Go Long Chinese Currency with CYB
Currency trading is unique among investing. As we noted in our euro recommendation, currencies have moved from obscurity to prominence in a few short years. The foreign exchange market is the largest market in the world with almost $4 trillion changing hands each day – that’s trillion with a “t”....
Rising Market is a Head-Fake: Short with SDS
Shorting the market is a tricky task. For one, you’re betting against the long-term upward bias of the market. Over time and on the whole, stocks tend to go up. When you go short, you’re disagreeing with that trend. That’s why good short trades are usually quick and focused. The other issue...
An Encore Miner Pick: Goldcorp (GG)
When markets melt down, investors tend to abandon speculative stocks and head for safer destinations. High-quality bonds or cash are often good options. Precious metals can also grow while the stock market shrinks. Some investors are nostalgic for earlier times when tangible assets looked safe as paper...
Go Long Oil Sands with Cenovus (CVE)
The offshore drilling business has been in the headlines since the April 20th Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill. However, the spill is affecting more than cable news and Gulf of Mexico seafood. With environmental costs and legal risks rising, share prices for some oil companies have...
Play the Euro with ETFs (EUO or ULE)
Currency trading has surged among individual investors the last few years. We’ve come a long way since the US abandoned the gold standard in favor of a free-floating dollar back in 1971. This helped establish a foreign exchange market, or forex, where the world’s major currencies were traded between...
A Small-Cap ETF – A Big Idea for Gold Bugs (GDXJ)
The fallout from plunging oil prices and Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has given investors few places to hide. Two asset classes are on the upswing lately: the U.S. Dollar and Gold. Both are seen as safe havens. Yes, they’re bouncing around a lot and are due for a correction. The current...
Oil Spill Play with Newpark Resources (NR)
The energy sector is facing some challenges. The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has blackened a few eyes on both sides of the Atlantic, but the energy sector is still loaded with profit potential for the astute investor. We recently highlighted one name that can deliver tidy...
Time to Go Bearish On China? (FXP)
China’s growth story has been hard to ignore the last few years. The world’s largest country by population may still be considered an “emerging” market, but at least parts of China are as developed as anywhere else. China is now the third-largest economy in the world; GDP grew by almost...
Kinder Morgan: Juicy Dividend and Steady Business (KMP)
If your goal is to generate income, you’ve spent a fair amount of time looking for dividend-paying stocks. It makes sense. There are plenty of solid companies on the market today with admirable histories of paying out dividends, and most investors have heard about these companies. We recently covered...
Singapore: Another Asian Tiger? (EWS)
When it comes to making investment bets on the Pacific Rim, China and India get most of the attention. That’s understandable – they are the two largest countries in the world by population. Economic growth has been rapid in both places. The day will come when China and India have larger economies...
