Thursday, September 25, 2008

Ready for the wipeout?

A few days ago I got my daily smap from Louis Navellier.
The goal was to scare the reader and to do so, Mr. Navellier's marketing experts added a picture of a paining: The Raft of the Medusa, by the French painter Théodore Géricault. You can admire this painting at the Louvre Museum in paris.

Here it is. Scary, isn't it?



Mr. Navellier (or his Marketing department) then try to convince you that the one and only way to preserve your money id through his Blue Chip Growth service. A few $100 and you and your money are safe.

In addition you get Mr. Navellier's report The Earnings Secret: how to outperform the market 3-to-1! (a $49 value), his How To Invest $50,000 Now (a $49 value) and last but not least If You Can Buy Just 3 (a $29 value).

I do not know who and how values these reports, but this is not the point here.

In a light yellow frame on the same message you can read:

Do You Own ONE Of These Stocks?

This is a sampling of the stocks we put to the test and report on in Action Plan For The Wipeout:

Microsoft

Apple
Visa
Cisco
Crocs
Google
Intel
General Electric
ExxonMobil
Goldman Sachs
Johnson & Johnson
America Movil
Colgate-Palmolive
Deere
Express Scripts
First Solar
Mosaic
MEMC Electronic
Toyota
Blockbuster
McDonald’s
Research In Motion
Schlumberger
Lockheed Martin
CSX Corp
Merrill Lynch
Pfizer
Merck
MasterCard
Raytheon
Activision
Hess
Owens-Illinois
Pepsi Co
Transocean
Vimpel
AND 84 MORE!

But there is a little problem: the following stocks ARE currently in the Blue Chip Growth portfolio:
  1. Apple
  2. Colgate-Palmolive
  3. Deere
  4. Express Scripts
  5. First Solar
  6. Mosaic (Top5)
  7. McDonald’s
  8. Research In Motion
  9. CSX Corp
  10. MasterCard
  11. Raytheon
  12. Activision (Top5)
  13. Hess
  14. Owens-Illinois
  15. Transocean
  16. Vimpel

Does Mr. N. check what he has or does he just tell his readers random advices? Two of the stocks to avoid are even in his Top5...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The list he provides doesn't necessarily mean that it is a stock to avoid. It just means that they put that stock to the test and report on it.