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…. […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Posted on May 31, 2024
Posted on May 31, 2024
I do t think human culture really changes that fast, but I could always be wrong.[...]
Posted on May 31, 2024
Nope. If you don't want to do research and follow stocks and make decisions, it's extremely easy (and probably better) to just buy diversified index funds. Which is a perfectly rational choice, not everyone wants to have the same hobby.[...]
Posted on May 30, 2024
Interesting... Luka Lango had a similar tout a few weeks back: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/luke-langos-innovation-investor/de-tease-lango-sez-buy-before-june-30-to-profit-from-musks-project-apollo-what-is-it/[...]
Posted on May 30, 2024
Probably so -- we covered their "next Mag 7" pitch in March, and CRWD was similarly discussed at th[...]
Posted on May 30, 2024
Quite true (and I owned SAND before then, and still own it now, they shot themselves in the foot a few ways over the past five years).[...]
Posted on May 30, 2024
Could be, there will definitely be some big losers in that portfolio, particularly among the stocks that I bought in 2021 (though the most recent one is also doing poorly, with a bad earnings release very soon after I bought it). I generally intend to che[...]
Posted on May 28, 2024
People do love stock splits, even though there's not as much point to them as there was 20-30 years ago.It will, at least, make options trading a little easier for NVDA, given the lower cost of 100-share lots... so bring out the gamblers and the hedgers.[...]
Posted on May 28, 2024
Sounds like perplexity.ai read my article... :)[...]
Posted on May 28, 2024
The industry definitely goes through cycles, and I set my buy prices (and asset allocation) at levels where I'm willing to own for a long time with my current outlook. That's why my positions in WRB and KNSL are relatively small.We're probably closer to[...]
Posted on May 26, 2024
Glad you find it useful, thank you![...]
Posted on May 26, 2024
Beats me, but those parent awards are vastly larger than they've been reporting in revenue over the past few years. The latest award in the Micron trial is about as large as their market cap.Don't know anything else about them, or whether their patent[...]
Posted on May 26, 2024
Sounds like it might be a repeat of the one I covered here: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/paradigm-mastermind-group/whats-altuchers-nvidia-backdoor-company-big-news-coming-on-march-21/[...]
Posted on May 25, 2024
I don't pretend to be able to predict the weather... but I know Markel and Nephila were studying the same kind of data before NOAA released their prediction.In general, bad catastrophe years bring higher rates to absorb those losses, and it works out f[...]
Posted on May 25, 2024
He has pitched a few, but most of his ads have pointed at Palantir (PLTR) over the past 18 months.[...]
Posted on May 25, 2024
Thanks Peter![...]
Posted on May 23, 2024
I would guess that in any objective, long-term study the answer would be that letting your winners run is the best answer, on average. Water the flowers, pull the weeds.But we're not studies, we're human beings, so we need to establish whatever guard[...]
Posted on May 23, 2024
I've never owned Microsoft, sadly, so I'm mostly being bitter when I say that I think it's too expensive, given the growth rate.But Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet are the likely winners of almost any big technology shift, given their current dominance,[...]
Posted on May 23, 2024
Don't remember ever really looking into either of those, what makes them stand apart?[...]
Posted on May 22, 2024
Looks like NVDA has endorsed the notion that AI spending is still growing fast. I guess beating estimates by 10% is "table stakes" when you're as richly valued as NVDA, so it's up only a little... but their 10:1 stock split will probably get some folks e[...]
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In that case, I offer my apologies to all and admit that I was foolish with this decision and didn't confirm what my accountant told me... probably mostly because it was a small position, though that's not much of an excuse. Sorry if I misled anyone by [...]