There’s just one stock that interests me at this time of year. This is The Most Wonderfully Inefficient Time of the Year for the stock market.  It’s tax-loss-selling season. But I’m not running out buying any big basket of energy stocks.  The selling may be overdone, but it can stay overdone for a...
Is it time for investors to load up on oil shares--or time to sell?  The answer is--it depends what metric you're looking at.  On a cash flow basis, they're expensive.  But based on Net Asset Valuations (NAV), they're cheap.  How can oil stocks be both expensive and cheap?  I'll...
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...
The hottest oil play in the western world is the Delaware sub-basin of the Permian in SW Texas.  Producers are seeing huge increases in flow rates as they figure out proper fracking techniques.  Rates are doubling from 1500-3,000 boepd!  And payout times for wells are now as low as...
The gold miners and gold itself endured a rough week last week.There are plenty of explanations of what contributed to the fall.  There was the reversal in long-bonds (see bottom of this article) the flight to sell what is liquid just the overall panic that pervaded all asset classes. But I think that...
OGIB BULLETIN # 143  DECEMBER 3 2013PACIFIC ETHANOL – PEIX-NASD COMPANY ANALYSIS - Part two Below is Part II of my full OGIB Subscriber Report on Pacific Ethanol (PEIX-NASD).  Part 1 was published Saturday, which you can read HERE.  My goal is to help Free Alert Readers understand the level of research I put...
Whenever I can, I invest for the long term. The reality is, oil and gas and ethanol markets are not only cyclical, but volatile within cycles. So when I find a company that is a)      Debt free b)     Can be so profitable it can increase its dividend TWICE in 2016 so far c)      Gives me exposure to...
A Texas court case this Friday, February 26 will set a precedent that will either see all US pipeline and “midstream” stocks have a monster rally—or get crushed (even more!). That’s when Crestwood Partners (CEQP-NYSE) will defend its fee structure in transporting the natural gas of defunct Quicksilver (formerly KWK-NYSE)...