Stock Gumshoe Gives Back — Charitable Membership Drive
Stock Gumshoe survives as a wonderful community of readers and investors, and as a resource for those who want to avoid being sucked in by investment marketing hype, because of the payments from our...
View ArticleWhat the Heck is a Wal-01(k)? Does it really grow 3-5X faster than...
Today, as the Black Friday crowds have died down and we’ve all grown tired of watching people fight over “doorbuster” items in the “what has the world come to” video clips that are all-too-popular...
View Article“It’s the Only Company Licensed to Trade a Product It Buys for $2.60 and...
Today I’m opening up one of our (slightly) older pieces that a lot of folks are still asking about. What follows first appeared as part of the Friday File about a month ago (the Friday File is my...
View ArticleBasenese says: “Grab your VC Preferred shares before it’s too late…”
This ad from Louis Basenese for his VentureCap Strategist caught my eye, partly because it’s based on the same general trend as the pitch from Michael Robinson for his “Neural Imprinting” idea (and...
View ArticleFriday File: “The Historic Opening of an Oil Bull Market Bigger Than Texas”
Today, for your Friday File edutainment, a look at a teaser pitch from Keith Schaefer about a junior oil company. I know, I know — oil is collapsing. But this is a company that doesn’t even really own...
View ArticleWhat is the “the Holy Grail of breath testing” from Penny Stocks Guru? Will...
“This $2 American company is threatening a massive Wall Street shakeup handing you the opportunity for… 403% Gains In 3 Months“ Who can resist that pitch, right? The ad comes from Manny Backus for his...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the “The $57 Trillion ‘Make America Great Again’ Profit Play”
I’m dealing with some obnoxious issues today that are distracting me from thinking clearly about the teaser ad I’m currently writing about… so to spare you an even-more-muddled-than-usual article...
View Article“New Gas Molecule That Burns Hotter than the Sun”— Dr. Kent Moors says...
I haven’t rushed in to cover this teaser pitch over the past few days, partly because I’ve already written about so many of the overhyped Money Map Press ads recently and partly because Gumshoe readers...
View ArticleWho’s getting rich from “The $33 Billion Gold Chip Mandate?”
This ad for Sid Riggs’ Small-Cap Rocket Alert has been pitched a bunch of different ways — starting in August with the promise that they had some special way to get in early with a “royalty” on these...
View ArticleFriday File — Hodgepodge of Updates on Altius, Fosun, Leucadia and Lancashire
Several stocks I own or write a lot about have some news (or have made some big moves) in the last week or two, so I’ll focus on answering some of the reader questions and updating my opinion on those...
View ArticleIn Which Robert Williams of Wall Street Daily compares himself (favorably) to...
I almost can’t even write about this one without laughing. That headline is not made up, Robert Williams has a pitch out that compares his silly “open letter” to the head of the European Commission...
View ArticleWhat’s the “SUPERCYCLE BONANZA!” from Larry Edelson?
I’ll open today by saying that I don’t know if the euro will rise or fall against the dollar over the next two years. And neither does anyone else. Global currency markets are vast and complex and...
View ArticleTwo new Liquid Biopsy teases: “Free Shares” and “End the 8 Deadliest Diseases”
Today we’ve got a two-fer — two different big publishers are teasing different “liquid biopsy” stocks, and I’m no expert on the technology or the prospects for this diagnostic “trend” that we’ve been...
View Article“Warren Buffett’s Secret Marijuana Stash”— what are the picks teased by Jimmy...
It was just about a year ago that we looked into Jimmy Mengel’s “Delta-9″ pitch about marijuana stocks, and today he’s got a new ad out that teases several marijuana stocks (different ones, it...
View ArticleIdea of the Month: Buy What Buffett Won’t
We were talking about Warren Buffett just yesterday, and I also recently was looking into flights to go to the annual meeting in the Spring, so everyone’s favorite avuncular billionaire was on my mind...
View Article“The Under-$3.00 Restaurant Stock that Could Be the Next MCD or SBUX”
Yes, that’s not my headline — I borrowed it from the ad I was asked to look at, the “special presentation for fast-moving readers” from Agora Financial’s Microcap Millionaires. The other possible...
View Article“Retire on one stock” says Charles Mizrahi — which one?
We originally covered a teaser ad very similar to this on October 30, 2013. The ad promising a “Next Berkshire Hathaway” is circulating again and generating more questions from our readers, so I’m...
View ArticleThe Winners of 2015
As a reformed academic, I have it hard-wired in my brain that work should cease for the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day — Stock Gumshoe will be running on autopilot starting this afternoon,...
View ArticleWhat’s the “Pyramus Compound” and the “black goo” fake oil pitched by JR Crooks?
Happy New Year! It’s been a long time since I looked at a teaser ad from Global Resource Hunter over at Weiss Research, and it appears they’ve changed editors over the years — now heading it up is JR...
View ArticleWho are teased as the “Driveless Car Revolution” Winners?
Christian Dehaemer is pitching his Crisis and Opportunity newsletter ($499!) by talking up a “Ghost Town Showdown” that he says indicates we’re on the verge of seeing big profits for the suppliers in...
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