Let me start with a special welcome to our new Irregulars who came aboard this week, during the still-ongoing Charitable Membership Drive (tell your friends, the campaign goes through December 15!) — thank you for supporting Stock Gumshoe, and I hope you can grow to tolerate, and sometimes even enjoy, my lengthy Friday blatherations. I […]
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Shall we stop for a moment to sing an early “Happy Birthday” for Warren Buffett? He will turn 90 on Sunday. And maybe another surge in Berkshire’s share price will get his fortune up to $90 billion before too long, fingers crossed on that (OK, probably not, he’s giving away his money so quickly that […]
The teaser pitches from Dan Ferris tend to get a lot of attention from Gumshoe readers, both because there aren’t all that many of them and because the big Stansberry marketing machine sometimes pushes them pretty hard… and I have a lot of sympathy with Ferris’ general “value investing” strategy, and do sometimes find his […]
Whitney Tilson has a new teaser pitch out for his entry-level newsletter… the bait to pull you in to read the ad is “America’s #1 Retirement Stock,” and then he also hints at the other four components of the “perfect portfolio” … so I thought I’d dig into that for you and see what we […]
This teaser solution was originally published on January 22, 2019, when we first saw the ad running. The ads have still been running in recent weeks, and we’re getting questions about it again, so we’re re-posting it here for your information. The ad has not changed, and my article below has not changed, though the […]
I haven’t written about a Frank Curzio teaser for a while, so when a few readers asked about his new “$60 billion paycheck” pitch I thought I’d take a look for you… this came as an ad for his Curzio Research Advisory, which is Frank’s “entry level” newsletter (he’s offering it at $79/year currently), and […]
I keep seeing more and more marijuana teaser ads, and yes, marijuana is an exciting sector right now with legalization in Canada and probably more incremental moves toward legalization of marijuana in the US this next election cycle… but they’re still companies that we have to analyze and understand if we’re to think of these […]
I’ve gotten quite a few questions recently about “income” and “buy stocks cheap” letters that are clearly veiled hints about put option selling… so I thought I’d take a look at one of them. The ad in question today is from Karim Rahemtulla, who calls himself “The Frugal Millionaire” in this spiel and has been […]
So… what’s been happening to the Real Money Portfolio stocks this week? What else caught my eye? No transactions this week, but plenty of stuff to think about… Clean TeQ Holdings (CLQ.AX, CLQ.TO, CTEQF) announced a somewhat surprising equity raise a couple days ago. It seems inspired largely by urgency — they can’t really claim […]
So… what’s going in in the Real Money Portfolio this week, as we close up shop and get ready for a bit of time with family and friends? I do have one buy to share with you today, I decided to pick up some shares of the stock that I wrote to you about a […]
Weekly escalations in nuclear threats, record-breaking hurricanes… what is it going to take to shake investor sentiment for more than 24 hours? The S&P 500 is ending the week only down about a third of one percent, gold is up less than 2%, this is a market that is reacting to headlines pretty quickly… but […]
Charles Mizrahi moved over to Angel Publishing a year or so ago, so we’re seeing a lot more ads for his Inevitable Wealth Portfolio. And the latest one pretty well bangs us over the head with the huge promises… including a “make 109 times your money” in the next decade headline, which is a dramatic […]
have an example of a crazy return in my portfolio this week, and it’s getting close to the time that I have to make a decision about it. My remaining position in Shopify (SHOP) April Call Options, on which I’ve already taken a profit in excess of my initial investment, was glowing on my spreadsheet […]
I’ve gotten a few questions about Jason Williams’ free Wealth Daily article on Friday that hinted at “Warren Buffett’s Next Target,” so I thought we’d take a moment to throw those clues into the ol’ Thinkolator for you. There is a cottage industry on Wall Street right now that really demonstrates the short-termism of the […]
Nicholas Vardy has a newer low-end advisory called Smart Money Masters, and it looks like he’s aiming to be one of the “whale watchers” who run 13F-following services — the folks who watch the big buys by Warren Buffett and a couple dozen of the big hedge funds and institutional investors, and try to emulate […]
I spent last week vacationing in Sarasota, Florida, near the old stomping grounds of one of my favorite authors, John D. MacDonald… so I ended up re-reading several volumes of his Travis McGee series as part of my vacation escape from the world. But MacDonald always included some social or environmental commentary in his novels, […]
Today we’ve got a pitch from Nicholas Vardy’s Alpha Investor Letter, and it is blissfully not about the election at all. Let’s all just breathe a sign of relief, “ahhhhhhhhh.” Soon, one hopes, every day will be like this moment. Here’s what caught my eye about this “personal invitation” from Nicholas Vardy: “Discover the Profit […]
