Peabody Coal (BTUUQ-NYSE) is a CRAZY, HIGH-RISK trade.  This stock was up 600% this week at one point on Friday.  But it could literally be worth almost zeroon Wednesday morning, after they report their quarterly. But it could also be on the way to $43, as I'll explain. Peabody Coal’s stock is already...
By Donald Dony, Editor www.technicalspeculator.com Energy sector swings to performance As the bull market starts its 6th year and the 3rd longest advance since 1920, we see several signals that are common to the later phase of a mature market. The first is the relative performance shift out typical bull market sectors...
Last week I described how tax pools are a near-unknown—but increasingly critical—metric for junior oil and gas investors. Tax pools shelter cash flow. E&Ps need them in order to retain cash for expansion—or to keep the coffers fat for paying dividends to investors, the way more and more companies are...
Everyone in the oilpatch is now nervous that the United States could run out of oil storage capacity.  This “storage issue” is now Big News, and is driving light oil prices in the US—WTI—to fresh six year lows of $42-ish a barrel. I see a lot of copy on the...
In early 2013 the junior energy market turned on a dime—it went from rewarding growth, to rewarding sustainability—companies that grow within cash flow. Few companies can do this—and the smaller you are, the more difficult it is. But one of the smallest doing this successfully is Brian Schmidt’s Tamarack Valley...
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 can’t decide it Cobalt International (CIE:NYSE) is one announcement way from being a five-bagger or one news release away from being a disaster. If a person knew which way this was going to go--there are some Big Fast Easy Capital Gains to be made. But I just don't know...
In my last story – Investing in Energy Services Stocks -- I explained why the entire energy services industry should see rising revenue and profits over the next few years. These are the companies in major demand as the shale revolution continues. Now let's look at the services sub-group that's really...