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...
Oil went from $8-$147 per barrel between 1998-2008. Then it crashed to $32. Then it rocketed to $105 for five years. Then it crashed to $27.
Notice a pattern at all?
Ever wonder why management of senior oil companies don't notice this same pattern? How can that be so when the...
Lithium is the hottest commodity in global energy, and there’s a race on to develop the next greenfield lithium mine (greenfield=from scratch).
Lithium X (LIX-TSXv; LIXXF-OTCBB)) took a big step to being The Next Big Lithium Producer with a deal last week to get a pilot plant operating at their Sal...
It has been two years since I was earnestly combing through junior oil producers to find the best investment. But now that oil prices have moved up from $26-$46/barrel since mid-February, there are—believe it or not—a (very) few junior producers who can grow production within cash flow at these...
I’ve been following one management team in the oilpatch for years, because I know they are among the best in the business.
They have built and sold junior producers before—in fact, there was a bidding war for their last one.
They are the types of serial entrepreneurs that I love to...
Heavy oil stocks will be The Top Investment in Energy if oil keeps gaining past the $45/barrel mark.
The secret is in the numbers. Let me show you how and why using Baytex Energy (BTE-NYSE/TSX) as a perfect example—because they have both light shale oil in the Eagle Ford and...
Even before Tuesday's big jump in natural gas prices, I was intrigued to see some of the leading natgas stocks in the US hold up or go up on days natgas was down this week, like EQT, Southwestern, and Rice Energy, (which my colleague Bill Powers profiled at $9.47/share on...
In World War II, when the Allied countries laid out their first strategic bombing plans--the first target they selected was easy to agree on.
It was the German electrical grid. The Allies knew that without electricity the Germans couldn’t do anything.
If Germany had been attacking the United States it would...
