Well, I’ve gotten a big ‘ol boatload of questions about this ad from Robert Hsu, so let’s dig in. The teaser is for his Asia Edge newsletter, the expensive and somewhat more flexible letter that he edits — Hsu’s “entry level” newsletter is China Strategy, which focuses on US-listed ADRs of Chinese companies, but Asia […]
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We haven’t looked at a pick from Rober Hsu’s China Strategy in quite a while — and it’s not just that we’re ignoring him, as far as we can tell InvestorPlace has not been promoting his newsletters very actively over the last six months or so. Which probably isn’t a huge surprise — China stocks […]
Last week I got an email ad from Robert Hsu telling me with an encouraging sentence hidden in the middle: “After today, I feel more confident that we have seen the lows for the year.” That was on Thursday, October 30, and the encouraging point Hsu was pointing to was the big bounce on Tuesday, […]
Robert Hsu has been a lot quieter over the last six months than he was in 2007 and early 2008 — back when “buy what China buys” was the mantra and almost every Chinese company with a US-listed stock was booming, his China Strategy newsletter was very popular with my readers, and his ads always […]
This latest pick from Robert Hsu is for his more expensive Asia Edge newsletter — he pitches it as more “pan Asian” than his China Strategy letter, but it’s also just, well, more expensive … after all, anyone who’s anyone in newsletter land has to have an “intro” letter to get people in the door, […]
Robert Hsu was one of the louder cheerleaders for the first wave of the crazy Chinese bull market a few years ago, so it should come as no small surprise that he’s out leading the charge again — today, in a teaser for his China Strategy newsletter, he’s telling us that his latest pick, issued […]
Robert Hsu introduces the latest teaser of a stock he’s recommending in his China Strategy service by saying that it “looks a lot like Apple” before that company made its historic stock market run, back when Steve Jobs was re-hired by the company, before the iPod (let alone the iPhone) was introduced. And of course, […]
Robert Hsu has been running this teaser ad for his Asia Edge newsletter for a week or two now, and I’ve gotten enough questions that it seems there’s some demand for the Gumshoe version (ie, the free version) of the answer. It seems unlikely, by the way, that this tease about the “Facebook of China” […]
I haven’t written much about Robert Hsu and his China Strategy newsletter lately, but back when China’s markets were shooting out the lights last year he was probably the most popular newsletter editor out there. This year has seen a reversal of so many different Chinese stocks, and a loss of faith in the China […]
Time escapes the Gumshoe today, so we’re going to have a look at a quick email I got from Robert Hsu late last week. Hsu’s ads for his China Strategy service tell us that the key to his success is understanding Chinese consumers and what they want, and understanding how China is different. He believes […]
Well, I promised I’d have a look at Robert Hsu’s other hyperactive teaser, and here it is … he’s touting his Asia Edge newsletter this time, not the less-expensive China Strategy, but now it’s with a tease that he’s found a Chinese education stock that he thinks will go from $4 to $8. This is […]
This one comes in from Robert Hsu, for his very popular China Strategy service — I note that several folks in the forum have talked about liking this newsletter, so if you’re interested you might want to wander over there and chat with some self-reported subscribers about it. But boy, does he ever send out […]
Robert Hsu has been sending out several teasers related to Chinese oil demand lately, no big surprise as we watch oil toy with $140 a barrel (should we even pay attention to $10 moves anymore? Boooorrring …) In his words, “China’s hunt for oil is one of the most extraordinary, untold stories of our time. […]
Of course, the big question is: does anyone really have a speculative fervor to find the next ExxonMobil? I suppose if you can find an oil major before it becomes a major you’re going to do great, but in recent history XOM has not been such a great deal. Oil has gone from roughly $30 […]
Apologies for folks who are seeing this comment a second time, but the site had severe server problems yesterday and was down for much of the day — so I’m republishing it to make sure that you have a chance to read this note if you want to. This is not going to be a […]
This one came in late last week in a flash email from Robert Hsu for his Asia Edge service — actually the ad was really for the commodities play that he tried to sell us a week or two back, which is written up here, but he added a little box teasing us about his […]
