Every year I like to grab a big ‘ol pile of the investing magazines and see exactly what predictions they make for the year ahead. Many of them have “buy lists” of a dozen or so companies that they believe will succeed … and, to tell you the truth, it sometimes seems to me that […]
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The world of newsletter email advertising is a big one, with lots of money swirling around, but it’s not all that complicated. You can see the same triggers bring about the same effect time and time again. And one of the biggest triggers for many investors is the price of oil — high oil prices, […]
Today for the Friday File I promise to focus on neither gold nor silver, though there are still a few “heavy rotation” gold teasers coming through the floodgates here at Gumshoe Manor (I’ll probably look into a couple of ’em next week, unless something sexier comes up). No, today it’s all about food — something […]
Iain Little is a name that hasn’t come up here at Stock Gumshoe before, but he’s launching a new (I think) letter from Investorplace that focuses on international stocks called Global Wealth — charter subscribers are being asked to cough up $1,000, which is, of course, half of the “normal” price. And the pitch to […]
The folks at Stansberry and Associates have come out with a new newsletter, perfectly designed to focus on exactly what everyone seems to want right now: Foreign Stocks. This one is called International Strategist, and they’ve got a teaser campaign designed to get you on board with a trial subscription. The teaser campaign is generally […]
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 […]
The timing actually works really well for the Friday File this week, because the teaser I want to sniff out for you is for a stock that happens to be insanely small and thinly traded — and I’d feel really bad about the inevitable exaggeration that would come from a mention of this company in […]
Real-money portfolio of Martin Weiss’ million dollars, previously managed by Claus Vogt, promises to alert you 48 hours before trades are made, with monthly update newsletter and phone helpline.
“Research group” membership that uses analysis of broad market cycles to time buy and sell calls.
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 […]
Monthly newsletter features stock picks from across Asia. No longer published (as of 2019, Tycango’s work is published by Stansberry Research).
Ah, it’s so nice to have a lovely little sleuthing job to distract me … this is much more enjoyable than watching my own portfolio tick lower, or watching the market indexes crawl frantically into into the basement like scared children in a horror movie. Enough distractions like this, and I can actually follow through […]
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 […]
I haven’t written about Martin Weiss and one of his picks in a little while, and Weiss Research is now promoting a special conference call and “inner circle” investment group that will identify his team’s best picks for 2010. Including, as apparently one of his favorites, a gold stock. Here’s the intro to the ad: […]
I haven’t looked at an investment teaser from Christian DeHaemer’s Crisis Trader in a while, but he usually has some interesting ones — he wrote to us late last year about lifting the blockade in the gunboat basin, and for some of his other newsletters he spun tales of a secret nickel project in the […]
Monthly newsletter of Asian stock picks, largely China-focused. (Stopped publishing in 2011 or 2012?)
This is a new teaser that has gotten the attention of many of my readers, if my bulging emailbox is any indicator. The special report, which they’re releasing to subscribers on April 2nd, is called “America’s New Currency: How a Unique ‘Legal Tender’ Helps Americans Grow Wealthy Regardless of the Economy or Dollar.” If you […]
I won’t be able to give this one the full Gumshoe treatment today, but it seems to me that every adult American received Louis Navellier’s latest advertising email over the last day or two … so I thought you’d like to know the company he’s teasing. The ad is for a company that works to […]
If you’ve been biding your time with us here in Gumshoe Nation for a while now, you might remember Porter Stansberry’s prediction that General Growth Properties was about to go bankrupt as they faced a debt repayment deadline that they couldn’t meet. Well, he’s at it again. Which isn’t to say he was wrong the […]
OK, so my ancestry is mostly Swedish, and I can’t help but think of a smorgasbord when I see the latest email out from Louis Navellier for his Blue Chip Growth newsletter. If you don’t know what a smorgasbord is, it’s basically a big buffet layout of Swedish foods, often served at holidays. And like […]
Every year I like to grab a big ‘ol pile of the investing magazines and see exactly what predictions they make for the year ahead. Many of them have “buy lists” of a dozen or so companies that they believe will succeed … and, to tell you the truth, it sometimes seems to me that […]
