I haven’t looked at a teaser pitch from Frank Curzio in a long time, and I’ve actually mostly lost interest in his podcast over the past few months, too, though I’ve enjoyed that for years (I think that was probably mostly because the rants kicked up a notch with the election silly season, so I’m […]
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Another electric vehicle teaser ad for our consideration today… Extreme Disruptions Trader ($1.495/yr “charter price”, no refunds) from David Fessler at the Oxford Club seems to be a new letter getting launched this month and he says in the ad that it will follow strategies for buying past early disruptors like Roku (ROKU), DocuSign (DOCU), […]
Extreme Disruptions Trader
New higher-cost weekly trading advisory from David Fessler in 2021, says he will recommend smaller and disruptive companies, and also make options trading recommendations to leverage those bets.
“New IPO Gold Royalty Stock Is My Next 1,000% Winner”
Nick Hodge and Gerardo del Real did not disappear for long when their newsletters stopped being published by the Outside Club… they’re back with new letters from a publisher they’re now calling Daily Profit, including Gerardo del Real’s Junior Resource Monthly (currently “on sale” for $99, this is effectively a restart of the Junior Mining […]
Another weekend, another “you want to jump on this immediately on Monday morning!” email from the Motley Fool. Thankfully, this isn’t a microcap name they’re teasing, and they’re promoting a high-cost service, which means there won’t be 10,000 people rushing to buy today… so there’s probably no reason to rush, and we can take a […]
Friday File: Some Buys Beyond the Games
With each passing day this week, I became more and more interested in “boring” stocks — there is ALWAYS a temptation to chase hot ideas, and I’m certainly not immune to speculation, but the GameStop (GME) craziness is too much. Plenty of folks have asked me about it, so I’ll just blather on about that […]
What’s that “God Chip” Company Pitched by Jimmy Mengel?
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 […]
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 […]
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I think I answered that as best I can above -- the market has almost never seen these kinds of valuations before, so there's no guarantee that if we collapse from here that these stocks will all bounce back, certainly not within a short time period like 1-[...]
Sure, I can't provide personal advice but when there are questions of general appeal that I can answer to some degree, I do try to answer them in future Friday Files or comments.[...]
It's starting to melt up here now, you can come back![...]
Nope, have never looked at that one.[...]
Fascinating to see behind the curtain, no? It's a pretty extraordinary business, with all that wild marketing and the reader "funnel" really at the heart of it.[...]
Over the past few years I've spent 1-2% of my portfolio buying hedges to protect against a loss of more than 20-25%, generally using IWM and SPY, but you could do the same with QQQ (which is much more richly valued, of course, and more volatile -- so the d[...]
Could certainly be, we know King teased Aeva/IPV last year (I covered that here) in that pricier newsletter. Sometimes [...]
Intel bought Mobileye maybe 4 years ago. They use cameras rather than LiDAR, but last I checked that business was still doing well, too. Don’t know how much impact It has on INTC’s numbers.[...]
Yes, that’s some kind of indexed or variable annuity — looked at it last year at one point, and the teased ideas he talked up his wife having chosen at some point in the past was wildly better than anyone would be able to get in the current market, so [...]
AEye is in the process of going public through a SPAC merger. Details about which SPAC are above, I don’t remember offhand. If you buy SPAC shares and the deal goes through, then you will own AEye. It will change its name and ticker after the deal i[...]
Might work if a couple big winners emerge and you can ignore and hold the basket. That usually feels more apt to me when there are only 1-3 stocks in a segment than when there are 6-8, but maybe I’m just a little overwhelmed by the sudden volume of these[...]
AEye has made its SPAC deal, as noted above, it’s just not finalized yet. The “going public” is mostly a formality now, anyone who wants it can buy into the SPAC today if they like. Assuming, of course, that the vote approves the deal and the mer[...]
Yes, it's very much a double-down on "cheap" -- find the cheapest dozen or so stock markets (by CAPE), out of the 45 markets they monitor, then within those cheaper markets look at the 30-biggest stocks, and choose the 10 most undervalued stocks a[...]
Nope, just not one of the six LiDAR SPACs and also clearly not otherwise a match for the tease -- though I confess I also hadn't noticed Microvision's re-emergence as a LiDAR play.[...]
All of these stocks have pretty impressive connections or partnerships of one sort or another, and maybe you're right about LAZR -- that's certainly the consensus view, going just by the market valuation. When I read up on all these stories I say "wow, th[...]
It's probably a tossup as to whether Velodyne or Luminar is the "most teased" or "most promoted" by pundits, but they've both gotten a lot of enthusiastic coverage over the past six months.[...]
Oh, that Pico stuff? Amazing that they're still around, I remember them being rabidly promoted by someone or other back in 2007 or 2008 for their micro-projection technology, then maybe five years ago by Jeff Brown and others for their 3D sensing tech, wi[...]
Ha! Do love that... a Six Pack of SPACs, maybe that will be the next teaser pitch.[...]
My latest assessment was that they're both reasonable buys, I own more CCI but have been giving AMT the edge as their valuations converge a bit (AMT has better dividend growth and more cash flow flexibility, CCI a higher current yield), latest numbers were[...]
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Revenues were a little better than expected for the fourth quarter, up to $190 million... continued extremely strong revenue retention rate (168%), very strong backlog with remaining performance obligation of $1.3 billion. At 100X sales though, that's r[...]