Stop loss sale in insurance
I hold back a few of my holdings from the stop-loss experiment I’ve been running over the past several months using Tradestops.com, including insurance-related names Berkshire Hathaway and Markel (both...
View ArticleAnother couple stop loss triggers…
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve personally sold my shares in Expeditors International (EXPD) and the Cybersecurity ETF (HACK) today — both because they generated stop loss alerts from...
View Article“Silicon Valley’s Next Big Thing” from Oxford Club, explained
If I had a nickel for every time some newsletter tout pitched “Silicon Valley’s Next Big Thing” … This ad from the Oxford Club, for their Chairman’s Circle service (a package deal where you pay big $$...
View ArticleFriday File: The Dark and Ugly Start of 2016
So has this recent weakness been a dip, or is it the beginning of real downward bear market or years of stagnation? Trick question. I Dunno, and neither does anyone else. But I still need to invest to...
View ArticleCabot’s “The Next Amazon” stock
The Cabot Stock of the Month newsletter from Timothy Lutts is one of those “best of” newsletters — its goal is to identify the best pick each month from among all of the newsletters published by Cabot....
View ArticleStansberry’s “Magic Stock of 2016″ from the “Best Portfolio Strategy We’ve...
This is not a heavily hyped stock sent out in lots of ads — I should make that clear up front. But it’s a puzzle, and I like to solve puzzles… so I thought I’d sniff it out for you. The tease was part...
View ArticleCan You Actually Earn “Royalties” From Amazon, Netflix and the Internet’s Top...
We have had a long line of questions about the misleading “Internet Royalties” teaser from The Wealth Advisory, so I’m going to re-share that one. My initial solution for this teaser pitch appeared at...
View ArticleA Couple more Stop Loss Alerts
As has been the norm for the past couple weeks of market weakness, the Tradestops.com stop loss alerts I’ve been experimenting with have hit more alerts this week in my personal portfolio… so I’ve got...
View ArticleOxford’s “2016 Scientific ‘Breakthrough of the Year'”— what’s their “easiest...
I’ve been puttering around and thinking about several different teaser ads recently, but this one percolated to the top of the pile when I read Alexander Green’s characterization of it as the “Easiest...
View ArticleFriday File: “Death of the iPhone”— What’s Teased as Making Smartphones...
I expect most investors would be pleased to write off the past 15 days and start the year over at this point, but life goes on — we buy when things look attractive, we sell when we think they look...
View Article“How Neural Imprinting will wipe out pain and generate $2.86 trillion in new...
This article originally appeared in the Friday File for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars (our paid members) on November 20. It has not been updated or revised, but we’ve had questions about the ad of late...
View ArticleVardy sez: “NOW is the perfect time to buy in cheap on the perfect...
Nicholas Vardy is out with a new biotech pick, and he says that he’s making an “unprecedented offer” for subscribers to his Bull Market Alert ($995/year “on sale”, published by Eagle Financial). The...
View ArticleA couple more stop losses and one buy
This is getting a little tiresome, no? Two new stop loss trades in my personal portfolio to tell you about — I sold half of my Lancashire Holdings position at $8.35 when that stop loss hit, my...
View ArticleJim Rickards, Saudi Arabia, and the “Great Currency Shock of 2016″
I’m absolutely sure that Jim Rickards knows a lot more about the global political economy and currency fluctuation than I do, so I’ll give you that point right up front. That doesn’t necessarily mean...
View ArticleDavid Stockman says this is “The Next Major U.S. Stock to Crash”
Who can resist that headline, right? If for no other reason than you want to check and see if maybe you own that “next major U.S. stock” that former Reagan budget director David Stockman thinks is...
View ArticleIrregulars Article Delay
Our regular Friday File piece for this week is delayed, it should come out over the next few days — I’m working on my annual review of all the stocks in my Gumshoe “Universe,” and haven’t made as much...
View Article“One Little Shot to Kill Cancer Dead” from Smart Tech Investor
“UCLA Researchers Stunned by Nobel Prize-Winning Cancer Breakthrough “One Little Shot to Kill Cancer Dead “Proven in clinical trials to eliminate lethal forms of cancer with a single dose “One small...
View ArticleWhat’s the “Bionic Surgeon” Looking for imminent FDA Approval?
“Intuitive Surgical’s stock price bolted from $3 all the way to $561 a share today. “That’s a 19,000% return… “Good enough to turn $10,000 into $1.9 million… “And yet, it’s just a glimpse of the gains...
View ArticleIrregulars Annual Review
Each year I go through all of the stocks that I either own personally or have brought to the attention of the Irregulars (there’s quite a bit of overlap on those lists), and I make sure to update my...
View ArticleSchaefer says he “Mortgaged His House” to buy this “Solar Royalty” stock —...
Several readers have asked me about this pitch in the last few days, so I’m taking a look — it’s all about solar power, and about how the big surge in green energy interest will drive us to use much...
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