Every once in a while I cite the DALBAR studies, or other indicators and reports that can serve as reminders that each of us is his own worst enemy in the market — and there was another such release of data this week. Vanguard looked at the small subset of its investors who were active […]
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Friday File: Valuation Fears, GAN, and some New Speculations
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Dan Ferris teases “A Low-Risk Shot at 1,550% on the ‘Best Business in the World'”
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 […]
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Empire Elite Growth
Upgrade service ($3-5,000/yr) from Empire Financial, this is Abeyta’s long-term “buy and hold” service for small or mid cap growth stocks (he also offers a short-term trading service for generally larger stocks, Empire Elite Trader).
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Small Tech Stock Builds the “Eyes” Behind Self-Driving Vehicles
This pitch is a little bit of a follow-on to the still oft-requested “TaaS” piece by Whitney Tilson — Tilson began teasing his “Transportation as a Service” idea for his Empire Stock Investor newsletter, and some stocks that play on that, in “presentations” that primarily recommended Waymo (a division of Alphabet (GOOG)), Aptiv (APTV) and […]
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What’s that “The Big Long” pitch for a gold miner about?
Here’s the headline of an ad that a few folks have been asking about recently… “The man who made $4 BILLION shorting the housing market in 2008 goes all in on… “THE BIG LONG “This same legend just made an even bigger bet on the crash of 2020… only it’s NOT a short trade. “Instead, […]
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What’s “The 20X Weight Loss Drug?” Looking into Lashmet’s New Teaser Pitch for Stansberry Venture Technology
Well, there’s no question about which teaser pitch Gumshoe readers want me to cover today — the tsunami of requests for coverage of Dave Lashmet’s “20X gains” pitch for a weight loss drug is a little overwhelming. And we aim to please, so let’s put the Thinkolator to work for you. The ads are from […]
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Friday File: Real World Research, M&A, Beat and Raise Quarters, and Reader Questions
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 […]
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What’s the UItimate “Super Bull” Investment teased by Paul Mampilly?
Today I thought I’d take a look at the latest teaser pitch from Extreme Fortunes, a “no refunds” monthly stock-picking newsletter that they’re currently pricing at $2,995/yr., positioned as the “upgrade” letter from Paul Mampilly’s Profits Unlimited over at Banyan Hill and focused more, they indicate, on smaller-cap stocks. Mampilly, by the way, headlines no […]
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What’s the “5G Fix?” An Updated Look at Leeb’s “Devastating 5G Flaw Exposed” Teaser Pitch
This ad is being circulated again, and sending a lot of questions our way, so I’m re-posting our solution (which first appeared on September 4, 2019) and taking an updated look — the ad itself has not been updated at all, as far as I can tell, but I’ll add my updated thoughts throughout and […]
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What’s being pitched by Motley Fool’s IPO Trailblazers? Two Good Answers (and a Guess)
This is an ad I actually haven’t seen, but a couple readers have sent in questions that include some clues, so we’ll try to solve them for you. That means, by the way, that we’re being a little bit unfair — since I haven’t reviewed this full ad, what we’re quoting from is hearsay… it […]
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What’s Dividend.com’s “Baby Buffett-Styled Stock” that “Features Years’ Worth of Dividend Growth”
The latest teaser for Divide.com’s Premium service ($149/yr) had a headline that caught my eye: “Discover How Our Latest Best Dividend Pick in Insurance Space Is Thriving in the Pandemic” Who wouldn’t be interested in that, right? The insurance business is under scrutiny and pressure to some degree because of coverage (or lack thereof) for […]
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Friday File: Overvalued Holds (and a Sell), plus more Video Games
This would have been a good week to take a vacation. Market soaring on Tuesday, market crashing on Thursday, but when we look back on the whole thing it almost evened out — any ebullience we might have felt in the up days was matched by the panic as the market crashed back down on […]
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What’s “Motley Fool’s Double Down Stock” Pitched by Tom Gardner?
Lots of readers have asked about this latest ad from the Motley Fool Stock Advisor, so we’re going to dig in and see if we can get a good answer from the Thinkolator… don’t worry, I’ll be quick this time. I promise. Tom Gardner was pitching this last week as a “I’ve decided to do […]
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Motley Fool’s “Practically Unknown Canadian Company Following Closely in Shopify’s Footsteps”
Yesterday it was a long-running but newly urgent (or so they said) pitch from Tom Gardner at the Motley Fool that got my attention… today it’s a piece from their Canadian offspring, as Iain Butler from Motley Fool Canada teases a “next Shopify” company. Here’s how the ad launches: “Not to alarm you, but you’re […]
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Investigating Mampilly’s pitch about a “12 million mile battery” from Tesla’s “employee #7”
This article was originally published on April 23, 2020, when we first saw the ads from Paul Mampilly — most recently this has been more aggressively pitched with the idea of the “12 million mile battery,” so we’re re-posting our solution for you. The ad has not changed and is still dated April 2020, and […]
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Friday File: “Pre-IPOs” and some Real Money Portfolio updates
My spirits have been lifted a bit in the last week… not so much by the general state of the world (unemployment is horrifying, the pandemic remains scary, politics has sunk even further into the gutter, a big chunk of the world is literally on fire, again), but by the return of some seasonal patterns […]
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Stansberry’s tease to “get into a SaaS phenom before anyone else realizes what’s going on”
I’ve gotten a pile of new questions about Stansberry Venture Value this week, all relating to their pitch for some cloud SaaS stocks — and I found the first pitch about these stocks pretty compelling back in February, and even ended up buying two of them, so I thought it would be worth digging in […]
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What’s Brown’s “Project Xi” All About?
Jeff Brown is out with a new pitch for his entry-level newsletter, The Near Future Report (currently “on sale” for $49/yr, as is typical of his promotions). The ad is all about the potential gains being driven by “Project Xi” … so what’s the big idea, and which stocks are getting the teaser treatment here? […]
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Update on “Moore’s Law is Dead in the Water”— Chris Wood teases “109X” gains from a Shorted Stock
This article was originally published about a month ago, on August 20, but there is a new push behind the stock, premised on the idea that “a ferocious short-seller ‘hit piece'” has suppressed the share price — “temporarily,” they believe. So we’re re-publishing our answer here for you, and I’ve added a deeper look into […]
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“Richest Man in History Forced to Give Back”— What’s “The Strange Law Forcing Amazon To Pay a Tax to Americans Like You?”
ed. note: The first version of this article was originally published in September of 2018, when we initially saw these ads rolling. It has been re-circulated several times, most recently because of the attention Jeff Bezos is getting for becoming the wealthiest person in history, so readers are asking again and we’re re-posting the answers […]
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