One of the things that were impressed on me early in my career in the forex market was that the market can never be wrong.…
As I write, we have just received news from the meeting of OPEC oil ministers taking place in Vienna. The production cut that some were…
Too often investors in the energy sector put on blinders and fail to consider energy related opportunities that are not in the traditional energy company…
The words “patience” and “traders” can rarely be found in the same sentence without a negative somewhere in between them. By its nature, trading appeals…
Over the next couple of weeks, those of us who reside in the U.S.A. will be readying ourselves for the Thanksgiving holiday and the display…
After almost a year and a half of chaos, the oil market seems to be going through a period of relative calm.For most people that…
For most people, the fall of crude oil since the middle of last year has been the dominant story in commodities recently. You still hear…
Next week is a huge one for energy investors in terms of earnings. Four of the largest multinational integrated oil firms will reveal earnings for…
For most oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) companies the last year or so has been about survival. The spectacular collapse in oil prices…
Now that oil, as represented by WTI, has jumped above $50 and trades such as the Petrobras (PBR) purchase that I recommended a couple of…
There is a tendency amongst retail traders and investors to look at markets in isolation. Many are aware that dealing room and floor traders are…
Okay, I will freely admit that I’ve tried this before. To somebody trained to look for contrarian plays, bottom fishing for a stock like Petrobras…
Yesterday’s conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and the subsequent announcement and press conference was, if we were to believe the stories…
When it comes to the stock market, bottom fishing can be a dangerous game.Once momentum takes hold, particularly downward momentum, it can continue well past…
As traders, investors and pundits, we all like to think that what we do is akin to a science. We believe that by working harder…
Once a view takes hold among analysts and traders regarding a particular sector or industry it can be remarkably resilient.Usually the view starts based on…
With oil continuing its steep decline and now breaking through the psychologically important low from the depths of the recession in 2009, the qualities that…
I am not a big one for sticking to your guns. Consistency that borders on the intransigent may be a good and rare trait in…
I don’t think it is a stretch to say that most of us that follow energy markets agree on one thing: The U.S. shale oil…
Now that we are over half way through earnings season for companies here in the U.S., there is an interesting trend developing amongst the hard…