OK, I know, it’s getting a little ridiculous that I still haven’t covered the whole portfolio of stocks with my annual review updates — but for some I’m waiting to see what the quarterly update tells me, and for others, well, I’m just trying to catch up. Here’s what I’ve got for you by way […]
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Today I’m starting my Annual Review, during which I take a (hopefully fresh-eyed) look at every stock in my Real Money Portfolio and update my opinion for you (and, frankly, for me, since it’s a good exercise). Some of these stocks pop up in my writing practically every week, but for others where there might […]
This is a teaser pitch that we solved back in May of 2018, but folks continue to ask about it… and our older article is getting pretty stale, so we’re digging in for an updated look today. The headline of the ad pretty much says it all: “The little-known Washington D.C. financial “think tank” that […]
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 […]
Every year we call out a “turkey” stock teaser around Thanksgiving time and poke a bit of fun at some terrible investment ideas… … so it seems only fair to highlight a few winners as well, and this week, when we’re otherwise closed for the holiday, seems a good time to spread some cheer and […]
What’s going on with the market this week? Well, the accepted narrative keeps shifting — first we had trade war panic as Trump announced new tariffs last week, then celebration as those tariffs were delayed to ‘save Christmas’, and the market is overly obsessed with the high-level game of chicken being played by Trump and […]
This is a teaser pitch that we solved about six weeks ago, but I think the solution got lost inside a longer article because folks continue to ask about it… so I’ve pulled it out to talk about for you here today in your bonus Friday article, partly because it also plays off of the […]
It looks like we’ve got another marketing wave from Bonner & Partners coming, this time in service of Jeff Brown’s Near Future Report ($199/yr), and we’re teased about the massive riches available from the advancements in artificial intelligence. And the promises are, of course, huge… here’s a bit of the spiel: “Remember when Apple made […]
So… anything happen this week? 🙂 We’ll start with a few headline-grabbers from the Real Money Portfolio in the technology world, slide into a little teaser solution for you, and then share some updates on a couple small buys I made, plus some additions to the watchlist, along with the usual blather… Xilinx (XLNX) had […]
The “Trade War” is getting real, and the higher prices imposed by governments in China and the US. Tariffs are just import taxes, paid eventually by the customer, so they raise prices… which, our economist friends will tell us, suppresses demand… and since the higher price is going to a tax, not to a company, […]
Happy holiday season, campers! What’s up with the Real Money Portfolio as we head into a slow Thanksgiving week? The most brutal takedown of the week was NVIDIA (NVDA), which I’m sure many of you noticed this morning — that’s a stock that hit a stop loss a while back for us (I was watching […]
Is this the beginning of a 30-60% decline in the stock market? A correction to blow off a little of the excess in the valuations of growth stocks that’s almost over? Something in between? Nobody knows, and it would be silly to spend too much time guessing. We should be prepared for either — which […]
The next wireless standard to be adopted by telecom service providers might be the biggest one since 3G enabled the first real “high speed” data and reasonably useful internet access by smart phones. And new wireless standards are always of interest to investors, not least because the growth of smartphones has tracked the improving networks […]
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 […]
Welcome to another Friday of earthly delights! We’ve had some new folks join our numbers in the past few months, so I thought I’d catch you up on the Real Money Portfolio and what it represents… and why I write about it for you. After that, I’ll catch you up on my thinking on a […]
Since the other part of today’s Friday File is all about a biotech stock tease, I thought I’d start out this week’s look at my Real Money Portfolio stocks in that sector. I avoid the drug developers, for the most part, but health care should be a huge sector and a growing one, in general, […]
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 […]
Sometimes we just need to take a step back. On Tuesday, we were headed into a devastating trade war, with a third of our exports to China subject to punishing tariffs (in response to the tariffs proposed on more than 10% of their exports to the US)… by mid-afternoon on Wednesday, the trade war is […]
What do I think? That’s what a lot of readers are asking during these volatile days… and there is, of course, no easy answer. My thoughts are all over the place, so today’s Friday File musings are going to run the gamut. Tesla (TSLA) is a good example of how the market is treating investors […]
And our Annual Review proceeds apace… on a day when the market is showing signs of actually having a meaningful correction, thanks to Friday jitters and inflation worries and rising interest rates… so cross your fingers for better prices in the week to come (I did buy a couple positions this week, but as I […]
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 […]
