This article was originally published on June 29, 2020, when Alexander Green was first touting this as the “#1 Microcap for 2020” — that ad has been repurposed and lightly updated as they pitch the same stock as the “#1 Microcap for 2021,” so we’re re-posting this here to answer reader questions. We have not updated the article below since June 29, 2020, except to update for the company’s name change earlier this year, the latest version of the ad that we’ve seen is still dated October, 2020, and the shares are currently 30% or so below where they were when this article was written.
The emails that I started getting a few days ago start out with a tease about a secret meeting…
“Right near the Pacific coast…
“Where you can smell the salt and volcanic dust in the air…
“There lies a secret compound… one visited by some of the brightest financial minds in the world.”
And, it turns out, that’s not really a “secret compound”, it’s just a nice hotel resort in Nicaragua called Ranch Santana. Looks like a beautiful place, and it’s where the Oxford Club has hosted some of their subscriber confabs in the past — so it should be no big surprise that the figurehead of the Oxford Club, Alexander Green, gave a presentation at a meeting there at some point (presumably before the COVID shutdown, given the travel restrictions we’re all under these days).
Or, as the tease puts it, “Alexander Green was one of the few people on the planet who secured an invite.”
I poke fun at this kind of silliness partly because it begs for it… but there’s a real reason, too: If we’re to take ourselves seriously as investors, we have to get rid of the mythology that there’s a secret cabal of “in the know” people who are having private meetings and accurately predicting the path of the stock market. Sure, there are investment conferences and gatherings all the time, and I often learn interesting things when I attend them, but the people who puff themselves up as all-knowing gurus are not more brilliant than you, and as a group they have no more certainty than you about which stocks will surge higher or fall over the next six months. They have to pretend they do, because that’s how you get subscribers, by puffing yourself up, but try to take these pitches and commentaries as just another piece of an education — not leadership by some infallible figurehead and an entree into a secret “club.”
And, frankly, only go to the conferences if you love traveling and meeting people and want to swim in that lovely-looking pool at Rancho Santana, or stroll that pretty Nicaraguan beach. Which you can do on your own, of course, you can get your own room in that “secret compound” for a little under $300 a night this summer.
But anyway I should get back to the point — the email launched into an “interview” with Alexander Green and a pitch for his Oxford Microcap Trader service, which will run you $1,975 a year (and, as is pretty typical with the “upsell” newsletters on which publishers probably make most of their profit, no possibility of a refund).
This is what they’re really selling, once the sales pitch for this Pacific enclave ends and the stock spiel gets underway…
“Alexander Green Reveals His… #1 Microcap for 2020
“Discover the Tiny $4 Tech Stock With Technology That Will Replace Smartphones”
So that’s interesting… what’s the story? More from the ad:
“You see, Alex and his team just spent a week at an invitation-only investment summit.
“It was held at a beautiful 2,700-acre resort on the Pacific coast with many of the worldโs top financial minds to share their very best ideas.
“During the summit… Alex told the story of a $4 stock and its new technology that will replace smartphones.
“The company is one of those transformative disruptors โ like Amazon, Apple and Netflix โ that come along only once or twice in a generation.
“And despite hearing about dozens of great ideas at the event…
“ALL anyone wanted to ask Alex was… โWhat on earth is the name of this $4 stock!?โ
And conveniently enough, that’s what I want to know, too… so let’s dig in and see what clues he drops in this “interview” with Corrina Sullivan.
“They have NO IDEA this stock exists.
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just click here...“Yet it might just be the single stock with the most upside available in the markets today.”
And talks about how the stock is “cheap,” trading at 0.8X book value, and yet has very high revenue growth…
“revenue growth for the last five quarters:
“63%… 37%… 37%… 73%… 72%…”
Whatever could it be that’s going to “replace smartphones?”
“This company is a front-runner in a MASSIVE new $23 billion industry.
“The industry is expected to grow to as much as $77 billion by 2025.”
And it’s not just a startup idea, it already has a decent-sized business…
“It has more market share in this industry than even Google.
“Why?
“Because it has 32 ironclad patents on a new type of technology thatโs rapidly changing the world.”
