Louis James, LLC is here to inform, educate, and enable action for an elite group of savvy investors—and those who wish to become such. Our goal is to achieve extraordinary gains for ourselves and those willing and able to take the risks and apply the discipline needed to speculate successfully.
Lobo Tiggre (Louis James) was legendary speculator Doug Casey’s protégé at Casey Research for almost 14 years, until early 2018. He joined the Casey team in 2004. By 2007, he was writing and making investment recommendations in Casey’s flagship newsletter, the International Speculator. Now he brings his experience, his connections and his deal flow directly to you, without the barrage of marketing hype used by larger publishers.
The average yearly gain reported by the International Speculator during Lobo's tenure (published by Casey Research in January of 2018), was 18.5%. See disclaimer for details.
We are now posting a new track record of all closed positions—no cherry picking—including evidence showing all fees and commissions. Interested parties are invited to monitor our results as they are achieved. Our clients, of course, have access to a completely transparent portfolio of all positions, including analysis of news and developments in near real time.
The 18.5% average of past yearly gains includes the years of our founder’s early training at Casey Research, the crash of 2008, and the downturn for resource investments from 2011 to 2015. Not all years were winners, but some were quite successful, resulting in the average above. We are now ready to apply the lessons learned from the decades of investing experience of investing giants such as Doug Casey, Rick Rule, and others to seek to achieve even better results in the future.
Results are the first and most essential cornerstone of our business. That’s what we’re all here for, after all.
For the record, “Louis James” is a pen name our lead researcher adopted for his writing at Casey Research. His legal name, Lobo Tiggre, being a bit more exotic, was kept private. Indeed, Tiggre was advised against going public with his real name at the founding of Louis James, LLC.
But since integrity is another cornerstone of our business, keeping the truth from the public was not an option. Instead, we’re keeping the “Louis James” brand alive through our company’s name.
For those not familiar with Lobo Tiggre’s work, due diligence is its hallmark. Hence our Twitter handle, @duediligenceguy. He’s flown more than a million miles on behalf of Casey readers (with no way to count the miles on 4×4, horse, mule, and foot).
Now, undeterred by falling rocks in mines, rickety third-world aircraft, scorpions, malaria outbreaks, or worse, we will continue the “Louis James” tradition of going where others dare not tread to leave no stone unturned on behalf of our clients.
Lobo Tiggre is one of the most experienced and diligent researchers on the planet.
Click here for a full Lobo Tiggre/Louis James biography.
Our in-house team includes passionate professionals with years of experience. Despite that expertise, we are always willing to check our premises, test our ideas, probe for fatal flaws, and make use of the expertise of others who can help up deliver the best results. To this end, we have a board of advisors consisting of some of the most knowledgeable, reputable, and successful people in our industry. These include: Doug Casey, Adrian Day, Ron Parratt, Moira Smith and more.
In short, our experience in the field, contacts in the resource industry, work ethic, and track record make us uniquely qualified to guide resource speculators.
Rather than insult your intelligence, we assume it.
We’re not aiming for mass market here. We’re not interested in trying to trick, or even convince large numbers of people to sign up. There’d be no point, since, honestly, most people are not suited to a service like ours.
Our clients are those few who understand the value of exhaustive research in the best speculative investment ideas on the market today. They find us, and we will make it worth their while if they join. Therefore, out of respect for your intelligence and the value of your time…
We will never inundate you with high-pressure sales gimmicks.
Our communications will be as low-volume, relevant, and accurate as possible.
Up front, our clients need to understand that our typical speculation takes at least a year to mature. That’s why we encourage one-year subscriptions. However, we understand that a year’s payment up front is a lot to ask of those unfamiliar with our work, so we also offer a quarterly option to The Independent Speculator. Our My Take service has monthly and yearly options. All subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, except for the yearly subscription to The Independent Speculator, which must be renewed by the client every year. (Don’t worry; we’ll send reminders.) All clients who renew any subscription are grandfathered against future price increases.
There are no refunds. Here’s why:
It takes a great deal of time, work, and expense to come up with great speculations.
Once we give you our ideas, you
can’t un-know them, can’t give them back.
We aren’t looking for people who want to “kick the tires.” We aren’t interested in offering “free trials” or other sales gimmicks. Unlike others who shotgun their sales pitches at the masses, we’re aiming for an elite audience that already knows the value of our kind of work.
Note that we reserve the right to cancel service—with no refund—to anyone who forwards our copyrighted material to others. Sharing our work with non-clients hurts us and fellow clients who then face extra competition from others acting on the same information.
Our clients believe in the value of our work. They trust that we’ll do everything in our power to deliver value that’s many times greater than what they pay.
We are publishers, not financial advisors. We do not make any buy, sell, or other investment recommendations in any of our services. We do not offer, nor make any financial recommendations to individuals. We do tell clients what speculations we are making, and why, in our paid services. Clients then make their own decisions.
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A free online educational service for investors who want to become top performing speculators. |
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Free digest with fresh investment-related news and ideas on a daily basis.
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Free reports on investment ideas for speculators.
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Honest, unbiased trend analysis
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Heads up on events, appearances, and other educational opportunities.
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"In The Pit" company grillings
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Our no frills, high-impact introductory level newsletter provides action-enabling guidance on investments that interest our readers. |
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Requests for coverage
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Searchable Database
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Books and More
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Free Access to Blog
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Clients-Only Meetings
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$500 /year $50 /month Learn more |
RESEARCHThe Independent Speculator |
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Subscription to The Independent Speculator newsletter, our flagship monthly service that provides actionable investment ideas, 24/7 market monitoring, and more. |
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Field Trip Invitations
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Email Alerts
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Company News and Analysis
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The Go To List
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Buy If You Dare List
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My Take Included
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Field Trip Invitations
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Priority Support
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$3,000 /year $1000 /quarter Learn more |
Financial publishers can give their readers investment ideas as long as they don’t give people individual investment advice. This is not a 100% clearly defined area of US law. Our way to stay well clear of any possibility of crossing the line is not to make any investment recommendations at all.
Instead, we tell readers of The Independent Speculator what we are investing in and why. Those clients can then do the same if they so choose. By sharing our actual speculative investments—not a theoretical “model” portfolio, but the actual trades and deals we make—we teach by example. Clients who follow our lead can make the same level of returns as we do.
Readers of My Take gain access to independent and unbiased analysis of equities of interest to our audience, including them. They too make their own investment decisions. Our take on any equities they happen to invest in—or avoid—can help them improve their success rate with their speculative investments.
All our clients understand that they make their own speculative investment decisions, which are their sole responsibility. Our goal is simply to help improve their results with relevant, independent analysis.
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