Quick Note for Irregulars: Latest “Fourth Quadrant” Company Reinvents Fire
The LATEST company to enter the 4th Quadrant… Fire. We still use it just like the first caveman did. There’ve been no significant advancements in fire in, well… forever! Hard to believe, isn’t it? With...
View ArticleStephen Leeb’s “Next Priceline”— new “Top-Secret Recommendation” Travel Stock
Stephen Leeb is teasing a new pick that is, you guessed it, “top secret” for his subscribers only … But we prefer, of course, to figure out these “hot” new ideas for free — there’s no reason not to...
View Article“The Secret Metal (Better than Gold) that Could Add a Zero to Your Net Worth”
This latest pitch coming through from the Wealth Daily folks, for Jimmy Mengel’s The Crow’s Nest advisory, has caught the attention of plenty of Gumshoe readers — it starts with a long spiel about...
View ArticleDecember Idea of the Month — 7% Yield From The Old and the Sick
I have a hard time jumping up and down and urging anyone to buy anything at this particular point in time — the market is not cheap, stocks with any kind of top line sales growth are expensive, real...
View ArticleRevealing the Fool’s “Silicon Valley Oil Superstar: 1 Company Pulling Profits...
I spent the weekend in New York enjoying the overwrought holiday scene with my family, and I must admit to being delighted to catch a Broadway show and see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas...
View ArticleIs it “Time to buy the ‘Greek Goddess’ Yielding 10.7%?”
I thought that Big Yield Hunting had disappeared as a newsletter, but apparently not — this letter is put out by the Investing Daily folks, and it had been the baby of Roger Conrad since inception, but...
View Article“How to Make a Fortune with ‘The Next Warren Buffett’”
If I had a dollar for every time someone promised they had found the “next Warren Buffett” I’d be rich! OK, maybe not, but I would have enough money to subscribe to some of these overpromising...
View Article“Heads you live, Tails you die” Diagnostics Stock Pitched by Alex Daley
“Odds are you never heard of this murderous disease that quickly kills more than 250,000 Americans every year. “If your doctor correctly diagnoses it within 24-36 hours of its onset you could live. “If...
View ArticleWhat a Year!
Know how you can tell that it’s been a crazy bull market? Look at the tracking spreadsheets here at Stock Gumshoe. We’ve covered a couple handfuls of teaser picks that have gone up by more than 100%...
View ArticleObama’s “Secret Income”— can you get some?
Have you heard or seen the pitches for “Secret Income?” The spiel is that President Obama is not just earning his regular salary as President of the United States, but is also earning $72,000 a month...
View ArticleRevealing Keith Kohl’s “Petroplex” Stock
I’ve been getting questions about Keith Kohl’s pitch for his (secret) favorite “Petroplex” stock for almost three weeks now, so I guess it’s time to dig in and see if your friendly neighborhood Stock...
View Article“This Tiny, Unknown Biotech is About to Unleash Its ‘Holy Grail’ Drug”
Robert Morris is helming a biotech-focused stock newsletter that’s called Biotech Supertrader (modesty has no place in the world of newsletter promotions, of course), and I’ve never covered this letter...
View ArticleWhat’s Tim Cook’s “Please Take My Money” Stock?
The Motley Fool gets more coverage here at Stock Gumshoe than pretty much any other newsletter publisher, with the possible exception of Stansberry — partly because the Fool has had some very good...
View ArticleAnnual Review, Part One
I end up covering a large number of stocks here at Stock Gumshoe, so even though a very small number of them end up getting featured as an “Idea of the Month” that I like, or as a stock that I buy...
View ArticleKramer’s “Breakout Stocks to Rocket 50% by March 31, 2014″
Hilary Kramer is pretty well known to most Gumshoe readers not just because her publisher, Investorplace, sends us an email promoting her services every couple days, but also because she gets herself...
View Article“Better than Bitcoin”: The “Secret Currency” Pitched by Steve Sjuggerud and...
A sudden avalanche of folks have been asking about this pitch again, so I thought I’d re-share and update my thoughts on something I wrote in the Friday File for the Irregulars back in October … … from...
View ArticleChecking in on Altius
I’m in the midst of the Annual Review of all the stocks on the Gumshoe spreadsheets. As I said last week, we bumped Sandstorm Gold (SAND) down to a “speculation” because of the uncertainties with some...
View ArticleThe “Boutique Money Bomb” and “The World’s Employment Agency”
Well, we took a brief break yesterday but I’m now back at it — looking at Hilary Kramer’s “Barn Burner” pitches for her Breakout Stocks Under $10 newsletter. The basic idea, if you’ll recall, is that...
View ArticleAnnual Review — TARP Warrants
I covered Altius earlier this week, one of the larger positions I own and one of the more interesting over the past month, but they’re moving up to the “Core” list as Sandstorm Gold (SAND) moves down...
View ArticleAnnual Review — Tech Speculations
Some more stocks from our list of speculative ideas to run through today, let’s jump right in with a look at Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND) and Invensense (INVN), two of the faster-growing stocks I’ve...
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