What’s going on with HRT Participacoes?
Irregulars may remember that HRT Participacoes (HRP on the Venture Exchange in Canada, HRTPY on the pink sheets) is a bet largely on Namibian offshore oil exploration — the Namibian exploration they’re...
View ArticleExplaining “How to Collect Your Government-Backed Real Estate Tax Rebate Checks”
Ian Wyatt is no stranger to the misleading teaser ad — I say this not to pick on him specifically (there are dozens of others with similar-seeming ads), but because his pitches seem to catch the...
View ArticleSelling a Banker, Buying a Warrant
Just a quick note to confirm that yes, I did sell my remaining shares of Sprott Resource Lending once my trading restriction ended — and early today I bought some of the PNC Warrants that I had...
View ArticleLonrho Gets Low Enough for a Takeover Bid — What to do?
Those of you who follow Lonrho know that in addition to featuring it as an “Idea of the Month” back in 2009, I’ve owned it for my own accounts for quite some time. This is a conglomerate that...
View Article“New Zealand’s Bakken!” Sniffing around Christian DeHaemer’s Oil Teaser
The Bakken formation in North Dakota has made plenty of millionaires, not just among the ranchers who owned those cold and dusty acres in the decades before shale oil production became feasible, but...
View ArticleWhat’s Cabot’s May “Stock of the Month” in the Cloud Computing Sector?
Like several other newsletter families, Cabot runs a relatively low-cost service that culls picks from all of their newsletters and picks a monthly favorite — the service is called the Cabot Stock of...
View Article“Say These 5 ‘Magic’ Words To Your Local Bank Teller— And You Could Walk Away...
We’re rerunning this piece because it continues to be one of the most asked-for explanations on the Stock Gumshoe website. What follows below was originally published in mid-2012, it has been updated...
View ArticleMay Idea of the Month: “Busted Growth Revival Story”
As I typically do after attending the Value Investing Congress, I’m selecting one of my favorite ideas from the conference to share with you as our next “Idea of the Month.” The selection process was a...
View ArticleRevealing Frank Curzio’s “Ultimate App” Biometrics Stock
Well, well, well — another month, another Phase 1 teaser from Frank Curzio and the Stansberry folks. And if you’re going to use your massive mailing list of a few million investors to sell a $3,000...
View ArticleStop-lossing out of an explorer
This is just a quick note to let you know that following HRT Participacoes’ (HRP.V HRTPY) drilling results announced this week, I’ve let my shares be stopped out at about a 25-30% loss. The drilling...
View ArticleClosing out a Lonrho loss
I noted last week that the Lonrho deal to be taken over by a Swiss billionaire was almost certain to go through without a higher bid emerging — and now that my trading embargo has ended I’ve sold my...
View ArticleRahemtulla’s “Gold This Pure Isn’t Supposed to Exist” Teaser
A couple weeks ago I covered the first teaser from Karim Rahemtulla’s newly launched Oil & Energy Confidential trading service — that was a pitch about natural gas offshore Cyprus, claiming that as...
View ArticleMainz Income Stream —“Astonishing Find in Hillary Clinton’s Tax Returns”
This is all going to sound at least somewhat familiar — the Stansberry folks are sending around a teaser ad that cites Hillary Clinton’s huge non-government earnings on her tax returns, and tells us...
View ArticleWhat are Chris Mayer’s “CPR Plans?”
Agora Financial has been trying to sell Chris Mayer’s Special Situations newsletter by pitching his “CPR Plan” — which is a strategy that he says he uses for 53% of his investing portfolio, and which...
View ArticleUpdated Personal Top Holdings
I try to share my opinions with readers like you in a variety of different ways, from my notes on each teaser stock I cover to my more thorough looks at “idea of the month” picks or stocks that I buy...
View Article“The ONE STOCK to get rich from Internet banking … Big Banking’s Little $20.8...
It’s been a very long time since I’ve looked at a teaser from the Motley Fool’s Hidden Gems service — that’s the “small cap value” newsletter which used to be run by Tom Gardner. It’s now edited by...
View Article“Shakeout Victims” From Harry Dent
“On August 1st, This Once Iconic American Retailer Will Stun Shareholders” That’s how the latest teaser ad from Harry Dent gets us interested — Dent has been around for a long time, and his predictions...
View ArticleFull Steam Ahead
Seadrill (SDRL) is still cooking away — our favorite deepwater drilling company continues to tinker with its portfolio and book new deals for its growing fleet of floaters and jack-ups, and the prices...
View Article“Minting Millions from the Magic Molecule” (Nick Hodge)
“How to get this $35,000/gram miracle cure for just $0.65″ — that’s the subject line of the latest teaser ad we’re reviewing … how can you resist? The folks at Angel Publishing appear to be spinning...
View Article“10 Best Stocks to Hold Forever” Revealed (Elliott Gue)
Elliott Gue will be a familiar name to longtime Gumshoe readers — he’s been a fixture in newsletter land for as long as we’ve been around (Stock Gumshoe’s sixth birthday was a couple months ago, thanks...
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