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 […]
For the last couple days commodities stocks have been taking a serious beating, including the big lead horse for earnings season, Alcoa, which is down big today. But notwithstanding these few weak days, clearly commodities of all kinds (softs like the grains, metals, energy, even coffee and cocoa) have been shooting out the lights lately. […]
And as we continue the rundown of the most successful teaser stocks of the year, here’s number two. This is a solar stock, so obviously it has done well this year (I think LDK Solar is the only one to come to mind that hasn’t ramped up consistently nearly all year). And in addition to […]
Don’t worry, this is not about turtle soup, or about chopping up leatherbacks and making acne cream out of them … this is about a whole different kind of sea turtle. The “Hai Gui” or “sea turtles” of China are the returning scientists and businessmen that are driving, in part, the resurgence of the Chinese […]
The folks at Stansberry and Associates have come out with a new newsletter, perfectly designed to focus on exactly what everyone seems to want right now: Foreign Stocks. This one is called International Strategist, and they’ve got a teaser campaign designed to get you on board with a trial subscription. The teaser campaign is generally […]
The world of newsletter email advertising is a big one, with lots of money swirling around, but it’s not all that complicated. You can see the same triggers bring about the same effect time and time again. And one of the biggest triggers for many investors is the price of oil — high oil prices, […]
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 […]
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 […]
This email came in today from Mark Skousen, and since it’s a quick and dirty one I thought I’d throw it into the mix for y’all. Skousen’s Hedge Fund Trader, which is what’s being advertised here, is predicting that this Brazilian company will report earnings on October 25 and blow the market away. Now, before […]
For those of you who haven’t been with the Gumshoe since day one, you’ll probably notice that there are a lot of these teaser emails that come up again, and again, and again. Sometimes the email changes a little bit, sometimes they just update the stock prices in the teasers, sometimes there’s a new hook […]
Well here we are, just a day or two after checking out Robert Hsu’s latest solar teaser and we’ve got another one for solar. No surprise, I suppose, when oil seems permanently stuck over $80 a barrel it’s certainly true that solar and all other alternative energy plays are getting even more attention than they […]
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 […]
This one came in a day or two ago from Louis Navellier, for his Emerging Growth newsletter service. One of my readers suggested a solution, and his solution seems to be a decent guess … but let me get to the details. Navellier thankfully spares us the story of Chinese overall growth — we do […]
OK, so I’m departing from my typical sleuthing ways on this one a little bit. I spent a little time at an investing conference a few days ago, and many of the newsletter folks that you’ve all heard of were there, making their spiels or just lecturing. One of them that I happened to hear […]
This one’s a little bit different, since the Motley Fool is selling not a subscription necessarily, but a special report called “The NEW Rule Makers: 5 Power Stocks You’ll Never Want to Sell.” Rule Makers is an old term from the Motley Fool lexicon, they’re the ideal evolution from the “Rule Breakers” that Dave Gardner […]
As we endure the subprime contagion and all that appears to imply — snakes raining from the heavens, baffled bankers panhandling on the streets with signs saying “will mark to model for food,” and the decline of all stock markets everywhere forever and ever, it’s interesting (though perhaps cruel) to note the newsletter advisers who […]
A quickie here from Robert Hsu — he just sent an email out telling us (after an exhaustive recounting of his successful China calls, including the Chalco play that Skousen has also been touting), that there will be a big pop in one of his favorite China stocks next Tuesday. Well, that sounds pretty precise […]
This one was sent in by a reader, along with a suggestion for the solution (which, as so often with the Gumshoe’s readers, appears to be correct). It’s from Mark Skousen in the form of an ad for Forecasts and Strategies, and, as you have guessed from the title of this note, it’s about a […]
Well, I have consistently failed to keep up with my originally planned “monthly updates” on the teaser companies we sleuth out here, but better late than never — let’s take a look at how they’re doing. I have a standing offer, by the way, for anyone who wants to get into the spreadsheet and do […]
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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,…...