What do you do if a respected friend gives you a stock tip?
Stock tips should be avoided at all costs—nothing replaces old fashioned research.
And with oil stocks, 10-15 minutes of research can tell you almost all you need to know—if you’re looking for the right data points.
In my six years...
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...
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...
International oil plays have produced some big wins in the junior energy markets in 2012. This year alone, companies like Mart Resources (MMT-TSXv) and Africa Oil (AOI-TSX) were huge wins for risk-tolerant investors (Africa Oil—a 10-bagger).
I’m trying to stretch my political risk comfort zone by flying into Kurdistan—in northeast...
Rig productivity increases dramatically as the rig count in an area decreases—data from the EIA show productivity increases as much as 50%!
It means US oil production will not follow anywhere close to the same trajectory the rig count has (i.e. falling off a cliff), and it also means the...
Dear OGIB Reader,
Recently I sat down with Michael Campbell, host of the MoneyTalks radio show, AM980 Canada, to discuss the oil market… along with a few oil stocks in the Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin portfolio.
Here's the transcript of our conversation. Enjoy.
- Keith
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Michael: Very pleased to welcome back to...
Rock Energy (RE-TSX) is one of the few oil-weighted juniors on the TSX (60% oil). Most of it is heavy oil, which gets a discount to regular crude in world markets. But that discount has narrowed dramatically as production cutbacks around the world have reduced supply.
While they do have...
In Part 1 - How To Trade the Oil Markets, Canadian oil and gas research analysts Josef Schachter and Martin Pelletier explained one of the key strategies to make money in the junior oil sector—trade the volatility; learn how to read the swings.
Here, they share some of their best money-making strategies...