Pretty much every newsletter publisher is trying to ride on the “bitcoin mania” with new products and new ads, so this is “bitcoin week” (or “blockchain week”, if you prefer) here at Stock Gumshoe, as we try to ID all of the cryptocurrency investments being hinted at by the latest waves of teaser ads… … […]
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 […]
So what’s going on in the world this week? Uranium caught my eye… dominant uranium miner Cameco (CCJ) is suspending production at some of their Saskatchewan operations, so the other uranium names took that as a good sign, with the juniors in the space seeing their stock prices pop (the whole sector, as represented by […]
I’ve already shared the major portfolio change I made this week, adding that IPO to my Real Money Portfolio yesterday, and I have also separately posted my notes and thoughts from the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference for my favorite people (yes, that’s you!)…. but I have a couple other things to note as well, so […]
A few readers have asked about this recent Motley Fool Stock Advisor promotion, so I thought I’d take a quick look-see for you today… apropo for “Apple Week,” it was all about Apple’s next “secret project” and “3 stocks to buy before Apple unveils its next must-have product.” So what is it? Well, I’ll spare […]
Jeff Brown over at Bonner and Partners is launching a new newsletter called The Near Future Report, which sounds like it’s the “entry level” letter (currently offered at $75) to go with his pricier Exponential Tech Investor, and the first bait they’re dangling for new subscribers is a fat, juicy promise of a stock that […]
First, let’s get the week’s changes to my Real Money Portfolio out of the way… and after that, I’ve got a few other updates on stocks that I follow for you, dear Irregulars. We’ve got a new stock in the portfolio…. As of tomorrow, I will have a position in NVIDIA (NVDA). This is a […]
This article was first published January 23, 2017, it has not been updated or revised. This ad caught my eye over the weekend, and it had enough clues that the Thinkolator started chugging along almost before I turned the switch this morning — so let’s dig in, and maybe we can even make it a […]
The latest pitch from Jason Stutman for his Technology & Opportunity newsletter is all about the big changes happening in the auto industry — primarily the safety and self-driving innovations that are driving auto tech forward. The intro is, of course, much more attention-getting than my first paragraph above — this is how the ad […]
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 […]
There’s not one “big thing” that jumps out at me this week to blather to you about for your Friday File edutainment, but I do have a smorgasbord of thinklinations to share… including a few “quickie” teaser solutions as we go along. First, for those who have been asking: Yes, I have now covered my […]
Bonner & Partners, which is yet another publisher subsidiary of Bill Bonner’s Agora empire, has a new teaser pitch out for Jeff Brown’s Exponential Tech Investor — and what caught the eye of Gumshoe readers was the headline, in the ad from Bonner’s Managing Director Amber Lee Mason, that promises huge gains from a “$39 […]
This article was originally published on May 23. It has not been updated or revised, other than to update my disclosure and ownership stakes. We haven’t seen many big new teaser ad pushes from the Motley Fool Stock Advisor lately. They did pretty aggressively promote David Gardner’s latest IPO recommendation over the past month or […]
Happy Friday! I have a couple updates and notes for you today, but I thought I’d start with a look at a new teaser many of you have been asking about from Michael Robinson, it’s headlined “Cognitive Sight” and it’s really about artificial intelligence and it’s ability to make the blind see again (among many […]
[ed. note: This article was first published on December 3, 2015. The ad has been running again in similar form, and with similar hints about the “secret” company being teased, so we’re republishing this solution to help answer some reader questions. We have not re-analyzed the stock, and the article has not been updated or […]
I covered the first virtual reality pick hyped by Ray Blanco a few weeks ago, but I forgot to follow up and dig into the second and third picks he was teasing in that ad… so when I saw a new version of the ad circulating over the weekend, with the attention-getting “hook” changed from […]
ed note: This article was first published on March 31, 2016 — the ad has been changed a little bit and now we’re seeing a version that leads with “Virtual Reality Pornography” and catches your attention that way, though the company being teased and hinted at is still the same. What follows was published on […]
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 […]
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, […]
We’ve had many questions from readers about this teaser spiel from the Motley Fool Stock Advisor letter, so we’re republishing an excerpt of the Friday File in which we solved that teaser. What follows originally appeared as a part of the Friday File on May 9, it has not been updated or revised — the […]
May 12 Update: The lateset teaser pitch from the Fool is touting this same stock again, only with a different spiel from a different company as they tout the “connected car” instead of the “autonomous car”. I presume they’re just testing different ads to see what works best — this latest one pitches it as: […]
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For the record: jozsika was a SO member for 5 weeks. He never made a real effort to learn the strategies as recommended...