Today’s teaser is a pretty short one, from the Motley Fool for their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter, but most ads from the Fool make the Gumshoe faithful perk their ears up so we’re going to cover it quickly for you today. And I think I’ve covered more teaser picks for Motley Fool Stock Advisor than […]
This week we don’t have a new teaser solution for your Friday File pleasure, so I’ll stick with some updates on a few stocks I’ve been watching this week… and next week, we’ll get our “Idea of the Month” piece up for you. And we also have a new piece from Dr. KSS up today, […]
We’re just about shut down here at Stock Gumshoe HQ for the market holiday today, but I do have some updated thoughts and musings for you about a few of the companies I own and write about with some regularity: Leucadia (LUK), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), and Fosun (FOSUF). And I should also update you […]
We originally covered a teaser ad very similar to this on October 30, 2013. The ad promising a “Next Berkshire Hathaway” is circulating again and generating more questions from our readers, so I’m re-analyzing it here for your information. The ad has been slightly updated with new numbers over the years, and this article has […]
The Value Investor Conference in Omaha, hosted by the business school at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, is not like most investment conferences — there are a few presenters who speak about specific ideas that they find compelling, and some of them go into detail on those as a way to explain their thought process, but […]
This latest pitch from Julia Guth is an ad for the Oxford Club Communique, their “entry level” newsletter, and she’s selling us on the idea that there’s an “Ideal Retirement Booster (IRB)” that can help you reduce risk and extend your standard of living during retirement by 27 years. Which sounds almost magical, right? That’s […]
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: […]
Market Acrophobia – The Fear of Falling[Ed. note: Today we have another article from Jim Skelton, the Blind Squirrel, who writes to share what he learned about investing in his many years in the trenches as a financial advisor. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, the opinions he expresses are his own, and we haven’t reviewed, approved or screened his […]
Yep, I’m writing about another insurance company. And you’ll have this to chew on for a while, I’ll be on vacation for most of next week so we won’t have a Friday File (unless something dramatic pulls me away from the beach) or many new articles of any sort on the site next week. So […]
I haven’t bought shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) in about a year and a half — the last time I added to my Berkshire holdings was just before Buffett and the board publicly announced that they’d authorize buying back shares if they dipped below what they considered a fair price. At the time that was […]
There’s a good, blustery ad up from Brian Hicks and the folks at Angel Publishing about Warren Buffett and his insider connections … … connections that have not only helped him make big, profitable deals for his shareholders (including yours truly, so thanks for that), but that have enabled him to drive government policy to […]
John Mauldin launched a newsletter last year called Yield Shark, a bit of a departure from his frequent “big picture” musings about the economy and trends and the “end game” of government fiscal crisis … … so now he has folks recommending specific stocks that they think will benefit from the end game and provide […]
I’m afraid the mind is more willing than the body today, I seem to have picked up some sort of flu bug so I’ll be brief today and will share some more thoughts on the Value Investing Congress and the ideas we learned about in the weeks ahead. Which is probably for the best, since […]
Just a quick note that this morning a limit order that I’ve had sitting in my account for a while triggered, and as a result I boosted my holdings in Berkshire Hathaway by about 20% (yes, I’m a small investor so these are the B shares — BRK.B in most quote systems). The company is […]
If email volumes are any indication, investors are frantic about lithium as the next great growth “commodity” story — and a lot of my readers are really interested in learning more about the “locked-down lithium play” being teased by Alternative Energy Speculator. And hey, I like making money from electric cars as much as the […]
OK, so let me just warn you up front: The latest ad from Nancy Zambell for her new Buried Treasure under $10 newsletter has a lot of, well, hooey in it. But really, doesn’t that just make it more fun? Here’s how the hype begins: “Buffett has sunk $2 billion into the next Wal-Mart Here’s […]
This is a little quickie from Green Chip International, a newsletter that is, like so many others, apparently boasting of more big discounts in their subscription rate — don’t know if anyone ever actually paid the “official” $995 subscription rate, but now they’re trying to get you to subscribe for $300. Still, that’s quite a handful of greenbacks for a newsletter that hasn’t had much opportunity to prove itself yet — so let’s see if we can figure out some of what they’re touting for us today. The big spiel is all about what they’re calling … “China’s $555 Billion ‘Environmental Liability Insurance’ …”
