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UNG: The Best Way to Invest in Natural Gas

"Even if the fund managment decided to close outstanding shares, investors will get a price much higher than today's price. $20/share for UNG is a minimum for a closing price if this ever happens."

WHY?

Why Is Congress Agnostic About Natural Gas?

Both amazing & depressing to reflect on how much more good we would be doing ourselves if even SOME portion of the funding spent on "cash for clunkers", electric vehicles, TARP & the health care boondoggle were put into nat gas for transport infrastructure instead.

And why would anyone oppose it ? Not "Big Oil", since they own the gas, at decade low prices, and in quantities too big to store, as well. Not labor - just building the infrastructure alone would surely create tens of thousands of jobs. And not true environmentalists or anyone concerned about our economy either, for all of the fine reasons listed in the above article.

Really have to wonder - if Obama REALLY wants this country to succeed, why the silence, why isn't HE making it a TOP priority?

Why I Sold Oshkosh

your o'neill whipsaw is ready, mister freedland...

gave up on that canslim stuff for just that reason.

What Is Hurting Gold?

close out your GC trade, today you have all that you will make on it for the next 30 years.

Fine Print on the Yahoo / Microsoft Search Deal

BING is better, w sleeker throughput to shopping and less CRAP you don't want to wade through. ie: quicker route to relevant info wanted than Goog.
i think a lot of people, like ME (and much in line w TV ad campaign) have gotten quite tired of G juggernaut OVERLOAD and search deck-stacking by ideologues or mercenaries who are able to get their site listed in your returns no matter how little it has to do w whatever it was you were looking for.
Am giving Bing a chance & so far not disappointed. the tie in w Y seems like an organic natch made in cyber heaven.
Got long again on Yhoo again yesterday, after 2 or 3 years out, and have NEVER lost a penny on my many, many years w & trades on Y.
Did sell some out of the money calls for a little bit of "what-if-i'm-wrong" insurance.

High Frequency Trading: We Fear What We Do Not Understand

as an options trader, it's hard for me to believe that somebody's not taking an unfair or illegal edge when i place a limit order at a bid or ask that's been sitting there for minutes or even longer, only see it magically vanish w/o execution, w the NEW bid or ask suddenly just beyond whatever i've just offered.

happens much too frequently to be coincidence, and it needs to be stopped.

Stock and Precious Metals Markets: 'Head Fake' or 'Earth Quake'?

"What I've done is purchased 50 cents worth of DZZ for every dollar's worth of GLD that I own. I find it hard to believe that there won't be any more precious metals corrections between now and November."

so if the POG goes UP, you're left at a net gain of zero?

Is Natural Gas About to Break Higher?

now may be a good time to cover those shorts!

Natural gas vehicle research bill passes House
US House reauthorizes natural gas vehicle research program

* By Murray Evans, Associated Press Writer
* On Tuesday July 21, 2009, 7:34 pm EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A bill to reauthorize a Department of Energy program for natural gas vehicle research, development, demonstration and deployment won overwhelming approval Tuesday in the U.S. House.

The legislation, which passed 393-35, heads now to the Senate where it is expected to garner support, said Rep. John Sullivan, an Oklahoma Republican who sponsored the bill.

finance.yahoo.com/news...

Jim Sinclair: 9 Immediate Predictions for Gold

on April 21st, you wrote:

"The gold price is poised to break through $1,000 an ounce this week and could reach $1,500 before a price consolidation."

Making predictions based on "very clear timeframes" just might NOT be your strong suit.

Break Up the Big Banks

Ah, once again the brilliance of Obama -- the power to reflect the happiest dreams of anyone looking into his ethereal magic mirror.

Jimmy Carter pulled this one off, briefly, too... The worst 2 votes I ever cast.

Dreamers, get ready for the cold splash of reality.

If Gold Bugs' Fantasies Came True

value is as value is perceived, and if that's not gold and other commodities in a crashing economy, what else would it be?

better to have an even temporal store of value and a chance, than to be a cog in the mob and have none.

and, btw, referring to waterboarding, and the other rather mundane psycho-stressors employed defensively against an enemy which routinely severs heads and hands, and sends out suicide bombers against civilian targets, as "some form of torture"... is some form of stupid.

Natural Gas Prices Are Down, But Still Relatively High

agreed.

AND, if the simpletons in charge of energy policy ever get serious about their mission & begin an NG for transportation policy (& could anything conceivably present a better opportunity for invoking this than the GM crisis?) -- WOW!



On Apr 22 06:22 PM user 385544 wrote:

> Everyone is still bearish on NG. I have changed course and thought
> process over the last week. (bold statement here before the report
> tomorrow).
>
> Barring and oversupply "surprise" report tomorrow, we are hitting
> bottom in NG and ETF sibblings (seekingalpha.com/symbo...),
> (seekingalpha.com/symbo...), (seekingalpha.com/symbo...).
> Volume is up, the decent has slowed and we are huggging 10-20-30
> day moving avgs. Production is well below break even at this time.
>
>
> We are at a swing point after this crazy run-up in other sectors
> and equities, with disregard for fundamentals and rational. Sector
> and/or equity rotation is starting its cycle again. If you look at
> NG's story and chart its compelling here.
>
> If what just happened the past 6 weeks is any indication there are
> going to be allot of people piling in soon. Well before demand picks
> up and rig counts bottom. The copper and hard commodities play my
> be played out here for the time being.
>
> JMO.

Gold Set for Huge Rally

gotta hand it to you for sticking out your neck & taking a shot! IF you're able to peg a rise from 880 to over a thou w/i a week, you're ONE hotdog guru & i'll be following your every word from here on. heck, i'll give you 3 weeks for that one.

otherwise, you're just another pie-in-the-sky dreamer bug.

i do agree w you, however, that gold's ultimate upward trajectory seems both awesome & inevitable...

Raytheon: Undervalued Below $45/Share

the more "softly" Obama speaks, the bigger stick he better be packing.
Democrat policies will ultimately cost us more in defense spending, not less - especially in weapons systems.

Long RTN

USO: Black Gold Waiting to Erupt

so under what, if any, circumstances would the price of USO go up while contango is remains in effect?

conversely, would anything short a reversal of the recession, or acute geopolitical crisis, be likely to result in backwardation?


On Feb 22 07:54 PM Alvarez wrote:

> You are right. Basically by buying USO you are taking a position
> both on the price of oil AND the shape of the oil futures curve.
> So long as the market remains in contango, at each month's roll over
> the owners of USO roll into a lower quantity of oil per share than
> they had the month before. While not exactly the same, in some ways
> a position in USO is reminiscent of a long term option in the way
> it suffers from time decay (again, so long as the market remains
> in contango).
>
> In terms of full disclosure, I'm bullish on oil longer term, and
> about a month ago started slowly building a position with a 3-5 year
> time horizon in mind. To be perfectly blunt, I didn't spend enough
> time thinking through the contango implications until after I had
> made some (thankfully small) initial purchases. I still like the
> idea of slowly building a long position at these and lower levels,
> but am working through the best way to do this, perhaps combining
> USO and USL to some degree.
>
> On Feb 22 07:10 PM boisterousbob wrote: