I continue to get lots of questions about this Jim Rickards ad from Agora, and the ad itself has been (clumsily) updated a few times since we covered it back in November of 2017 (the latest “by March 19, 2019” ad even suggests that Yellen is still President of the Federal Reserve, and the date […]
GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, AND HARD ASSETS…2019
This is a late continuation of the predecessor thread titled: “Gold, Silver, and Hard Assets…FALL 2017”…from which, I quote: “Everyone makes mistakes and I make more than my share.” Well, I nailed that one. In 2018, overall my picks were not successful. Many of the mining speculations were duds. Plus the commodity price landscape was […]
This article was first published in late February, and was lightly updated in April, the last time the ad ran heavily — and now the ad is circulating again in mid-August, so I’ve made some slight updates again. What follows is mostly unchanged from 2/28. The price of the stock is also again close to […]
I don’t think I’ve ever written about David Morgan or his Morgan Report mining newsletter, so when a reader popped up to ask about a new pitch from him this week, I thought I’d take a quick look-see for you. This is going to be short, we’ve got the Thinkolator’s best answer but I haven’t […]
Late last week I started digging into a teaser from Sean Brodrick at Oxford Resource Explorer that promised “three supercharger plays” for the bull market in precious metals that he expects — and though I only “solved” the first teased stock that day I promised to follow up and catch up on the other two. […]
We see absurd hyperbole every day here at Stock Gumshoe, with promises of stocks that double or massive “free income” from various “top secret” trading strategies or… well, you know the drill, you get most of those same emails. So after swimming in this sea of hype for almost a decade, I sometimes forget just […]
It’s been an interesting week here in the Land of Gumshoe — Just this morning I’ve been patting myself on the back for suggesting that Africa Oil was a good deal again in the $7s a couple months ago (they just announced yet another oil find today, putting the shares up over $10 for the […]
“Shocking Investigation Reveals: “How a tiny handful of institutions (including a branch of the Chinese government) are creating the greatest resource opportunity in over 34 years… “Why thousands of unprepared investors could lose everything… “Three specific ways to make serious gains as the price of this substance jumps 550% over the next year.” That’s how […]
We’re rerunning this piece because it continues to be one of the most asked-for explanations on the Stock Gumshoe website. What follows below was originally published in mid-2012, it has been updated for the change in silver values but otherwise remains unchanged. Dr. David Eifrig over at Stansberry’s Retirement Millionaire newsletter has been teasing us […]
Almost every ad that refers to options in some oblique and secret way likes to throw in the fact that this is now a sector that is “regulated by the U.S. Government” … but it it “used to be illegal.” Which makes it sound both more exciting, and safer, than it is really is for […]
Well, and we also love you — of course. Just wanted to make sure you know that on this lovely Valentine’s Day. We are inundated every day with email ads that our loyal readers forward on to us, and we appreciate every one — we want to know who’s promising you 1,000% returns, or who’s […]
I’ve had quite a few readers write in to ask me about silver lately — there was a spurt of “silver will be better than gold” newsletter teasers over the Summer, and this latest pitch from the Insiders Strategy Group folks for their Macro Trader newsletter has been filling up the inbox … … so […]
Huh? Are the Canadian Maple Leaf silver coins going to suddenly become twice as valuable as the American Eagle silver coins? No, don’t worry, it’s not that simple and silver is still fungible, an ounce is an ounce is an ounce (well, a troy ounce, anyway). So what’s the idea of “Canadian silver” being somehow […]
When it comes to resource stocks, the way to get people excited is by saying that you can buy a massive stockpile of X (oil, silver, gold, lead, whatever) for a fraction of its real value. If you can make that kind of promise, you’ll get at least some investors excited … even if the […]
I’ve been blathering about my own investments in these Friday Files for a couple weeks now, but for today we’re going back to sniffing out teaser picks … in this case, a teaser pick for “Gold Fracking” that Frank Curzio has been sending out pretty aggressively for a couple days in pitches for his Small Stock […]
I don’t believe I’ve ever written about Dudley Baker and his Precious Metals Warrants subscription service, but several folks sent in his latest pitch for subscribers, and it has exactly the kind of teaser promise that we love to unravel, so I thought I’d have a look for you. Baker has been a warrants/options/futures trader […]