As the Oxford Club has done for years now with Alexander Green’s “son of a police officer” pitch about a “secret $3 stock,” they also hint that this one doesn’t trade like a normal stock…
“It does NOT trade the normal way, on the Nasdaq or NYSE.
“Instead, thereโs a special way to purchase bundles of four shares at a time in your brokerage account.
“Most investors donโt know this.
“But if you get shares this way… BEFORE they come available individually on the regular exchanges, you can have a big advantage over regular investors.”
So that’s a good bunch of clues… what does Green mean when he says “microcap?” This is what he says, which will help us narrow down the company by size…
“The penny stock landscape is littered with failed companies that had great stories but no fundamental business behind them.
“And they usually are good for one thing and one thing only…
“Losing money.
“Microcaps, on the other hand, are a different story.
“They arenโt pipe dream companies with no sales.
“Rather, microcaps are great little under-the-radar businesses that have a better chance to become midcaps… then large caps… or be bought out along the way.
“So Iโm looking for companies that are below a $1 billion market cap.
“Technically, microcaps are defined as being under $300 million, but if itโs a great company, Iโm not going turn my nose up at a $900 million company that meets my criteria.
“Thatโs still small enough to have plenty of room to grow.”
The two examples he gives as past picks are Tandem Diabetes (TNDM) and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI), which he calls “two of the biggest microcap winners of the last few years”
I don’t know when Green piched those stocks, but we’ll take him at his word that he picked them before huge gains… and I also don’t know when he recommended selling those stocks, if he has. AAOI was indeed available around $10 in 2016, and then shot up to about $100 in late 2017… though it has since come back down to, yes, about $10. TNDM has gone from a “busted IPO” microcap that fell from $20 to pennies from 2013 to 2017 to a stock that started surging mid-2018 and is now close to $90, with a $5+ billion market cap, so if you picked it anytime before 2018 and just held on, you’re feeling pretty good.
So what does this secret company do? Green says they’re involved in “wearables” …
“Smartwatches…
“Health and fitness trackers…
“My #1 microcap even makes ‘smart shoes’ linked to your cell phone!”
And they’ve got a Formula One racing deal of some sort…
“McLaren partnered with my #1 microcap to track the vitals of its Formula One racing team.”
But what he seems particularly excited about are their new products…
“Whatโs really going to help this company take off is all the consumer products itโs set to launch.
“Its technology is rapidly going to steal away market share from big winners like Peloton and Fitbit.
“Itโs on the verge of dozens of upcoming blockbuster announcements that could drive the price into the stratosphere.
“The company stunned participants and consumers at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by unveiling six new products.”
Some of those examples of products?
“A scientific in-home fitness system paired with a 43-inch HD screen and surround-sound speakers…
“A foldable treadmill that takes only five seconds to fold but includes custom JBL surround-sound speakers and heart rate monitoring devices…
“And a revolutionary smartwatch that has 20 days of battery life versus Apple Watchโs one day… and a built-in GPS with GLONASS… but it costs only $140 versus Apple Watchโs $750 cost.”
A few other clues…
“When this company was founded in 2014, it had one mission: to dominate the wearable market.
“It secured not one… not 10… not 20… but a full 32 patents.
“And that proprietary technology is driving its growth at breakneck speed.
“In six short years, this company went from controlling 0% of this market… to becoming one of Appleโs #1 competitors.
“And 100 million people around the world have bought its products.
“Just last year, it surpassed tech giant Apple in smartwatch shipments for the very first time!”
So what’s our stock? Thinkolator sez this is the Chinese wearables maker Zepp Health (ZEPP) (formerly called Huami (HMI), before their name change in February 2021), which makes the Amazfit brand of smartwatches and other wearables, as well as a line of “smart scales” — they are partially owned by Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi, and that’s also where most of their sales come from… they use Xiaomi stores and vendors as their distribution channel, and also make the Xiaomi-branded wearables.
Here’s how the company describes itself:
“Huami is a cloud-based healthcare services provider with world-leading smart wearable technology. Since its inception in 2013, Huami has quickly established its global leadership and recognition in the smart wearable industry by shipping millions of smart wearable devices. In 2019, Huami shipped 42.3 million smart wearable devices. Leveraging its powerful AI algorithm capabilities along with the massive data analysis, Huami provides 24×7 health monitoring services to millions of its product users. Huami seamlessly integrate smart wearable technology into the extensive application senarios of the IoT ecosystem worldwide, creating a smarter and more convenient lifestyle for its users.
