This ad about the next way to break through the limitations Moore’s law has sent a few questions our way in the past two weeks, so let’s take a break from watching the short-squeeze train wrecks and look into this fella, shall we? The pitch comes from Jimmy Mengel for his The Crow’s Nest newsletter […]
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Everyone seems to love a “micro cap” these days, so the latest teaser pitch from Dylan Jovine over at Behind the Markets for his “upgrade” newsletter caught my eye — it’s called Breakthrough Wealth ($997/yr, 30-day refund policy), and he’s pitching a service that he says will be shooting for 1,000% gains in small companies. […]
Breakthrough Wealth
“Upgrade” newsletter from Behind the Markets that focuses on trying to identify a small-cap or microcap “1,000% gainer” every month.
What’s that Motley Fool “Potential 865X Growth” Microcap?
The Motley Fool’s Market Pass service offered up a teaser pitch over the weekend about a new stock that is being recommended by Rich Greifner… here’s how the email got everyone excited: “It’s less than 24 hours until the market opens, so I’ll get straight to the most exciting story I’ve ever shared in Investor […]
Motley Fool Market Pass
Portfolio/”best of” service that summarizes and recommends picks from other Motley Fool newsletter services, including Stock Advisor and Rule Breakers, and also recommends a few of its own ideas.
Friday File: Dreaming of NVR
Bad news… Dream Finders Homes (DFH) did not partner up with Boston Omaha’s Yellowstone Acquisition SPAC (YSAC) to go public, as I had harbored some small hope they might… but good news, too, because DFH did go public this week, which came as a surprise to me on Thursday, since I hadn’t noticed the original […]
What’s the 81-cent Stock that Dave Forest calls “The 5G Keystone?”
Lynn tells me that a bunch of folks have been writing in with questions about this “5G Keystone” pitch int he past few days, so I’ll take a look. Here’s the lead-in from Dave Forest, who’s touting what he says is an 81-cent stock and pitching subscriptions to his International Speculator newsletter over at Casey […]
This article was originally published on November 2, 2020, but the ad we’re covering has been updated with a new headline and some “Biden’s New Plan” lead-ins so we’re re-posting it here to help answer some reader questions — the meat of the ad, the “what you should do” part, seems largely unchanged, and what […]
What are those “Three Hidden SaaS Stocks with 1,000% Potential?”
There’s a new version of Stansberry Venture Value’s big “SaaS” pitch making the rounds recently, similar in many ways to the previous versions that I looked at last February and September… so I guess it’s time to take another look and see if the same stocks are still being teased, and whether we can answer […]
What’s with this “Pre-IPO Code” Stuff from Jeff Brown?
I’ve gotten a lot of questions in the past couple days about Jeff Brown’s “Pre-IPO Code” presentation, in which he teases the idea of this “Pre-IPO” investing strategy as he pitches his new Blank Check Speculator newsletter. And I’ve got good news… and bad news. The good news is, I can explain what he’s talking […]
Blank Check Speculator
“Upgrade” newsletter from Brownstone, launched early in 2021 and intending to recommend a dozen or so Special Purpose Acquisition Corporations (SPACs) per year, most likely pre-deal SPACs that have not yet announced a merger target.
Taste of the Friday File: Dividend Growth
Stock Gumshoe is closed in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today, as the markets are also closed, but for those looking for a little reading… I’m sharing here a taste of the Friday File from a month ago. What follows was the final section of the Friday File I published on December 18 […]
Friday File: A New Cyclical Buy
I don’t know what’s going to happen to interest rates, taxes, GDP growth or the stock market, all of which are intertwined, but right now the sentiment expressed by the market seems still to be vaccine-driven optimism about economic recovery from the pandemic, which implies that the renewed push to speed up vaccinations will lead […]
Two more of Woods’ “Guardian Angel” Stocks
Yesterday I spent some time on a pitch for a “Diamond in the Rough” stock from Jim Woods and promised to follow up… so that’s the plan this afternoon. The bigger theme of the ad was that Woods has a list of five “Guardian Angel” stocks that will help you survive pandemics and recessions… and […]
Jim Woods’ “Diamond in the Rough” e-commerce play
This email hit the inbox and caught my eye today, from publisher Roger Michalski for one of the Eagle Financial publications: “Seeing that consumers — the driving force behind our economy — are consuming in record numbers online… “e-Commerce certainly is the place to be. “The profit numbers shown here prove it. “But where is […]
“No. 1 Tech Stock for 2021” and the “End of the Dow”
Yesterday it was someone pitching the “No. 1 Income Play of 2021,” today it’s the “No. 1 Tech Stock for 2021” — that’s the nature of January, it’s prediction time and everyone wants to stake their claim on prescience. This one’s from Ian King, who’s pitching his Automatic Fortunes newsletter ($97/yr) and talking up the […]
Contrarian’s “#1 Income Play for 2021”
We’ve covered some teaser pitches from Brett Owens in the past, he has mostly specialized in targeting closed-end funds that he thinks provide good income, at least when it comes to recent pitches I’ve seen. We’ve covered some past ads where he pitched income-focused investments that have worked out reasonably well and some where those […]
Friday File: Happy (?) New Year!
