

“And Peter Thiel … a man that Forbes, Fortune and the New Yorker all call the best tech investor in history… He’s adding to a $110 million investment.” “Mark Zuckerberg’s $3 billion fund is heavily backing ‘Imperium’… “Bill Gates’ investment fund is contributing to a $429 million investment… saying Imperium is ‘one of the most powerful technologies of the 21st century’… “Jeff Bezos recently added to a $100 million investment… We get the rundown of usual suspects who are involved, a list of names that is typically meant to inspire confidence: And no, it’s not my all-time favorite company in the space, DNA Friend, so who is it? So what’s the story? This is, as you’ve probably already guessed, some sort of genetic testing company. “Where rare and exceptional stocks like Intel shot up more than 8,000% in 10 years.” “Because investing in “Imperium” now could be like getting into internet stocks in the early 1990s…

“It’s the small-cap company that makes this machine…”Īnd the big picture spiel is all about this being the next mega-trend… 1 stock to take advantage of the ‘Imperium’ mega trend… “Of course, it’s not enough to spot a mega trend before the masses… “This machine… contains a technology that will be the most transformative in history…. So what’s he peddling today? What is this “Imperium” business? He starts out with what looks like a blueprint of a special machine… I note that only to remind you that nobody is magic, and nobody has a “system” that picks the right stock all the time… but, as always, we’ll try to judge each investment idea we hear on its own merits. If you bought all three and held, you would have lost some money at this point… and at the best moment, when gold peaked a couple months after those picks were pitched, you would have done roughly as well with those three stocks as if you had bought a gold goin. The only pitch of his that I’ve looked at recently was back in the summer of 2020, that was a gold stock spiel and, well, the three mainstream gold stocks he pitched were, as you might expect, levered to gold prices - gold is down about 3% since then, so two of the stocks are down about 25-30% and the third is down 6%. He generally focuses on technical and quantitative analysis, so I guess in some ways he’s playing in a similar sandbox to folks like Louis Navellier - screening and grading stocks to rank them.

This particular ad is for his Green Zone Fortunes, an entry level letter ($47/yr) that profiles one stock that’s “in the zone” each month. O’Dell used to be a market technician specialist for the Harry Dent newsletters, which got “dissolved” and were sucked up by Banyan Hill a couple years ago, and now he’s off in his own corner as the investment strategist for Money & Markets, which I guess remains either owned by or affiliated with Banyan Hill.
