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 […]
Author Bio
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.
Author Archives
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 […]
We’ve got another “payouts” pitch from Jason Williams at The Wealth Advisory ($99 first year, renews at ?), so what’s he teasing this time? This is the lead-in to the ad that’s generating reader questions here: “URGENT: Starting January 17, everyday Americans can get their hands on… “The Hidden Income Stream that Pays You Money […]
January 2, 2024
Paradigm Mastermind Group
AI-focused “upgrade” publication combining the work of the three Paradigm editors, James Altucher, Ray Blanco and Jim Rickards to make predictions and bets on the emerging “AI Wealth Windows.”
January 1, 2024
Manward Money Report
Entry-level investment newsletter from Manward Press, with a monthly investment idea and further commentary now based on “the latest opportunities within Manward’s proprietary Modern Asset Portfolio (MAP).” Gilani took over and revamped the newsletter strategy in late 2023 when Manward founder Andrew Snyder left, so this is very different from the previous Manward Letter which […]
December 26, 2023
Top Teaser Stocks of 2023
And now it’s time to give some credit where it’s due… what were the most successful teaser picks of 2023? Each year, we spend a few minutes highlighting the worst idea from the investment newsletter world when we name our “Turkey of the Year” at Thanksgiving… but as the year comes to an end, we […]
December 22, 2023
Friday File: Best of 2023
Every year we highlight the “Turkey of the Year” at Thanksgiving time, calling attention to the worst performing teaser stock picks of the previous twelve months… so it only seems fair to highlight the best picks, too, and that’s what this time of year is all about… between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when Stock […]
A bunch of readers sent me this ad earlier in the week, talking up (another) huge surge for oil stocks, so I thought I’d dig into it… and just to warn you up front, there’s something extra-misleading about this one. Here’s the lead-in from Adam O’Dell… “Energy’s Growing $10 Trillion Market Could Send… “Oil to […]
December 19, 2023
Answers: Navellier’s “AI Blueprint” Stocks
This is how a recent ad from Louis Navellier begins… “For the First Time in Over 40 Years… “Wall Street’s ‘King of Quants’ Reveals His Secret $6 BILLION AI Blueprint “‘If you apply my “Secret Blueprint” to the red-hot AI market, the next 12 months could be extremely lucrative… even if you’ve only got $500 […]
December 15, 2023
Friday File: What’s Going to Happen Next Year, and What Should I Buy?
While Teeka Tiwari and Nomi Prins and the rest of the chattering marketers were trying to panic us about how the Federal Reserve and President Biden would be itching to “recall” our US Dollars and take all our money and remove financial privacy on December 13, it turns out that the Fed was actually quietly […]
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 […]
December 13, 2023
Gumshoe Gives Back — Charitable Membership Drive Ends 12/21
We do things a little differently at Stock Gumshoe — we love our free readers, we don’t have sales, we don’t offer “limited time only” promotions or trial periods to get you in the door as a paid member, and we don’t try to upsell you every ten minutes. Every few years we raise our […]
Here’s the lead-in for the latest ad from Tim Plaehn’s Dividend Hunter ($79/yr): “In the summer of 2014, I quietly recommended 3 no-name dividend stocks to a small group of retired folks… “A decade later… these 3 stocks generated $671,727 of dividends inside an average IRA portfolio “TODAY — I’m releasing a new set of […]
Recent Author Comments
Posted on March 28, 2024
Posted on March 28, 2024
Glad you were smarter than I was about LLY, never ended up buying it myself.I think Fluence is in decent shape, assuming things go well with the Diablo liability and the new plant, I just don't have a good handle on the business or what the value sho[...]
Posted on March 27, 2024
Simple for some, not so simple for everybody.[...]
Posted on March 27, 2024
That's been a hot story of late, lots of folks were excited about their early stage oral GLP-1 results.[...]
Posted on March 26, 2024
Haven't ever owned that one or analyzed it very closely, but if we do get a manic market in gold I'd assume that the big and profitable gold miners should soar higher. Barrick seems to be a fine operator, it's just that mining is a pretty lousy b[...]
Posted on March 26, 2024
The various GLP-1s are certainly being pushed by a bunch of newsletters, and have been for a year or two, but Siegel's latest pitch is for a return of the pschedelics stocks... wrote about that today: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/green-chip-stocks/[...]
Posted on March 26, 2024
Haven't seen that one, but I'll look for it... thanks![...]
Posted on March 26, 2024
That sounds like yet another repeat of the Dylan Jovine/Behind the Markets tease of Editas, an ad we've been seeing for about six years now. I haven't noticed any recent updates to that spiel, but I last covered it here: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/revie[...]
Posted on March 26, 2024
That's an ad which has been running since mid-2022 -- we covered it most recently here: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/stealth-trades/de-tease-gen-z-stock-could-be-worth-trillions-from-ross-givens-whats-the-1-tech-stock-of-the-decade/[...]
Posted on March 26, 2024
Most of those pitches for Ethereum which said you can buy for as little as $20 were actually teasing the Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE), which has often been below $20... but the price of a cryptocurrency is even more irrelevant than the price of a stock.[...]
Posted on March 25, 2024
Glad to hear it! Back then I was saying that I could justify buying Palantir up to $13-15 or so... too bad I didn't bite on that advice myself.[...]
Posted on March 25, 2024
Thanks for the update... good luck to you! The altcoins mostly just scare me, I have a hard time investing in anything that I can make a financial argument about, since it means I don't have anything to hold on to on days when they're going down... but th[...]
Posted on March 25, 2024
Most of them are publicly traded partnerships or trusts, I don't know if there are any exceptions among the royalty companies but there might be (there are exceptions in pipeline world, I think Kinder Morgan and OneOK are both corporations now... and the E[...]
Posted on March 23, 2024
We'll see how it goes -- SAND definitely has more explosive potential, given the valuation and their growth prospects over the next few years... but the risk is pretty high with yet more Hod Maden challenges and their debt burden, particularly if gold drop[...]
Posted on March 23, 2024
Yes, Karin Rahemtulla has used the nuclear angle in some of his Rolls-Royce promos over the past year or so.Haven't checked, did the UK govt ever fund their small reactor project? That was the initial hope, though all these SMR projects take forever.[...]
Posted on March 22, 2024
re: Travel, mine is small enough to be easy to travel with, comes with a carry case. Still annoying, but the travel part is easier than I expected.[...]
Posted on March 22, 2024
His Chaikin Money Flow has been a quantitative indicator that folks have used on Wall Street for years, some folks have sworn by it as a relatively short-term indicator of buying pressure and therefore potential share price growth, but I don't use it. It'[...]
Posted on March 21, 2024
They did make the big announcement that everyone expected, that they'll have a new chipset this year based on their Blackwell architecture. Altucher was just trying to piggyback on that and hope people would believe that NVIDIA might mention a small compa[...]
Posted on March 21, 2024
Almost every stock related to technology or AI went up over the past couple days, so I'm sure Altucher will take credit for a win, whatever his actual pick was.[...]
Posted on March 21, 2024
That's mostly a quirk of the tax law, not a real management fee -- because of the way BDCs are taxed, the ETF, which the SEC considers to be a "fund of funds", has to report the passed-through "acquired expense ratio" of all of the BDCs it owns. You "pay"[...]
We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience. By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent for us to set cookies.
More Info Please note that this is your publicly visible biography - we recommend not including any personal information (phone, email, address, etc.) and ONLY linking to any other pages or profiles you're comfortable sharing with everyone.
Sorry about that. I bumped it up by about 15%[...]