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 […]
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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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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 […]
December 11, 2023
Teeka’s “December 13” Pitch for the “Biden Shock of 2023”
The first version of this article was published on July 20, 2023, as I investigated the ads scaring us with their “dollar recall coming as soon as July 26” headline… but we’re getting yet more questions about this Teeka Tiwari “Biden Shock” ad with a “December 13” panic moment now, so we’re re-publishing it, with […]
December 8, 2023
Friday File: Gambling on Gambling
It’s been a wild month, no? We moved pretty high on the “Fear and Greed” index of investor sentiment during November, which was one of the dozen or so best months for the stock market in the past several decades, so we’re firmly back in “Greed” zone now, an even more abrupt turnaround in sentiment […]
Here’s the latest teaser promise for us to decipher: “AI Energy — The $40 Trillion Disruptor Bringing Star Power to Earth!… the company with AI boosters, the technology that’s critical to unlocking what’s being called ‘the Holy Grail of energy’ … a chance for investors to literally get in on the ground floor of a […]
December 5, 2023
Porter’s “High Roller in Online Gambling”
So… what’s Porter Stansberry’s “picks and shovels” play in online gaming? It’s not a sports betting stock, which is somewhat of a relief given how aggressively those were touted a few years ago, but Porter hinted at his latest pick in the free lead-in part of his article on Friday, and I’ve got a very […]
We all know what a powerful impact the advent of fracking and horizontal drilling had on US oil and gas production, creating lucrative oilfields in brand new places and revitalizing the Permian Basin and helping to slash prices for natural gas and turn the US into the largest oil producer in the world… so the […]
As a reminder that we should always be humble, and always realize that a high degree of certainty invites the laughter of the crowd… how about that NVIDIA quarter last week? I didn’t know whether NVIDIA would offer up another “beat and raise” update, with optimistic talk about the market for their high-end data center […]
This makes two days in a row we’re talking about next-level “AI” teaser pitch — not so much the “pure play” AI stocks, but the companies who might benefit from AI, or might supply needed parts and services that make AI work. Yesterday it was Porter Stansberry with his “Artificial Illusion” stocks that he calls […]
Here’s the top of Porter Stansberry’s latest order form: “EXPOSED: The Big Secret Behind AI “The most remarkable talent in financial publishing reveals how to correctly profit from the real winners of the AI revolution” The “presentation” from Porter this time is similar to past presentations he has given — half “big picture” argument about […]
November 20, 2023
2023 Turkey of the Year
Time for another longstanding Stock Gumshoe tradition — every Thanksgiving, for 16 years in a row now, we have looked back over our teaser tracking spreadsheets and called out one terrible pick as the Turkey of the Year. That’s the teaser pitch that provided us with the worst-performing, most-overhyped, or otherwise just the goofiest gobbler […]
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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?[...]