Fool’s “Small-cap Canadian stock is about to ‘catch on fire’ as it takes on...
The last stock that Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada teased turned out to be quite a success, despite my skepticism (that was Cargojet, which they talked up as the “Small-Cap Amazon of the North”)… so...
View ArticleFriday File: Earnings and Elections
Quite a week, no? As expected, my predictions about the election were wrong… and, perhaps more importantly, even anyone making a prediction about how the election returns were going to come out would...
View ArticleLooking into Lashmet’s “Triple Threat” COVID Testing Tease
“Election-proof… Pandemic-proof… Crash-proof… This tiny tech stock is the rare…TRIPLE THREAT” That’s the teaser headline from the ads I got over the weekend about Dave Lashmet’s favorite COVID-19...
View ArticleChecking out “Molecule 520”— does it “Change Everything?” How about those...
This Green Chip Stocks teaser pitch began life as a pitch for “Magic Molecule” stocks that will “change everything” and cure alcoholism, depression, PTSD and so much more… that original ad, which we...
View ArticleWhat’s the “Ticker Symbol of Amazon’s Landlord?”
There was a new teaser email from the Oxford Income Letter folks this morning that caught my eye… and in these tumultuous days, when I don’t really feel like doing any trading around these short-term...
View ArticleFriday File: Time for Cows, not Horses
Narratives and emotion drive the market in the short term, so last week we saw the tech stocks and COVID winners take another surge higher, perhaps in some surge of “election finally done” relief or...
View ArticleWhat’s Sjuggerud’s “Secret” Currency that “Could Help You Make Back Every...
Steve Sjuggerud over at Stansberry has a new ad out pitching a “secret currency,” designed to entice you to subscribe to his True Wealth newsletter (that’s one of Stansberry’s “entry level” letters,...
View ArticleMatt McCall’s Private Deal Group
Premium-priced “private equity” service from McCall, aims to invest in Reg. A and other private offerings available to non-accredited investors, generally available direct through the investee company...
View ArticleWhat’s McCall’s “Hollywood Blockbuster Deal?”
This is the pitch that caught a lot of Gumshoe reader eyes over the past couple days: “This is essentially the opportunity we have before us today… “To not only be an investor in a Hollywood brand, but...
View ArticleChecking out Siegel’s Pitch about “Spray-On Solar Cells” and “Elon Musk’s Big...
The intro to this ad came in an email promo from Christian DeHaemer, who writes other newsletters for Angel publishing… here’s the key part, about his communication from Jeff Siegel: “But back to Jeff…...
View ArticleSleuthing out RiskHedge’s “Amazon Killer Tollbooth”
This article was originally published on June 16, 2020. The ad is circulating again now, and seems unchanged from when we first covered it, so we’re re-posting it here to help answer reader questions....
View ArticleHyperdrive Portfolio
Growth-oriented model portfolio subscription that aims to build a portfolio of “triple in 18 months” positions and trade around those positions along the way to goose returns (averaging up, adding...
View ArticleSleuthing out Shah Gilani’s “Hyperdrive” Stocks?
I’ve gotten a few reader questions about this new pitch from Shah Gilani over at Money Map Press, and we haven’t covered any of his teaser pitches in a long time so it seems like we’re due to take a...
View ArticleFriday File: SPACs, Big news from GAN, and a new Watchlist Stock
We won’t be posting a Friday File next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, and publishing will be light in general for the next few days for the same reason (though we will, of course, feature our...
View ArticleBlanco teases: “Does This Tiny $2 Company Have The Key To Tesla’s...
What we’re looking at today is a pretty craven repurposing of a dramatically failed teaser pitch, just to let you know that up front. Ray Blanco’s Catalyst Trader service teased this as their “Tesla...
View ArticleThinkolating on the “Tesla Killer”— what’s the “Breakthrough ‘Quantum Glass’...
This article was originally published on January 17, 2019. The ad is still in heavy circulation, and we are still getting a lot of questions about it, so we’re re-posting our commentary here. The ad is...
View Article2020 Turkey of the Year
This year has seen more than its share of wildly successful investments, largely playing off of the pandemic — led by biotechnology stocks trying to treat, fight or prevent COVID-19 infections, and the...
View ArticleTrend Trader’s “The Secret $5 Company Behind Elon’s Race to Own the Internet”
Lou Basenese is pitching Elon Musk’s next big idea in ads for his Trend Trader service (which is currently being sold for $149/yr), so let’s have a look and see if we can name that stock… and cut...
View ArticleMampilly’s “America 2.0” and his “#1 Stock for 2021”
I published an article on January 13, 2020 about Mampilly’s “America 2.0” pitch and his “#1 Stock for 2020”, and though that ad is largely unchanged we’re seeing it a lot again now — most recently, the...
View ArticleFriday File: Lemonade, Handling Success, and a Couple New Watchlist Stocks
Today I wanted to start by looking at an abrupt move from a stock I’ve been watching in recent months. Lemonade (LMND) soared 20% yesterday and a bit more still this morning, on no news… the stock is...
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