There are a lot of options for your hard earned capital and no shortage of folks wanting to tell you how to use it. Recent trends have been very profitable in different sectors. On the other hand, energy has displayed a horrendous previous 52 weeks. So here are 5 reasons not...
In a bull market when energy stocks are flying and everybody is making money—like the first eight months of 2014—investors don’t care about what I’m going to tell you now. It would have been a waste of my time to write this story in January 2014. But now it’s different; everybody...
Dropping energy prices—for both oil and natural gas—has investors and analysts checking to see what the break-even price is for oil production in each play in North America. This is a moving target, and it’s going lower all the time. And I’m going to tell you The Next Phase of increasing...
The Energy Sector is having a RED day; a down day as oil prices re-trench.  Oil is supposed to do that at this time of year--the shoulder season between summer driving season and winter heating. But it always makes me re-think my investing strategies.  So right NOW--if I had to--where...
I’m a retail investor and I make retail trading mistakes.  I get nervous too early…even on stocks in which I have high conviction.  Sometimes I skim press releases I should really read in-depth.  Multi-tasking during research is not a good idea. It happens to all of us at different points...
There is a multi-billion dollar problem in the oil patch just looking for a solution—get oil to flow better along the horizontal leg of a well. A small Canadian company called Raise Production Inc. (RPC-TSXv; GLKFF-PINK) thinks it may have the answer. They have developed a way to place many small...
US energy stocks outperformed Canadian ones last year—but in the last few months, E&P equities in the Great White North have soared. Why? The low Canadian dollar has a lot to do with it, adding an extra 6-10% to the Canadian oil price—which of course is ALL profit. The second...
Last week I looked at the phenomenal success of a new breed of offshore explorers who are using unconventional drilling (read: horizontal drilling and fracking) to unlock billions of barrels of bypassed oil in places like the shallow-water U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Offshore producers are now getting returns as good...