Commodities
Jun 6th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
“The world has changed. It is a more fragile and less stable place.”
The speaker was Joshua Friedman, the co-chief at Canyon Partners, which manages $20 billion. He was speaking at Grant’s Spring Investment Conference, which I attended in early April.
Friedman used the imagery of the old bell curves. There is ...
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Tags: Commodities, Natural Gas, Optionality
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May 31st, 2011 |
By Abe Cofnas |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Forex, Investing Strategies, Options
Greece is back in the headlines, threatening to sink the euro, if not the entire European Union. The whole situation can be a bit complicated, so I tried putting myself in your shoes, wondering the kind of questions you might have. More importantly, there’s a big trade brewing in this ...
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Tags: binary options, currency trading, euro, eurozone, Forex trading, Greece
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May 16th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
In the 1850s, hardy Russian explorers and fur trappers traipsing about mountain ranges and sea passages noted oil seeps around what we call Cook Inlet today. These are the earliest historical references to the oil in Alaska.
Over the next hundred years, a variety of fortune-seekers — lone prospectors, private wildcatters ...
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Tags: Alaska, Commodities, oil
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May 6th, 2011 |
By Alan Knuckman |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
Commodities have led the asset markets higher driven by strength in crude and gold. Crude has powered above $112 possibly on the way to the projected target of $125 in mid April — even in the face of a pullback.
The Commodity Research Bureau Index (CRB) made new multi year highs ...
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Tags: Commodities, Investing
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May 3rd, 2011 |
By Alan Knuckman |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
At the beginning of 2011 I gave a special forecast to Agora Financial Reserve members (see below)… the resounding recommendation was for silver. Specifically I was quoted saying “I see more potential in silver [than gold.] I look for silver to double in price this year, again.”
In retrospect that was ...
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Tags: silver, technical trading, trading
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Apr 26th, 2011 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks
The housing market is one of the best-looking asset classes for 2011 and 2012. I’ll admit, that prediction may seem shocking right now, especially if you’ve been following my thoughts about the massive wave of mortgage resets threatening home ownership this year. But bear with me — now may be ...
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Tags: Dividends, Housing
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks |
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Apr 20th, 2011 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Some trades are more difficult to execute than others. In my opinion, one of the toughest trades to make are the stocks that have already made big runs, but are showing signs that they're ready to continue even higher. Fear can easily get the best of you, persuading you to ...
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Tags: Commodities, Investing, small cap
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Apr 12th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
I grew up in the 1980s, and in some ways I never left it. I still wear Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. I still enjoy those big hair bands like Guns N’ Roses and the bluesy rock of Stevie Ray Vaughan. And I still get a kick out of watching re-reruns of ...
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Tags: Investing, oil
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Apr 4th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
There is no substitute for it. It is crucial to the world’s food supply, for which it serves as a fertilizer. And most of the world’s mines are in decline. Foreign Policy magazine recently called it “the gravest resource shortage you’ve never heard of.”
Demand for the rock is growing as ...
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Tags: Commodities, Investing
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Mar 29th, 2011 |
By Alan Knuckman |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
While many investors see bonds as boring investments for the risk-averse, the truth is that bonds can give traders a wealth of information about where other markets are headed. Today, I want to share how I look at the bond market to determine how to trade the commodity markets – ...
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Tags: Commodities, Investing, Options
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