What’s Cabot’s “Small Cap Medical Juggernaut?”
Timothy Lutts is hinting at a new small cap stock in order to tantalize potential subscribers to Cabot Small-Cap Confidential 2.0 (which will run you $950/year), and the line that caught my eye was “A...
View ArticleWhat are those teased “Sponsored Retirement Plans (SRPs)?”
George Leong at Lombardi is pushing an ad these days for a service he’s calling Automated Income, which recommends something he calls “Sponsored Retirement Plans” (SRPs). The basic gist is not a huge...
View Article“This No-Name Company Is Set to Expose the #1 ‘Deadly Flaw’ in Every Single...
This article was originally published on May 19, and the ad we’re covering has been heavily promoted over the past month, leading up to a big final push before yesterday’s supposed catalyst date of...
View ArticleSolving Agora’s “Meet The Tiny Company Holding A Real Cure for Cancer” Tease
Ray Blanco is running another ad with a near-term deadline for big anticipated stock movements — last time around, it was the pitch about Energous (WATT) and his conviction that Apple CEO Tim Cook...
View Article“How to ‘Buy Gold’ at $165 an Ounce”
The gold bull market is really back, at least when it comes to newsletter promotions. Probably the quickest off the starting line was Porter Stansberry with his “Metropolitan Club” plan and...
View ArticleWhat’s Robinson’s “Little Black Smart Box” teased for Radical Technology...
This one already has a little discussion going among some of our intrepid Gumshoe Irregulars, and at least one of them has ID’d the right stock … but I’ve been asked to weigh in, so I’ll give it the...
View ArticleFriday File: “Own the Startup that Beat Tesla” (plus some buy and sell notes...
What does one do with a Brexit? What will happen to the markets if the British people elect to leave the European Union when they go to the polls next week? I have no idea, of course, but the...
View ArticleBrunch with Markel
Markel hosts a brunch each year following the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, and has done so for 25 years now — during which time the company has grown considerably, from a small $100 million...
View ArticleFriday File: Gold, Grenville, and some Buys and Sells
I wrote a short note to you last weekend while I was attending the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, and as part of that I noted that I had taken some profits on several of my time-sensitive gold...
View ArticleMore Mouse, Please
This is just a quick note to let the Irregulars know that I’ve added to my holdings in Walt Disney (DIS) after their somewhat tepid quarter and negative investor reaction. I still consider this to be...
View ArticleFriday File — CRIUF, MPW, AAPL and more.
This week we don’t have a new teaser solution for your Friday File pleasure, so I’ll stick with some updates on a few stocks I’ve been watching this week… and next week, we’ll get our “Idea of the...
View ArticleCovered Call Sell in Advertising
I’ve promised the Irregulars that I’ll keep you up to date on my personal purchases and sales in the stocks that I write about, so I need to let you know that I sold my Criteo (CRTO) position on...
View ArticleWhy is Input Surging?
Input Capital (INP.V, INPCF) has soared still higher — I wrote about this a couple weeks ago when it was just ticking over the top of what I considered a “safe” range for buying the stock. Optimism...
View ArticleMay Idea of the Month: Automotive Electronics
The “Idea of the Month” for May, which is fast coming to a close, is automotive electronics — and I think we have two interesting options that I’m interested in buying (I don’t own either right now)....
View ArticleBarron’s wishy-washy on Medical Properties, Reminds me to look at rebalancing
Barron’s came out with a note about Medical Properties Trust (MPW) over the weekend, and I was wondering if it would spur some profit-taking in the stock… doesn’t appear to have happened yet, the stock...
View ArticleA New Look for Stock Gumshoe
As you may have noticed, we’re shaking things up in the design and layout of the site. Most things will continue to work very similarly to how they have in the past, but the site will work much better...
View ArticleFriday File: Brexit Thoughts and a few nibbles
There was a whisper of panic in the air this morning. Early in the day I had trouble connecting to both the Kitco website (for gold prices) and to Fidelity, among a few other websites that seem to have...
View ArticlePlow and Core
I noted on Friday that I had added to my Douglas Dynamics (PLOW) holdings following their recent acquisition of Dejana… so I should note that this morning, ratings agencies gave PLOW a little slap on...
View ArticleSome Stupid Ideas for the Month
Good title for an article, right? I’ve realized, after getting a few questions, that some Gumshoe readers are interested in a few of my less liquid, more levered, or riskier investments, the ones (like...
View ArticleFriday File: REITs, First Mining and Gold
Today I’m breaking up our Friday File into two segments, which many of you have noted that you prefer — one part is a teaser pitch solution, the other is an update on a few stocks that I own and/or...
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