I thought I’d start with a “benchmarked returns” question, since a couple readers have asked recently how the Real Money Portfolio’s returns compare to the broader market. In general, I have usually done a little better than the US stock averages (I use the S&P 500, just for convenience), but sometimes I’ve done a little […]
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Crazy week, eh? I guess it’s telling that it was really only the most boring positions that stayed in the green during Thursday’s tough sledding. In my portfolio the only little signs of green that day were Five Point Holdings (FPH), which is basically a land bank, Kennedy-Wilson (KW), which is a real estate asset […]
This ad about the next way to break through the limitations Moore’s law has sent a few questions our way in the past two weeks, so let’s take a break from watching the short-squeeze train wrecks and look into this fella, shall we? The pitch comes from Jimmy Mengel for his The Crow’s Nest newsletter […]
I have a confession to make… sometimes I’m too quick to filter through the insane piles of junk email that stack up on my desk each morning. So many email teaser ads from newsletters have a long shelf life, running over and over for years, that I sometimes see the intro to an ad, say […]
Certainly all the investment newsletters have been a-titter over the fortunes to be made with 5G… but now Jeff Brown is upping the ante a bit with his teased bet on 6G, and that surely caught the eye of many a Gumshoe reader in recent days. So that’s where we’re targeting the Thinkolator’s work today: […]
Another wild week in the life of growth stock investors — in just the course of a week Shopify, Fastly, Amazon, Docusign, Roku, NVIDIA, Teladoc and Wrap Technologies each managed to rise in value by more than 10%, some by much more, and that’s in a week that saw essentially no fundamental news about any […]
Today’s teaser ad that we’ll be feeding to the Thinkolator is for Bill Poulos’ Premium Income Alert ($1,997/year) from Profits Run, and it’s a doozy, funneling two hype-filled trends into one stock idea. Premium Income Alert is not a service we’ve looked at before, but it’s billed as a “weekly trading service” (the “upgrade” option […]
This ad from Ian Wyatt has been running for a little while, with some apparent variation, but he keeps aggressively re-pushing it as a “new” webinar, so our readers keep asking about it, and I haven’t covered the tease yet… so that’s our project for today. What are those top five stocks he keeps teasing? […]
Today I’m working on a stock of questions I’ve gotten about the latest pitch for Tim Bohen’s Penny Stock Letter ($79/yr). The teaser ad carries an April 2020 signature line, and most of the copies of it that I’ve seen were forwarded our way during the past two weeks. And the stock is apparently tiny […]
You’ve almost certainly seen these ads from Paul Mampilly, the ones that start with the headline “These Warehouses Hold the Key to a $3.1 Trillion Dollar Revolution…” The ad has been running since at least the Summer of 2018, and has not really been updated at all in the interim as far as I can […]
Happy New Year! Today I’ve got a teaser solution for you from one of the Cabot newsletters, and you’ll see in a minute why I chose to cover this one in the Friday File… and I’ve also got a few portfolio updates to share as the year gets underway and I finish up this first […]
I need to start with this part, the most ludicrous promise made in the ad: “This little-known company, which you can still get in early on today, is at the forefront of this $15.7 trillion economic revolution. “Right now, it does about $3.3 billion in revenue annually… “Next year, I expect it to hit $100 […]
This article was originally published on Halloween, 2018, but we’re getting a ton of new questions about it so they must be running the ad heavily again. The ad has NOT been updated in any meaningful way, but some significant things have changed for this stock over the past year (though the stock price is […]
This week brought yet another push-pull to the markets as investors attempt to figure out whether Lucy is going to pull the football away from Charlie Brown again in the China trade talks, but the narrative that struck me as most interesting on the week was the line that was drawn in the economy by […]
I’ve got a new buy to go into in some detail today, but first let’s go through some meaningful earnings reports that shook up the Real Money Portfolio this week and sent some questions my way… The Trade Desk (TTD) beat the analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings this quarter, but not in a […]
Happy weekend, campers! Here’s a good quick read for you to start the weekend from Vitaliy Katsenelson, who is a smarter guy than me. It’s called Want to Be a Better Investor? Stop Staring at Your Portfolio… and it got me thinking a little bit. Here’s a little excerpt: “You spend hundreds of hours on […]
I haven’t written about this particular ad, but I have seen it circulating over the past couple months… and the questions keep rolling in, so I guess the ad’s still in pretty heavy rotation and it’s time to get some answers for you. The pitch is for Jeff Brown’s The Near Future Report ($99/yr “on […]
Before you get sucked into reading more of my blather, take a moment and read the Wall Street Journal if you’ve got a copy nearby or an online subscription — not the whole thing, but read Christopher Mims’ column The World Isn’t as Bad as Your Wired Brain Tells You. It’s an unusually brief and […]
Whew, we’ve got another doozy today! Michael Robinson is peddling his Radical Technology Profits by hinting at another life-changing technology idea, all based on a “shape shifting” smart metal called X-31 that he says will replace silicon. So, naturally, we want to dig in. As usual, we go in with eyes wide open, well aware […]
