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What is “Passive Income Trader?”
No big stock “reveal” today, but perhaps our blatheration will be of some interest anyway. We’ve had a number of readers write in asking about a heavily promoted trading service called Passive Income Trader — this is a service that’s been around for a year or two, as far as I can tell, and they’ve […]
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I usually write about teaser stocks from legitimate investment newsletter publishers — folks like the Motley Fool, Stansbery & Associates, Agora, KCI, Investorplace, or Forbes, most of the big names that might be familiar to you. Many of the ads I see are over the top, filled with hype, misleading, or even laughable, but in […]
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In this Friday File space I cover a variety of things — from my favorite personal stock holdings, to regular ‘ol teaser unravelings, to investigations of worthwhile investment themes. Today I’m straying a little bit away from that … there is one thing that really sticks in my craw that I haven’t written about for […]
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I’ve looked at plenty of teaser email ads from Untapped Wealth over the last year or so — if you’re not familiar with these folks, this is a newsletter run by Tim Fields and Eric Dickson, and it’s described as the “flagship” publication of Trinity Research, one of a half-dozen or so relatively large financial […]
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OK, so this is not something in which I am an expert — and it’s not the kind of stock teaser I usually like to look at, because the service has nothing to do with company fundamentals or interesting stories or profits or price/sales ratios or new products or FDA approvals or fast-growing economies or […]
43 Comments Read More“The Next Cisco” and Email Influence on Shares
We’ve written about the “next Cisco” before — last time, it was DivX and it was being teased by Brian Hicks … not terribly successful, so far. This time, however, we’re looking at another older teaser that’s made the rounds many times — I’ve seen it going back to at least March. And since this […]
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Here is an email from Interactive Brokers, (which coincidentally is the brokerage firm these scammers recommend). Dear ...
This is no doubt a pump-and-dump scheme now, many people lost LOTS of money, including myself. Pump-and-dump is a crimin...
Can you share the screenshot Ava sent to you? Is it a video like she always asked us to do? Did the screenshot show he...
SMCI was my best stock in 2022. Unfortunately, I failed to elicit sufficient interest or support from longer-term invest...
HDSN's right. Lucky you to have been able to get some shares right away. Have been trying to microdose on this stock for...
The chart and market cap make it look like a penny stock pump-and-dump target, but I don’t know anything else about th...
Take care. Pretty much every pump-and-dump stock from the cannabis space that ended up fizzling out is going to be temp...
Never heard of them, but Bloomberg says their market cap is well below a million dollars, and the stock chart looks like...
Certainly almost everything in crypto has a ramped-up stock chart that looks a lot like the pump-and-dump penny stock pr...
Travis, as a paying member/Irregular and long-term investor wanna-be, I look forward to the upcoming $100K small-cap, gr...
I can’t give personal advice, but starting off by getting sucked into a pump-and-dump penny stock is a great way to be...
How about the blatant, unabashed, pump-and-dump of select vaccine stocks? Does that qualify for the (Pandemic) Turkey of...
A newsletter really recommended Bantec? Market cap is only about a million dollars, such tiny stocks tend to exist as p...
That’s a teensy $20 million company — there’s no real reason for them to be public, so I’d have to know manageme...
The related "Don't Buy into ..." video is classic. The bottom line is that these 5 coins may not hit the million mark a...
On 2/5/20, the news was that Alector was granted fast track designation by the FDA regarding its dementia drug AL101. T...
Travis, re your missive on KERN stock "surging for no reason", wouldn't this be attributable to the pump-and-dump that p...
"I will not trade in any covered stock for at least three days after publication, per Stock Gumshoe’s trading rules." ...
Oh goodness, Joe, thanks for the special mention but I was not one of the two people in your blog that "nailed" DOMO. Mo...
Huge publishers like Agora make almost unfathomable amounts of money from subscriptions, there's little reason for them ...
Stansberry is nothing more than a pump-and-dump marketing firm disguised as an investment service. Stansberry fooled me ...
BAE Systems is British and you can trade its ADR in the USA where many of its security applications are under developmen...
Welcome bioinvestor, and very glad indeed to have you here. We have to confess we're a tad behind on write-ups because o...
Kalytera is KALY.V in Canada, not KALY OTC in the US (that one is a company called Kali, which looks more like a straigh...