There’s something about using the atomic number for an element that makes you feel extra smart and exclusive, isn’t there? Or at least, that’s what I’m forced to conclude from the fact that most of the newsletter jockeys appear to delight in intriguing and mysterious references to the “fortune making” fourth element or the “battle […]
There are going to be a few folks who are frustrated with the navigator of the good ship Gumshoe today, because we’re again looking at an Australian newsletter teaser — and I’m guessing the stock will be tough to trade for US investors, if our past reveals of Diggers and Drillers picks are any indication. […]
It’s shaping up to be Ian Wyatt week here at Stock Gumshoe — yesterday I took a look at a veiled hint of a Polish natural gas stock, and today we’re looking at a tease that looks like it may have started a couple months back but has been recently re-invigorated (and I haven’t researched […]
Untold millions of readers (OK, not millions — in the tradition of the folks we write about every day, we’ll use quotes that enable us to make stuff up … so, untold “millions”) have been asking us about the “long-lost” treasure maps that are chatted up in Sean Broderick’s latest teaser for his Red-Hot Global […]
Since there was such a spirited discussion following our look at the “treasure map” of hoarders who can sell you bags of “treasure”, this latest teaser from Nicholas Vardy also caught my eye. Why? Well, because that “treasure map” bit was all about junk silver (old circulating silver currency), and the discussion was largely of […]
How can you find sacks of treasure located around 776 cities around the country? That’s the pitch from Retirement Millionaire from Stansberry & Associates — the ad, which is one of those good ol’ video ads that doesn’t happen to link to a text version, even includes a “treasure map” of those cities around the […]
If you’ve been treading the boards at the good ol’ Gumshoe Theater of Oddities for more than a few months, this teaser for silver may sound familiar to you: “How To Buy U.S. Government Created Silver For $2.08” The tease is an attempt to get you to sign up for Dr. David Eifrig’s Retirement Millionaire […]
I originally wrote about “Silver Shots” as teased by Zachary Scheidt for his Velocity Trader about a year and a half ago, but much has changed over that time and an extremely similar ad is running right now, so I thought I should give it another look. Here’s how the teaser sounds: “Silver Hits Critical […]
That headline sits atop a teaser ad that I started receiving on Tuesday this week from Tim Fields for his Untapped Wealth newsletter. Now, I should warn you up front that this newsletter has recommended some real doozies in the past, like that silly “forever battery,” and they’ve gotten involved in some stock promotion that […]
“The World’s Largest Silver Resource Base Has Now Become Attractively Priced” So goes the headline for Dr. Stephen Leeb’s new teaser ad — and he tells us that we should … “Buy now for stunning potential growth!” It’s no surprise that Leeb is a commodity booster — he got a lot of attention for peak […]
I looked at the crafty FR Y-9C teaser from Peter Krauth a couple weeks ago, when he was telling us that the big investment banks, particularly Goldman Sachs, were effectively manipulating the commodities markets. He teased an oil stock most aggressively in that ad (you can see that article here, along with the basics of […]
On this bright and sunny Spring day our thoughts turn … to Mark Skousen. He’s selling subscriptions to his Forecasts & Strategies newsletter, and his pitch is that he predicted the 1980s boom, and warned investors that corporate profits were peaking in early 2007 … and that he’s got the best ideas for you to […]
Today’s holiday look is at a silver mining company with a mother lode strike in China … this time, the tease is from the Sound Profits newsletter by the Investors Daily Edge folks, and they would, of course, be delighted to have you subscribe to their newsletter to find out who this “Silver Striker” company […]
We haven’t taken a gander at any silver stocks in a while now, but the metal’s price is still holding up pretty well after a nice move of 50% or so from the summer lows, and the “poor man’s gold” is getting plenty of attention as an inflation hedge, an industrial metal, and a possible […]
I usually reserve my new articles for the Irregulars on Fridays and publish them in the Friday File — and I’ll be doing that, too, when I do my more detailed writeup today. But I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me about this silver-buying program from Eric Roseman at The Sovereign Society, so I […]
Luke Burgess, who I don’t believe I’ve written about in the past couple years, is pitching his Hard Money Millionaire advisory by saying he’s found the next Silver Standard Resources (SSRI). He starts out by essentially saying that he’s following the big money — he noticed which institutions were heavily invested in SSRI, which saw […]
This ad sounds a little bit like a very popular one we looked at a few months back — then, it was for $1 “Silver Shots”, and it was a teaser for a leveraged derivative trade on silver futures (or, in plainer speak, it was for long-term call options on the SLV ETF). If you […]