A few updates and thoughts to share with you on this fine May Friday, starting with a more detailed look a the new healthcare-related stock that I added to my portfolio a little while ago and haven’t discussed much yet. That stock is Premier, Inc. (PINC), a truly generic name for a pretty interesting company. […]
What’s Moe Zulfiqar pitching as “The one tech stock to buy and never sell?” I’ve seen a couple versions of this teaser ad come rolling into Gumshoe HQ over the past week or so, and it’s time for a quick Thinkolator answer for you… The ad is peddling subscriptions to America’s Redemption, one of the […]
Plenty has happened in the past week or so, as I’ve been on the road (both vacationing in the sun and working in the rain), so what’s up with the Real Money Portfolio? On the news front we’ve gotten a lot of earnings reports since I last wrote to you — Alphabet and Facebook had […]
This article was originally published on September 28, 2017. It has not been updated or revised. The stock teased, Xilinx, has been very volatile since the teaser pitch first circulated but has risen roughly 7%, just about in line with the broader market. Charles Mizrahi has mostly pitched stocks that have a “value” bent in […]
Qualcomm (QCOM) is now back to having a 4% yield… which was pretty hard to resist for me this week. The stock is in the headlines every day of late and is well off its highs, of course, following the high-profile pursuit by Broadcom (AVGO) that was called off this week, but not all the […]
This is the headline that got a lot of readers’ attention: “WARNING: Do not put a penny into any cryptocurrency until you read this urgent message.” It’s part of an ad for Louis Navellier’s Blue Chip Growth, and he goes on… “If you want to make a fortune in the red-hot cryptocurrency markets, there’s only […]
Blockchain week trundles right along here at Stock Gumshoe — no one can talk about anything else when bitcoin is close to doubling in a week (heck, at one point it looked like it might double in a day today), so we’re looking at the newsletter promos that are trying to capitalize on that mania. […]
This is shaping up to be “bitcoin week” here at Stock Gumshoe — I wrote a bit more about my (befuddled and pessimistic) opinion about bitcoin itself late last week, and we got things rolling on Monday with David Gardner’s “bitcoin backdoor” stock… … and today, we move on to Jeff Brown at Bonner and […]
When the market is doing well, holding hedges like cash and gold is going to hurt your portfolio performance when you measure against the S&P 500 or other common benchmarks. That’s the case for me right now, and has been for the recent past — though it hasn’t been enough to bring me below the […]
I’m always interested to see what kind of big-growth ideas are being teased, particularly in a market that already feels so expensive, so a Cabot pitch caught my eye again this week — this time it’s from Mike Cintolo for Cabot Growth Investor, and this is what grabbed my attention: “My Expectation: A 25% Jump […]
Today I’ve gotten bogged down in a couple articles that haven’t yet reached fruition, but I also have some good news — the redoubtable Lynn, who keeps so many things running smoothly here at Stock Gumshoe despite my best efforts to gum up the works, has gotten our initial 2017 Spreadsheet up for your consideration. […]
This article originally appeared as part of the Friday File for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars (our paid members) on November 20, 2015. The article has not been updated or revised, other than a couple quick updates to numbers and valuations, but we’ve had questions about the ad of late, so we’re moving it back to […]
The “Idea of the Month” for May, which is fast coming to a close, is automotive electronics — and I think we have two interesting options that I’m interested in buying (I don’t own either right now). First is Visteon (VC), an idea which has been kicked around in value investing and “special situations” circles […]
Christian Dehaemer is pitching his Crisis and Opportunity newsletter ($499!) by talking up a “Ghost Town Showdown” that he says indicates we’re on the verge of seeing big profits for the suppliers in the “driverless car” business. So, naturally, we want to know what these “secret” stocks are — driverless cars have been teased before, […]
It’s been a heckuva week, eh? I have no idea whether this is really the “capitulation” washout that so many investing pundits have been looking for, or whether we’ll keep falling on Monday or will bounce back after the week ended so roughly, but I do have a couple thoughts to share with you about […]
We’ve been on strange schedules here in Gumshoeland for the last two weeks, and during that time we’ve seen a large number of quarterly reports come through that deserve some attention or comment… as well as a few other notable news items that I feel like I should pay attention to. And, of course, we’ve […]
The folks at Street Authority are big fans of the “list of great stocks” teasers — they pitch the idea of a list of blue chippers that are either the top ten picks for this year, or the top ten “forever” buy and hold stocks, give one or two of them away to whet your […]
It’s like the Stansberry folks know what appeals to your friendly neighborhood Stock Gumshoe… and they just can’t get enough of our coverage. Every time I turn around lately they’re teasing and promoting a different kind of “royalty” company. And I loves me some royalties. Royalty companies are pretty well understood by most investors — […]
[what follows was originally published in 2012 and 2013, it has not been updated (the pitch for the service remains similar, presumably the strategy does as well) but is being brought up to the top of the page because so many readers are asking about it this week.] It appears that Porter Stansberry is pushing […]
