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Oil and Gas: A Tale of 3 Charts
Kurt Brouwer • Thu, May 20, 2010 • 5 Comments
Consumer Confidence Pressures Return
Zachary Scheidt • Wed, Feb 24, 2010 • 10 Comments
Fed Shows a Lack of Confidence
Richard Suttmeier • Thu, Nov 5, 2009 • 1 Comment
ETF Pick of the Week: ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas
Carl T. Delfeld • Sat, Jul 19, 2008 • 16 Comments
Still Diggin’ DUG: Oil Sector Fundamentals Are Faltering
Andrew Horowitz • Mon, Jul 14, 2008 • 6 Comments
ETFs For When Oil Falls
Larry MacDonald • Thu, Jun 12, 2008 • 8 Comments
Target Achieved on Ultrashort Oil & Gas
TraderMark • Fri, Jun 6, 2008 • 6 Comments
Why Oil Won't Penetrate $150/Barrel
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Oil Looks Toppy: Ultrashort Oil and Gas Looks Good
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Can These Inverse ETFs Cure Post-Election Blues?
Benzinga • Thu, Nov 15, 2012 • 1 Comment
Energy Prices Increase As Third Quarter Production Volumes Fall
Julie Young • Tue, Nov 6, 2012 • 9 Comments
How Not To Prepare For The Bear
Craig Brockie • Tue, Oct 30, 2012 • 31 Comments
Thursday: PMI Still A Drag On Global Indexes
Philip Davis • Thu, Sep 20, 2012 • 22 Comments
Monday Monetary Madness: More Harm Than Good
Philip Davis • Mon, Sep 17, 2012 • 16 Comments
Investing In Oil: 5 Questions To Ask Company Management
Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin • Mon, Aug 6, 2012 • 3 Comments
Revisiting 7 Successful Portfolio Hedges
Kyle Felciano • Sun, Jun 17, 2012 • 5 Comments
Dow To Suffer 10% Decline
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S&P Breaks Support: 83 Inverse Equity ETFs To Use As A Hedge
Epsilon • Wed, Jun 6, 2012 • 4 Comments
ETF Midweek Peek: Wait For QE In June?
David Fry • Wed, May 2, 2012 • 2 Comments
How To Profit From A Stock Market Crash, Part II: Inverse Equity ETFs
Epsilon • Sun, Feb 12, 2012 • 6 Comments
6 Common Myths About Global And U.S. Energy Issues
Walter Kurtz • Wed, Dec 28, 2011 • 4 Comments
iShares' Chief Investment Strategist: Energy Is 'The' Sector For 2012; Avoid Utilities [Video]
Russ Koesterich • Tue, Dec 20, 2011 • 3 Comments
Time To Short Big Oil
John Helzer • Sun, Dec 18, 2011 • 10 Comments
How To Bet Against The Market Without Shorting Or Using Options
Epsilon • Thu, Dec 1, 2011 • 17 Comments
Energy Transitions - Are We In One Now? Part Three - Investments
Elliott R. Morss • Tue, Nov 29, 2011 • 7 Comments
Energy And Industrials Relative Strength
Bespoke Investment Group • Fri, Nov 4, 2011
A Strategy For Shorting Leveraged ETF Pairs
Eric Falkenstein • Mon, Oct 31, 2011 • 5 Comments
ETFs Cannot Fully Account For Increased Correlation
Roger Nusbaum • Sun, Oct 16, 2011 • 1 Comment

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Wednesday, May 29, 3:28 PM ProShares sets 7 splits and 8 reverse splits on 15 of its leveraged and inverse funds. Getting reverse splits: UVXY 1:10, VIXY 1:5, KOLD 1:4, DUG 1:4, FINZ 1:4, TTT 1:4, SJF 1:4, EFU 1:4. Straight splits (all 2 for 1): UGE, UPRO, UMDD, UWC, RXL, UCC, URTY. The splits will be available to shareholders of record as of June 5, payable on June 7, and trade at the new price on June 10. 4 Comments
Friday, May 3, 8:00 AM "We don't want to sell in May and we continue to prefer cyclicals (XLY, XLI, XLB, XLE) ," says JPMorgan's Tom Lee, fully returned to his normal bullish stance. He notes client positioning is "dramatically different" from the heavily long stance of the last 3 years at this time. More, the downturn in gasoline prices could ad 50 bps to GDP in Q2, and the rally in high-yield suggests the economy is set to get stronger. 1 Comment
Thursday, March 21, 9:38 AM Goldman Sachs believes the selloff in oil service stocks creates a buying opportunity, as it sees Q1 earnings growing at a faster rate driven by completion work. The firm expects Halliburton (HAL) to report in-line Q1 results and recommends buying on the recent pullback, suggests Basic Energy (BAS) on better utilization, and likes Nabors Industries (NBR) on relative valuation. 9 Comments [Energy, Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, February 20, 3:21 PM Why the tumbling price of crude matters? The energy sector (XLE) has been the clear leader in 2013's rally, notes ukarlewitz. If it turns, will another sector step up or will energy lead the way down? Comment! [Energy, On the Move]