Today’s look is at a stock that I actually haven’t seen teased very heavily, and I haven’t received the ads directly yet, but I have gotten dozens of questions from readers about it … so here goes. It looks like the teaser must have been in the S&A Digest, which is the “free” weekly report […]
Well, the gold price seems to be recovering slightly this morning after a few days of backtracking once it got close to the $1,000 level again … so it’s time to look at another gold ad, no? Today’s feature is an ad for the Big Gold service from Casey Research, edited by Jeff Clark (there […]
“Silver Hits Critical Levels – U.S. Mint Halts Production of Silver Coins “New Gov’t-Regulated $1 “Silver Shots” Poised to Skyrocket 12,785% “Forget about silver coins, ETFs and silver mining stocks. New $1 “silver shots” give you a very real opportunity to turn $10,000 into $1.3 million by year’s end. “But you must act by June […]
I’ve seen this particular ad a few times in the last week or so, and I know that there are many folks out there in Gumshoe Land with a yen for silver, so I thought it deserved a few minutes of consideration. The ad is for a special report from the Oxford Club — sounds […]
“After 98 years of secrecy, the greatest economic conspiracy in history is finally unfolding.” “Learn how you could turn $5,000 into $100,000 (or more) by 2009 with this safe and simple profit/protection plan…” That’s how this latest ad opens, with the threat that the 98-year-old “Jeckyl Island Project” economic conspiracy will ruin your retirement — […]
This is a teaser that has been around before, but the whole lead and urgent emotional appeal have changed quite a bit — so I thought it worthy of some comment. This is for Greg McCoach’s Insider Alert … and they want you to be very afraid (“afraid” is particularly good for precious metals investors). […]
This one comes in from Greg McCoach, who edits the pretty popular Mining Speculator, and I’m always interested to hear about what he’s touting — especially since McCoach currently holds the top spot in the Gumshoe Spreadsheet with his pick of Duluth Mining. This pick is apparently for a new service of his, Insider Alert, […]
I’ve had countless readers send me notes about this one, so I thought I should write something … but I regret to inform you that I don’t think it’s possible to be certain of a solution on this one without “cheating” and actually seeing the newsletter. So that can be the Gumshoe’s challenge to you […]
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Not convinced that Brink’s is a picks-and-shovels stock worthy of naming it the #1 pot stock pick for 2019, but I woul...
Following is Market Watch's brief but concise description of 3M's most recent Earnings Report: " Shares of 3M Co. suff...
KNTNF/KNT Long Q1 2019 PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Q1 production of 19,125 oz of gold, 264,114 lbs copper and 5,564 o...
Unless I'm suffering from Old Timer's Disease I think Nixon took us off the Silver standard. Seems I read somewhere it w...
Has anyone else heard of the late "money artist" J.S.G. Boggs, who turned his well-done drawings of money into profitabl...
The LAST thing our govt would do at this time is call for a gold standard. In that scenario, the US would be the biggest...
Just another person who lost substantial money on the silver and gold miner picks through the Jim Rickards recommendatio...
CASEY, THEY ARE ALWAYS BRAGGING ABOUT HIM, HE HAS BEEN PROMOTING GOLD FOR YEARS....ITS GOING UP, ITS GOING UP........REM...
edski/cowboy - little tidbit from mark at IKN re Regency Gold. He holds back no opinions..... Capitalism will eat ...
I was very disappointed with his silver service. He promised weekly pod casts and updates. He would go 2 or 3 weeks ...
From PV Magazine today about Silver demand.... https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/02/07/silver-price-to-rise-7-this-year/...
With China establishing its own version of SWIFT and more countries trading directly with each other, the benefit of hav...
Look, we are not supposed to get into politics...I was more interested in discussing what people think the USD might be ...
I think so. I'm not a lawyer, but I believe Trump already has the legal basis on several points. It is even in the...
Governments (national or world) can create modern money (credit) to infinity, but governments cannot create 1 ounce of g...
I give the APIARY FUND 5 Stars! Excellence in Education and On the Job Training as well as providing the opportunity of ...
I hold some of both in physical metals, though I have much more gold than silver. Silver is far more volatile, usually,...
As far as buying gold, what about silver, since the ratio of gold/silver price is so high these days? I once held gold, ...
Hi Travis, Not want to advice anybody. Just it makes a lot of sense in our present economic environment just instead ...
Gold and silver generally move similarly, with silver usually having more exaggerated moves, but that's not always true ...