“To use the brand, ‘Amazfit,’ Huamiโs smart devices mainly include smart bands, smart watches and smart scales. Huami obtained the China National Medical Products Administration Class II medical device approval for our ECG health band products in April 2018. Huami is also expanding into new smart device categories. In early 2020, Huami unveiled four new products spanning three verticals that go beyond smart bands and watches: Amazfit Home Studio, a smart gym hub; Amazfit AirRun, a foldable next-generation treadmill; Amazfit PowerBuds, true wireless stereo fitness earphones with Clip-to-Go design; and Amazfit ZenBuds, sleep-comfort and health monitoring earphones.”
The shares are not technically trading at less than book value according to the financials I reviewed, but they’re at only about 2X book right now. And yes, they did announce an expansion of their product line this year to move beyond smartwatches and smart scales, including that Amazfit Home Studio smart gym hub and Amazfit AirRun foldable treadmill.
And yes, Huami shares on the New York Stock Exchange are technically American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), and they do technically each represent four ordinary shares of Huami… it’s just that Huami shares aren’t actually listed anywhere else as far as I’m aware (most ADRs represent shares that trade elsewhere, like Hong Kong or London, but Huami doesn’t have another listing on an exchange anywhere else). Those ordinary shares do exist, but they’re presumably all held by insiders or other early backers in China (like Xiaomi), the only way outsiders can buy the stock is through the ADRs. I don’t know why they did it this way, it’s a little odd to list an ADR in New York without having a listing anywhere else, but maybe it’s just cheaper or easier to get a ADR listing than to actually get listed on their own.
So yes, it’s technically a way to get four shares in one purchase… which means that with the ADR trading at about $12, the “ordinary shares” are worth about $3 each — and that would have been closer to $4 each a few months ago, when the ADR was in the mid-teens (I haven’t seen the ad before, but it’s dated April 2020 — Huami got as high as ~$14 then). That does not mean it’s on the verge of getting a “better listing” on the NYSE and therefore jumping higher in price — that doesn’t really make any sense. They’re already fully tradable in NY by anyone who’s interested, they even have options trading, so probably the only thing, listing-wise, that might bump up their valuation would be if they list on the stock exchange in Hong Kong or Shenzhen to appeal to the investors who are more likely to recognize the Amazfit brand or be Huami customers. This is not some secret “pre-IPO” deal or anything like that.
And those revenue growth numbers that Green cites are accurate, but only up until the fourth quarter with its 72% revenue growth number… for the first quarter of 2020 that fell substantially, to 36% growth. I’m sure that the coronavirus was a big reason for that de-acceleration in revenue growth, but it looks like they’ve also got quite a bit of seasonality, with their growth coming mostly in the third and fourth quarters in past yaers, so maybe it will pick up again later this year. Their outlook for the second quarter, announced in their 1Q press release, is for flat revenue year over year. Those are all assuming that you leave the numbers in Chinese Yuan Renmimbi, if you translate to US dollars, as you’ll see in most of the financial sites that collect their filings data for US investors, the growth looks a little less impressive because the dollar has risen in recent years vs. the Chinese currency. They sell very little outside of China, so the currency impact can be substantial for investors.
Finally, yes, Huami is profitable — which is a little unusual for a high-tech small-cap. They have a market cap of about $750 million if the numbers in YCharts are accurate, with about $230 million of net cash on the balance sheet, and have reported a profit now for five quarters in a row… so I can see why you’d be impressed with the financials, it’s rare to find profitability, a below-average valuation, and a solid revenue growth story all in the same package.
Right now, the trailing earnings for the past four quarters come in at $1.21 per share… so at $12.75 or so per share the math is pretty easy, the stock is trading at a trailing PE of just over 10. That’s cheap compared to almost any other stock in the market, certainly any stock with revenue growth, and if you back out the surplus cash it’s cheaper still (the list of profitable companies with PE below 11, no net debt, and revenue growth of at least 30% is very short, about 40 companies, and all of them have something a little odd in their story).