Happy New Year! The fact that this week’s portfolio moves included a little stop loss selling and some nibbles in asset management, insurance and music royalties probably tells you all you need to know about how cautious I feel to start this year… though, as always, I try not to have my personal sentiment drive […]
This article was originally published on June 29, when Alexander Green was first touting this as the “#1 Microcap for 2020” — that ad has been repurposed and lightly updated as they pitch the same stock as the “#1 Microcap for 2021,” so we’re re-posting this here to answer reader questions. We have not updated […]
This update was posted on November 24, we’re re-sharing it here because of a huge number of new reader questions. It has NOT been updated or revised since we last posted an update on 11/24/2020, when Ray Blanco reporposed the ad to use the new invented target date of January 20 to replace September 22. […]
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Many data providers will tell you the number of shares that are sold short, or the short shares as a percent of the float. Those are shares that have been borrowed and sold short, if it's a meaningful part of the float that can certainly impact the price.[...]
Yep, here you go: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/international-speculator/whats-the-81-cent-stock-that-dave-forest-calls-the-5g-keystone/[...]
Haven't seen any really different ads along those lines, so I'll keep an eye out but it's probably still the same, [...]
Melvin Capital was short, which meant they had borrowed GME shares and sold them, with the intention of buying them back at some point in the future at a lower price so they could return those borrowed shares (lots of others were short, too, GME had among [...]
I'm sure I'll have some additional comments to share by Friday, but for now I'm just watching the NASCAR race and wondering when we'll see a giant crash -- hopefully we won't see stray wheels come flying up into the stands. I did pull together a list of t[...]
True, 1.21 is roughly the average price it has traded at in recent weeks... and a rational price to pay, I think, but no reason to fret about the offering — we’ll be able to buy at that price or lower on the market over the coming months, I’m sure. [...]
They publish a 10 stocks list each year, and every month in their intro newsletter they pick the 10 “Best Buy” picks for that month out of the hundreds in their model portfolio. That language at the bottom of the article will appear at the bottom of t[...]
Thanks mouse... planning to keep waking up every morning to go to work for my favorite readers for as long as I can :)[...]
It has also lost 70-80% a few times. These kinds of companies aren’t for the risk-averse, that’s for sure.[...]
A perfectly valid way to think, but you have to accept that it will keep you out of most smaller or clinical stage biotech companies and relatively young growth companies — some companies get valued by investors based on their income statement or balance[...]
Nope, the stocks they can provide access to are not usually the ones that you’d probably most want to buy, in my experience. And the private markets often get ahead of themselves, too, so odds are pretty good that it will be available at similar or bett[...]
Oops, yes — will fix the typo.[...]
Definitely not a match for those clues, Zynga is huge in comparison ($11 billion market cap)[...]
That’s been true this week, I guess, though these are crazy times... things will presumably settle down again. Someday. In cases where a stock is driven up just because of a teaser ad pitch, that pressure pushing the shares higher usually only lasts a[...]
Still Hon Hai, which he's been similarly pitching for years -- covered here: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/oxford-club/alex-greens-single-stock-retirement-plan/[...]
Yes, it's Sila... and no, you can't currently invest in it. A bait and switch on the idea of Sila, but an actual investment in something more ordinary -- the ad's been running for almost a year now, covered here: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/profi[...]
I’ve never written about a pitch for that one.[...]
RB and SA can’t recommend microcaps, they’re both so huge they can barely recommend large cap stocks without jolting the share price. This pitch, whether for SHSP or IZEA or something else, is for their smaller (and pricier) Market Pass service.[...]
Nope, as I said, not sure of this one at all. Sharpspring and a few others are very similar on the few metrics given.[...]
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They reported some results yesterday -- a third of people in the trial experienced weight loss of 5% in three months for their latest cohort. That sounds worse than the numbers that got folks excited last year, but I haven't been following it closely... i[...]