Personal Buy — Taste of a Past Idea of the Month
Just a quick note to update you that I bought a small tranche of MFC Industrial (MIL) shares today, following the recent drop and their latest earnings release (the shares are down about 20% since I...
View Article“Fat Dividends from Cancer,” a personal buy, … and some updates
I’ve got a handful of updates for you, including one on a stock that I bought yesterday and a few other notes about recent quarterly reports from stocks I follow, but first … a teaser to solve … When I...
View ArticleChris Mayer’s Five “Coffee Can” Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever
Chris Mayer runs the Capital and Crisis newsletter, often looking for far-flung stocks or odd special situations, and he sometimes brings an interesting idea or two to us through his teaser pitches …...
View Article“How to Double Your Money on ‘The Next Whole Foods’”
Today’s tease comes in for the Money Map Report, in some articles where they hint around about the best way to double your money on the stock they think can be the “Next Whole Foods.” The pick is by...
View Article“Stocks That Can Benefit from the New Bird Flu Outbreak”
Tony Sagami has a new trading service being launched that focuses on Asian stocks, called The Asian Century — it appears that his old service, Asia Stock Alert, has gone quietly into the good night...
View ArticleApril Idea of the Month: Betting on 2018
I’ll be traveling for most of the next week, so we’re getting this Idea of the Month note out to you on Thursday night/Friday morning, a bit early. There will not be a Friday File or much else in the...
View Article“The U.S. Defense Department has already tested this new-age biofuel in its...
We’ve gotten a bunch of questions recently about this pitch from Nathan Slaughter about gas to liquids technology and the “death of OPEC,” so I’m sharing an excerpt from the Friday File article about...
View ArticlePersonal Portfolio Updates from a Wild Week
As most of you probably noticed, I was on vacation last week — a crazy week for those of us in New England or with friends and family in Boston, or, for more prosaic reasons, for anyone who follows the...
View ArticleFracking Ban: “Is President Obama About to Start a New Civil War?”
One thing all newsletter teaser ad copywriters know for sure is that controversy gets attention. You can predict the continuing slow decline of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency … or you...
View Article“The Death Of Microsoft — And The Dawn Of Its Rapidly Growing Replacement”
The Gumshoe faithful have been asking about Hilary Kramer and her latest teaser pitch, so we’re going to ID at least her “#1″ idea here — and possibly we’ll get into the rest of ‘em if there’s...
View Article“Make Money by Hating Lawyers”
I promised I’d keep sniffing around this latest Hilary Kramer teaser for you, so we’ll jump right in. But first, I should note that yes, the headline is stolen from her ad — the lovely Ms. Gumshoe...
View ArticleWhat are Navellier’s “Best ‘Buy and Forget’ Stocks for 2013″
We haven’t tried to sniff out a Louis Navellier pick for quite a while — partly because he hasn’t had a lot of single-stock teaser ads running lately, and partly because, well, they haven’t piqued our...
View ArticleCopies, Gold, DNA Security and Patents — a Friday File Hodgepodge
There’s been quite a bit going on in the companies that I follow both personally and for the Irregulars, so I want to check in on a few of these today — I’ll be taking at least a quick look at...
View ArticleWhat is the “Sixth Element” Fortune-Maker to Buy Before May 31st?
Nick Hodge is out with a new promo that’s catching the attention of Gumshoe readers — it’s all about the “sixth element” and a company with a massive stockpile of it that should make us all rich. I...
View Article“Energy’s Last Great Frontier … The Untold Story”
I’m being flummoxed by extremely slow WiFi on my flight today, so can’t get the research completed for the new article I had planned. In case you’re looking for something to read on this lovely Tuesday...
View ArticleWhat is “America’s Next Iconic Brand?”
Today we’re working from a short and “low on clues” ad from the Oxford Club, but several readers have asked and I’m always interested in investing in strong brands, so I thought we should at least see...
View ArticleKarim Rahemtulla’s Cyprus Gas Tease
OK, OK — the most asked-about teaser ad this week has been Karim Rahemtulla’s pitch about Cypriot natural gas for his newly launched newsletter … so although the clues are thin and the presentation was...
View ArticleStopped Out!
I answered someone’s question about using stop losses yesterday, and indicated that I rarely use anything as mechanical as a sell stop in my investing — and today I was stopped out of my position in...
View ArticleReal Estate Updates, Earnings and Warrants, Plus a Guest Commentary
The portion of my brain that’s dedicated to our weekly missives to the Irregulars is on standby, waiting to see if there’s anything of interest to share with you on Monday and Tuesday of next week...
View ArticleCoal Idea from Marcelo Lima (Heller House)
Marcelo Lima says that the reports of coal’s death are making people miss a bargain-priced coal company that’s Governments are all projecting that coal consumption grows into the foreseeable future....
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