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  • The Indiana Jones of Finance by Don Dion
    Jim Rogers, the "Indiana Jones of Finance," is known throughout Wall Street for his independent, contrarian investing style and his association with George Soros and the Quantum Fund.Though he has since retired, he continues to be a presence with his world travels and bold economic... More »
    September 25, 2009 • RJI, RJA, RJN
  • I Contrarian - are these the worst trades possible today? by Thomas MacLeod
    Each day we set out to try and make money in the markets. Well.. that's the theory! Actually we do quite well for ourselves but are always searching for ways to improve.As would most, we use a variety of different trading techniques and research processes. To avoid becoming to comfortable in our... More »
    August 26, 2009 • UNG, KRE, XHB
  • High Yield Energy Investments by MTRIG
    Investors looking for ways for the highest investment returns tend to look beyond the stock market toward the futures market. Trading in futures long and short can involve more risk then trading in the stock market. This can happen if an investor is long a particular investment such as Oil... More »
    August 22, 2009 • ETP, PBT, SJT
  • CRB Spot Indices Suggest Growth is Happening & Inflation is Coming by Thomas MacLeod
    Commodity indicies can be used a proxy to measure inflation. If commodity prices rise, then the cost of ongoing goods will rise.CRB, UBS Bloomberg CMCI, DJ-AIG. Goldman Sachs, and the Rogers are the 5 main broad based commodity indicies. They vary in the weighting applied to different sectors.... More »
    July 23, 2009 • DBC, DBB, SLV
  • Buying the Cow by Keith McCullough
    Research Edge Position: Long COWI suspect that Keith is a Canadian cowboy at heart. I arrived at this suspicion based on several clues: 1) last Halloween he came in to the office dressed in full cowboy regalia, 2) when he and I first met it turned out that one of the few friends that we had in... More »
    June 19, 2009 • COW
  • Swine Flu In Focus: Four ETFs To Watch by Michael Johnston
    With the WHO's announcement that it has officially declared an H1N1 flu pandemic - the first global flu epidemic in 41 years - swine flu has Wall Street's full attention once again. Disease fears had mostly faded from the mind of many investors, despite numerous warnings that we weren't yet... More »
    June 11, 2009 • COW, USO, IVW
  • ETF Momentum Gainers and Losers by Don Dion
    Momentum Gainers CoalMarket Vectors Coal (KOL) Following the big advances in the week prior to last, a correction in coal stocks would not have been surprising. Instead, they had another solid week and the sector ETF, KOL, added 20.20 percent. That brings the two-week rally to 35.21... More »
    May 11, 2009 • XBI, FXY, COW
  • Grains Prices: Reality Catches the Flu by Jordan Rizzuto
     Perception is often reality. Many medical experts have been quoted that people cannot contract the swine flu by eating swine; yet China, Russia, Thailand, Jordan, Indonesia and the Philippines have temporarily banned imports of U.S. pork products.   There is no way to... More »
    April 28, 2009 • MOO, DBA, JJG
  • Tasty Investment Opportunity: Meat by Gonzalo
     Two years went by since the first signs of this crisis started to appear, with no clue about what the world was going to face and deal. But us many optimistic people like to highlight: every crisis is an opportunity, and specially this one, is a big one. With almost every newspaper, tv... More »
    April 8, 2009 • COW, TSN, SAFM

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