By Brian Hoffman, CPA, CA Natural-gas prices have shown some strength recently, piggy-backing on higher oil prices.  Although last week's higher than expected gas storage update is bearish in the short-term for natural-gas prices, the longer term outlook bodes well for significantly higher natural-gas prices. Although oil prices will also probably...

Or did investors come to believe that the natural gas price is a runaway train on a dead end track? Despite a natural gas injection this week (52 bcf) that was smaller than forecast, and quite a bit less last year's 88 bcf injection (and less than 5 year average injection...

In Part One of this series I introduced readers to “Kurt’s Bible” a great piece of energy stock investing wisdom written by Canadian energy analyst Kurt Molnar of Raymond James. In Part Two here, I want to warn energy stock investors of a huge risk that they are taking if...

By Richard Reinhard and Keith Schaefer (This article is appearing simultaneously at Reinhard's website, www.gsweekly.com. Reinhard is an excellent technical analyst (he can read stock charts) and trader.) Few investors realize it, but the oil ETF's give investors a monthly opportunity to make day trading profits on senior oil stocks. (An ETF, or...

  By Brian Hoffman, CA, CPA   Oil prices have made a big move up since March with the recent move to almost US$73 per barrel retracing over a third of the drop from the US$147 peak last summer to the low of almost $US30 earlier this year.   Retracements during market rallies generally...

Understanding the future—not just the present—is very important to ETF returns. And this is where the two basic questions for investors get answered. What is the timeline of the trade? The real question here is, how many times does the ETF have to “roll” its futures contracts between now and that trade date? Use oil as...

Pipeline behemoth Kinder Morgan (KMI-NYSE) cut its dividend last night by 75%--ending a three year string of getting their money for nothing and your dividends for free (with apologies to the band Dire Straits). This issue is causing investors to give all North American pipeline stocks a higher discount rate--and...