The hardest thing to do is nothing, and I again failed in that task this week. I added a new position to the Real Money Portfolio earlier this week in Match Group (MTCH), added a new position in a new company to the Lock Box at the close yesterday, and I’ll get to all of […]
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I though the new pitch from Joel Litman at Altimetry was kind of interesting, and it sure teased a bunch of ideas, so we’ll run through that one today. The newsletter being touted is Hidden Alpha ($49 first year, renews at $199), and it’s part of the Altimetry group that’s a joint venture between Litman’s […]
This article was originally published on November 2, 2020, but the ad we’re covering has been updated with a new headline and some “Biden’s New Plan” lead-ins so we’re re-posting it here to help answer some reader questions — the meat of the ad, the “what you should do” part, seems largely unchanged, and what […]
First, a hearty welcome and “thank you” to all the new Irregulars who joined us during the Gumshoe Gives Back campaign this week — we did set a new record, and the money is still rolling in… but you’ve got until midnight tonight to talk the rest of your friends into joining 🙂 And now, […]
It’s been almost three weeks since I last dug into the Real Money Portfolio and shared my updated thoughts… and a lot has been happening, with earnings reports and other big news from a lot of Real Money Portfolio stocks, so buckle in and I’ll try to at least hit the high and low points […]
Happy Friday! I’ve got another reading assignment for you today… the researcher behind the Dunning-Kruger effect posted an interesting article called “We Are All Confident Idiots” a couple years ago that just came to my attention (I think someone posted it on Twitter, but forgot to jot down the original source). Here’s a little excerpt, […]
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 […]
Over the weekend I got a lot of questions about John Engel’s “Image Mapping” pitch for his Stansberry Innovations Report newsletter ($49, renews at $199), so that’s what we’re tasking the Thinkolator with today… what is this “Image Mapping” technology that he says will make us 5X our money? Stansberry Innovations Report is quite new, […]
We’ve got a lot of choices when it comes to teaser pitches this week, including some ratcheted-up reruns from Dr. Kent Moors reiterating his older Permian Basin and Solar Energy pitches, some CBD stocks, and a few others that are generating attention… but the one that caught my eye was from a smaller publisher, Motley […]
Crazy earnings week, eh? That leads me to a few adjustments to the portfolio, as my opinions have changed about a few stocks at the top of the Real Money Portfolio. So this week your Friday File is another run through a hodgepodge of stocks, starting with the one that I think is looking most […]
Well, we finish out the week with yet another dramatic performance from the market-dominating tech stocks. Alphabet (GOOG) did better than expected and popped a bit, climbing further through the day, almost as much as the gains Microsoft (MSFT) made on a more dramatic ‘beat’ of expectations (though analysts have always been better at estimating […]
The first version of this story was published on July 28, 2016 under the headline Palm Beach: “Issuing a strong ‘buy’ recommendation for ‘the next Bitcoin.’” Tom Dyson, Teeka Tiwari’s publisher at Palm Beach, has a new pitch out for these cryptocurrencies, which he calls “Bit Shares,” again touting Ethereum and Bitcoin but also adding […]
Quite a few eagle-eyed Gumshoe readers forwarded the latest ad from Dr. David Eifrig to us over the weekend — he’s pitching his Retirement Millionaire newsletter, which is an “entry level” offering from Stansberry that includes money-saving retirement tips and health tips as well as investment ideas. It tends to not be an aggressive or […]
Newsletter copywriters are no different from other marketers: they will do whatever it takes to get attention by playing off of something or someone that has celebrity or notoriety. In the past that’s meant implying that some big celebrity investor has a connection to a “secret” stock or technique, or that someone high up in […]
David Gardner at the Motley Fool is usually the “growth” guy — he’s the one who has most famously grabbed on to “story” stocks when they were crazy expensive but had big growth potential, and held on for gains of several thousand percent (Netflix, Priceline, etc.). So it caught my eye that he’s recommending a […]
We’ve certainly seen our share of “next breakthrough” promises from Louis Basenese — he has worked for a variety of publishers (mostly under the Agora umbrella, I think) and is now promoting a service that he calls VentureCap Strategist, published by Wall Street Daily, and now he’s dangling his take on virtual reality in front […]
Newsletter marketers love to be able to tout a buyout and promise a double in the stock they’re recommending — they know it almost can’t help but catch your attention… and heck, if the stock’s small enough they might even be able to cause it to double just by pouring a few hundred enthused new […]
“It’s not some new type of nuclear bomb… It’s not a secret stealth drone army… (We’ve already seen plenty of those lately)… And it’s definitely not some crazy Area 51 mad-scientist experiment. “To tell you the truth, it’s the furthest thing from a killing machine that you could possibly imagine. But its 41 million moving […]