Now this one sounds exciting, eh? I don’t want to say that the mighty, mighty Gumshoe is a lazy man, but I must admit that the idea of a work week that lasts only ten minutes has some appeal … what the heck are they talking about? It’ll take me longer than ten minutes, but […]
StreetAuthority is calling a recent buy of Warren Buffett’s “The little stock that could make you rich” — it’s apparently a retailer that Buffett “recently” bought, to the tune of 14 million shares (I’m afraid I can’t sing along at that volume, but I do always like to know what Buffett’s buying). The wise and […]
This ad came in from Philip Durell’s Inside Value newsletter from the Motley Fool, which they’re currently offering for $149. This is the “deep value” newsletter from the Fool, so it probably shouldn’t be any surprise that it’s one of the worst Fool performers recently — it’s beating the S&P by just a point or […]
This teaser came in recently for the Motley Fool Inside Value newsletter — the main company they’re teasing as the “next Berkshire Hathaway” hasn’t changed over the past couple years that I’ve been seeing this ad (it’s Markel, as I’ve written about before, and I do own shares of that one), but the secondary teaser […]
I’ve gotten a lot of email about Porter Stansberry’s latest ad campaign, the one that teases the existence of “secret societies” that you can participate in and significantly outperform the market. Of course, the mystique sells the newsletters … but are these “secret societies” for real? Let’s take a look. This “Pasadena Secret Society” … […]
This one is actually a teaser for a free service — but the Gumshoe doesn’t discriminate. It’s from Investment U, and it’s teasing us with the name of Warren Buffett’s secret portfolio holding, the one that he bought low and averaged up over the years, and recently piled on more shares of after the shares […]
It should come as no surprise that after only a couple weeks of posting my teaser sleuthing on this site, I’m already on my second “next Berkshire Hathaway” — as I’ve written on my other blog several times, and been guilty of myself, the search for the next Warren Buffett is one of the most […]
I got an email solicitation from Louis Navellier the other day, one of dozens we all get every day from various investment advisors, and to those who signed up for a trial of his Emerging Growth investment advisory service he promised something special: The name of the company that might be the next Berkshire Hathaway. […]
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A lot of these Options players are similar to "Gamblers" in a casino. You find quality companies that will make you pro...
Think the Warren Buffett of France...
If it gets at all exciting, as we saw when the WSJ made the Warren Buffett connection las fall, it will be too expensive...
Warren Buffett never had a method. I just saw a documentary on his life....
I think the key man risk lessens when Buffett dies or retires — my feeling is that the risk he’ll do something big a...
Well done! I guess that depends on how much risk you can tolerate, and what it would mean for your future financial wel...
In my view, Amazon lives in a universe inhabited by a few other 21st century stocks. These are companies whose underlyin...
He had a well-publicized bet that the S&P 500 would beat any chosen hedge fund (or fund of funds) for ten years, a bet h...
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FYI, interesting piece from CNBC that pulls some of Buffett's historical commentary on "investing during inflation" in t...
The number of investment bankers banging on the door in Omaha urging Berkshire's board to spin off assets or break up th...
I once read that this was done with monkeys throwing the darts. The monkeys did better than the human traders. You nee...
$BYD...as far as reluctance to buy into Chinese companies, it is somewhat noteworthy to me that two of my "heroes", War...
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$BYDDF - Author: Lucky 13 Comment: Got an Energy & Capital teaser email today from Chris DeHaemer (www.energyandc...
Agree with you Travis. Warren Buffett a non crypto currency believer compares the invention of the check (which was hug...
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I think if you read about Warren Buffett and what he did in his early years was selling puts when a stock had done a dou...
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"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." --Warren Buffett $ARTH (lon...
Thank you for your Warren Buffett education. Need to catch up with you Travis later this fall. Thank you for all you hav...
Since this was last discussed numerous features have been introduced. One, available to lifetime members. is The Billion...
This is a longer (16 pg) monthly, with multiple writers, which I enjoy; provides a broader education, from macro to inte...
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just tak...
There has been some talk between threads recently on portfolio diversification, and the overall success one can expect i...
"You build wealth by concenration - you perserve it with diversification." “My idea of a group decision is lookin...
Are there financial advisers that smart? "The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing." - Warren Buffett...
Welcome Cuga. I can give you my opinions as to what shares will do, but those are based on what I believe to be rational...
$HALO np SC13/A filed - http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001159036/b9b57c1d-1412-4a32-af3d-162ded9a4b68.pdf ...