Thursday, January 31, 11:57 AM Fidelity Contrafund manager Will Danoff is cautious about the energy sector (XLE), noting some companies continue to chase growth at the expense of returns. The industry - which made a massive investment in shale gas, causing prices to collapse - is doing the same thing with shale oil, he says. Comment! [Energy]
Friday, December 14, 2012, 7:50 AM The oil services sector sees some action from Goldman Sachs, which upgrades Marathon Oil (MRO) to Buy, with $39 price target. Marathon sticks out from its industry brethren, says Goldman, thanks to improved execution in Eagle Ford and Bakken shale plays. Also reportedly liked by Goldman are Halliburton (HAL) and Occidental (OXY). 1 Comment [Energy, Quick Ideas]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 12:48 PM More on yesterday's Goldman oil call: It includes a cool chart plotting the breakeven point on all of the planet's major oil projects. Goldman estimates the industry needs $115 oil to be cash flow neutral on its exploration vs. just $84 four years ago. "Further capex growth from current levels will likely be more constrained unless oil prices move higher." 7 Comments [Commodities, Energy]
Friday, October 12, 2012, 2:29 PM The natural gas rig count declined again last week, falling by 15 to 422 vs. 936 a year ago. The number of working gas rigs is the lowest since June 1999, but this may not mean a supply crunch is coming as oil rig activity - which yields plenty of natural gas - remains strong. Still, it's hard not to notice the correlation between collapsing gas rig counts and natural gas prices up about 90% in 6 months. 7 Comments [Commodities, Energy]
Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 7:17 AM Iraq predicts oil production of 9-10M barrels/day by 2020, far higher than yesterday's bullish IEA prediction of 6.1M. The country's deputy PM for Energy says Iraq has underway a plan to address the infrastructure bottlenecks raised by the IEA. 2 Comments [Energy, Commodities, Global & FX]
Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 2:42 PM Iraq is expected to contribute almost half of increased world oil production between now and 2035, says the IEA. and the country would leap over Iran and Venezuela to sit behind Saudi Arabia as the second most influential member of OPEC. Of late though, the country has been missing production targets thanks to insecurity and a lack of infrastructure. That's where U.S. oil service firms come in. 4 Comments [Energy]
Thursday, September 27, 2012, 3:31 PM The cure for low prices is low prices. Left for dead a few months back, natural gas soars today to its highest price this year as the multi-year collapse in working rig counts looks to finally be taking effect. UNG +3%. The double-levered oil & gas ETF (DIG), +30.1% in Q3. 12 Comments [Energy, Commodities, On the Move]
Monday, August 20, 2012, 4:24 PM While 80% of S&P 500 stocks are above their 50-day moving average, all of the defensive sectors - Telecom, Consumer staples, Health care, Utilities - have readings below that. The most defensive of them all - Utilities - shows just 39% of the sector above the 50-day, a sharp change from just 2 weeks ago, when 90% were above. "The dynamic has clearly changed," writes Bespoke, with cyclical sectors now leading the charge. 7 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2012, 8:59 AM Another graphic look (via ukarlewitz) at the recent rally which is notable for its rotation into roughed up sectors like Energy, Materials, Industrials, and Discretionary, and out of popular defensive plays like Utilities, Health Care, and Staples. Have the hedge funds been caught wrong-footed again? 2 Comments
Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 11:28 AM A graphic look at the rotation into neglected sectors - Energy (XLE), Discretionary (XLY), Cyclical (FCL), and Retail (XRT) are all moving higher the past few sessions, while the popular mREITs (represented by NLY), Utilities (XLU), Pharmaceuticals (IHE), and Staples (XLP) all sell off. 4 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2012, 10:55 AM Natural gas plunges following the small add in inventories last week despite cooling degree days being 50% higher than normal. UNG -3.3%. Producers: APA -2.7%, CHK -3.7%, APC -2.8%. 15 Comments [Energy, Commodities]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 6:04 AM The growth of new sources of oil, helped by the widening use of fracking, is expected to enable the U.S. to halve its reliance on Middle East oil by 2020 and possibly eliminate it completely by 2035. By the end of the decade, 50% of oil will be produced domestically and 82% on this side of the Atlantic. 7 Comments [Energy]