Thoughts from Myron — Diamonds, Prospects and MeteorsEd. note:  Here is our second installment from longtime reader Myron Martin. As before, let us know what you think in the comments section below the article. Myron has agreed to our trading restrictions (he won’t trade the stocks he mentions for three days), but we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks […]
Steve Romick is a very well-respected investment manager with First Pacific Adisors and manager of the FPA Crescent Fund (FPACX), and he gave a talk very much built on a “where to now” look at the broader economy, the huge problems with the government balance sheet, and the unsustainable nature of public financing. The big […]
The Gumshoe faithful have been asking about Hilary Kramer and her latest teaser pitch, so we’re going to ID at least her “#1” idea here — and possibly we’ll get into the rest of ’em if there’s interest. The basic idea is much like past ads from the Motley Fool and others — that cloud […]
The folks at StreetAuthority delight in lists of “bests” — best stocks for 2011, best stocks for 2012, best stocks to hold forever, we’ve looked at several of them over the years. And now, what we’re being teased with by these folks are “WGB” investments … which, in case you don’t have the patience to […]
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 […]
Time with family and bloated turkey-filled bellies did nothing to slow down the avalanche of newsletter teaser ads — heck, we even saw plenty of “black Friday” deals for all those folks who are hoping to stuff a newsletter subscription into little Timmy’s Christmas stocking (yay!) But perhaps the most popular one that’s been sent […]
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Hey Travis, great stuff. Regarding EA and ATVI, you didn't mention anything about the gaming platform cycle. I would h...
Maybe IBM or MSFT. IBM has moved big into blockchain/crypto area making use of one of the more important Chainlink tech...
@katekm Those aren't bad fees at all for a bank. I don't think your Canadian banks are as greedy as the US ones. J...
I agree, anytime there is a cure, a secret, conspiracy, or a book for sale creates more caution. Greed is writing the ...
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Hopefully Governments will eventually realize Cities are part of the issue for viruses spreading and mutating more frequ...
I always regarding video conferencing as a digital commodity, but the fact that they do much more is encouraging and hel...
Encouraging to hear how well it works for conferencing and presentations. It's a video pure play and developed as video ...
it's def. Zoom. They have already offered both stocks on their standard subscription platform (I'm a current subscriber...
No guarantees. If you are looking for another option for trading and tired of Get Rich Schemes, and scams, I may have...
Well said. I was chasing MSFT much of 2019 though limit orders that never filled. In Nov I just said, WTH, and boug...
If you are looking for another option for trading and tired of Get Rich Schemes, I may have something you might want to ...
If you are looking for another option for trading and tired of Get Rich Schemes, I may have something you might want t...
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I've always been looking for the so called 'Fountain of Youth' but haven't found it yet. Biotech's can take along time ...
Travis, this reader's post preceded the announcement on 11/6/19 of a renewed alliance between NOK & MSFT. I'm wonderin...
Boy did NOK hit rock bottom, literally. It plunged to $3.50 on October 29th. The last time NOK was at this level was in ...
Turns out it was the obvious ones... AMZN NVIDIA and MSFT. I got their teaser and followed it to here: https://www.fool...
I am 68 and new to investing with about $300K capital (2/3 in IRA). I have enjoyed reading Travis for quite some time b...
#3 is Microsoft or Take-Two...
Well, I thought I would give it one more try with today's recommendation for MSFT. Nope, another loser! Definately not...
Azure is the name of Microsoft's cloud services, so you're looking for MSFT....
OK it's expensive but it's the best in its class. It's the AMZN or MSFT of BDCs. When or if the price drops, buy. You'll...
I think MICROSOFT is a big player in the field of AR, they've been developing actual AR for many years and the US govern...
Fwiw, mktx, goog, msft, adbe, pypl, visa, amzn, nflx, pro, ttd, avb, tmo, CSU.to. I’d throw unh on there but think you...
Fortnite is made by Epic Games and while you can't invest in them directly there might be other options like Tencent (wh...
I think it might be Accenture plc (ACN) working with Microsoft (MSFT) https://fcw.com/articles/2017/06/20/blockchain-id...
Nokia sold its mobile handset business to Microsoft about five years ago for $7 billion, and Microsoft two years ago tur...
Depends on the newsletter -- as with other publishers, the different Stansberry writers don't coordinate with each other...
Be careful with Stansberry. I'm done with those fools. They recommended getting the hell out of MSFT when it was trading...
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I apologize for the disorderliness of my recent post. I meant to first convey my NXP Semiconductor- (NXPI) is poised fo...