The earnings could easily come down in the next quarter, since it’s pretty likely they’ll lose money if the sales number is as weak in the second quarter as they expect, but if this is a sustainable brand and market position they have in Chinese wearables, then the current valuation does give them a nice cushion for a bad quarter or two.
If I were researching this stock, I’d start off being impressed with their valuation and their steady sales rate for their core Amazfit smartwatch business… but a little bit worried about their reliance on Xiaomi for distribution and their push into new products and maybe new geographies, since I have no idea what the plan is for their higher-end stuff like the “smart gym” and treadmill, particularly about whether the CES presentation means they’re trying to move into the US market in any meaningful way.
Right now, their smartwatches and earbuds in the US and European markets seem to be competing in a morass of low-cost products, so even if they are higher quality (I’m no judge of that) I don’t know that they can build the brand to tell that story outside of China without spending a lot of money. The difference between $40 wireless earbuds and $200 Apple Airpods (or a $99 smartwatch and a $300 Apple Watch) is partly function, quality, cross-device compatibility and design, but a lot of it is brand positioning and trust. Apple spent a lot of money building that brand, and brand reputation doesn’t come cheap. The same is true of NordicTrak or Peloton in the “smart gym” market, there will always be buyers for the cheapest product even if that company doesn’t spend a lot on marketing, but the maker of the cheapest product also has to be always looking over his shoulder at the similar low-end product being offered by a competitor.
Just to give some perspective, HMI reports about the same level of Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) costs as Apple — about 7-8% of sales, on average. For HMI, more than half of that is marketing, and for Apple we don’t know exactly but it’s probably in that neighborhood. By contrast, smaller firms like Peloton or Fitbit who are trying to build brands in these markets spend about 30% of revenue on sales and marketing. That indicates to me that Huami is not likely to become huge, and will be limited to whatever Xiaomi gives them. No marketing spend, no brand.
Maybe that’s too pessimistic, and maybe they’re just lucky because Xiaomi does a lot of their marketing for them, but that would be my thinking going in. The stock could easily do just fine from here, they’re profitable, cash-rich, and carry a cheap valuation, and they have a strong distribution partner in Xiaomi, it’s just that their growth might be stunted if they stay in China, compete on price, and aren’t able to build a premium brand. Not having been in China myself, and having researched the company only enough to give you an answer and a few quick thoughts today (I confess, I haven’t even read their SEC filings), maybe I’m missing something and Amazfit is a hugely popular and growing brand in China, with massive growth potential, and they’re about to take off, with margins improving… and certainly China is plenty big enough to make it possible for a strong fitness and wearables company to grow without leaving the Middle Kingdom.
So the next step is yours… go forth, researchify, and let us know what you think — is there gold in Zepp/Huami’s future? Is this just another competitor in a busy smartwatch swarm, or is it a growing Chinese fitness brand akin to Peloton and Fitbit in the US? Something in between? Where do you come down? Let us know with a comment below.
Alex Green has gone way too far for my tastes in pushing Chinese stocks. And even while one of the writers for the Oxford Club Communique just wrote about how Chinese companies have shortchanged investors and that he was selling all his own Chinese stocks. Puzzling.
FR
I just saw the same thing on Oxford, about his guy dropping all his Chinese stocks. I wish Alex and that guy would get on the same page. Does he not know we are watching what is said. By the way iam doing very good on hon hai . Right now the stock is at $ 2.92 per share. And another thing you donโt buy Foxconn, you buy hon hai on the Taiwan stock exchangeโs. Ray
Iโve held hon hai for years and am up 10%. Your up more than that?
Alex Green used t/b a God’s gift, but his last $4.00 stock is still around $4.oo years later! He hangs out now with Bill O’Reilly, strange bedfellows, eh?
Hey Travis, I really enjoy reading your stuff, sometimes a little long winded, but usually entertaining and educational. All and all, good job. I do subscribe to Alex Green’s $49 service and as far as these so called “guru’s, in the know, or what ever these people tout them selves to be,” Alex does seem to do somewhat of an honest job, at least with the cheap $49 dollar thing I signed up for a few months ago. However, the one thing that does bother me is that Alex recommends quite a bit of these Chinese companies. With all that has been going on since mid March I am extremely reluctant to put any money into any thing Chinese. I think the potential backlash, or payback, concerning the Chinese Pandemic from the US and many other countries could be extremely harmful to China’s future prospects. I may be wrong, I may not be, but is it worth the risk until the smoke clears a little?