Hi Travis Are you still holding NVDA Thanks MA...
Would this video games increase not help NVDA.? Games on i-phone help SKWS 5G?...
TRADE NOTE Crazy times from NVIDIA as they first reassured investors about the inventory overhang an...
But most anyone who pays some attention to the market would have noticed the rise of Shopify, NVDA, etc independently o...
It might help to look at NVDA’s candlestick chart over the last couple of years to determine a good double-down buy or...
At least the RYAM he 'finally revealed' in late September (after lengthy pitch) has had some success. But in the recent...
I was sick when NVIDIA was almost at 300 and took a drastic drop. I am hoping that it gets back up over 200 and when it ...
I'm a gamer and work in I.T. and I have kept a good eye on graphics card prices from NVDA. You would think, that after t...
Not actually a direct relationship like that, but close enough. I do have a family member whose employment causes temp...
It's just #NVDA, Travis has an explanation but I couldn't find it. He has a relative working for the company....
You say in your discussion of $NVDA that "If you are permitted" , can you not buy or sell stocks like normal people ?...
Bought $4k NVDA $164.44; should have read your article first and waited for it to fall to $150. Oh well, yes, I know I ...
Ok couldn't resist bought some $NVDA pre market at $165.50 looks cheap at this price but I've been wrong before :-)...
I'm waiting to sell some NVDA this year to harvest a capital loss and avoid the wash sale rules. I think it's a good lon...
For a hit, it's a hit. I was almost buying NVDA by the close but since November all my technical indicators are on an ho...
nvda just took a hit. Did anyone sell?...
Yeah I first heard of NVDA here when it was being pushed for its AR/VR segments in the medical field, it was around 35$ ...
Not sure what the Tesla “pivot” would be unless you’re talking about their mention of an AI chip their last con ca...
I remember shark tanks Mark Cuban liking NVidia. Their chips are the leaders in AI. Jen-Hsun Huang Owns about 20 milli...
I didn't sell NVDA when it hit the stop loss, just because I wasn't permitted to sell -- which worked out so far, but we...
#NVDA earnings to be released Nov 15. This is such a volatile stock. It could go up or down by 30 or 40 points. Jim Cram...
"buy back NVDA"...
speaking about when to back, any comment NVDA?...
True enough... though, of course, the market reflects that -- NVDA trades at 30X trailing earnings, MU at 3X....
Travis, we know where you get your stop loss but where do you get the 'fair value' i.e. in NVDA's case the $170? Or FB w...
AMD was certainly touted as a "blockchain play" last year -- their GPUs were used for mining ethereum and other "new" cr...
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Ant ETFs on these that anyone has seen? I don't find any ETFs with large weightings of all. Ex ample is SOXX with a hig...
Don't. He's one of the serious one and he can't escape his publisher. I'm a client, full disclosure but that's it. He ...
The "Japanese billionaire" can only refer to Son Masayoshi. His biggest investments are listed here: https://www.recode...
NVIDIA did indeed announce their latest GPUs -- the ray tracing enabled RTX series, which seem like they're a massive le...
$NVDA > There’s Now A Computer Designed Specifically for Programming Intelligent Robots https://futurism.com/jetson-x...
$NVDA, GOOG, $IBM etc,,, Anybody up for #DFT and much more? Combining chemistry, physics, mathematics... #BioC...
$MGXMF wow! > ;-) https://www.stockgumshoe.com/2016/07/microblog-storage-of-electricity-batteries-big-image/comment-pag...
My bet is the company they are touting is NVIDIA (NVDA) But just a guess....
Interesting note on "AMD has more to lose from decline in importance of mining" from an analyst last week... here's a no...
$GE $NVDA $AI Revolution In HC “GE and NVIDIA Join Forces to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Hea...
#NCI #AI #DOE $NVDA NVIDIA (NVDA) Teams with National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Energy to Create AI Platfo...
Pearce's article on the Auto Inteligence gives strong support to IDTI for perfect harmony in the connectivity necessary ...
Is NVDA Overdue for a Rewind? NVIDIA (NVDA – NASDAQ): http://www.bottarelliresearch.com/trades/2016/05/26/nvda-overd...
The "VR chip" is likely Nvidia (NVDA) which makes GPUs (Graphical Processing Units) also used in PCs,...
That's been the insurance pitch about driverless cars, teasing Nvidia (NVDA). The ad's been rolling since sometime last...
I think Motley Fool was referring to Ambarella (AMBA) not Nvidia (NVDA). Nvidia seems to be a good chance of competing....