So… what’s a “Q-Share?” Are they some magical kind of stock that you can buy, through some secret method, that’s much better than the dumb old regular kinds of stocks you have in your brokerage account? Um, sadly, no… not really — but there is a rationale worth investigating here, and a secret stock to […]
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Are “Q-Shares” Really “The Perfect Investment?” What they heck are they, anyway?
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What’s Casey’s Tiny $10 “5G Master Key” Stock? [Updated]
This teaser ad has been running for several weeks now, and the article below was originally published on January 21… but we continue to get lots of questions about it, and the story has changed pretty dramatically in the interim, so I’m re-posting it here for you and have added an update at the end. […]
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Friday File: Annual Review Part 3 (plus PANIC, SPCE and more)
Here’s the scenario of a week ago: China is in the midst of an epidemic of possibly explosive proportions, with fear gripping much of the country (and the world) as a coronavirus spreads and seems to have a pretty high mortality rate, with conspiracy theories abounding and the fear of social unrest as whole cities […]
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Can you really “Grab Your Share of $1.1 Quadrillion Streaming Bucks?”
Personal Finance ($39 for the first year) is a relative low cost “entry level” investment newsletter, the kind that all the big publishers use to recruit the wave of new subscribers who get fed into their marketing “funnel” that generates leads for their higher-priced services… though, to be fair, we also often hear from readers […]
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Navellier’s “This unique turbo booster is the hidden SPARK PLUG that will spark the 5G revolution….”
The latest ad from Louis Navellier for his Growth Investor newsletter is a doozy… full of images of Louis Navellier driving his midlife crisis Porsche supercar around and showing off the red “turbo” button, with that serving as a “you’re too dumb to get it otherwise” metaphor for the tremendous potential of 5G wireless. As […]
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De-teasing Kramer’s “The No. 1 Value Stock for 2020”
Growth stocks get all the attention these days, what with talk of a final “melt up” in the market before things finally return to rationality, and “value stocks” have been floundering for years as they’ve failed to capture the attention of investors… so last fall we saw a lot of predictions about the “turn,” the […]
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5G “Tollbooth” Stock to Climb from $8 to $68 in Five Months?
Briton Ryle at The Wealth Advisory loves to tout the dividend-paying stocks that underly some big trends, and, of course, to hint at them in misleading ways to make them seem every more secretive and special… which doesn’t mean the stocks are necessarily bad ideas, but does mean we should dig deeper and understand the […]
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McCall’s “Crypto Bank About to Take Off”
It’s Friday and I’m mostly working on my Friday File and Annual Review for the Irregulars, but I couldn’t resist a quickie answer for you on this latest Investorplace pitch… Matt McCall is selling his Early Stage Investor service ($1799, nonrefundable) with a spiel about eight life-changing microcaps in his “Microcap Millionaires Portfolio.” He gives […]
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Annual Review, Part 4
OK, I know, it’s getting a little ridiculous that I still haven’t covered the whole portfolio of stocks with my annual review updates — but for some I’m waiting to see what the quarterly update tells me, and for others, well, I’m just trying to catch up. Here’s what I’ve got for you by way […]
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What’s this “Dark Burst” Business from Michael Robinson?
This teaser solution was first published on December 9, when the ad was promising a dramatic surge on January 1. The stock has climbed quite a bit, and the latest urgent teaser pitch is that the company will announce something dramatic on February 18. That is the day they will announce earnings, after the market […]
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Top Stock Advisor
Entry-level monthly stock-picking newsletter from StreetAuthority.
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Top Stock Advisor teases that this is “Like Buying a Brand-new Corvette for $1,000”
This is from an email I receoved from J.R. Butts, pointing at a teaser ad from StreetAuthority for his entry-level Top Stock Advisor newsletter ($39 “on sale” for the first year), a service I haven’t covered before … “If you could buy a new Corvette today for $1,000, sell it tomorrow for $50,000… “And pocket […]
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Friday File: Annual Review Part Five
Earnings season is winding down, with only a few of my larger holdings yet to report, and so is my Annual Review of all of the stocks in my Real Money Portfolio — so I’ve got another installment of that for you today, sharing my updated opinion on a bunch of holdings (including a few […]
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Takeover Targets
Advisory that aims to recommend a new “takeover target” stock that they think will be acquired each month. Initial teaser ads indicate a lot of these will likely be biotech stocks.
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What’s Teased as “Our #1 Takeover Target for February?”
Today we’ve got a teaser pitch from Dylan Jovine’s new service, Takeover Targets, which he says is “half price” for charter subscribers (that would be $997/year, and unlike many higher-end newsletters they say they do offer refunds for 30 days)… and, as you might imagine, the service is all about identifying companies that might be […]
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What’s “The ‘Hidden’ SaaS Stock” for Tech Royalties?
I’ve gotten a bunch of questions about the latest teasers for Stansberry Venture Value (“on sale” for $1,897/yr, no refunds), so I thought I’d dig into that a little bit today — they’re hinting at a couple cloud SaaS stocks to pique your interest… and, well, consider me piqued. The ad is not brand new, […]
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Stansberry’s Cloud Tease, part 2 — What’s that other SaaS-y Stock?
Yesterday we looked into the first “Hidden SaaS” cloud software stock hinted at in the ads for Stansberry Venture Value, and today, as promised, we’re on to number two… there’s also a third one hinted at, but the clues are pretty sparse on that one (so no promises). Let’s just jump right in — what […]
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Rare Opportunity in “World’s Largest Silver Mine?”
This article was originally published on January 6, 2020. Neither the ad we’re covering nor this article has been updated since then, though I’ve added a small update note at the end. The stock is back to where it was before the first promo pitch was mailed, and the latest emails pointing to this teaser […]
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Friday File: Annual Review Part Six (done!)
It’s been a wild ride for the past couple weeks of coronavirus panic, and this week has been especially crazy (and still isn’t quite over)… though it’s encouraging that my Real Money Portfolio has been a little bit stronger than the market so far this year — partly because of brilliant stock selection, I’d like […]
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Are the Fool’s “FAZER” stocks “The Next FAANG?”
We’ve had a lot of questions pop up over the past couple days about the Motley Fool’s “FAZER” stocks, which will apparently be the focus of a “special presentation” they’re making tomorrow morning. The gist of the email, which comes from Eric Bleeker, is pure FOMO — it triggers all the feelings of angst in […]
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