking” company and technology that David Gardner, founding Fool brother from their […]
have an example of a crazy return in my portfolio this week, and it’s getting close to the time that I have to make a decision about it. My remaining position in Shopify (SHOP) April Call Options, on which I’ve already taken a profit in excess of my initial investment, was glowing on my spreadsheet […]
Heydy ho, investing friends! I finally wrap up my Annual Review this week by covering the final three names… and I’ve also got a bunch of other updates to share with you, along with one add-on buy and one brand-new holding for the Real Money Portfolio… enjoy! We’ll start with the completion of the annual […]
Bonner & Partners, which is yet another publisher subsidiary of Bill Bonner’s Agora empire, has a new teaser pitch out for Jeff Brown’s Exponential Tech Investor — and what caught the eye of Gumshoe readers was the headline, in the ad from Bonner’s Managing Director Amber Lee Mason, that promises huge gains from a “$39 […]
I was all set to write up a little teaser from someone else, but then this latest pitch from the Motley Fool crossed my desk and, well, it’s exactly the kind of thing that Gumshoe readers are going to be asking about. So look out below, here some some answers! The tease is from Joe […]
All of you, dear Irregulars, know that Stock Gumshoe is not a “tip sheet,” and I don’t operate a portfolio for other people to emulate or copy, or even attempt to track the stocks we cover as if they were a portfolio of buys and sells with consistent trading advice… but I do keep a […]
The last time I looked in detail at some picks from the Motley Fool Income Investor, it was for their top “Peak Oil Picks,” all of which were at least interesting companies even if they’re all down by 10% or so following the decline in oil prices. (The latest version of that writeup is here, […]
Ian Wyatt is pitching a “pre-IPO” opportunity in Spotify, the music-streaming business that is going public on the NYSE tomorrow… so what’s the story? Can you “get in early?” Should you want to? What’s this all about, anyway? We’ve gotten quite a few questions slipped under the door here at Gumshoe HQ about this one, […]
Never does this get boring. Every time thing seem to run a little dry here at Gumshoe HQ, and the reservoir of hypetastic teasers dips a little bit below the intake pipe … well, the flood comes again, regular as the rains (if not quite as seasonal). That’s how it’s been for a thousand teaser […]
I haven’t yet gotten to a few of my largest holdings in our Annual Review, so that’s where I’ll begin today — with the insurance conglomerates Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B), Markel (MKL), and Fairfax Financial (FFH.TO, FRFHF), as well as the somewhat related names Fairfax India (FIH-U.TO, FFXDF) and Boston Omaha (BOMN). I should be clear […]
“They Scoffed When I Said You Can Collect Instant Cash Just By Punching in My Simple “Money Codes”… “But After 18 Months of Watching the Money Pile Up…” That’s how the ad opens for Lee Lowell’s Instant Money Trader, a trading newsletter that gets pushed pretty heavily from time to time. It’s all about some […]
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this latest ad for Lee Lowell’s new Instant Money Trader — he tells us that this is the “Safest Income Strategy on Earth,” and that it’s the “only strategy that pays you first — without you having to buy anything or pay out any cash whatsoever.” Lowell is […]
Yesterday I wrote to you about a newsletter that was calling for a short squeeze on a little Chinese stock, and today we’re again looking on the short side — though this time, it’s a short pick from Dan Amoss, who thinks he’s got the next NASDAQ stock that’s “headed straight for a body bag.” […]
I’ve gotten quite a few questions about the “Cash from Gold” pitch out of Agora Financial that hints at how easy it is to get “instant income.” So that’s today’s focus for you, dear readers. The big push at the end of the ad is “Yes, I want to collect at least $1,500 per month […]
This story has been making the rounds for quite a while — and in different versions, I’ve written about essentially this same pitch before … but it’s been years since it really hit the Gumshoe radar, and folks keep asking, so I thought I’d check out this latest version of the ad for you. The […]
Maybe the scariest thing I can tell you is, “I’m not selling everything.” The drumbeat in my head continues to be one of worry, I continue to be a little bit surprised at how high stocks are going, and how resilient stocks are. But thankfully, I haven’t been acting on those macro worries — because […]