This is a note of little consequence, but I’ve promised to share my portfolio when it comes to equity trades so I thought I should let you know that I sold the vast majority of my Intel (INTC) shares over the weekend. Not because I particularly wanted to sell, but because I had sold covered […]
I like little stocks. I like small caps, I like to dabble in microcap stocks from time to time, and it’s definitely more fun to sniffle around the edges of the market and research stocks you’ve never heard of before than it is to read yet another article about Apple (AAPL) or ExxonMobil (XOM). But […]
Over the last few days I’ve been getting a lot of questions from Gumshoe readers about the latest “World Dominator” pick from Dan Ferris over at Stansberry’s Extreme Value newsletter — they’ve apparently been hinting at it and teasing it to the subscribers of their other letters, and piquing the interest of my readers who […]
Elliott Gue will be a familiar name to longtime Gumshoe readers — he’s been a fixture in newsletter land for as long as we’ve been around (Stock Gumshoe’s sixth birthday was a couple months ago, thanks very much), and he’s got a new home. He ran the venerable Personal Finance letter for a while and […]
Today I’ve got a teaser to decipher for you (that’s where our florid headline comes from today), and some shuttling around in my personal portfolio that is actually related to the stock being teased. To give it to you straight and sweet up front, since you’re one of my favorite people: Jim Nelson is teasing […]
I know that many of you have seen the teasers for the “$1.10 a Day Retirement Plan” that are being sent around the interwebs by the folks at the 12% Letter — not many folks have the email marketing might of Stansberry & Associates, that letter’s publisher, and lots of you have been asking about […]
There was big news from one of my personal holdings this week, and it’s also a stock that I’ve suggested twice to the Irregulars and written about several times over the years so I thought it warranted at least a little reaction … particularly because it drove the shares down precipitously. So I’ve bought more […]
Paul Tracy is out again with a similar ad to one he shared a year ago, teasing his top ten stocks for next year — and, like last year, there’s a lot of interest among the Gumshoe readership … so let’s see if we can name those hinted-at picks for you. The basic idea is […]
OK, so I was called away before we got through the rest of Mark Skousen’s ideas for profiting from the election (which he is convinced will bring a victory for Romney and stock market ebullience) — so let’s jump right in and finish sniffing out those picks, shall we? The first three were energy and […]
I get questions about my personal portfolio every day, and you know that I always write about the personal stock buys and sells I make on this site for you, my favorite Irregulars — so every now and then I like to share some updates on what my top holdings are and, particularly when there’s […]
There was a lot of interest in the “Top Ten Forever Stocks” that Paul Tracy was pitching last year, partly because people love the idea of a “buy and hold forever” pick that will perform for them just like their grandmother’s 100 shares of IBM from 1962 that bought her a nice condo in Florida […]
Most of the time I write about the investment newsletter business — the pundits who sell their expertise, the copywriters who make the mundane seem otherworldly, and the outrageous promises and teases that the publishers use to convince us to subscribe to newsletters that proffer investment research and stock tips. But it’s worth noting that […]
This particular ad, or one very much like it with a few edits, has been running for about six weeks — it’s a pitch to get you to subscribe to Global Investment Strategist from Yiannis Mostrous ($497, thanks very much), and it’s all about a key Apple (AAPL) supplier. Which has been a hot investing […]
Stock Gumshoe readers clearly have a yen to find out which stocks are safe enough to “hold forever” — I wrote about a teaser from Paul Tracy for StreetAuthority’s Top Ten Stocks almost two months ago, but my plans to finish it up and complete the list of stocks for you drifted away in the […]
Crazy days, no? The overriding fear among investors seems to be that we’re headed back to something like the Fall of 2008, a “Lehman moment” if Europe doesn’t get its act together and Greece or one of the other weaker pups of the EU actually defaults on their debt … or defaults in some extra-bad […]
Sometimes I look back and realize I’ve been a dope. This is one of those times. I’ve been holding and/or actively buying shares of stocks that benefit from the mobile revolution and from the massive consumer businesses the breakthrough products from Apple (iPhone and iPad) have essentially created from scratch over the last couple years […]
I’ve got a couple things to share with you today — the first is the solution to a teaser from Luke Burgess that’s come out as part of his big “Inflation Nation” promotion that’s more or less in line with all the “dollar doomed” teasers that have dominated the newsletter business in recent months (including […]
This is just a quick update, I’ll probably mention more about these in the near future, and I’ve already written about both stocks. Today I added Canyon Services Group (FRC in Toronto, CYSVF on the pinks) to my personal portfolio with a small entry position — it’s run up quite a bit both before and […]
This week, in an effort to be as boring as possible, I picked up small positions in two technology dinosaurs who are likely to pay growing dividends — Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC). Both companies face strong competition and some specific challenges — most prominently Intel with their challenges in building an effective mobile chip […]
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I guess AMD. This newsletter has been pushed again recently and PM is lazy - never updates his initial release material....