I’d worry a lot more about the trade war with the US than about backlash against China because of the coronavirus. Many people talk about the world moving more “bipolar” again, with customers having to choose US or China, and perhaps we’ll keep pushing in that direction but I think the odds are it will be temporary… most of the stuff China makes, nobody else really makes. And most of the crap that is bought around the world, the US buys.
Neither is likely to mean much for Huami if they stay focused on the Chinese market, I imagine. Though it could certainly impact the stock if the US pushes back on trading of Chinese equities (also not terribly likely in my opinion, but one never knows).
Thanks Travis!!!
I subscribed to the Oxford Communique. Sounded good at the time, but I quickly learned that Mr. Greene recommends 100s of stocks. Obviously some of them will do great, but that does little good if most of them do not pan out.
Thanks again for the great article. Keep up the great work!!!
Doug
This is WHY we love Travis! He tells it like it is saves us time and money and smokes out the Snake Oil Salesmen every time. Wish I had met here before loosing $2900 subscribing to โWeekend Profitsโ!
In my experience with Oxford Club – going back a number of years – Alex Green has a pretty good record overall: his conservative Oxford Communique Trading Portfolio was ranked by Mark Hulbert in the top 5 investment newsletters by performance for a number of years (Hulbert was maybe the only truly independent reviewer of investment newsletters who ranked some 100 newsletters monthly by the performance of their recommended portfolios from 1980 till his publication folded in 2016). But as Travis says, no one is a “genius” with infallible foresight. Green picked Ecopetrol as his “pick of the half-decade” some years ago, and it hit his “trailing stop” in something like a year or less, and sunk from there. Think he’s still flogging the “under $3” stock (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.) that he called “The Single-Stock Retirement Plan” – it’s been maybe two years now, and I don’t know that the price has risen much if at all.
Whether HMI is a good investment, really don’t know. But I can say pretty confidently that, in my opinion, $1,975 for the Microcap Trader “service” would be a huge waste of a lot of money – Alex doesn’t even feel strongly or confidently enough about HMI to have it part of his official recommended portfolio in that service (and, no, I didn’t pay for the service, but know what’s in the portfolio). I actually think the Oxford Communique (something like $100/per year, or maybe less) would be a much better choice. Green’s recommendations in that are well-reasoned – as opposed to wildly hyped in the very expensive “premium services” – and Mark Hulbert’s rankings certainly reflected well on Green’s expertise there. But he’s far from infallible.
Rancho Santana, by the way, is Oxford Club’s “Nicaragua clubhouse.”
I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me for a member…Groucho Marx.
hi
ok… rancho santana in nicaq is one of International Living articles…to invest in ect..obviously there is tie to Oxford Club…2/ i bought hnhaf, or hon hai and had nothing but grief in following it under that ticker symbol…i held it ffor nearly 2 yrs and just got tried..yes i know it is foxconn and followed the whole Racine Wi story…maybe it has appreciated in price..thx ..really enjoyed finding gumshoe
i subscribe to AG services and see that 2 of his portf list 2 stocks i bought awhile ago so its reassuring to see that..
Alex also recommended LexinFintec ( LX on NYSE). Story sounded good but stock is down about 5 bucks since his reco.
Travis. I joined your irregulars today. You are the only one I know that actually analyses a stock instead of hyping the heck out of it. You are a gem. Thank you so much!
Thanks for joining us, mickey1 — the more, the merrier ๐
Most of these so called genius stock market predictors dangle a carrot in front of you but Travis just feeds the carrot to the horse
Im really torn on Chinese based stocks…first I see allot of renowned investors i.e Jim Rogers touting that “China you cannot ignore” and then we see instances like Luckin Coffee and GSX; albeit the latter has done well since Muddy Waters and Citron revealed its modus operandi ,’ but a little too well for my liking … all of which just makes me feel that all is not what it seems with China stocks . I do however get a little bit of the warm blanket feel on this one with both Xaomi being involved and fact that they have some IP (presumably the IP is relevant to the space they are engaging business in). In line with my favourite adage ” a fool and his money are soon partying” I may throw a small flutter at it after watching it for the next quarter
I’ll toss some water on the exclusive invite that Green mentions in his pitch that you accurately downplayed. The publishing empire of which the Oxford Club is a part is closely connected with the Rancho Santana complex and other investment properties in Nicaragua. I have subscribed to many of their newsletters and was offered the chance to invest in that project while it was under construction. I have enjoyed seeing how close you get to uncovering the various suspects of Mr. Bonner’s sprawling invest newsletter pitchmen. Keep up the good work.
