A quickie for you to start out this week, since gold is on the lips of many investors and I got a question about this Mark Skousen teaser. The little excerpts of the clues I got indicated that this wasn’t a heavily distributed teaser ad, it was an “upgrade” pitch to get the subscribers of […]
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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 […]
Today we take a gander at a pitch from Mark Skousen, who has been a newsletter guy for decades with his Forecasts & Strategies newsletter (he’s also an itinerant economics professor, and runs the big “freedomfest” conference in Las Vegas each year, among other things). And the headline of his latest “presentation” pretty well sums […]
Today I decided to sit down for a while with a teaser ad from Dr. Mark Skousen’s Forecasts & Strategies ($50/year) — this letter is actually from his publisher, Roger Michalski, but it focuses on an idea of Skousen’s that he calls “American X”. So what is this secret “American X” company? It’s apparently got […]
We seem to be on a bit of a dividend kick this week, with the “Extreme Dividends” of Monday leading to the “Secret 6.1% Stock” yesterday, so it seems natural to stock with it… plus, readers have been asking about Mark Skousen’s latest teaser pitch, and we haven’t covered him in a while. So that’s […]
Newsletter driven by “smart beta” strategy, includes both options and equity trades to leverage Skousen’s “Five Pillars of Profitability” (previously advertised as: Sales growth over 11%; Profit margins over 12%; Profit growth over 23%; Price-to-earnings ratio under 29; Major institutional buying)
We haven’t heard from Dr. Mark Skousen for a while, so when a few folks asked me about his latest biotech pitch I decided to jump in… let’s see if the Thinkolator can get us some answers. (Since we’re talking biotech, I should point out that he’s an economics PhD, not a medical doctor — […]
Mark Skousen is an old hand in newsletterdom now, and we’ve looked at pitches for his newsletters that are published by Eagle Financial many times over the years, including the “entry level” Forecasts & Strategies letter as well as his more expensive options-focused services. And he’s launching a new service to take advantage of the […]
New service introduced by Mark Skousen with claimed insight into Oval Office policies and decisions, goal is “turn politics into profits” with recommendations on stocks to flourish under President Trump.
This is a combo you don’t hear about very often, “founded in the 17th century” and “cancer killing blockbuster” … usually, the little biotechs that newsletters drop hints about are tiny, young, risky, sometimes fly-by-night outfits that are betting it all on a clinical breakthrough. Not this time, apparently. So that’s why my eye was […]
Retirees and those who are near retirement are desperate for income — bond yields are ridiculously low, not just for municipal bonds and Treasuries but for riskier corporate bonds, CD rates are too low to take seriously, even dividends are getting lower as more and more investors overpay for income… so the marketplace is ripe […]
Options newsletter, using a strategy called “Fast Money Windows”.
Mark Skousen has caught our attention with his big promises and teases several times over the years, and this latest pitch of his looks like a doozy — he’s saying that he has identified the “most important event in 2015,” and that this accomplishment has been completed in “secret” … so what’s the story? Well, […]
For our Friday File today, before I head out the door to take a week of respite with the family for Thanksgiving (no Friday File next week, by the way, though we will have our annual “Turkey of the Year” piece next week), I thought I’d take a look at a teaser pitch going around […]
Mark Skousen has been pitching the “SS-4 Income Stream” hard for the last couple weeks, and I’ve gotten a lot of questions and we’ve had a lto of discussion on the site about it … so I thought we should dig in and see if we can get a definitive answer about which investment he’s […]
OK, so I was called away before we got through the rest of Mark Skousen’s ideas for profiting from the election (which he is convinced will bring a victory for Romney and stock market ebullience) — so let’s jump right in and finish sniffing out those picks, shall we? The first three were energy and […]
There are several different teaser pitches going around these days that profess not only to know how the election will turn out, but which specific investments will be immediately profitable as a result. Which is a pretty hefty dose of tea leaf reading, if you ask me — we’ve got a dead heat election, a […]
“12,000 Feet Below the Surface of the Ocean the Last Untouched Reservoir of Crude Oil Lies Waiting — and Only One Company Can Bring It to An Increasingly Desperate World!… “… now oil could be heading for $150 a barrel… politicians are talking about attacking Iran … and everyone is scrambling to tap the tens […]
Mark Skousen has spent the past few days touting a stock that’s supposed to skyrocket TODAY — and your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe was busy lolling about over the weekend, so we’re just getting to it now. And don’t worry, the stock is actually down a bit over the last week or so, so if there’s […]
Yesterday I started looking into some Mark Skousen-teased ideas for ways to profit when the Chinese bubble bursts — today, as promised, we’ll steer the Thinkolator further along this same path and see if we can identify the other ideas he pitched. If you missed part one of our journey, you can see it here. […]
Today’s teasers come in from Mark Skousen, who edits the Forecasts & Strategies newsletter and has graced our pages a few times in the past — most recently when he touted Cubist Pharmaceuticals very aggressively as a “winning lottery ticket” and “superbug killer” (that one did quite well, thanks to both the FDA and a […]
Mark Skousen, who is one of those Ph.D-type doctors (economics) and thankfully doesn’t always insist on being called Dr. Skousen (yes, we’re looking at you Dr. Leeb), is pitching a health care stock today as a teaser for his Forecasts and Strategies newsletter. And like some folks we’ve heard from in the past, he’s teasing […]
I don’t write about Mark Skousen all that often, in part because he doesn’t regularly barrage us with detailed stock teasers … but I’ve had a lot of readers write in to ask me about this latest teaser ad for his Forecasts and Strategies newsletter, an ad in which he says his favorite stock kept […]
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 […]
It’s been quite a while since I looked at anything by Mark Skousen, but I had quite a number of queries about this teaser ad last week … and I confess, it piqued my interest a bit, too. So what is his “Comeback Stock of 2010?” Well, he’d be happy to tell you, of course […]
I haven’t written much about Mark Skousen in recent months — at least partly because he hasn’t been using teaser emails very aggressively, or at least not ads that tease specific picks of his that he thinks will soar. So I’m delighted to see that he’s returned to tease us again — this time, he’s […]
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I mentioned that I wanted to get to this one today — it’s probably not in time for most of you to catch it in the Monday email alert, but here it is anyway. Mark Skousen is touting a bank stock for his Forecasts and Strategies newsletter, and more specifically he’s predicting that the bank […]
Taking a brief break from dissecting Ann Sosnowski’s latest 13F teasers, we move along to look at one that just started cropping up in my inbox from Mark Skousen and his Forecasts and Strategies newsletter. I’ve looked at lots of Skousen’s teasers before — he has picked some good ones like China Medical, which he […]
Many of you saw this email last week, the latest in a long string of Mark Skousen’s attempts to predict breakout stock performance on earnings dates. His past history of this is spotty, and I’ve written a few times about earnings pops he has predicted — some good, some bad. Alas, I didn’t get a […]
I’ve written about various teasers from Mark Skousen’s services several times over the last year or so, and he is, at least, always confident. He has teased several good stocks that have performed well, including Sadia, ABB, and CVRD, and several that have stunk — like Volcano and Centerline Holdings (to be fair, I thought […]
“Last week everything was going down the drain, and now everything’s perfect” — that’s a comment I heard on CNBC this morning, facetious though it was, that goes a long way toward mirroring the movement in gold prices. Last week armageddon was coming and everyone wanted to own gold, today maybe the world financial system […]
This one came in from a few readers via email today, which is always delightful — but today it was even more of a delight, because here we have a company whose shares I own, and whose future I’m also fairly excited about. The ad is for Mark Skousen’s Hedge Fund Trader service, one of […]
Ah, it’s so nice to have a lovely little sleuthing job to distract me … this is much more enjoyable than watching my own portfolio tick lower, or watching the market indexes crawl frantically into into the basement like scared children in a horror movie. Enough distractions like this, and I can actually follow through […]
This one opens up with some tantalizing language, of course: “NEW GOVERNMENT POLICY PROMISES TO FLOOD NEW PROFITS INTO THIS HIGH-DIVIDEND PAYING COMPANY!” It’s from Mark Skousen, from his High Income Alert newsletter — and of course, if you’d please subscribe, he’ll tell you the name of this secret telecom stock that’s paying massive dividends […]
