I love love love the stories of swashbucklers and voyages of discovery that pepper the finest investment teaser ads — long lost islands, pirate treasure, ancient mines left fallow since the days of the Pharaohs … now that’s how you pitch an investment idea! If we didn’t all want a little of the romance of […]

Before I get into the meat of today’s Friday File article, which plays off of one of the investing themes I feel most strongly about (the long-term growth potential of Africa), I should share a few housekeeping notes regarding my portfolio — I decided to sell Accuray (ARAY) and got stopped out of my position […]

I usually have a nearly endless stream of teaser emails to sift through as I choose which “secret stock” to sniff out for you each day, and one way that I narrow them down is by looking at editors who’ve made similar claims about other stocks and been proven right — it’s no guarantee that […]

I haven’t written about Yiannis Mostrous in a while, but his latest ad that teases a hot investment that he calls “The Next McDonald’s” definitely got my attention. It’s a big promise, after all: “Thousands of investors became millionaires and lived their dreams as 100 shares of McDonald’s split 12 times and turned into a […]

This one is probably a few weeks old, going by the share price in the teaser, but it still might be interesting to folks … it is, at the very least, a truly unique investment. Good or bad, you can decide when you know the facts … but certainly unique. The teaser is from Yiannis […]

Of course, that oil happens to mostly be in Russia. Dang. Investing in Russia sometimes seems like it’s not that much more reviled than investing in North Korea these days, eh? I even think that there are probably plenty of folks out there, perhaps you included, who find the wildly uncertain investment in oil exploration […]