It’s a requirement, it seems, for the various editors at Investorplace, including Robert Hsu and Louis Navellier, to market their newsletters using this “$X stock to hit $2X with or without you” teaser. Either that, or it really works to haul in subscribers by the bucketload. Either way, I always like to take a quick […]
Robet Hsu is out with a new little tease for us, and he thinks China will continue to be the one remaining bright spot in world economic growth. Of course, his two investment newsletters (China Strategy and Asia Edge) depend on China and its neighbors exciting investors, so that’s no surprise. He was one of […]
This isn’t a real sleuth job, just a quick note because the email box is heating up with two competing teaser recommendations for the same stock … and the company reports earnings after the close on Wednesday, so now’s a decent time to be paying attention to it. The first recommender is Robert Hsu, whose […]
That’s the promise from Robert Hsu in his latest round of teaser ads — that this one stock will have such a powerful impact on your portfolio that you’ll be able to “change the way you live.” That’s nothing new, of course — teasermeisters have been sprinkling their ads with photos of luxury cars, boats, […]
This one’s not exactly a tightly-controlled secret (though the ad makes it sound like one), but we’ll put the Thinkolator on the case anyway… we’ve gotten lots of questions about the latest marijuana pitch from Jimmy Mengel, who is advertising subscriptions to his Marijuana Manifesto service ($1,999/year) — seems that plenty of people want to […]
Paul Goodwin edits the Cabot China and Emerging Markets report, which is really the only surviving China-focused newsletter I can think of from a big publisher (most publishers had such a letter during the China bull run in the mid-late 2000s, but many of them disappeared in recent years as China got to be as […]
Hilary Kramer’s purview is continuing to grow over at Investorplace Media — Louis Navellier has been a little quiet on the marketing front, Robert Hsu is long gone, but I’ve been seeing a lot of Hilary Kramer pitches lately. And the recent one that’s caught a lot of attention from Gumshoe readers is for her […]
Tony Sagami has a new trading service being launched that focuses on Asian stocks, called The Asian Century — it appears that his old service, Asia Stock Alert, has gone quietly into the good night without me noticing, as have several of the newsletters that rode the Chinese dragon both up and down over the […]
The Investorplace Media folks have gotten awfully quiet lately — I haven’t seen many over-the-top pitches from Louis Navellier or Hilary Kramer of late, and other big promisers like Robert Hsu and Nancy Zambell have moved on or shut down their letters. But over the last couple of days I’ve been getting questions about the […]
Keith Schaefer got some attention from us a few weeks ago when he was teasing a play on natural gas liquids (NGLs), but we’re going back to the well here because we’ve gotten a bunch of questions about his latest tease … and because we’re curious ourselves about what this 33% dividend yield is that […]
The folks at Hyperion Financial have a new China-focused newsletter that they’re promoting pretty actively now, which is certainly at least a little bit of a “contrarian” move — most of the China-focused newsletters have been pretty quiet lately, not having too much to brag about, and a few have even shut down entirely (notably […]
Bryan Perry runs the income-focused newsletter for Investorplace, providing the high-yield yin to the high-growth yang of Robert Hsu and Louis Navellier and others, and he aims to generate “double digit income.” It used to be, in fact that he aimed for 25% — which was lofty even in the days of higher interest rates […]
The “Don’t buy Facebook’s IPO” bit is not from me, just to be clear — I doubt I’ll want to pay whatever the price is that FB costs when it’s actually trading on Friday (if it goes through as expected), but if I could get shares in the actual initial offering at the offering price, […]
We haven’t looked at a pick from Rober Hsu’s China Strategy in quite a while — and it’s not just that we’re ignoring him, as far as we can tell InvestorPlace has not been promoting his newsletters very actively over the last six months or so. Which probably isn’t a huge surprise — China stocks […]
The following was submitted by loyal Gumshoe reader and Irregular Streetsifter, who has solved and written up a few for us before. Your friendly Gumshoe has done almost no editing, so this is Streetsifter’s work through and through … thanks! Using their words, a “measly dollar” will buy you the solution to the two matching […]
Robert Hsu introduces the latest teaser of a stock he’s recommending in his China Strategy service by saying that it “looks a lot like Apple” before that company made its historic stock market run, back when Steve Jobs was re-hired by the company, before the iPod (let alone the iPhone) was introduced. And of course, […]