Hi Hipockets. You are well-respected on this site as a sincere and capable analyst. But the reason people think...
So who is saying getting along with Russia is a bad thing ? Media talking heads...uniparty politicos...former intel b...
Arch1...British intel may be dragged into it. Check Gina Haspel's resume....
travis, i highly appreciate your intellect and analysis power. what is sad is that Dr Moore uses its Dr (in what) title...
The original pitch that used this theme from Oxford was teasing Mobileye, which is no longer available for trading (boug...
Thanks again Travis for the fact based intel.. Robinson in my opinion may be well connected as he claims, but to use a b...
Nope... I've been sifting through these promo ads for more than a decade, the big picture stuff and the dreaming is a sm...
what happened with Intel, Crisper and Editas, Thanks doc...
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Thanks for dropping by Cleveland! Yep took up a room, some of the error msg were not politically correct. ;) I was ho...
LULU Good to see you posting. Re disruptive technology as to batteries & etc. There are a few things he overlooks or ig...
This is a crazy one, I have no expertise on the technical side of this, and it seems like something the world is still j...
$ARTH OW and Long As I mentioned in my Sunday post, Micro Cap Biotech investing is not for the faint of heart. Questio...
I've always been of the opinion that Intel allows AMD to exist so they claim they aren't a monopoly. Whenever AMD think...
Interesting note on "AMD has more to lose from decline in importance of mining" from an analyst last week... here's a no...
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Join the discussYes, this is the next EF recommendation due out this Tuesday ***Right now, one tiny company is claiming...
Yes, this is the next EF recommendation due out this Tuesday ***Right now, one tiny company is claiming its place as the...
Here are the details from two e-mails I have received the last couple business days from PU membership… sounds like a ...
Here are the details from two e-mails I have received the last couple business days from PU membership... sounds like a ...
PM has a new EF recommendation coming up … a small company which manages over $240 billion in capital , firms like Me...
PM has a new EF recommendation coming up … a small company which manages over $240 billion in capital , firms like Me...
PM has a new EF recommendation coming up ... a small company which manages over $240 billion in capital , firms like Me...
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Self-driving cars could be on California roads by June, DMV says https://twitter.com/mtpoulsen/status/9184867734450872...
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INTC's Bill Krzanich ,says intel invested 1 billion in AI trough.Mighty AI,Data Robot & Luminata .Maybe they will p...
intel looks gooder and gooder...
Inquiring minds want to know, yes. I was in the audience for Arch CEO Norchi's presentation last week at Rodman and Rens...
Uh, Travis, I think you made a slight boo-boo. This one sentence of yours "Yes, Intel and Logitech and Dell and pretty ...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich will discuss the future of artificial intelligence and more at… https://techcrunch.com/2017/0...
The quality cryptos are out of my league but I am actually more interested in companies expanding on the blockchain tech...
HN et.al. I opened up a new issue of my Stansberry Research subscription called Commodity Supercycles. And what pr...
$BLPH - Anyone out there have the latest update view on $BLPH and what to expect over the short and medium term? It wo...
Griffin: I would hope you do DD either way. As for ARTH, after KSS's pointing, I finally saw the train coming down the t...
$INTC - Is INTC About to Snap the Downtrend? Intel INTC – NASDAQ http://www.bottarelliresearch.com/free/2017/07/05/i...
$ARTH Long OW Many thanks Glenn. For two reasons, first, because of the great intel from TN, and second, for proving th...
