Tag: Commodity
3 Good Yields In Energy We’ll Soon Buy As GREAT Yields
The broader market, as defined by the S&P 500, has rallied like crazy. But don’t worry, you haven’t “missed out” on anything. The rally has been carried by large, and largely non-dividend paying stocks! Most income plays are just now getting up off the mat. We’ll discuss one of my favorites today. Energy, for example, is in the […]
Chaos In The Oil Markets Explained
Whitney Tilson’s email to investors discussing his colleague Berna Barshay on the chaos in the oil markets. The Chaos In The Oil Market After more than 25 years since my first day on the trading floor, it’s not often that I see something that I’ve never seen before – and never thought I’d see! But yesterday was […]
Have Gold And Bitcoin Seen The Worst Of Their Bubble Bursts?
You know I’ve been fighting the gold bugs for a long time. Gold is an inflation hedge, not a deflation hedge. Turn to gold for safety during a deflationary period and you’ll get your ass handed to you on a golden platter! Gold is simply another commodity and it burst in the 30-year cycle top between 2008 and 2011, […]
Get Ready For Gold To Bounce Once More
You know by now that I think gold is above all a commodity, and in a bubble that was more extreme than stocks… a bubble that’s been bursting since September 2011, but… Gold and bitcoin are two examples of bubbles bursting that are NOT following my bubble model as well as most. Both, thus far, are basing out at higher […]
Investors Facing Crude Facts
Shell-shocked investors are shifting their attention away from tariffs to the world’s most important commodity — crude oil. The U.S. and China are locked in a brutal struggle on trade policy, but they agree on at least one thing: they’d like to see lower oil prices. President Trump recently declared as much, complaining in a tweet […]
Gold $5,000
No. I’m not flip-flopping! As I told subscribers to our Boom & Bust monthly newsletter in November, I stand by my forecast that gold must still lose about 65% of its current value before we hit the bottom of this latest commodity cycle, around 2020 or 2023. And when the markets unravel, as they must, gold will […]
Is Crude Oil Due For A Big Move?
In options trading, a straddle is literally a sit-on-the-fence strategy. By purchasing a put and a call at the same strike (price of underlying commodity) for the same time period, an investor isn’t making a conventional directional bet; rather the investor is looking for a big move either up or down. The rub is that […]
Where Do We Go From Here In 2017?
Where to now… after what 2016 dished out? First, there was the surprise upset of the presidential election of dear old Donald. Then came the surprise shift in sentiment about the election. Before, he was a wrecking ball. After, he’s suddenly Jesus walking on water. Never mind that he’s already pissed off China… twice! Or […]
Trump Could Fuel A Nuclear Energy Boom In 2017
With Trump at the helm, sentiment gives way to practicality in the energy industry. For the vast untapped potential of the nuclear energy industry and the uranium that feeds it, this could contribute to a market-disrupting revival that no longer bows to fear and the politics of economy. While there have been some oversupply issues […]
Major Factors That Influence Gold Prices
Gold is a strong part of our economy, and we need to know more about it. The price of gold fluctuates, and many factors have to intervene for this to happen every day. We are going to talk a little bit about these factors so you can become a better investor down the road. Factors […]
