“End of Ebola… This Technology Has the Power to Halt ANY Pandemic in its Tracks”
This pitch comes in from Alex Koyfman as an ad for his Penny Stock Millionaire, which has demonstrated a delight with tiny little medical technology stocks — so we’ll warn you up front that there’s...
View ArticleWhat is “The Babylonian Money Code: The 3,800-Year Proven Secret to a...
Man, I’m starting to have trouble keeping up with all this. The folks at the Palm Beach Letter are so enamored of their “outside the stock market” investment idea that they change the name of it every...
View Article“This New Apple Innovation Will Be Bigger Than The iPod, iPhone, And iPad”...
Apple is my largest personal equity holding, and that makes me a little bit worried again now about short-term jumpiness — it’s not an expensive stock, to be sure, but it is huge and often trades with...
View ArticleAnnual Review
All of you, dear Irregulars, know that Stock Gumshoe is not a “tip sheet,” and I don’t operate a portfolio for other people to emulate or copy, or even attempt to track the stocks we cover as if they...
View ArticleNavellier’s “No. 1 Technology Pick”— $35 to $70 in 2015?
Newsletter ads always sound a little familiar — the same cabal of copywriters are putting together most of these spiels, and they all copy from each other when some new “hook” is found that seems to...
View ArticleA Quick “Alpha Score” Teaser Answer
I’ve had several folks writing in about the “Alpha Score” that the Profitable Trading folks are selling in a service called Alpha Trader. This is a technicals-driven service, and I’m no market...
View ArticleExplaining: “The Poisoning of America” and the “Natural Antidote, RUBY-A”...
Lots and lots of folks have been asking about this one — all about a “hidden poison” and a company with a “wonder powder” that the ad says could “starve cancer at its source… save countless lives…”...
View ArticleStephen Leeb’s “Explosive Growth in 2015 and Beyond” in High Performance...
We first ran the following teaser solution on September 23, around when we first saw this ad about big data from Leeb’s Real World Investing — at the time, it was his “favorite pick for the rest of...
View ArticleTop-secret “Banking 2.0” pick…“Buy this stock for less than $9 a share… … and...
That headline comes from the new teaser pitch for Global Income Edge, a newsletter that’s currently being helmed by Richard Stavros at Investing Daily — I’ve never written about this one before, it...
View ArticleFinishing up the Annual Review, plus “The Greatest Gold Opportunity in the...
I like Frank Curzio’s podcast (now called Wall Street Unplugged), and I generally find his way of thinking interesting, so after he was laid off by Porter Stansberry I was half hoping he’d go off on...
View Article“Hyper-Fi” Teased to Drive $10 stock
This one caught the attention of several readers over the weekend, with lots of those 4,000% and 5,000% attention-getting numbers that make you dream of yachts and private planes… and, as luck would...
View Article“How to Buck America’s $23.5 Billion Biometrics Mega Trend for 850% Gains”
This teaser pitch is from Manny Backus, who is promoting a new(ish) service called Triple Digit Returns — which looks like it’s a weekly advisory that recommends a different stock each week for 100%+...
View ArticleChristian DeHaemer’s “Small Scale GTL” to Create New, Cheaper Fuel?
This ad is a little bit less relevant now than it was when DeHaemer and his copywriters first wrote up the ad, presumably a few months ago, but the ad is circulating heavily and I’m getting questions...
View Article“Five Times More Profitable Than Apple with Zero Competition”
This article first ran on September 15, 2014, when almost exactly the same ad was sent around teasing Cabot’s September “Stock of the Month” … … now, in February, they’re just calling it the “Top Stock...
View ArticleCabot Dividend’s “TODAY ONLY:Get My No. 1 Income Stock Free”
“Free” does not necessarily mean what you think it does. Neither does “Today Only” … not if you’re wandering in woods that are infested with marketing copywriters. In this case, “Free” means “Free...
View Article“Slingshot Trades” and some updates for the Friday File
I haven’t looked at the Capital Wave Forecast stuff from Shah Gilani in quite a while, so the latest teaser pitch from him and the Money Map folks caught my eye — particularly because he’s touting big...
View ArticleWho’s the Oddball UK Tycoon who (Motley Fool says) will make investors rich?
“HATED by the city… “DISLIKED by many of his own shareholders… “IGNORED by investors who only read the tabloid headlines… “This Controversial Retail Tycoon is About to Make a Daring E-commerce Play...
View ArticleRevealing “The Top 10 Stocks For 2015″ from Street Authority
The folks at Street Authority are big fans of the “list of great stocks” teasers — they pitch the idea of a list of blue chippers that are either the top ten picks for this year, or the top ten...
View Article“The End of American Money As We Know It”
We see pitches about the “end of money” all the time — across the spectrum from the goofy spiel for “loyalty points” being the next Bitcoin, to actually trading in Bitcoin, to the more popular “end of...
View Article“Secret Loophole into Silicon Valley’s ‘Most Valuable Private Company’”
That headline comes to us from Wall Street Daily, soliciting subscribers for Robert Williams’ True Alpha, and it’s one of the more attention-getting strategies that newsletter use to pitch ideas:...
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