Here’s a little excerpt from the email I’ve been getting recently: “What does Bill Gates know about this tiny company that we don’t? “From the outside, it looks like a worthless $2 stock… “But according to Bill Gates… “This company is working on a unique technological innovation that is going to change the world as […]
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Travis Johnson is an individual investor who founded Stock Gumshoe in 2007 as a way to air his dissections of overhyped marketing pitches... and to share the "secret" stocks that stock newsletters hype to get your attention and your subscription dollars. His thinking? If you already know what the "secret" stock is, you can make a much more reasonable and thoughtful decision about whether or not to commit to an expensive newsletter subscription. (And if you don't pay for the info, you'll be more free to think for yourself about whether or not the investment is worth your money.)In his charmed life he has been, among other things, a university faculty member, a fundraiser, a writer, and a world-champion ice-cream scooper. Now he runs Stock Gumshoe for you, allowing us all to discuss and dissect the latest overheated stock ideas... as well as review and talk about investment newsletters and enjoy the commentary and opinions of Stock Gumshoe's other special contributors and the discussion with our unusually attractive, erudite and polite readers. He lives with Mrs. Gumshoe and all their little Gumshoes in the wilds of Western Massachusetts.
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This article was originally published on April 27, 2023, when Mizrahi’s ads started running. The ads have started running again recently, with emails saying that the weakness in oil prices recently has created a good buying opportunity, but the teaser pitch remains unchanged and is still dated “April 2023.” What follows has not been updated […]
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 […]
Marc Lichtenfeld has a new promo out for his Oxford Income Letter ($49 first year, renews at $79), and much of the first part of it is focused on the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR)… and how desperate things will get if we need to tap that reserve in an emergency. Here’s how the ad begins: […]
OK, so my Detroit Lions aren’t going to win the Super Bowl this year, thanks to that teeth-gnashing final loss last weekend. But it was a heckuva ride, my son and I had a great time and built some great memories watching the season and going to a playoff game in Detroit, and it’s been […]
Eric Fry is teasing us about the coming “A.I. Wars,” and the necessity of building more and more advanced AI-ready chips in the United States and reducing our reliance on Taiwan and South Korea, and the heart of his pitch is that some companies will see huge profit opportunities as semiconductor capital spending grows to […]
January 30, 2024
What’s Porter’s Controversial “A.I. Keystone?”
Here’s the lead-in to Porter’s latest ad: “Why Bill Gates, Sam Altman, and even Warren Buffet are all investing hundreds of millions of dollars into this controversial new technology. “THE A.I. KEYSTONE “Without it the artificial intelligence market will collapse” And then, after a brief lesson in classical architecture to explain just what a “keystone” […]
January 26, 2024
Friday File: Berkley, Bro, Deere and more…
Sheesh, Netflix (NFLX) reports a great quarter, enthusiasm for AI remains high, and we get new record highs for almost everything again this week. Things were especially lusty for most of the big tech names, including AI darling NVIDIA (NVDA) and Alphabet (GOOGL) in our portfolio, but also Microsoft (MSFT), which just bumped up against […]
January 25, 2024
Musk’s “Project Dojo” and the “#1 AI Stock for 2024”
It’s a little unusual for me to be covering the same pundit and the same newsletter for two days in a row, but, well, sometimes we’re unusual people here at Stock Gumshoe. And when readers clamor for answers, we aim to provide. So today’s pitch, like yesterday’s, is from Eric Wade at Stansberry — we […]
This is one of several ads we’ve seen over the past few months that basically say, “AI is awesome, but NVIDIA is going to collapse and some other secret stocks will be the next big winners.” Here’s how the pitch of this presentation begins: “FORMER MICROSOFT EXEC: ‘Nvidia Could CRASH on February 28’ “The AI […]
January 19, 2024
Friday File: Dino, Berk, McCormick & Acacia
Sounds like the name of the world’s strangest law firm, right? Car accident? Call Dino, Berk, McCormick & Acacia, justice will be served and we’ll make you rich! Maybe not. But those are the things that caught my eye this week — that’s Dino Polska, some more mild updates on Berkshire Hathaway, a slouching dividend […]
This article was originally published on August 29, 2023. The ad is circulating heavily again from the Motley Fool, so we’re re-posting it with some updates… the stock being teased is still within 5% or so of where it was back in August. The Motley Fool has pitched their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter with artificial […]
We’re starting this week a little late, dear friends — mostly because I’m coming off of an incredible high and some rough winter travel, I just got back from seeing my Detroit Lions win their first playoff game in thirty years, in person, in the loudest and happiest crowd I’ve ever celebrated with. Wow, what […]
January 12, 2024
Friday File — Creeping into Earnings Season
