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Annual Review — Commodities Stocks and Related Picks

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:43:29 +0000

Some of the stocks I’ve already covered in our annual review so far this year have been commodity related — Pembina Pipeline, for example, or Dorchester minerals or Seadrill, picks that also have high dividends or that trade largely as income investments. But I’ve suggested quite a few other commodity-related investments over the years, so [...]

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“A Silver Company You Need to Own NOW” (Dudley Pierce Baker)

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:41:08 +0000

I don’t believe I’ve ever written about Dudley Baker and his Precious Metals Warrants subscription service, but several folks sent in his latest pitch for subscribers, and it has exactly the kind of teaser promise that we love to unravel, so I thought I’d have a look for you. Baker has been a warrants/options/futures trader [...]

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“Canada’s Game-Changing Mine” (Alternative Energy Speculator tease)

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:55:34 +0000

If you have a pulse and an email address, odds are pretty good that you’ve seen the ad from Angel Investing for their “game-changing mine” discovery in Canada as they tease and tease and tease to get new subscribers for Alternative Energy Speculator … and frankly, the pulse is optional. I wrote about this pick [...]

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Re-building a Position

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:37:28 +0000

Just a quick note that, as I said I would eventually do, I’ve begun rebuilding my Sandstorm Metals & Energy position — I sold most of my holdings in this base metals and energy streaming company in December to take tax losses, and have now bought in to about a third of the position size [...]

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Nick Vardy’s “Never-Wrong Indicator” Predicts Dow 15,000 by October

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:10 +0000

Nicholas Vardy has a splashy new ad out predicting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will hit 15,014 by October of this year — which would be about a 17% gain from today’s price (the DOW is at 12,880 or so right now). And naturally, he’s got the best way for you to profit from [...]

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Doug Casey’s “Fortunes in the New World”

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:39:59 +0000

There’s been a big push on in recent days for subscriptions to some of Doug Casey’s newsletters, with the ad that I’ve been most recently asked about being for a “combo deal” that gets you subscriptions to Casey International Speculator and their flagship Casey Report (for a “discount” price, naturally, though it renews at a [...]

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The Last Stock you will ever………Patrick Cox

Frank Halbe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:20:22 +0000

Does anyone have info on this recent teaser?

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Annual Revisit: Income Ideas (Part two)

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:25:49 +0000

The annual parade continues — I’m updating my thoughts on the stocks I’ve suggested in the past as “Idea of the Month” investments, and in this installment we’re looking at what are mostly dividend-growth stocks: income ideas, but not stocks that have particularly huge current dividends (those “bigger yielders” were covered in Part one here). [...]

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Is Sandstorm a PFIC company?

Jennifer Walsh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:52:09 +0000

For all of you accountants out there, is Sandstorm Gold SNDXF a PFIC company? If so, What’s the best way to invest in it.

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“‘Privatized TIPS’ … absolutely dominate inflation … leave oil, gold and everything else in the dust”

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:49:15 +0000

This ad is not exactly brand new, but folks have been sending in queries about it for a few weeks, and pretty steadily, so I thought I’d try to get some answers out for you. The pitch is from Ian Wyatt, who’s trying to sell his Top Stock Insights newsletter by throwing in a “special [...]

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