I'm off to Dubai for a week of meetings, but I want to leave you with some ideas that should leave you...questioning...The Bear Case on oil. I want to be clear...I'm not a perma-bull on oil.  Far from it.  I'm an investor, and a trader, looking for a trend.  Energy...
Half the oil price but 4x the free cash flow! Sounds like a pitch from Barnum & Bailey's circus, doesn't it--Step right up folks and see it with  your own eyes! I'm going to show this magic trick--starting with the chart below.  In 2017 at $50 oil, Vermilion Energy (VET-TSX/NYSE)...
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 +Keith Schaefer In part one I wrote about the 3 oil patch sub-sectors I'm most bullish on, and how I'm trading them: refineries, oilfield services, and heavy oil producers. Today, my outlook for the remaining oil and gas sub-sectors—from best to worst... LIGHT OIL PRODUCERS Here's the dilemma with them: improvements in fracking...
To me, the Market (Dow/S&P 500) is a bit of a binary trade right now. It’s pretty clear to me that the Market is determined to retest its late August lows. If it bounces, I think I can safely buy stocks and likely add to my biggest position again...
Argentina is the “Comeback Kid” story of 2014. After getting vilified for nationalizing one large ownership block in the prolific Vaca Muerta shale play in 2012, Big Oil is coming back in a Big Way—and dragging up the share price of the fast growing juniors in the play. Most investors...
By: Bill Powers Valuing public companies is a black art. Analysts use many metrics, and when delivering a final price target on a stock, use the average of several methods—cash flow multiple, Net Asset Value and the esoteric “management premium”. But I want to suggest to investors that right now, one of...
  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...