This email came in today from Mark Skousen, and since it’s a quick and dirty one I thought I’d throw it into the mix for y’all. Skousen’s Hedge Fund Trader, which is what’s being advertised here, is predicting that this Brazilian company will report earnings on October 25 and blow the market away. Now, before […]
This one comes in from Mark Skousen, who we hear teasing new ideas with some regularity, but this particular ad is for his high-income alert, which I haven’t seem an ad for prior to now. I have heard him talking quite a bit about dividends of late, whenever he gives a talk or is quoted […]
Here we have another email ad for the Skousen Hedge Fund Trader, which has steered us toward both good and bad ideas lately (at least, good or bad if we’re looking at short term performance — which isn’t necessarily what Skousen is aiming for). This one sounds pretty appealing when we have markets moving like […]
This one was sent in by a reader, along with a suggestion for the solution (which, as so often with the Gumshoe’s readers, appears to be correct). It’s from Mark Skousen in the form of an ad for Forecasts and Strategies, and, as you have guessed from the title of this note, it’s about a […]
Here’s one that was sent in by a reader a little while ago — it’s for Mark Skousen’s Forecasts & Strategies, which we’ve seen before a few times (the last pick we sleuthed out, China Medical, did pretty well for him). And this is another medical technology stock, so perhaps it warrants some attention. The […]
Just about two weeks left to take advantage of this teaser, if indeed it’s any good. It comes in from Mark Skousen’s Hedge Fund Trader, and the solution was sent in by an alert reader almost as soon as the email started to circulate. “This World-Class Company’s Stock is About to Get an Electrifying Profit […]
This teaser was posted over at the forum a little while ago, and though I haven’t actually seen the original email the poster said it was sent out yesterday. It’s from Mark Skousen’s Forecasts & Strategies service, which we’ve come across several times before, and it touts a company that has recently seen over $9.3 […]
“A young company, along with one of the world’s largest universities, has created a successful, non-invasive system for the treatment of nature’s deadliest disease.” That’s how Mark Skousen opens his ad for his newsletter, Forecasts and Strategies. If you wan to see what the company is, you’ll have to sign up for a subscription … […]
I just received a forwarded email from Skousen Hedge Fund Trader that invites us to “PROFIT FROM THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY WITH THIS ASIAN GAMING STOCK.” I’ve never heard of Skousen, but he purports to use a hedge fund strategy that will provide good results in all markets — just like hedge funds used to be […]
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I'm new to investing in stocks and always dubious about projected claims, especially when it requires $100's or $1,000's...
Great earnings for UBNT late last week popped the stock up by about 20%, looks like this is the best short-term teaser p...
Even if Rio isn't the overnight portfolio multiplier that Skousen implies, Travis, reading your witty sarcasm made the r...
If you look from the right angle, Skousen kinda has Gru’s nose :)...
Addendum - after my first post, I found a two-minute video describing Skousen's strategy, offering a couple of details h...
I am doing a bit of speculation, dheld2, but here is my thinking ... I believe Skousen's IRA reboot is a strategy to ...
Interestingly Skousen was my first newsletter in the mid-80s. Unfortunately I didn't have the money to play with back th...
In Forecasts &Strategies Skousen ads stock of the the the Year(AAPL)Apple,Inc. $119.97,1.9%yield.$40.00per share wo...
For infrastructure play I'm looking at CBI and CX. Thanks for this run down, Skousen has been a speaker at several AAI...
Skousen has been recommending MAIN since Feb 2012, when it was $23.24 with a 7% yield. A nice return over the years and...
Also a favorite of Skousen and mine. MAIN is also one of the few BDC that is internally managed. Good idea to trade opti...
I wish everyone would speak to the degree of good intentions of these people who run these adverts. My experience is tha...
I received a teaser from Dr. Skousen about a high dividend stock opportunity, Main Street Capital, paying a 6.95% divide...
Hey Ben, Dr. Skousen said by Cubist Pharmacuticals at $12.00 and at its high I think it was around $68.00, now its hoove...
Stephen, here is their picks.Hope this helps. 298.1296 | | What do these icons mean? glenn newberry says: Decemb...
I wrote about most of those Skousen picks here, I think: http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/forecasts-and-strategies/sk...