It appears everyone is in tune with gold and is not mentioning silver which has much more industrial value. Any comments...
I bought a book from Port Philip Publishing once... A month later i got billed for a monthly subscription which i specif...
Minesh Bhindi is the worst. He has a bunch of programs they all have the pitch 'cash flow you gold/realestate/stocks' - ...
But you DO IT.... after leaving this I checked on my account, and just couldn't believe the action on a little thing I ...
GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, AND HARD ASSETS…2019 https://www.stockgumshoe.com/2018/11/microblog-gold-silver-copper-and-hard-...
Rickards is a CIA agent; well documented. He is an 'insider' given info about what is going to happen and what to say to...
I currently have 10% of my portfolio allocated to sprott physical silver and gold etf’s right now. I rebalance durin...
I know blockchain is going to have a big impact on the future, but damn if I know how to play it. I made a little change...
You're smart to worry. I own gold, uranium, and silver. They're low priced, and good hedges in a falling knife market....
Mostly not gold, but baskets of precious metals and mining stocks. Similar to gold in that you invest in them because y...
My brother had Lyme and the meds prescribed did no good. He then took colloidal silver for a short time and that did the...
One more comment. While the photo suggests the metal is Gallium, the article references the New Intel chip. If it is t...
$ARL/ARRRF - -Exceptional gold-silver rock chip results at Black Bullock Prospect, NSW "First-pass rock chip sampl...
I did subscribed to this service, I do like King World News overall, but Belkin's emails every two weeks were pretty bas...
Sir Hendrix- any updates considered on your gold/silver positions as for example silver scrapes past a double bottom? S...
Travis, thanks for the link to 2017 Draft List of Critical Minerals Federal Register notice. I’m happy to see China i...
$ERDCF - Also long; I posted a link to their most recent 2nd Q results in the Gold, Silver, Copper thread, next to last ...
"When gold blooms"...perhaps in a few years. Why do I need to spend money on subscriptions when I can buy CVSI 10 month...
Ted Butler podcast: New Hope For Higher Silver Prices How he believes JP Morgan has controlled the price of silver f...
I purchased a little taste of Auxley @ $0.60 Just 500 shares, to see what it does. Will it take off like options blowin...
$PTOTF > Patriot One Welcomes Technology Entrepreneur Peter van der Gracht to Board 8:00 am ET July 10, 2018 (Globe New...
$FYI - Daily news from pv magazine USA - 7/6/2018 https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?e=052d095e56&u=2790e780a1...
dolly varden silver....
It is a form of mine finance. The streamer/royalty company puts up cash, which the miner needs. The miner guarantees th...
You can consider investing in Swiss Franc Currency and/or a Swiss Franc denominated single payment annuity---I own both....
I have mixed feeling about Rickerts. My sense is that he is one of the many shills rampant on the net. I have nothing ag...
Lulu, I'd love to hear what a paid subscriber has to say - if we have 1 among us. I just started receiving them less ...
Check out Ivanhoe Mines website for the Kamoa-Kakula project. Well covered on the "Gold and Silver and Hard Assets Summe...
FCC is a good stock in my mind. They have bought up a ton of property with past silver mines on it with a large amount o...
A lot of silver, collectively, is being put in solar panels that will not be recycled for many a year - if ever....
I was wondering where you get the gold and silver, whether you get coins or bullion. I, like you, have been wanting to...
Certainly appreciate the friendly advice, roberthebel, at least as far as I can interpret it. Personally, I am quite hap...
$MUX - McEwen Mining Announces Potential New Source of Revenue at the Black Fox Complex http://www.mcewenmining.c...
Silver coins can be melted down...only pennies are a major offense...
Sorry for no response to you aarhus. I am NOT someone you can talk to about cryptocurrencies. To quote Sargent Schultz...
Jeff Clark "The Coming Silver Supply Crunch Is Worse Than You Know" https://goldsilver.com/blog/the-coming-silver-su...
Sell and buy silver...
Silver commentary by Jeff Clark; https://goldsilver.com/blog/frustrated-by-the-dormant-silver-price-dont-be-says-hist...
$CNRIF Condor Resources...long...up strongly today http://www.condorresources.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=823274&...
2018 World Silver Survey https://www.silverinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018WorldSilverSurvey.pdf...
"$THM $GOLD #GOLD $SLV #SILVER has 16.5 million ounces in the Measured & Indicated categories plus 4.1 million GOLD ounc...
