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 […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]
January 4, 2024
Curzio AI
Stock-picking “upgrade” newsletter from Curzio Research, focused on finding winning artificial intelligence stocks, particularly focused on smaller companies.
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 […]
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Posted on May 9, 2024
Posted on May 9, 2024
Great feedback, thanks![...]
Posted on May 8, 2024
Hope it works out for you![...]
Posted on May 8, 2024
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 [...]
Posted on April 30, 2024
The spending is so wild in this space that the giant cash-rich folks seem most likely to end up the leaders, but we'll see. SOUN has issued new common (and/or preferred) equity for six quarters in a row, total of about $120 million since mid-2022.[...]
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Good perspective, thanks.[...]