Happy Friday! Here’s the pitch from Yiannis Mostrous that got me interested today: “… the population of children aged zero to 14 has decreased steadily year after year… “… yet sales of children’s products have exploded—from USD 11 billion in 2005 to USD 30 billion in 2009. “This apparent disconnect is the direct result of […]
Happy Friday! Here’s the pitch from Yiannis Mostrous that got me interested today: “… the population of children aged zero to 14 has decreased steadily year after year… “… yet sales of children’s products have exploded—from USD 11 billion in 2005 to USD 30 billion in 2009. “This apparent disconnect is the direct result of […]
Time once again, dear children, for a tale from the Middle Kingdom. Once upon a time, there was a nation so vast and populous that investors got dollar signs in their eyes just gazing upon the smoggy mega-cities that grew like weeds in that distant land. And lo, it was told that it was just […]
I left out the little asterisk in that headline — we’re also told that “your payment could be higher or lower than $4,000.” Which means, of course, that it could be zero … but still, let’s look into this odd headline and the teaser that follows it, and see if we can’t sniff out just […]
If you’re going to start your ad off with a line like this: “One Stock is the Difference between a Good 2011 and a Rolling-in-the-Dough 2011 … AND YOU DON’T OWN IT!” Well, you’re going to get the Gumshoe’s attention. I haven’t had a good “roll in the dough” since Scrooge McDuck invited me over […]
Robert Hsu has been running this teaser ad for his Asia Edge newsletter for a week or two now, and I’ve gotten enough questions that it seems there’s some demand for the Gumshoe version (ie, the free version) of the answer. It seems unlikely, by the way, that this tease about the “Facebook of China” […]
Rare earths mania among investors has hit extraordinary new heights over the last eight months or so, and I’ve written about almost all of the rare earth miners of any size at one point or another during that time. Most recently, the promotion that caught a lot of attention from my readers was from Byron […]
I haven’t written about one of the profligate predictions from the Cabot crowd in a while, so the headline about “double your money in 2011 guaranteed” caught my eye. The pitch for their “secret” idea is in an ad for their Cabot Stock of the Month newsletter, which they use to pick ideas from one […]
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I agree that WBAI is an interesting company to consider adding to ones portfolio. It is growing rapidly which is usually a very good thing for a stock. That being…...
I was really surprised to learn from you that Robert Hsu’s China Strategy and Asia Edge are defunct. Were they doing that poorly? Any idea what he's doing now? Thanks,…...
Well, i am surely wishing i had not sold this stock @ $12!!!! I bought around $9, made a few bucks and got out! I was just learning to trade…...
I subscribed for a year and found that Robert Hsu recommends stocks that you read about in other places. None of his recommendations were out of the ordinary and earned…...
Looks like Robert Hsu got this one right! Hitachi quarterly profit almost triples (1:48 AM ET) LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd.said Thursday its October-December profit almost tripled…...
Not to mention Robert Hsu's China letter......
I thought it'd be useful for non-subscribers to see how well Robert Hsu has been doing since the big crunch that ended in March of 2009. No tickers, and all…...
Superior article on Seadrill, Travis....I love your indepth analysis and commentary. The only other advisory to which I have consistently subscribed without cancelling (for over 2-1/2 years) is Robert Hsu's…...
I made the mistake of subscribing to Robert Hsu's free spam email called Asia Insider, and now I cannot unsubscribe even though I have tried repeatedly. I was disappointed every…...
Who EVER apologizes in this business? No one. Neither Robert Hsu nor Louis Navellelier (2 long-time pros who should have been able to see the market was turning bearish) warned…...
I consider Robert Hsu to be one of the worst con men in the Newsletter racket today. I have subscribed to China Strategy for a couple years and must admit…...
I have also been subscribing to Tony's service since Weiss offered a free 6mo a while back. I like Tony and I enjoy his commentaries, but it seems as if…...
A different thread ... what is Robert Hsu promoting now... aside from a newsletter ? Red Hot China helps him look good ... EXCLUSIVE OFFER FOR CHINA STRATEGY SUBSCRIBERS FIVE…...
Yesterday (the 19th), you guessed that the latest Stansberry "Got to Act Before Today (the 20th)"-- because of an alleged significant imminent announcement-- was Boston Scientific (BSX). I googled this…...
You and Robert Hsu should hope that it is your right palm itching, which means $$ coming into it, and not the left one which means money going out of…...