The vast majority is going to the Gates Foundation on Buffett's death, and some of it has already been transferred. Tha...
Thought you might like to know: Warren Buffett in new HBO documentary: ‘I’m getting down to salvage value’ http...
None that I know of. I'm still. I do think that, as it happened to work out, the time our column appeared on it was when...
Joseph, I believe Warren Buffett once said, "There is no harm in putting all your eggs in one basket, but if you do, you...
This $ARTH raises a paradox. Alan was right in selling. Others, me included, are probably right in holding. Cleveland...
With stocks like ARTH I like to be a total SLOTH and ignore the noise. People here tend to overthink minutiae over a...
I too have read Jim Rickard's books and having studied the issues being discussed in the comments on the response articl...
Warren Buffett to Donald Trump: 'Have you no sense of decency?' https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/760311688533045248 via @W...
Strongly disagree. I think both strategies can work (and both can go sour as well). But if you pick the right stoc...
Paul Tudor Jones is more of a short-term momentum trader. That rule works for his style. Value investors like Warren...
Arch1 - In the same vein as Martha Stewart is a thought I have had since the Keystone pipeline issues became a political...
When Dr KSS speaks, I listen. Doc briefly mentioned Kiadis Pharma/KDS.AS few weeks ago. Tried to get that link but to no...
$RLYP (long) Don, you need to make a decision based on what feels right for you. If you follow the lead of successful ...
Warren Buffett : "The stock market has a very efficient way of transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient". I...
Buy some gold, buy some silver. On this not-so-super Super Tuesday, I see two frontrunners who would both continue Ameri...
I honestly thank you all the guys here who have shared their beautiful mind. Everyone reading here shall find the forum ...
Points well taken, thanks for the input. But if I may elaborate, I was very much interested to invest in those companies...
Glad to see the good Doctor back in good health. His comments above prompted me to take year-end "stock." I don't agr...
Warren Buffett should consider buying out Reeds. Of course, I'm sure it's a bit too "small" for him. However, his affec...
50 Years of Wisdom Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter Ever: http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Wa...
Alexander Green is currently pushing this "SECRET FORMULA " called The 7 Minute Habit. Does any subscriber have any inf...
Anyone know what the below is is ? America in 2025: Bill Gates’ Scary Prediction "I don't understand why some peopl...
Warren Buffett specifically said he has no particular interest in silver right now at the annual meeting a few weeks ago...
I forgot to mention one of my favorite books, and Warren Buffett reminded us of it on Saturday (he mentions the book all...
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful” ― Warren Buffett...
What matters most to people at the very end? I spent a few years both working for and volunteering in hospice programs. ...
Do not know if this is right place to post but this looks like a interesting play for those that do not do strictly Biot...
Last thing I heard about warren buffett was his raving and ranting about how great a value he believes companies that bu...
for the record I am an irregular, meaning that I pay for my access to the gumshoe. Some people wonder what IRR means abo...
Ironically, my largest % loss for the day in one of my accounts is in my widows/orphans utility company! (Which I've ...
Just because the FDA has to respond to the company's request within 30 days does not mean they have to respond EFFECTIVE...
Or there's Warren Buffett, who's quoted as saying "Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sens...
Having owned BRK.B for some time, the track record is the real story here, (pun intended for train buffs). Frankly, if ...
well if anyone wants an alternative to Embraer, ERJ, which may not be the Foolish Pick, we have a Canadian competitor ca...
Thanks Frank, I know you're right. I can never sit on any cash in my account. How Warren Buffett can sit tight for mon...
Larry (10): Your closing comment reminds me of top gold critic/disbeliever Warren Buffett who is in the "barbarous relic...
Randy, you might also benefit from reading a few of the prose portions of the annual reports of Berkshire Hathaway which...
Doc....what do you refer to by RSI? We wouldn't want to end up fanning the flames like the women did in their battle of...
It is not worth the money for the amount of info your getting. Theirs not always a connection between quality and price....
Starting to see the "overcapacity" chatter more about these tank cars now, there have been some downgrades, here's one f...
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I don't usually like to defend myself on here but my successful newsletter has received hundreds of referrals from this ...
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It is no fault of Chris Mayer, other newsletter writers or Warren Buffett for the economy and thus the market to go CRAS...
Invest in good companies for the long haul.* The Fools have it more right than most of the rest. Benjamin Graham, ...
I have a knack for drying up conversations, when I stick my oar in...This time won't be any different, probably. If w...
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