Are “Q-Shares” Really “The Perfect Investment?” What they heck are they, anyway?
So… what’s a “Q-Share?” Are they some magical kind of stock that you can buy, through some secret method, that’s much better than the dumb old regular kinds of stocks you have in your brokerage...
View ArticleDe-teasing Kramer’s “The No. 1 Value Stock for 2020”
Growth stocks get all the attention these days, what with talk of a final “melt up” in the market before things finally return to rationality, and “value stocks” have been floundering for years as...
View ArticleMcCall’s “Crypto Bank About to Take Off”
It’s Friday and I’m mostly working on my Friday File and Annual Review for the Irregulars, but I couldn’t resist a quickie answer for you on this latest Investorplace pitch… Matt McCall is selling his...
View ArticleTop Stock Advisor teases that this is “Like Buying a Brand-new Corvette for...
This is from an email I receoved from J.R. Butts, pointing at a teaser ad from StreetAuthority for his entry-level Top Stock Advisor newsletter ($39 “on sale” for the first year), a service I haven’t...
View ArticleTakeover Targets
Advisory that aims to recommend a new “takeover target” stock that they think will be acquired each month. Initial teaser ads indicate a lot of these will likely be biotech stocks.
View ArticleAre the Fool’s “FAZER” stocks “The Next FAANG?”
We’ve had a lot of questions pop up over the past couple days about the Motley Fool’s “FAZER” stocks, which will apparently be the focus of a “special presentation” they’re making tomorrow morning. The...
View ArticleSolving RiskHedge’s “Cyber Defense 7-Bagger” Teaser
Stephen McBride has been using this ad to market RiskHedge’s Disruption Investor (currently “on sale” for $99/yr) since last Fall, but readers have continued to ask about it and I haven’t had a chance...
View Article“Why The Coronavirus Collapse is Sending This Stock Soaring”
This is an update of a teaser solution from an older Friday File for everyone to read… I figure the Irregulars won’t be too upset, since the stock in question is up dramatically since this piece was...
View ArticleFriday File: Panic in the time of Purell
It’s been an unusually active month in the Real Money Portfolio — a couple big sells, several brand new positions, and quite a bit more churn than I usually have. Those transactions have mostly been...
View ArticleWhat’s Chris Wood’s 2,000% “SuperDisruptor” Born from a March 30 Merger?
I’ve been knocked out by a non-coronavirus illness for the past couple days, and I have to tell you, that’s probably the best thing that could have happened for my sanity — watching the stock tickers...
View ArticleDeHaemer’s “Next FAANG”— What are “The 4 MVPs of the Tap & Go Revolution?”
A version of this story first appeared on January 22, when we first saw Christian DeHaemer’s ad. The ad has been very lightly updated in recent months and is being heavily promoted now, so I’ve gone...
View ArticleLooking into “This Secret Arms Race Could Mint Another Round of Crypto...
Jason Stutman is peddling his Technology & Opportunity letter ($99/yr) with a new tease about blockchain, so I thought it would be good to take a look at that after we sniffed around in Paul...
View ArticleWhat’s Stansberry’s “The Government-Proof, Inflation-Proof, Crisis-Proof,...
Sometimes when I’m choosing which ad to cover on a given day it’s based on the number of questions I’ve gotten, or the number of times we’ve seen the ad in the past few days… and sometimes it’s based...
View ArticleWhat’s Tilson’s ““TaaS?” He says “It could put up to an extra $5,600 back in...
The newest ad for Whitney Tilson’s Empire Stock Investor ($49, renews at $199) is all about this “Taas” business, and I’ve gotten a few questions since it started circulating a week or two ago… so...
View ArticleFriday File: Cheap Insurance and Expensive Silver
Here’s my soothsaying bit for this week, which you should feel free to ignore — like everyone else who’s predicting the future, I’m probably going to be wrong. I don’t think, even now, that we’re...
View ArticleInvestigating Mampilly’s “Battery Breakthrough of the 21st Century” Teaser Pitch
This teaser ad from Paul Mampilly is a bit of a bait and switch, primarily teasing a specific company that you really can’t invest in directly, so that’s your warning up front… but we’ll dig through...
View ArticleMotley Fool Canada’s “Triple Down” Stock
The Motley Fool loves to use terms like “double down” and “triple down” in its ads for some reason, and this latest one basically extends a previous Motley Fool US pitch to Motley Fool Canada… but I’ll...
View ArticleDe-teasing Gilder’s “Don’t buy 5G Stocks, Buy 15G Instead” pitch
Today’s ad that we’re finally covering, after tons of requests, is for Gilder’s Moonshots, which is the latest publication launched in George Gilder’s return to newsletter world. Here’s the headline...
View ArticleE.B Tucker’s Strategic Trader
Pricier upgrade from Tucker’s Strategic Investor. Described on their website as “Casey Research’s premium trading service dedicated to finding 1,000% winners with the least amount of risk.”
View ArticleCompeting with Beijing’s Death Star — What’s “The Laser Defense Firm That...
Since Star Wars day just passed (May the Fourth Be With You!), I guess it’s time for a “Death Star” story — this one comes from an ad for The Wealth Warrior ($99/yr), which is Jason Simpkins’ security...
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