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I would value your opinion on the situation at Mongolia Growth Group -YAK- with respect to todays news releases. 2 days ago I mailes the company expressing my concern about the share price. Got a nice”rosy” reply saying they were doing well. Now he’s fired.What concerns me is that those people hold a lot of […]

Hi Travis, I’ve read your column for probably 5 years at least, perhaps longer. I respect your fundamental analysis (I’m more a tech trader). My question is a valuation one on SDRL…I know you have owned it in the past and I was trying to figure out if there is a margin of safety in […]

Dr KSS article on SOPHIRIS BIO INC. Dr KSS, I have been a NYMOX owner for years and lost badly in the recent FDA phase 3 failure. One doctor lost 2 million. I was struck by your saline placebo comment and I feel it did harm to the NYMOX FDA test outcome. I think it […]

Please forward my concern to Dr. KSS, I have been an irregular following his ideas from the beginning and occasionally participating. I do appreciate all the dedication that he puts in. I have had a sizable portion of my investment in Benitec and grew a bit worried just seeing a comment on twitter on an […]

On March 19, 2014 Travis Johnson wrote an article about SFTBY as a way to get in on the BABA IPO. I would like his opinion as to why SFTBY, a 32% stakeholder in BABA has not moved up in view of the current BABA price of $110; A 70% increase since the IPO was […]

I’d like to diversify my portfolio with bonds, but know nothing about bonds. Can you recommend a good newsletter? I noted the Oxford Club has one, but costs about $1000/yr. Is that a good one or are there better ones out there, and hopefully, not quite so expensive?

Does anyone there know why ATUSF (Altius Minerals) is tanking lately? I know you and a couple of others I trust like S&A’s Frank Curzio, the Motley Fool boys, all seemed to think that this was a good, new royalty stock. Thanks in advance.

from morning news about new colon cancer dna test called cologuard by exact sciences mkt. cap $1.95B. Missed Oct. earnings, Down 1.3% premkt. Any information? What may be yours and Dr.Kss and Blind squirrels thoughts. signed an Avid follower. and of course many many thanks

Hi Travis! Firstly, thank you so much for your efforts. They have saved me a lot of money. I am very new to investing and am sucker for get rich quick schemes. Your site has really helped me stay away from the get rich quick people and provided more info as to why’s and how’s […]

What is your opinion about investing in physical gold, physical silver, bitcoins? Another question: what do you think about OUNZ (Merk Gold Trust) and PHYS (Sprott Physical Gold Trust). Thank you very much.

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On The "Green Light" Trade Again, Uranium Update, and some Buys and Sells in my Portfolio

Just the other day, Kent Moore issued a sell-to-close recommendation for the put leg of the USO strangle. Depending on when one got into the trade, the return is easily triple-digit. Now the idea is to ride the potential oil recovery with the call leg[...]

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On Microblog: Lancashire

Travis, and thoughts about the steep decline of LRE after they have the special dividend? I am long as you are, and iI am thinking to add to my position because, because after the last conference call nothing bad has happened Appreciate your opinion[...]

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On Will FT-900 Bring about the "next 9/11" in April, 2014? What is Jeff Opdyke talking about?

Porter Stansberry is touting another newsletter claiming that on July 1, 2014 there will be a secret provision in H.R. 2847 that will affect all Americans in many ways. Truthorfiction.com states that it is unproven while Snopes has an extensive analysis of[...]

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On "The Industrial Pioneer of India ... an unprecedented opportunity for growth."

WHY LET US SMALL FOLK KNOW ABOUT THIS NOW WHEN 99.9% OF US HAVE NO SUCH MONEY TO SCRATCH OURSELVES WITH LET ALONE PUT $25 ON FOR A STOCK (TTM) THAT’S ALREADY HAD IT’S GOOD DAY. FEELS LIKE SUCH A MOCKERY NOW. what’s the point here? – bewildered.[...]

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On "The best Motley Fool investing idea since AOL and Amazon.com in the 1990s"

Tibco is getting crushed again today after weak earnings and margins released yesterday, FYI.[...]

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On Microblog: Natural Gas Price Trends?

HCSG sounds interesting from your description but I've never looked at them, will throw them on the pile for perusing in the future.Natural gas seems to me like it's going to be in a range for a long time -- prices rise a bit when the more expensive [...]

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On Special Situation Survey

I’ve been a subscriber to Forbes Special Situation Survey Newsletter for over 12 years. I’ve found if you don’t cherry pick which monthly stock you buy, but instead buy a set dollar amount of each monthly stock recommendation you will avg 15%. They s[...]

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On My Top Ten for 2013

Direct versus Nondirect refers to the ownership -- so it would be direct if an individual owns the shares, indirect if that individual's family trust or something owned the shares. I don't consider that to be particularly meaningful.Automatic sale mea[...]

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On My Top Ten for 2013

Looking over the insider transactions for GLRE made me realize the difficulties in interpreting such data. I’m not sure what direct and indirect actions are, what automatic sale means, what open and non-open means, why in this case for example non-open t[...]

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On Predicting Friday's Pick by a Newsletter of "one of the truly great businesses"

You sent me this about EXPD on the same day I got this :http://www.investorplace.com/2012/09/stocks-to-sell-cgnx-expd-gs-intc-lsi-mrk/3/Some buy, some sell, I guess that's what make a market[...]

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On Predicting Friday's Pick by a Newsletter of "one of the truly great businesses"

When does Ferris release his pick on Friday?[...]

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