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Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds USO

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+23.11% in 18 days An 8-Week Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds The accompanying chart presents an 8-week analysis of global coal futures prices as a follow-up to my previous 5-month analysis last month, Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), PowerShares Global Coal ETF (PKOL), S&P 500 ETF (SPY), U.S. Natural Gas (UNG) + Oil (USO) Funds, and the Energy Sector ETF (XLE). The global price of coal is tracked by the near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Eur ... Continue reading »

Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds USO

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+11.92% in 22 days (closed on 11/17/08) Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds The accompanying 5-month chart presents an analysis of the global price of near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Europe (ATW – Rotterdam ICE Coal Futures) compared to the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG, and U.S. Oil Fund (USO). Although this is not a huge amount of historical data, the past five months presents an interesting analysis given the tremendous volati ... Continue reading »

A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price USO

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+0.00% in 19 hours (closed on 10/26/08) A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price The accompanying table contains a summary and statistics for 16 ETFI global equity indexes and two commodity pool fund ideas, with the short/inverse and defensive themes outpacing the overall market averages over the past year in the midst of ongoing market turmoil around the world. Although currently out of favor with investors, new commodity pool fund ideas include timber and coal. The CoalFund is a commodity pool that is structured to track the performance of exchange-traded, near-month futures contra ... Continue reading »

Carbon ETN: Solid Returns, Few Investors USO

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+14.74% in 10 days (closed on 10/25/08) Carbon ETN: Solid Returns, Few Investors Despite attracting little in the way of investor interest in terms of trading volume and net assets, the iPath Global Carbon ETN (GRN) has outpaced the S&P 500 Index, U.S. Oil Fund (USO), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG), and Central Appalachian Coal Futures (QL) (down 28.5%) over the past three months. Since diverging from oil and natural gas in late July, the global price of carbon is still trading above its low point at that time despite a global unwind of leverage which has hit commodities especially hard. Investo ... Continue reading »

Carbon ETN Outpaces Oil & Natural Gas Funds USO

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+17.68% in 10 days (closed on 10/15/08) Carbon ETN Outpaces Oil & Natural Gas Funds During recent market turmoil and a meltdown in commodities, the Global Carbon ETN (GRN) (-10%) has held up much better than oil (USO) (-35%) and natural gas (UNG) (-45%) and about the same as the overall market S&P 500 ETF (SPY), with the approximate three month returns listed after each ticker. Key factors in the demand for carbon credits include overall power demand and the relationship between natural gas and coal prices since burning gas results in the release of less than half of the greenhouse emissions versus coal. C ... Continue reading »

From the Blogosphere

Considering a Position in Oil Again

Did well with this trade over the last year and I think it may be time to get back in... For those who remember, in February 2007 we bought Oil (USO) when the price of crude was $47 and rode it until we sold this May at $127 (it later peaked at $147). With the price back to where it all began last year, I think I am inclined to start buying again. First, watch Paul Kedrosky on CNBC. Continue reading »

Thinking About Buying Oil Again

Did well with this trade over the last year and I think it may be time to get back in...$$ For those who remember in Feb 2007 we bought Oil (USO) when the price of crude was $47 and rode it until we sold this May at $127 (it later peaked at $147). With the price back to where it all began last year, I think I am inclined to start buying again. First, watch Paul Kedrosky on CNBC yesterday. Personally I think Paul may be a bit conservative in both the price level and the time it may... Continued at Todd Sullivan's ValuePlays Continue reading »

Thinking About Buying Oil Again

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Did well with this trade over the last year and I think it may be time to get back in...$$ For those who remember in Feb 2007 we bought Oil (USO) when the price of crude was $47 and rode it until we sold this May at $127 (it later peaked at $147). With the price back to where it all began last year, I think I am inclined to start buying again. First, watch Paul Kedrosky on CNBC yesterday. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/klAU3eC52w8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptacces... Continue reading »

Thinking About Buying Oil Again

Did well with this trade over the last year and I think it may be time to get back in...$$ For those who remember in Feb 2007 we bought Oil (USO) when the price of crude was $47 and rode it until we sold this May at $127 (it later peaked at $147). With the price back to where it all began last year, I think I am inclined to start buying again. First, watch Paul Kedrosky on CNBC yesterday. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/klAU3eC52w8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptacces... Continue reading »

Prince Alwaleed on Citi & Oil (video)

After I watched this I got the impression former Citi (C) CEO Chuck Prince ought to take the Kingdom off his vacation list..$$ Alwaleed has some very interesting things to say about Oil (USO) also Disclosure ("none" means no position):none Visit the ValuePlays Bookstore for Great Investing Books Enter your Email Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz Continued at Todd Sullivan's ValuePlays Continue reading »

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