Seems like April Fool’s Day means we should cover the Motley Fool… so we’ll look at an ad I’ve been getting from them about the next big AI wave. And no, it’s not biotech — though I’m sure we’ll cover more of that soon, too, because everyone and his brother is spittin’ hype about biotech […]
We’ve still got a month or so of “lull” before the first quarter earnings season starts to perk up for our Real Money Portfolio companies, that usually begins with Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) and W.R. Berkley (WRB), who will probably have updates for us in the third week of April… but we haven’t had much chance […]
The Motley Fool is pitching its “Market Pass” service ($998 first year, ? auto-renewal price, no refunds), which is their “package deal” subscription (Stock Advisor, Rule Breakers, Everlasting Stocks, Real Estate Winners and Rule Your Retirement, plus an “Ultimate Portfolio” that they choose from the recommendations of those services), and the hook they’re using to […]
This one’s going to sound a little familiar, but we’ll give it a quick once-over for the folks who haven’t been with Stock Gumshoe for long. The Motley Fool is pitching their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter ($59 for the first year, renews at ?) with a pitch about a company that they have “bet” on […]
Motley Fool Canada is selling their version of the “bundle” that so many newsletter publishers push — they call theirs Market Pass ($799 first year, renews at $999), and it includes access to the North-of-the-border versions of Stock Advisor, Rule Breakers, Hidden Gems, Everlasting Stocks and a Canada-only publication called Dividend Investor. But what caught […]
“The Motley Fool is shining a spotlight on what looks like ‘The Holy Grail of AI Sleeper Stocks’ ready to rise and roar to potentially meteoric gains… And we’re inviting YOU and an extremely select group of growth-hungry investors to follow along trade-for-trade!” That’s the lead-in to the latest sales pitch from the Motley Fool […]
Both versions of Motley Fool Stock Advisor, the US flagship and Motley Fool Stock Advisor Canada, have been out with teaser pitches about their “A.I. Disruption Playbook” investment ideas, and readers have some questions… so let’s see what we can tell you. First, the US version… “5 years from now, you’ll probably wish you’d grabbed […]
[/irregular]Yesterday I wrote to you about the Motley Fool Canada’s “death of Twitter” tease, in which they were pushing a small web publisher as a competitor who could benefit from ad weakness at Twitter (now X) and Meta… and today, down here on our side of the border, the Foolies are using the same basic […]
This article was originally published on October 19, 2022, when this ad started running — the stock has soared, so that turned out to be a well-timed pitch, but they are running the same ad again pretty aggressively, without any real changes, so I’m re-posting our “answer” article here for you. I’ve posted some minor […]
“Biden’s Disastrous Energy Policy Just Handed Us the Biggest Oil Boom of Our Lifetimes. Here’s precisely how to play it for your chance at 250% gains in the year ahead…” That’s the headline of Alexander Green’s latest promo for his Insider Alert newsletter ($1,295/yr, no refunds), which is put out by The Oxford Club… and […]
These are unpredictable times for the economy, as we deal with persistent inflation and higher interest rates and what seems to be unfolding as an office real estate crisis and head into the debt ceiling deadline and prepare for what will undoubtedly be a knock-down, drag-out budget fight, and perhaps a government shutdown, in the […]
Sound familiar? It is, kind of — the Motley Fool has been running teaser ads for “Cord Cutting” and the “Death of Cable TV” for years now (I covered a handful of them back in 2018, for example), and it’s a nice real-world theme: We’ve all seen that cable TV subscriptions are dropping and the […]
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This one’s going to sound a little familiar, but we’ll give it a quick once-over for the folks who haven’t been with Stock Gumshoe for long. The Motley Fool is pitching their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter ($59/yr) with a pitch about a company that they have “bet” on with their own money. They do that […]
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