“Secret Loophole into Silicon Valley’s ‘Most Valuable Private Company'”
That headline comes to us from Wall Street Daily, soliciting subscribers for Robert Williams’ True Alpha, and it’s one of the more attention-getting strategies that newsletter use to pitch ideas:...
View ArticleMarch Idea of the Month: Back to Baby Berkshire?
I’m feeling a little bit old today because my fourth baby, Stock Gumshoe, just celebrated its eighth birthday. Eight years of solving teasers, sharing thoughts, and defusing marketing hype… and it’s...
View ArticleVery Pleased with Facebook
Several readers have asked what I’m thinking about Facebook (FB) following their most recent quarterly release — which was, as you’ve probably guessed, for a pretty seasonably quiet quarter....
View ArticleDr. Landlord and “Obama’s Secret Pipeline”
Maybe the scariest thing I can tell you is, “I’m not selling everything.” The drumbeat in my head continues to be one of worry, I continue to be a little bit surprised at how high stocks are going, and...
View Article“‘Sky-Fi’— Silicon Valley’s $2.2 Trillion Breakthrough Bigger Than The...
The latest pitch for a “forever” stock from the Street Authority folks is all about how the next wave of internet adoption is going to make us all filthy, stinkin’ rich — and we don’t even have to buy...
View Article“”This is not a cure for cancer, but…” plus a look at Facebook and some...
Before I get rolling, I should I’ve got a few updates and thoughts for you on some stocks I own and sometimes write about, but first we’ve got a quick teaser solution to share with you — this one’s...
View ArticleFriday File: “The Fat Pitch” for 2015?
Interested in fiber optics? We’ve gotten a few questions from readers about this ad, which has been running for a month or so and teases a “fat pitch” for the year in a stock that’s related to fiber...
View Article“This Tiny Tech Company Will Have More Users Than Apple, Google, and...
Yeah, probably not. But that’s the promise — and there is some mathematical possibility that it could happen, if all the ducks line up in a row and this company becomes dominant. You never know, I...
View ArticleFriday File: Another Shopping List Item, a Boring Buy, and some general updates
So… the Fed failed to do anything, which I guess means that the wild predictions about the end of western civilization hitting us on September 18th are going to get pushed off again. Maybe we’ll soon...
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 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 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 ArticleGoogle Profit Loophole: “Why Google is Contractually Obligated to Pay You Up...
Seriously? Google’s obligated to pay you every month? Well, kind of. But no, not really. This teaser pitch came in from Briton Ryle and the Angel Publishing folks a few times over the past week as...
View ArticleFriday File — More Berkshire, and some Good Friday Musings about Bad Performers
We’re just about shut down here at Stock Gumshoe HQ for the market holiday today, but I do have some updated thoughts and musings for you about a few of the companies I own and write about with some...
View ArticleAgora’s “How You’ll Have Dinner with Shakespeare… Speak Any Language… Know...
Ray Blanco is flogging his Technology Profits Confidential with an ad that promises “three companies almost no one knows about” in the virtual reality space — which, given the widespread interest among...
View Article“Virtual Reality Motion Sensing and Computing Power… These Two Companies are...
I covered the first virtual reality pick hyped by Ray Blanco a few weeks ago, but I forgot to follow up and dig into the second and third picks he was teasing in that ad… so when I saw a new version of...
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 ArticleMotley Fool’s “The 4 Stocks We Believe Are Poised To Dominate The Virtual...
We haven’t seen many big new teaser ad pushes from the Motley Fool Stock Advisor lately. They did pretty aggressively promote David Gardner’s latest IPO recommendation over the past month or so (that...
View ArticleMay Idea of the Month: Online Advertising IPO Washout
Online advertising is a rapidly growing industry, dominated by Facebook and Google (particularly in this country) but still changing rapidly and amenable to new ideas and new technologies. Better ideas...
View ArticleOpening the year with a new portfolio position
Hello, all! I’ve missed you in our holiday hiatus — and my apologies that the hiatus was extended a bit due to a nice bout of New Year Flu, but we should be back on track now. This first note is just...
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