Friday File: Buying a Dinosaur
Earnings season has been rolling for a couple weeks now, but we don’t own the stocks that mostly report early (like the big banks), so we’ve had to patiently wait for new information to come in… and...
View ArticleDe-tease: “Cut and Paste Disease From Your Body”— what’s Dylan Jovine’s “one...
This one, I’ll warn you right off the bat, is not new. Dylan Jovine has been using this “cut and paste disease” story to pitch his Behind the Markets ($39/yr) newsletter for about five years now, and...
View Article50,000 Year-Old “Alien Mineral” Could Hold the Key to Unlocking a $7 Trillion...
I love the mysterious references to “alien minerals” and “secret compounds” that we sometimes see in teaser ads, and the latest pitch from Trend Trader Daily jumps right out with that in the headline:...
View ArticleReveal: “The EV Supercluster” and Eric Fry’s “Revenge of the Heartland”...
This article was originally published on March 30, but we continue to get questions and are re-posting it here to supply some answers — the stocks teased are all down quite sharply since we first...
View ArticleDetease: Ray Blanco’s “Tiny Stock Wins Major Patent” (11,219,620)
he ad we’re looking at today is a somewhat updated pitch from Ray Blanco, it’s basically a replay of a “live briefing” ad presentation that came out in March for his Catalyst Trader newsletter...
View ArticleReveal: Mizrahi’s “$5 Powerhouse — The Next Great Microcap Winner” Oil & Gas...
“One game-changing decision now lets this tiny company generate up to 5x more money — for the same product — than its competitors. “And thanks to an obscure, 20-year-old federal regulation… You have...
View ArticleFriday File: Insurance Co. Highs and Lows
A set of mostly solid earnings reports from “big tech” helped the market feel a little more comfortable this week, though the continuing struggles of First Republic (FRC) and challenges at similar...
View ArticleReveal: Tilson’s “#1 Whisper Trade for 2023” (plus four other “Whisper” buys)
Here’s the lead-in to Whitney Tilson’s latest “presentation”: “Whitney Tilson reveals the exciting true story behind: ‘Whisper Trades’ “The fastest, most reliable way for the average investor to make...
View ArticleDamn You, Porter Stansberry
Porter, you’re chapping my ass. OK, that’s a little more crass than I wanted to be… sorry about that. This is a family website. What’s going on? What could be bothering your friendly neighborhood...
View ArticleReveal: What’s the “$3 AI Wonder Stock” teased by Ross Givens?
I’ve got to run catch a plane to Omaha for the Berkshire meeting, but I thought I’d get a quick teaser solution out to you before heading out the door… here’s the intro to an ad that folks have been...
View ArticleFriday File — WESCO, Icahn and more…
Maybe we’ll get a real banking crisis, after all? I bet Warren Buffett will spend a lot of time answering questions about banks at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting tomorrow… and who knows, maybe...
View ArticleBerkshire Hathaway’s 50th Omaha Meeting
My goal is to be a rational long-term investor, and to find companies that I can hold for long periods of time, with the likelihood that they will grow and become more valuable, compounding in value...
View ArticleDe-tease: Porter’s “Secret Energy Grid” (Obama’s Screw-up… and Reagan’s...
Porter Stansberry knows at least one thing with absolute certainty: Using high-profile politicians in your teaser ads gets attention, and attention is the goal of every marketer. This time it’s Barack...
View Article“Vladimir Putin’s Stupidity Made ME Rich!”— What’s Oxford Club’s “single best...
This article was originally posted on October 26, 2022, when we first saw the ad running. The ad continues to run and this is one of the most-requested stories at Stock Gumshoe, so we’re re-posting...
View ArticleReveal: “America’s Biggest Gold Discovery,” plus “Lithium’s Little Giant” and...
An earlier version of this article was published on October 18, 2022, but we’ve gotten a new wave of ads from Nick Hodge, presumably because the gold price has surged and lifted investor interest in...
View ArticleFriday File Bonus: Boston Omaha Notes
I posted these notes separately from the rest of this week’s Friday File, since they were getting a bit long — you can see my other comments and transactions for the week here. Boston Omaha (BOC) is...
View ArticleFriday File: Moving up in Quality
I made some relatively small portfolio moves that I think will boost the quality of my holdings over the long term, on the margins, but we’ve also got a bunch of quarterly reports to consider… so let’s...
View ArticleDe-Tease: “Great American 10X Reset”— What’s Whitney Tilson’s $4 “1,000%...
This teaser solution was originally published on February 27, 2023, we’re re-posting here to answer a new wave of reader questions. The ad has not been updated in any meaningful way, and what follows...
View ArticleDetease: Melvin’s “one little-known bank I’m buying for just $13 with a 9%...
Here’s the headline of Tim Melvin’s latest teaser pitch: “The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Just Opened the Floodgates to Capture Massive Gains in the Banking Sector. I love it! “I’m popping champagne...
View ArticleAnswered: Baldwin’s Five Permian Takeovers?
Readers have been asking about this Garrett Baldwin teaser for a couple weeks, and I’m finally getting to it today… he’s selling his Flashpoint Trader service from Money Map Press ($995/yr for the...
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