Before you decide to invest in Chinese stocks, I would recommend to watch ‘the China Hustle’ on Netflix. It gives an interesting perspective on the introduction of Chinese stocks to the US stock market.
Good point Fred.
No thanks, Alex Green and Oxford Club, that was time ago, but once is enough
I joined Irregulars awhile back thinking I would get into stocks again at some point. I waited for a buying opportunity, which came in March. Following suggestions from the master’s portfolio I have had the most successful period of trading in my life, and I was using covered calls in many cases to be conservative, given my lack of an appetite for risk. In fact, I’ve pulled more cash out in recent weeks feeling the market is a little overbought given economic and Covid-19 projections.
Nice timing, David, hope it continues to work out for you.
I have a subscription to MicroCap Trader. Nothing like HMI has come to me inMicroCap Trader. Are you sure this was a teaser for MicroCap Trader? In fact, his current portfolio consists of the following: EGO, ICLK, NLS, OMI, ZYXI. I’ve seen nothing about this $4 teaser about technology to replace smartphones. I think HMI *may* be part of his other small cap service that he has been pushing with Bill O’Reilly. I’m not sure but I think it’s called something like Strategic Trends (but not sure). My experience with MicroCap Trader is mixed. His picks are all microcaps (so small stuff) and there’s been lots of volatility resulting in issuing lots of “sell” recommendations from hitting their 25% trailing stops rules. Since he started this service last December, he has given 22 recommendations and only the 5 I listed above are now in the portfolio. The oldest one of the five is EGO from April 21st and 2 of the positions were added in June. I haven’t followed all of the triggered sell recommendations so I own more than the 5 currently in this portfolio.
On some of these ‘older’ holdings I’m up over 60% . Almost all of my positions are in the black and decent but it has been a ride. I haven’t really put a spreadsheet together on it, but I suspect that buy and hold would have been better than following trailing stops on these small cap stocks overall. I like Alex Green’s ideas, philosophy, and writing style. I also subscribe to the cheaper Oxford Comminique and have been overall pleased with him so far.
barnkb: log-in to the Oxford Club website, click on Oxford Microcap Trader, then click on “reports” under the Microcap Trader heading – the first one is titled “The #1 Microcap for 2020”; that’s the one touting HMI. As I noted in my comment above, it is strange that Green has not included HMI in his Microcap Trader portfolio. But I’ve seen that happen – though very rarely – with other Oxford Club “services.”
The editorial notes at the bottom of the HMI report include: “From time to time, the Oxford Club will discuss investment ideas that will not be included in the Clubโs various portfolios. There are certain situations where we feel a company may be an extraordinary value but may not necessarily fit within the selection guidelines of these existing portfolios. In these cases, the recommendations are to be considered speculative and should not be considered part of any of the Clubโs portfolios.”
I find that very odd, but that’s the way they do it. Doesn’t show a lot of confidence in their recommendations, and gives them a chicken cop-out: if the recommendation works out, heh, how great are we; if it doesn’t, wasn’t really our “pick” anyways. But agree with you about Alex Green when he writes in the Oxford Communique, as I also noted above.
sct2ali: Thanks for that. Weird I missed that when I was scouring the website for HMI. I actually went into reports but thought it was just the same stuff I had seen when I signed up so I didn’t pay close attention. Regardless, thanks. Did they ever say anything about this new info or are we supposed to just magically know they have this new information somehow?
Not sure when you subscribed but I’m guess the same time I did. It looks like his guarantee of 5 10X recommendations within a year is not going to happen so I’m looking forward to a lifetime subscription to this service. How about you?
barnkb: I’ve been an Oxford Club Chairman’s Circle member for 5-6 years now – gives lifetime access to everything they do for one upfront price, plus a $125 yearly “maintenance fee.” I had subscribed to some of their premium services individually prior to that, but the yearly fee was expensive given the mixed results. I’m much happier having paid the one-time fee. I use it mostly for their Bond Advantage service (I like being invested partially in corporate bonds), though have been doing well with stock options in some of their other services lately (have not always done well with options, but have been lucky the past several months).