Cleveland: We all agree AC5 has the potential to be a game changing product, but its clear Norchi intends to progress at...
Kristileer: Thanks for the accreditation, but Im not sure everyone here would agree with you. My only part has been in f...
MrGreen: A lot of dedicated gummies labour hard to provide intel, spreadsheets, dropbox, threads etc all for the common ...
When half of the nation is so childish, so arrogant, so uninformed, that they are willing to censor the President for 'l...
Paul, I am incredibly satisfied with the "Profits Unlimited" product and you have made some terrific recommendations to ...
Louis basinese, True Alpha is talking this up again as another takeover opportunity since Intel purchased Mobileye. Its...
Looks like Intel is really fairly desperate to build up their auto business -- MBLY to be taken over by INTC at 40X 2018...
Lumpy: Really liked your understanding post and ideas. I guess change is inevitable and word of KSS's talents was bound ...
I was rather intrigued by this come-on as well, and did a little research of my own. You can't invest directly in the s...
Everyone's situation is very different, including age, salary, family to support, etc.--all have an impact on what is a ...
Frank, Republicans are weak and stupid! They allow the left to control the narrative and dictate their every moves even...
David: I agree with your points about $BLRX but pull up, if you will, a 5 year chart of share price. You can nearly infe...
Sam222/Bioc/CLRB: Im not sure it is so 'worrying' (although I agree with Linling....giving out this info is very irregul...
This is a great read and here are the recommended programs by Fitz-gerald. 26(f) Opportunity #1: This Virtual Reality ...
Mr. Moors has burned so many people over the last few years including me 2x on his sensationalism including that damn Su...
Roger: Please dont misrepresent what I have said. I completely get it that its somewhere between fair and essential that...
Thanks CuriosJoe! Makes sense what you are thinking, although i hope that Intel won't be the only supplier of the modem...
they have always been pushing IoT and AI and the companies that make chips and use the chips, NXP (QCOM) NVDA SWIR in...
Political events moving really fast now; Turkey revisited -Turkey invading Syria -Assange missing, Wikileaks likely co...
Reposted and edited from the previous Clubhouse thread: HUMA ABEDIN Unfortunately the close association of Hillary C...
Thanks, Sharon. That's what I am looking for...someone who can check out these allegations on their own and give an opin...
Im not sure how many Gummies are aware why the paying SG members are called Irregulars? It comes from the Sherlock Holme...
STM has nothing that is proprietary. Intel or AMD could reverse engineer anything they have. In the meantime, it is a cy...
Im glad we are on the same line now..... I look fwd to reading your personal intel....
Dan62: Im not sure it matters. KSS advises about the liklihood (not certianty) of the science. If you want to trade a st...
This is an interesting and highly invaluable discussion, as I often gain the best intel from intelligent opinions from i...
Regarding tome on Nvidia - (nothing really to do with an excellent article on the subject, just a correction to a missta...
I don't think Tier Zero has to do with fast storage; it's just a term that MF uses to distinguish it's latest Rule Break...
In the interview with Geoff Taylor he used a lot of acronyms like someone who used them constantly and was confident in ...
Adoption of #IoT devices is increasing at a staggering rate across different industries. Here's what @intel reports. NAS...
I read where Intel, a stock I own, developed the tech.you're talking about here. Those people at money morn.are a bunch ...
Since my very first days of following the KSS' threads, it was obvious that there could be a huge problem. Understandabl...
Harris & Harris Group NASDAQ TINY is a venture capitalist with a stake in D-Wave; their shares have had a dismal per...
Petervr: We dont do advice on this site.......we present DD and opinion. Its for others to weigh that before they sign t...
NVIDIA is really the stock people can't stop connecting to hot stuff -- virtual reality, autonomous cars, artificial int...
Great Review, Travis. I have been pondering the VR market for some time now. There are definitely many areas where the...
I mourn the passing of Morley Safer, merely a week it seems after his retirement from 60 Minutes. Safer was always my fa...
Any intel why RLYP is tanking AH? Long RLYP....
What is the next Intel???...
Cleveland: I really cant be bothered with your self pity act. You have added some good intel here which is great and you...
This is one area I steer clear of because of the tiny margins for manufacturers. I've held Intel for years as my only "T...
I'd rather buy Facebook or Intel, which I already have. It's better to buy the adult than the baby. When the adults adop...
Hi Patricia: First: If a single post gets deleted by moderation, the whole posting sequence goes awol after that and eve...
The VUZIX CO., seems to hang in there, and are getting good at it. Before the L.V. electronics show intel sank some nice...
Thanks. Although it doesnt answer the question fully, its still useful intel....