What’s Luke Lango’s “ChatGPT Loophole?”
Here’s the pitch from Luke Lango that’s getting the attention of a lot of Gumshoe readers: “Venture Capital firms Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and more are all over ChatGPT – “But...
View ArticleDe-tease: Fool’s “Probably the Most Important Company in the World”
This article was originally published on October 19, 2022, when this ad started running — the stock has soared, so that turned out to be a well-timed pitch, but they are running the same ad again...
View ArticleFriday File: Pre-earnings Hodgepodge (Berkshire, Roku, Domino’s and more)
Earnings season is right around the corner, so pretty soon you won’t be able to shut me up about the latest income numbers and balance sheet updates from our portfolio companies… but as we wait for...
View Article“Elon Musk’s Big Bet” from Michael Robinson —“Huge Profits for Early...
Michael Robinson is now the face of Trend Trader Daily, the publisher that Lou Basenese ran for many years, but otherwise things haven’t changed all that dramatically — Robinson has been mailing out...
View ArticleWhat’s up with FedNow, FedCoin, and the “US Dollar Recall?”
There are a half-dozen or so highly agitated teaser ads about the “recall of the US$” right now, from many of the usual suspects in the fearmongering world, and they’re all essentially making the same...
View ArticleFriday File: Season Opens… what’s up with Intuitive, W.R. Berkley, Teqnion...
It’s been a pretty full-throated celebration in the stock market as inflation finally comes down to a reasonable-sounding number, and as that gives hope that next week’s likely quarter-point increase...
View ArticleDe-Teasing: What the Heck is an “Imperium” Machine? How Can it Make us Rich?
I originally published a teaser solution for this Adam O’Dell pitch on April 12, 2021, and the ad still carries a February 2021 date — but despite that date, the pitch has been modified a bit, and it’s...
View ArticleMotley Fool Canada’s “Death of Twitter” Stock
Haven’t looked at a Motley Fool pitch in a while, so this one floated to the top of the pile today… the folks at Stock Advisor Canada (C$99 first year, renews at C$199) are pitching a way to profit...
View ArticleWait, ANOTHER Motley Fool “Death of Twitter” Pitch? “Top Advertising Stock”...
[/irregular]Yesterday I wrote to you about the Motley Fool Canada’s “death of Twitter” tease, in which they were pushing a small web publisher as a competitor who could benefit from ad weakness at...
View ArticleAnswers: “The Great $2 AI Moonshot”
Everyone has an AI-related teaser circulating this year, and we can’t get to them all… but we’re trying! And today we’ve got a new one — the folks at TradeSmith are selling a service called LikeFolio...
View ArticleFriday File: Earnings Reports Support Growth Stories… so far
Earnings season is really swamping us with information now, so I’ll spend most of my time running through the stories that caught my attention from the Real Money Portfolio this week… including most of...
View ArticleMonday File: A Trade Note about Hedging
Over the past decade or so, I’ve had a meaningful hedge position in my portfolio a little more than half the time, mostly because the cost of hedging has been too high (and because I don’t hedge at...
View ArticleDetease: “New Breakthrough ‘Living Software’ is The Army’s #1 A.I. Weapon”
A similar article was posted here on March 28, 2023, when Jovine was just beginning to run a similar ad, but I have updated that story to incorporate the (now very different) numbers and narratives...
View ArticleAlex Green’s “Hidden AI stock is secret key to ChatGPT (Trades for less than...
The first version of this article was originally published on July 16, 2018, but questions continue to pile in and new ads this week indicate that it’s still being pitched as a “one stock retirement...
View ArticleFriday File: Earnings Hits and Misses
We had an interesting variety of earnings reports this week — some that I thought were good, but that brought the stock down anyway… some that were big “beat and raise” numbers that delighted...
View ArticleWhat’s teased in Tilson’s “Peace Profiteering” Pitch?
Whitney Tilson is predicting that the market will boom later this year, and says he has identified some sectors (and stocks) that will be big winners… so let’s see what information we can sift out of...
View ArticleAnswers: Picks from “Elon Musk’s ‘Project Omega'” Tease
This article was originally published on June 5, 2023, when Eric Fry’s ads started rolling — he has a new push out with this same “Project Omega” theme now, with the headline about the “final phase” —...
View ArticleInvesting Whisperer de-tease: “#1 Stock is an Imminent Acquisition Target”
I haven’t looked at a Keith Schaefer tease in ages, so this one popped to the top of my inbox when a few readers asked about it… the ad is for his Investing Whisperer service ($5 first month, renews at...
View ArticleWide Moat’s “One Deal Retirement Summit”— Can you make 10X Profits from a...
Brad Thomas was a very active REIT enthusiast at Seeking Alpha before he joined the Marketwise family of newsletter publishers with his Wide Moat Research imprint, and it looks like he has now...
View ArticleFriday File: Bargains and Busts as Earnings Season fades
Well, here comes the inflation fear again. A few weeks ago everyone was quite certain that the Fed was all but done raising rates and had beaten inflation… now the Fed Minutes tell us that the...
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