I’ve seen the Microcap Trader situation before – though rarely – with other premium services: Oxford Club hypes a service in some or all of their affiliated newsletters – “Wealthy Retirement” (yesterday’s e-mail had a link to an Alex Green video interview hyping HMI – required a subscription to Microcap Trader to get the company name); “Investment U”; or “Special Opportunities.” Whenever I see that, I always check the Club website for the service being hyped, and the interview/report is always there. Most of the time, the stocks are also in the respective portfolio (as you probably know, the five stocks you listed are all in their report “5 Microcaps To Accelerate Your Wealth Today”), but not always. Personally, I don’t invest in such stocks; if Alex, or whomever, isn’t confident in their recommendation, why should I be?
While I have considerable respect for Alex for his work on the conservative Oxford Communique portfolios, I always exercise considerable skepticism with his premium services, since I’ve seen full well that his results can be very mixed, some good but others not so good. Actually, I have more faith in Matt Carr; but then again, almost no faith (from past experience) in Marc Lichtenfeld – except in the Bond Advantage service, which he recently took over. And I never use Dave Fessler’s picks.
Strategic Trends is not Alex Green. It’s Matthew Carr and David Fessler. I think it started as an energy newsletter, but they switched focus when the losses piled up. Carr now has the title “trends strategist.” One trend that he did not do well on was pot stocks.
Paul: You’re right. I can’t remember that other small cap stocks service he pushed with Bill O’Reilly recently. Regardless, sct2ali rightly pointed out this is indeed part of MicroCap Trader (which I have) but I never received notification of this recommendation. It’s in the report section and I have read it but puzzled why I wasn’t told about this by the Oxford folks and had to learn about it here.
Travis,
I do not have a teaser for your paid members, but I have another SPAC for them. Let us all make MONEY, OKAY? NO BS.
NFIN or NFINW ( warrant)
I have 25,000 warrants @ $0.85 each.
Ok…Iโll bite.
Whatโs the story with these.
Looks like they are surging.
I’m highly impressed by gumshoe analytical brain. At the moment there is this stock motley fools is peddling, it is talking about a coy.producing screen for Apple’s iPhone 5g.And they said the coy.is going do wonders financially because the very coy.had got monopoly of that technology. Could that coy. be iv-ii?Thanks for your reply.
That’s a long-running teaser for OLED — though I don’t think I’ve covered it recently. Last time I wrote about that one was almost three years ago here.
Nobody is saying anything about A.Green absolute give away in a micro cap trader promotion:
Murphy oil at about $23 when I saw the flick shot up to $28. one big clime 2019. And who would buy HonHai before the USA plants open anyway. I would not say anything bad about them especially when their girls look that good.
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HMI is $13.16 as I write…. hasn’t seen $4 this year if I’m looking at the right chart
Just a little gimmick to the ad — each HMI ADR technically represents four “ordinary” shares, it’s just that those ordinary shares aren’t listed or traded anywhere.
Travis, I canโt find away to buy this stock at $4.00 per share. You are right if it traded on the London or Taiwan exchanges then the ADR would make sense, but itโs not trading anywhere else, I found Huami buy going to sequoia capital and there it was, I just entered wearables. I hope you find the big secret on how to by this stock. Thank you for what you do. Ray. Ps. I would buy this stock the way Alex said to buy it if I could. But I donโt want to pay $1995.00 to find out.
There is no $4 secret, that’s just marketing silliness. If you like it, buy the ADRs and get 4 shares per ADR and, if it makes you feel better, you can think about the fact that you’re paying $3-4 per ordinary share even if they only trade in 4-share blocks through the ADRs.
Early this week I bought Huami through my Ameritrade account @ $12/share HMI (NY)
I’m buying #HMI 2 billion people in China…its similar but less expensive than APPLE . $3 a WHATEVER kind of share and 4 shares/ $12 on NYSE. It’s hot now…even this review makes me feel a lot better about it. Someone talk me out of this lol. ๐ Or not!