Alexander Green apparently focused his March issue of the Oxford Club’s Communique newsletter on Argentina, and the free excerpt that they shared of that leads to a ‘secret’ stock pick that we can reveal for you. The back story is the rise of Javier Milei, the new President of Argentina and a man whose leadership […]
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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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The Motley Fool is pitching its “Market Pass” service ($998 first year, ? auto-renewal price, no refunds), which is their “package deal” subscription (Stock Advisor, Rule Breakers, Everlasting Stocks, Real Estate Winners and Rule Your Retirement, plus an “Ultimate Portfolio” that they choose from the recommendations of those services), and the hook they’re using to […]
Almost no professional stock picker or forecaster was expecting that 2023 would be a boom year for the stock market, and I don’t imagine that many folks were predicting that February of 2024 would be the best February for the markets in a decade, but still, we crave predictions. People are endearingly ridiculous, and markets […]
February 28, 2024
What’s “America’s #1 Retirement Stock?”
Here’s the lead-in to the Dr. David Eifrig pitch some readers are asking about this week… “If I had to Pour Every Single Penny of My Retirement into ONE STOCK… This Would Be It” “And today, while it’s still at a good price, I’d like to share it with you, too.” The ad is for […]
It’s hard not to get the “FOMO” feeling when reading through a Motley Fool teaser ad, because they always start with their past blockbuster winners — here’s how the latest tease begins: “Can you imagine if you could go back to 2002, when cloud computing burst onto the scene… “And invest $10,000 in Amazon at […]
February 26, 2024
Ferris’ “Green Scare” and “The Linchpin” Investments
Dan Ferris at Stansberry is pitching his “entry level” newsletter, The Ferris Report ($49/yr) by talking up what he calls the “Green Scare” — which is basically a spiel about how “climate alarmism” is being used by the government to “stretch its tentacles ever further into your home,” a new version of the “Red Scare” […]
February 22, 2024
Friday(ish) File: NVIDIA, Teqnion and more…
I’m on vacation this week, but still have a few thoughts to share on some of the earnings reports and other news items that we’ve seen since last Friday… I’ll try to keep it quick, and there are still plenty of earnings updates and news items I haven’t caught up on, so we have something […]
Inflation may not change that quickly, but inflation expectations can change very abruptly — like this week, when a hotter-than-expected CPI number finally pushed the market over the edge and convinced investors to stop expecting a rate cut in March, or five+ rate cuts this year. That relatively small shift in sentiment, with the market […]
February 16, 2024
Altucher’s “Apple Market Disruption” Event Pitch
This article was originally sent out as a bonus note for the Irregulars on Friday, February 2… but people are still asking about it two weeks later, so we’re now releasing it for anyone to read. What follows has not been updated since it was originally published. Altucher is pitching his Paradigm Mastermind Group ($5,000/year), […]
February 14, 2024
What’s Going On with Palm Beach and MarketWise?
This isn’t really about a new teaser pitch, but I’ve had lots of readers ask what’s going on with the flurry of changes at Palm Beach Research and MarketWise recently… so if you’re interested in that bit of publisher crisis, stick with me for a few minutes and I’ll share my perspective, a little back […]
We don’t just uncover all the teased stocks from those hyped-up newsletter ads we all see each day… we also keep track of those teased stocks, look for trends, and monitor performance, and the biggest story and the biggest driver of stock prices over the past year has been our newfound fascination with artificial intelligence. […]
This article was originally published on January 24, it has not been updated but new versions of the ad with different headlines are driving questions our way so we’re re-posting here. If you’re looking for Stansberry Innovations Report’s “#1 AI Stock for 2024” that was covered separately here. Today I thought we’d look into a […]
February 9, 2024
Friday File: Brookfield, WESCO, Pershing and China
We’ve got a couple trades this week in the Real Money Portfolio, as well as some updated thoughts on portfolio companies who reported recently, so let’s just skip the jibber-jabber about the S&P 500 hitting a new round number (closing above 5,000 for the first time) and get into the details. Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) […]
February 8, 2024
“Inception” — Tiny Stock teased as “Next NVIDIA” by Tim Bohen?
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 […]
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
Junior Resource Speculator
Upgrade letter for junior mining stock picks that is for “professional stock pickers” and mirrors Gerardo Del Real’s personal speculations in the resource space. (“Entry level” for his junior mining strategy is the less expensive Junior Resource Monthly)
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Good perspective, thanks.[...]
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Great feedback, thanks![...]
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Hope it works out for you![...]
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Haven't seen any new ads from them recently, but they've been selling an "AI Disruption Playbook" for years n[...]
Posted on May 8, 2024
What do you like about KOPN? See some growth emerging from their defense business, perhaps?Altucher flogged that one like crazy with some very misleading promises that it would be involved with the Apple VisionPro. Don't know if he has given up on that [...]
Posted on May 7, 2024
Rough start for DV -- mild miss on this first earnings report since I bought, and a more significant reduction in the forecasted revenue for 2024.Not cataclysmic, no sign the business is fundamentally broken, but a rough beginning for this one in the[...]
Posted on May 7, 2024
Thanks Stacy![...]
Posted on May 6, 2024
He said they were doing some work on a potential acquisition in Canada. The big private ones are mostly in ag or energy to one degree or another, and he doesn't like bidding wars for public companies... but you never know.[...]
Posted on May 6, 2024
I think that was the pitch for selling puts and covered calls, no? Eifrig has been doing that for a decade or so.[...]
Posted on May 6, 2024
No promises, but a little birdie tells me that Stansberry in the past has recommended:CME LNSTY CBOE ICE BOLSY[...]
Posted on May 6, 2024
Care to elaborate?[...]
Posted on May 6, 2024
That teaser ad is getting pretty long in the tooth now, they haven't updated it since February of 2023... the primary stock they're pitching is Permian Basin Royalty Trust (PBT), which I have a lot of concerns about (primarily their reliance on net profits[...]
Posted on May 6, 2024
Thanks for the perspective... Mission Technologies is a tiny part of the business right now, though it is growing much faster than the shipyards.[...]
Posted on May 4, 2024
Berkshire quarter out -- crazy cash balance approaching $190 billion now.And a somewhat surprising sale of more than 10% of the Apple stake in the quarter... probably responsible, given how massive that position is now, but still a little surprising.[...]
Posted on May 3, 2024
As an actual business, it will be at least several years before we can really guess at how much money they could make as drugs are developed using their technology and make it Through clinical trials.As a biotech or AI story stock, though, anything[...]
Posted on May 2, 2024
Thanks... that's a tough business, personalized immunotherapy that has to be manufactured individually for each patient. Maybe part of the challenge is the history of companies who failed in their attempts at building similar businesses over the past deca[...]
Posted on May 2, 2024
I don't use those particular funds, but I outsource most of my biotech/pharma stock picking to funds as well... can't argue with that. It's important to be aware of the areas where you don't have the background or deep industry knowledge (or interest, eve[...]
Posted on May 1, 2024
Which ones do you like?I write about mostly what people ask about, and what newsletters tease in their promos... sometimes they're more sensible long term ideas, but certainly lots of speculations out there, too.I guess it's easier to get the bloo[...]
Posted on May 1, 2024
For this article? Because it doesn't match the clues at all.In general? Mostly just because POET has been a "story stock" for a decade but hasn't ever built into a real business, and I have no idea when or if they ever will. They have consistently [...]
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It changes my thinking about the way BOC works, and it was a very big surprise.Will sit on this for a little, and see how the remaining CEO talks about it -- they each control big chunks of the shares.[...]