“40X Bigger Than the Bakken… And you don’t have to buy a single oil stock to...
That’s the headline for the latest ad from David Dittman, who inherited leadership of the Canadian Edge newsletter when Roger Conrad left for greener pastures. And I was intrigued enough to take a look...
View Article“Secret 770 Account” (or “The President’s Account”) Explained
This was originally published on June 3, 2013. It continues to be teased and promoted actively by Palm Beach Letter so we’re re-posting it for those new readers who might be interested… the idea is now...
View Article“The Future of our Next Internet Depends on this Tiny Breakthrough”
I was reading the latest pitch for the “next Internet” and thinking that it was yet another spiel about the “Internet of Things” that we’ve covered so many times (like the Fool’s “The Internet...
View ArticleFriday File — Casey’s “Important News” flop and some updates on favorites
This week there’s been quite a bit of news in stocks that I follow fairly closely or own or have featured in the past as “Idea of the Month” candidates for the irregulars, so I do have a bit of a...
View Article“Limitless Energy… From Bakken Waste!”
This ad is a re-hash of one that the Macro Trader folks started running a bit over a year ago, when the stock was around a dollar a share — in the 15 or so months since then it shot up to over $2...
View Article“Liquid Metal… Tiny Company has Monopoly… $141,478 for a Thimbleful”
Ok, this is definitely the “most requested” ad over the last 24 hours — I can’t tell you how many folks have asked your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe to look into “Liquid Metal,” but the list is...
View ArticleAlex Green’s “Next Golden Cross” to hit August 29?
Alexander Green has a new “special report” out to lure subscribers to a letter I haven’t seen before called The True Value Alert — Green has been the head honcho at The Oxford Club for a long time and...
View ArticleKeith Kohl and the $1 “Petroplex” Stock
I didn’t look at this pitch right away, since my memory of Keith Kohl’s “Petroplex” story from January was pretty strong and I assumed he was just re-touting the same stock — but no, he’s got something...
View ArticleEnergy Harvesting, Thermal Fracking, and the “15 Stocks that Double Each Day”
First, I should tell you that this is bad for you. This searching for stocks that double in a day. Seeking such instant gratification in investing is like drinking three beers for breakfast every day...
View Article“A Gold Royalty with a 10% Yield On Deck” (Dan Ferris)
I hate to continue to write about this small company with great frequency, since it smacks of “talking my book” (it’s a major personal holding), but we have received a lot of questions from readers...
View ArticleExplaining “How to Collect Your Government-Backed Real Estate Tax Rebate Checks”
This pitch has been around for more than a year now, but apparently it’s in heavy rotation again so I took another look today. And yes, you guessed it, the ad is almost completely unchanged from what...
View Article“Big Oil Wants a Piece of His Pie”
The Casey Energy Report is pretty pricey these days ($995/year), and so it gets quite a bit of reader attention when they hint around about a hot new idea of theirs. And so it was that your friendly...
View Article“Seven Times More Profitable Than Apple with Zero Competition”
Now that Apple is a few weeks from the release of their next i-device, lots of teasers will come floating out about “better than Apple” or “buy this before Apple’s new iPhone” or the like. That’s a...
View ArticleiBeacons and the Motley Fool’s “Inside the iStore: The One Stock to Own When...
I think I saw this ad a few months ago and didn’t write about it for one reason or another, but it just started a heavy rotation again — so let’s have a gander. David Gardner is a growth stock dynamo —...
View ArticleAugust Idea of the Month — Let Others Think About Risk for You
I have several companies I want to take a look at for you this month, since I’ve been reading a lot of insurance industry stuff lately and thinking about my approach to investing in insurance stocks,...
View Article“A new opportunity is taking shape right now that’s like buying Disney in 1971…”
I’ve looked at the teasers ads for Jim Fink’s Roadrunner Stocks a few times over the couple years it’s been around, with middling results — he’s had one great pick, one that has gone down...
View Article“Exploit This American Oil Giant for a Fast Double-Digit Gain!”
I’m officially on vacation, but had a lot of questions recently about Louis Navelier’s “next surge for my top oil stock is about to begin” stock, so I thought I’d throw out a quick answer for you. The...
View ArticleWhat is Nick Hodge’s “Montel’s Miracle” Stock?
Nick Hodge has been focusing a lot on biotech-ish companies for his Early Advantage newsletter lately, and they usually end up being pretty early-stage stocks with good stories about some kind of...
View ArticleWhat are the “‘Ebola Tech Plays’ Set to Skyrocket” from Teeka Tiwari?
Teeka Tiwari teasers wash up on the shores of Gumshoe island every few months, though we don’t cover them all that often because he hasn’t done a lot of teasing of individual stock ideas (he has more...
View Article“The Future of our Next Internet Depends on this Tiny Breakthrough”
This article was originally published on August 6, 2014 and the ad is circulating again as a play on Apple’s early-September announcement but otherwise remains unchanged. The same stock is being touted...
View Article