It is tough for retail investors to play digital currencies like bitcoin or ethereum.
Buying a position means wire transfers and digital wallets, the worry of hacks or hard drive failures. Many of us are still nervous about sending a sizable chunk of our net worth out to the crypto-ether.
For a...
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...
Every year the stock market gives me new lessons to learn, and I’ll share a few from 2010.
When it comes to the junior and intermediate North American oil and gas plays, I want to buy expensive stocks. I rarely buy cheap stocks. That sounds counter-intuitive, but it makes sense.
When...
Never waste a good crisis. And for the airlines, COVID has been a crisis.
But for Miami-based GlobalX (JET-TSXv)—a new airline hoping to launch within weeks—it has been a blue sky opportunity.
You see, now the small airlines are able to get veteran, high quality pilots, IT personnel, stewards and other staff...
In Part 1 I explained how Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale is the only international play—so far—that looks like it could be bigger than the Bakken.
For investors, the challenge is that most of the activity in Argentina today is controlled by major companies. Names like Shell, ExxonMobil, EOG Resources and...
Tweeting on Twitter.com
I had a Eureka! moment this week. My marketing team and several web-savvy friends said I should be "tweeting", or posting comments to www.twitter.com. I still don't understand Twitter.com, but I did find a use for it which all readers should know about.
When I'm doing my reading and...
North Dakota did it again. July oil production numbers for the state was another record high—and it was a BIG one.
Monthly stats from the EIA (US Energy Information Administration) showed North Dakota production jumping by a whopping 55,000 barrels per day in July to reach nearly 875,000 barrels per...
by Jen Alic
Welcome to East Africa—home of a potential 28 billion barrels of recoverable oil, 440 trillion cubic feet of gas and 14 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.
Recent success by Africa Oil (AOI-TSX; AQIFF-PINK)—the stock went from $2-$11 in just two months in the spring of 2012 on...