Yes, that is right Travis. Sorry about that I forgot about you could not post PDF.If anyone is interested in the picks,t...
I had the Skousen Fast Money Windows BS and did much worse than you artie with NO REFUND as he promised haha the ol'...
I just got a similar pitch from Mark Skousen, called "Fast Money WIndows" where certain stocks pop every year at a certa...
If you're looking for several stocks picks a year this service is not for you. Mark Skousen tends to pick two or three ...
Skousen (along with many teasers) doesn't understand the mathematics of compounding. He claims that a 418% growth over ...
As with so many of these teasers... The best way to end up with a small fortune is to start out with a large one. I ...
I subscribed to Mark Skousen back in the early 90s and I was a newby to investing. He predicted the rise of the USD in...
I'll save Choom supporters some time. Skousen is a racist! Everything is Boooosh's fault. The BP oil spill was a negat...
I subscribed to Skousen's newsletter for a year or two and got burned badly. Skousen is an Austrian Economist noted for...
I threw money away for a year or two by buying Skousen's newsletter. Unfortuntely, his track record was mixed at most, m...
This stock is nothing new, Mark Skousen (using the same publisher) has been touting this stock for two months. I guess ...
Wow !!! Just like Skousen said - the stock is . . . . oh wait . . . nevermind. Happy Valentines Day....
Skousen dumped Flagstar a couple of weeks ago when they underperformed last earnings report. ...
Skousen is my favorite. He thinks just like I do and offers specific picks that follow his themes. I also subscribe to...
Todd Skousen, the insider’s son, said he knew of a "Secret Hobby" practiced by all the top corporate executives. "The...
As another point of reference, HTS and NLY were both written about in the True Wealth (Sjuggerud) June 2010 issue which ...
JPerry uses the standard attack approach of his "angry" movement, by suggesting that our comments were "l...
I have to comment on Skousen, because I have followed him for a few years. He has missed the latest bull market, becaus...
As per Skousen video posted last week on Moneyshow.com; it's NLY and AOD (alpine dynamic). His big bet on the most ...
Skousen's Forecasts and Strategies is not only a very good educational tool, in my opinion, but the advice given is soli...
I think Skousen is wrong. I see nothing that compelling about Barnes & Noble....
I would note that not only did AUY not go *up* after March 25, 2008, it went significantly down, and fast. In fact, i...
Thanks Tom -- I'm glad you always remember to read the REALLY important stuff :) Not sure which Skousen ad you're talki...
two things: one, I've gotten some e-mails, I think from the Skousen letters but can't remember, recently (past week) th...
Thanks Spike. Lots of advisors have touted CMED, too, and it has held up reasonably well compared to some others (thoug...
I am fairly new to this website and I find it pretty facinating. I have a question. Since Mr. TJ Gumshoe tracks financ...
kind of agree with fireball. had std, then it went away due to a stop. had another bank a couple of years beck that std ...
My neighbor who subscribes to Skousen says it is indeed E*Trade that he is recommending....
Shame on me, I forgot this 5yr look-back. Who wouldn't be proudNOT over this performance? http://finance.yahoo.com/q/...
Did you read David Einhorn's book Destry? What facts are you disputing? Why would ALG go after David's wife? So what if ...
Geez, GLAD is in a declining "going nowhere" phase since before 2003, it's no mystery as to why the Div. is higher at th...
I was a Skousen subscriber. He has featured ACH before. It made some money for shareholders in past years, (1 year, up ...
Christine Stewart is dead on. Skousen does not live up to his claims. Just like Robert Hsu. It's like they don't even kn...
Bon Noel Mr GumshoeNeat service--thanks. I started to do this sleuthing on my own and then discovered you. You are ...
I don't think its RIO, though Skousen has recommended RIO recently. First, its a Brazilian company, not chinese, PE is ...
What about this one from Skousen today ( 10/17) I am trying to figure it out, is it ACH or a steel company:"SUPPLY...
interesting that insiders continue to cash out their options, especially Dalhldorf (as of 8/7/07 owns zero according to ...
This company was proposed by Mark Skousen a year ago (4.07.2006) “"I'd like to add a new remarkable new stock pl...