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Today's Oil Inventory Report is Another Chance to Short Oil: $USO, $SCO, $DUG - http://bit.ly/11pHeFV
Feb 6, 10:44 AM
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Christopher Wallace
Short opportunities in the oil market: http://bit.ly/S94TUF USO, DUG
10/25/12
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The_American
UNG DIG DUG seems we have bottom on USO : on CHK XCO BTU High OIL prices support PMs GLD SLV USLV UGLD SLVP SIL GDX GDXJ NUGT : VXX GE YINN
9/28/12
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The_American
: On GOLD lease rates as GLD SLV breakout High DIG UCO UNG : on SLW RGLD royalty on PHYS UGLD GDX NUGT GDXJ AG HL GPL GSS DIG DUG GASL REMX
9/28/12
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The_American
DAG AGF DBA JJA JJG USO UCO DIG DUG UNG UGAZ uptrend HDGE SPY profit taking VXX volume increasing TVIX UVXY GLD SLV SDS GDX GDXJ GLDX GLTR
8/20/12
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The_American
SDOW SDS SQQQ HDGE TVIX UVXY : on VIIX GLD SLV PSLV SIL PHYS IAU SGOL NUGT up 20% with more room DBA USO SCO DIG DUG SIRI WEN F : on pulls
8/9/12
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The_American
SH SZYM as it has high beta and trades with USO UNG which had a huge rally. SCO UCO DIG DUG NAV appear to be trading in tandem. OIL GLD SLV
7/6/12
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stocktrend: I believe NAV it will be bought but when ,just cut my losses and make upin other stocks today but will reenter with aleast 1000 maybe today
7/6/12
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Maria Auziliadora: stocktrend check ATRS well it saved me from loosing
7/9/12
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Ryan Mallory
Oil - Update Long-Term EWP http://bit.ly/Rcb3AU USO DIG DUG
7/4/12
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Ryan Mallory
Oil's Big ole Base http://bit.ly/LbXnAG USO DUG DIG
6/22/12
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The_American
SLV may form bottom around 26 or may break with DIG DUG and USO OIL prices Many of the REMX space GDX GDXJ GLDX has great buys TC HL PZG VGZ
6/21/12
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SH SZYM as it has high beta and trades with USO UNG which had a huge rally. SCO UCO DIG DUG NAV appear to be trading in tandem. OIL GLD SLV
7/6/12
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stocktrend: I believe NAV it will be bought but when ,just cut my losses and make upin other stocks today but will reenter with aleast 1000 maybe today
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Maria Auziliadora: stocktrend check ATRS well it saved me from loosing
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The_American
CHIN look@ PUK it's ADR of PRU low beta, nice yield. USO OIL DIG DUG DBO makes me SDS GLD IAU UGL SLV which is best both Monetray&Industry
11/17/11
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Venerability: (Cont.) - and if so, it could be a nice rally this time - selected components should begin to move higher at 11 or 11:30, per pattern.
11/17/11
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The_American: China just cut SIVR USLV DSLV UGLD DGLD IAU DBS AGQ they are cutting back on their SLV exports by 5%. GLD support at 1700 SIL may go to 50
11/19/11
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Brian L. Wilson
Oil stocks are a very scary place to be. Fundamentals and dollar strength should crush crude for some time to come. DUG
9/22/11
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golfitobob: PCM.. I would guess within 48 hours you will hear OPEC meeting to slash production..As even Saudi needs 85 to 90 to pay there populus..
9/22/11
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