Sept 29/2009 This 'teaser' is Robert Hsu's latest, for his kind of pricey "Asia Edge" although this character seems to put some real effort into what he does! I have…...
The Weiss service called "International ETF Trader" is the one that has been including BRIC picks. I agree that Weiss et al misrepresent their trading success and do a mighty…...
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It does sound interesting. I bought a small position in a similar stock that Robert Hsu was pushing a few months ago: China Green Agriculture, CGA. It's up 13% since…...
I, too, subscribe to Robert Hsu. I'm not going to buy any XIN. Instead, I bought CHLN @ $3.29/share. They have a much cleaner balance sheet, partnered some of their…...
Also, I don't subscribe to Robert Hsu's or Louis Navellier's newsletters. I got the ChinaCast stock tip from the article above and bought at $5.10. Thanks a bunch!...
I subscribed about a year and a half ago and like the service very much. I also have been a subscriber to Robert Hsu's China Strategy. The one thing about…...
Yikes! I imagine Robert Hsu's customer service folks are getting an earful this morning....
ROBERT HSU HAD ALL THE RIGHT MOVES WHEN THE CHINESE MARKET WAS MOVING UP BUT I WAS DISAPPOINTED IN THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE. TOO MANY BUY AND SELLS. I FIND JIM…...
I subscribed to Robert Hsu’s newsletters for the last 2 years. I have to say I was very disappointed. He thinks hes the next Warren Buffett where you can just…...
Sorry for the OT, but I thought you would have liked to know that Mr. Robert Hsu just bought CMED, with a PE ratio of 112......
Robert Hsu: China Strategy OK for up markets, useless for down. Lots of buy and sells. Only for active traders....
Robert Hsu comes across as an intelligent, hard working guy, who knows China better than just about any service out there. I was an early subscriber to his service and…...
Writing a review for a crashed and crushed market is not easy as one hs to disassociate oneself from the carnage. It is a well written and researched service and…...
My advice to anyone who is thinking about subscribing to this newsletter is wait until there is evidence of a turn-around in the Chinese economy/market, Secondly have your own exit…...
This is Robert Hsu's premier service, covering all of Asia, not just China. It's also pretty expensive, considering most of the trade recommendations can be found on this very site…...
Robert Hsu knows China. He spends a lot of time on the ground investigating his recommendations and he gives you a very good synopsis of the company with his recommendations.…...
Don't know what this particular stock is but I will say I'm a subscriber to his Complete Investor Newsletter and am making money following his advice in that service. I…...
i like china i think they have great growth room still my favourite companys are cds feed hogs i hold cds and trying to manage money for buy some of…...
Ah, looks like I may have guessed wrong on the cancer one if he's calling Baxter a cancer fighter (bit of a stretch). BAX earnings were fine, by the way,…...
In Hsu's latest update, he states that subscribers who followed his buy/sell advice on Mechel would have booked a 249% profit. Admits he was lucky with his sell call timing.…...
Best advice I have learned is set a stop and sell when it drops below it. Effect on overall portfolio is minimal i.e. 10 % drop on 10 % of…...
I suppose you never know, but I'd be surprised. And of course, it's not Navellier himself doing this marketing, it's InvestorPlace Media, which publishes his newsletters along with those of…...
This guy Robert Hsu shook out so many out of FCSX. The stock is up 40% from where he wanted to sell... these guys should do more homework than just…...
Here's a pointer that follows another of Warren Buffett's advice nuggets: "KISS." (Keep it simple, stupid.) A very simple way to find the best ADRs is to go to a…...
A very welcomed idea. I was searching for all the stocks Robert Hsu had hinted at in his latest Article "China, 77 Reasons Why Now". Wasn't having much luck with…...
Christine Stewart is dead on. Skousen does not live up to his claims. Just like Robert Hsu. It's like they don't even know what's happening on a daily basis. Perhaps…...
F.Y.I.Robert Hsu put a "sell" recommendation on HMIN a while back. Think he (and everyone else -- Motley Fool, etc.) still likes CTRP)....
I should have guessed Gigamedia, since Navellier was touting it at least a year ago ( I guess my sleuthing was better then, or his clues were more obvious), and…...
He does own EDU himself according to this:Robert Hsu hereby discloses that on July 10, 2007, he directly or indirectly owned the following securities which are the subject of commentary,…...