Just taking a quick look, Zenosense appears to be a pump-and-dump stock. Nothing in the financials makes it look like a...
I'd start by looking at the size of the contract and the financial impact. Haven't heard of or looked at that company's...
Off topic: Brokerage Firm Charged With Gatekeeper Failures Related to Pump-and-Dump Scheme http://www.sec.gov/news/pres...
CEMP was a top pick by CMLPro which has had a number of good recommendations (e.g., Relypsa before the big bump). That...
Dr Bonz...Yes, it's even worse than that:Feckless Fallon made an fallacious allegationation that Dhilon is a fraudu...
Google Finance shows a one-day peak of $6/sh on May 20, 2013. This may have been an intraday anomaly, not the closing ...
Yahoo chart shows an 11-for-1 split on May 28, 2013 to 54 cents, followed by a four-week run to a maximum price of $1.24...
Pump-and-dump anyone?...
Looks like pump-and-dump penny stock junk to me....
It's true that no one should buy a stock on a newsletter recco alone, but the big publishers, at least, should be quite ...
AVXL-The terrible trio Agora, Lincoln Park and Maxim Kolbert has pump-and-Dump claws into Anavex per Adam Feuerstein B...
$BTEBY Became a Gummie too late to buy Benitec, but the story is very instructive:1. There are schnooks managing ...
Generally true of most pump and dump stocks, which is a lot of what Smith's firm is paid to cover -- the only reason I d...
Stock Gumshoe absolutely never promotes stocks or is paid by the companies I write about. Oxford Club probably doesn't e...
Very unlikely to be anything worthwhile there -- looks like a stock promoter's pump-and-dump to me....
Any reason you can give why CABN is more than pump-and-dump junk? Looks like a press release with a $1.5 million market...
Nowhere, as far as I can tell. I am certainly not qualified to judge whether their patents or patent applications are i...
Disclosure is generally pretty good from the pump-and-dump crowd of stock promoters -- it's easy to include the disclosu...
Nope.OK, I should qualify that: I have no idea what the company does. But the ad's disclaimer clearly says it's a ...
Now I see that little Novatel made today's front page of WSJ about how their CEO pumped and dumped his company's stock i...
Hi Jeremy,Welcome aboard! I have never heard of Concierge Technologies but just quickly looked it up -- this is a c...
Ah, in previous pitches they were claiming no relation to the pumpers (which would make it really hard to successfully p...
Hi Peter, I don't mind you calling our attention to anything.I don't much care what people call themselves, though...
Nothing was erased, we just don't automatically publish comments that have links in them as part of our spam-filtering e...
Haven't seen the promos for that, but iTalk (TALK) is a $30 million company with no revenue, which means anyone recommen...
I'm not a lawyer, but most of the time there's at least some truth in press releases like these -- they can be true and ...
Have never heard of them, but if they're recommending YFRM they're probably being paid to do so (it's a $6 million compa...
I don't know this company, but it has all the indicators of being a promoted pump-and-dump stock (lots of emails promoti...
I suppose one good thing is that their ad is unlikely to affect share price as it would for most of the microcap stocks ...
Yes, in many ways they really set the stage for the pump-and-dump stock fraud/stock promotion operations that are still ...
Don't know the company, but I just looked them up and the market cap is $670,000. That's not missing a comma or zeros, ...
The float is usually thin and the spreads are therefore larger, so your cost of investing is typically higher. On the ot...
Last week I joined the irregulars, and Travis has already saved me about 300 times the subscription.I've been follow...
Well, the teaser ads were still rolling in as of a few weeks ago and the company was still sending out self-congratulato...
I'd be very surprised if that's the case here. She may well also profit from it, since she holds it personally...
It's a pump-and-dump. It has nothing to do with this thread. The guy has either shares or calls, and is trying to g...
According to another website (justicedept.com) SAIR is a total scam. They call it a 'pump-and-dump' scam. They get peopl...
Well we've had our entertainment reading ol' Louie's recommendations...but independent of his lousy track record...C...
Who the heck would fool with something that is $0.14???? There are plenty of REAL companies out there that actually mak...
MEDX is a real pump-and-dump. In a freefall since september of last year. ZERO out of 5 techs positive. '04 low was $4...
Lastly, Murchison is showing lower tops and lower bottoms. Trades in an orderly downward chanel. 3.60 AU breaks a spre...