Two years ago Colombia was the hottest international oil play in the world (for Canadian investors), with big wells creating big valuations and stock runs that left investors hungry for more.
Now, these stocks have not only fallen to earth, they’ve crashed through the floor into the basement—despite good oil...
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...
The North American oil market is going through a fundamental change that will affect the price of oil for the rest of this decade—fast-rising shale oil supplies from North Dakota and Texas.
(Other shale oil plays will contribute as well, but none will come close to the revolution happening in...
Part 2: The Permian Basin - Cline Shale Resource Play
In Part 1, I explained how the Permian Basin in Texas was exploding with industry and investor interest—because of all the new tight oil plays being discovered and developed.
And that has me excited about the prospects for one Canadian junior—though...
The Cline Shale in Texas is one of the hottest new shale plays in the USA. Devon Energy (DVN-NYSE) is suggesting it’s a huge play, pervasive over a very large area on the eastern shelf of the Permian Basin.
In fact, the Permian is bursting with new resource plays—what’s old...
Editor's Note: In 2010, offshore drilling stocks got crushed. A lot of that had to do with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But that tragedy also opened the door for investors to buy into big names like Transocean -- at a major discount -- which would later offer opportunities...
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...
My portfolio, which I use as the OGIB subscriber portfolio, finished 2011 up 48.2% on closed trades (stocks that I actually sold in 2011) and up 36% on open trades that were initiated, or first bought, in 2011. If I include stocks I bought in 2009 and 2010, my...
