Imagine if you will a street on which there are three identical houses. I’m not talking about similar houses. Not houses that look kind of the same. I’m talking about identical houses. Built the same year, in the same condition, with the same design and square footage.  Even the colors are the same. If...
The next Big Thing in oil and gas is... water. It's one of the industry's biggest threats, and one of investors' biggest opportunities.  It's an emotional issue for everybody, and has the potential to be THE galvanizing political force in the North American oil patch in 2012. Consider these statistics: each...
by Donald DonyThe major decline in oil prices over the past five months has placed many securities into a freefall. The commodity-rich SPX/TSX, for example, has fallen 10.00% since September, putting into a bear market (Chart 1). Chart 1The TSX Energy sector has declined even further, cratering almost 40% bringing...
   Guest Post Hi, this is Keith Schaefer—even though you don’t recognize the logo above.  Since oil crashed back in the fall of 2014 we have had a few false starts at an oil price recovery. Is this rally real--or another tease? I’ve helped the editor at Hedge Fund Insiders http://www.hedgefundinsiders.com/, Reece Morgan, start a brilliant investment...
Canadian brokerage firm GMP Securities downgraded Trilogy Energy Corp (TET-TSX; TETZF-PINK) from a BUY to a HOLD today, but did not reduce its target price of $27.50 per share.  The stock closed at $27.25 on Tuesday, and GMP said the downgrade was because the stock has already hit its...
Dear OGIB Reader, Over the next few weeks, oil and gas companies are going through a special sort of reporting period… and it’s going to have some important ramifications for stock prices — especially for junior gas producers. Here’s why: At the end of each calendar year, every single junior energy producer...
Petrobank Energy and Resources (PBG-TSX; $35.97) announced yesterday it was creating a 37,000 bopd Bakken-focused oil producer by merging its Canadian Business Unit (CBU) with TriStar Oil and Gas (TOG-TSX; $11.51) to create a new company, Petrobakken. The cash and stock transaction gives TriStar a value of $14.75 cash, a...
Oil stocks traded REALLY well yesterday.  You could just say ‘DUH!’ but there’s more to it than that. Through the day, weakness—what little of it there was—was bought. Stocks opened higher and kept running.  Most closed at or near their highs. The Biggest Gains were reserved for those stocks that had...