Dear All, I am an Irregular subscriber (and am satisfied to have access to Travis's thoughts -- by far the best inves...
SPOXF is up 8% today. Because of the publicity? Because gold, silver, and oil is up? How safe is the dividend?...
$SVBRF Curious what you folks think about how Silver Bear Resources based in Yakutsk? might hold up as spec investment. ...
Thank u deanbob et all. $ERD I'm holding. I have a small number of shares. Have et all received the latest 'report from...
Experts and due diligence...things are a little slow in gold and silver, but I dislike loose ends and thought with the I...
Clean-iX for metals recovery benefits: Maximises resin performance and selectivity Minimises reagent consumption Red...
$MAG Mag Silver...Long MAG Silver Reports 2017 Annual Results [edited] VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 27, 2018...
$CNRIF Condor Resources...long...activity update http://www.condorresources.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=819336&am...
I knew something. was. up. at Weiss. I enjoyed. the read and comments but their comments. on investments. were. ...
On Pawn stars a guy brought in a bar of silver he got from an ad in Money magazine. It wasn't silver! Buyer beware....
The only ones I know holding massive amounts of Silver are Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. Not small cap miners jus...
Two types of coins to buy - junk silver - these are coins minted back when there was 'real' metal in them i.e. silver! ...
Gold and silver prices will remain low as long as the big gold buyers (BANKS ETC.) are stockpiling gold and silver. They...
My gold / silver mining advisor says CDE is solid, which I own. PAAS also is but a bit richly valued....
Could you recommend some silver small cap miners on NYSE that have massive reserves of silver....
I have a question, what makes the investment grade silver coins more valuable than just buying ounces of pure silver ? F...
Please note that genetics are such a small percentage of a person's actual health outlook that"editing" genes will accom...
https://www.cdfund.com/en/cdf-investor-day/ Friedland and Lightfoot both appearing. CDF Investor Day We are ver...
$CLQ $CTEQF...this info is the CLQ website; but what is noteworthy is that IT IS NOW ON THE MULTOTEC WEBSITE. Muto...
$COB.asx Cobolt Blue fp – March ’18 Update: https://www.asx.com.au/asx/share-price-research/company/COB $NCZ np ...
About eight years ago, I purchased $5000 of Sprott's PHYS (gold CEF) and $5000 of Sprott's PSLV (silver CEF). The value...
I own a substantial amount of CEF bought over the past 5 years. Since Sprott bought them I 'm still not sure how this ...
$SAND - Have not checked out the tease but here's a link https://www.stockgumshoe.com/2017/09/microblog-gold-silver-cop...
Right on Travis good food for thoughts. It's funny as time rolls by it keeps rolling by. Today is tomorrows yesterday. A...
Last comment on the subject. If you ever watched The Lone Ranger growing up. As he rode off into the sunset he always...
Buffett's silver buy was prescient, but he sold poorly, missed the big run in silver, and didn't make any money. He acc...
Buffett was rumored t/b buy some gold, he once hated the metal. I remember years ago when he loaded up on silver & t...
There is a two-tier ownership system. The bigs and central banks accumulate precious metals, and push prices down so th...
WEISS MONEY AND MARKETS WAS ALWAYS HYPING. GOLD N SILVER SAYINF NOW IS TIME TO BACK THE TRUCK UP WHAT COMPLETE BULLSHI...
It's getting so hard to believe in coincidences when there seem to be so many, and they are always pointed in one groups...
$FZO.asx - $FZO I don't hope $FZO succeeds just because I'm an investor, I hope it succeeds because although not a silve...
MEA CULPA...in the ongoing and uncertain stock market gyrations, I have suffered some bad losses; although so far, my go...
i PAID FOR SILVER ,WAS BILLED FOR GOLD .CAN'T FIND HOW TO CONTACT THEM . SO PAID 49 $ CHARGED 97$ AND NO ONE IS HOME TO...
For many supplements, quality is/should be the major determining factor on whether one will use it, not the hype surroun...
$CNRIF Condor Resources...Peruvian silver project generator...long A lot of exploration picks have fallen by the ways...
I too store my own precious metal coins, mostly silver rounds, i usually buy 5-10 ounces per month, i buy my stuff throu...
Edski, the article is the link is 100% right, but I think the author missed the forest through the trees. She thinks the...
A couple years back, I purchased a colloidal silver generating system, which I never got around to placing in operation...