I’m getting this Friday File out to you a little earlier than usual, because I’m bringing one of my kids to Detroit for the first Lions home playoff game in 30 years (well, I’m trying to bring him, at least… crossing my fingers that the weather allows planes to land in Detroit tomorrow). The city […]
January 10, 2024
Answers: Jovine’s pitch about “Israel’s Brand New Weapon”
Dylan Jovine has been pitching a few different defense-related stocks for several years now, including some A.I. companies tied to the war in Ukraine as well as some aerospace and missile companies… but I haven’t covered one of those in a while, and we’ve got a new take on the spiel from his Behind the […]
This article was originally published on September 18, when we first saw this Teeka Tiwari ad circulating… it is still in very heavy rotation, and still has a “September 2023” date, so the ad has not been updated. What follows has also not been updated, but questions are still rolling in so hopefully this will […]
This is an ad that has circulated off and on for about 18 months now. It’s making the rounds again as we begin the year, and as “tech stocks” are in vogue (and as perhaps the upcoming Apple Vision Pro gives the “metaverse” and gaming another shot at an investor mania). I’ve updated our thoughts […]
January 9, 2024
Answers: Hodge’s “King-Maker of Lithium” Pitch
Here’s the lead-in from an ad for Nick Hodge’s Foundational Profits ($199/yr) that a few readers asked me about this week, his latest subject line for these ads was, “The Little-Known Mining Stock Everyone Wants”: “The ‘King-Maker’ of Lithium Has Already Made Me and My Readers 582% Gains “Now It’s Time to Think Even Bigger…. […]
January 5, 2024
Friday File: Fill up your Snifter
January… ’tis the season for forecasting, and for planning… which means it’s the best time of the year to pretend you know what’s going to happen. Or better yet, to argue with other people on CNBC about what you’re sure is going to happen. And that means we should note, if for no other reason […]
Marc Lichtenfeld is pitching a special report called “Double Your Money: The $7 Energy Stock Poised for Explosive Profits,” and he’s doing so with a tease about a little stock he’s going to buy on January 23, urging you to subscribe now so you can buy before he “loads up.” So what’s the story? We’ll […]
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Posted on March 18, 2024
Posted on March 18, 2024
That was my best guess when I wrote about this pitch earlier today... and a couple readers have con[...]
Posted on March 18, 2024
Your reasoning is almost as clear as Altucher's![...]
Posted on March 18, 2024
Thanks for the confirmation![...]
Posted on March 18, 2024
Nowhere near matching any of the clues, so no. Have written about other teases of GSIT as a "NVIDIA Killer" in the past.[...]
Posted on March 18, 2024
He didn't mention a share price in the promo I watched.[...]
Posted on March 18, 2024
Yep, covered those three here: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/the-big-secret-on-wall-street-this-week/porters-artificial-illusion-pitch-buy-the-beneficiaries-of-ai-not-the-future-pretenders/[...]
Posted on March 18, 2024
I don't know whether GSIT will "win" or not, of course, I'm NOT trying to talk you out of investing in the company, just trying to make the point that they don't "own" that space. The makers of rad-hardened chips include almost any big player in automotiv[...]
Posted on March 18, 2024
Could be, I guess we'll find out in the fullness of time... though it's not really an investment recommendation when nobody can invest in the company (it's still private).[...]
Posted on March 17, 2024
Nope.[...]
Posted on March 16, 2024
Sure. But there are dozens of very large chip companies who sell rad-hardened chips. No idea of anyone has a particular edge in that area.[...]
Posted on March 16, 2024
That's to meet specifications for military and satellite chips. Not particularly unusual, but too expensive for chips that don't require radiation hardening.[...]
Posted on March 16, 2024
Have not looked at ADBE in a very long time. My impression is that they're an exceptional company trading at a pretty extreme valuation.[...]
Posted on March 15, 2024
I'd say "slim", but never say never.[...]
Posted on March 15, 2024
Will be interesting to see. They're playing offense in AI, though we won't know whether they win new customers because of that for a while. I expect a lot of the value for advertisers, using TTD or DV or competing platforms, is in providing cross-platfor[...]
Posted on March 15, 2024
We write about ANET pretty regularly -- last update here: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/alpha-investor-report/detease-the-next-microsoft-earn-generational-wealth-from-the-ai-guardian/[...]
Posted on March 14, 2024
Have only looked at one of Bohen's ads in the past year or so, and it sounds like this wasn't the same one -- will look for that promo and see if he drops any clues, thanks.[...]
Posted on March 14, 2024
SuperMicro has been one heck of a burner, those are exactly the kind of stocks (rising analyst estimates, earnings and revenue momentum) that get graded highly by Navellier's quant systems. Did he drop any hints about the five stocks in his ad? Haven't [...]
Posted on March 14, 2024
I've never come across him, but I generally stay away from the crypto pitchmen -- soooo much scamminess in that group that I'd have to be far more expert on the topic to ferret it out.[...]
Posted on March 13, 2024
Thank you, Doug! Having great readers makes it a delight on my end, too.[...]
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Lots of promises about that from various newsletters, all of whom are selling different ideas. Which newsletter pitch are you thinking of?[...]