April 23, 2009
- Industry Perspective: Process Control Systems Suppliers
By Guest Author: Robert Williams, PhD, P.E.
The thrust of this industry perspective is to identify system supplier companies active in oil/gas process plants and to highlight their future earnings and charts for potential investment by our readers. The companies listed below are all international conglomerates that also provide process control systems for all [...]
August 13, 2008
- US Dollar Closing In On Major Resistance, Expect Commodities Snap Back Rally
Quite a bit has been made of the dollar rally recently and its contribution to the demise of commodities over the last several weeks, so I wanted to put up a 10 year chart of the US Dollar Index to get an idea of just how far the US dollar may rally before pulling back, [...]
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August 7, 2008
- Commodities Charts
I was doing some searching around for a site with good free commodities charts and thought I’d share a list of decent resources. Ok, make that resource. I’ve had a heck of a time finding free charts of commodities, so if anyone has suggestions please leave them in the comments section. It’s greatly appreciated.
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April 30, 2008
- Peak Oil, Peak Water.. We’re All Gonna Die
Let’s keep this in context.. gloom and doom sells. Period. I’m not disputing the fact that scarce commodities are becoming increasingly valuable but I don’t buy all the gloom and doom either. That being said, I just read a good article on Peak Water from Wired.
Here are the cliffs notes for those short on time:
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February 7, 2008
- China Oil Perspective – CNOOC (CEO), Petrochina (PTR) & China Petroleum (SNP)
A major international oil/gas industry perspective is that Exxon Mobil, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Total, ENI, etc. historically prevailed in global exploration and production developments. However, this perspective must now be amended to include the national oil companies of Brazil, Russia and China. Relatively new majors are Gazprom (Russia); Petrobras (Brazil) and three [...]
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January 17, 2008
- 2030 Projections for the Oil & Gas Industry
Oil & Gas Industry Perspective: What’s Ahead
by Robert WilliamsAlthough these industry perspectives are designed to identify companies actively involved in all oil/gas industry aspects this issue focuses on year 2030 projections and Energy Industry Exchange Traded Funds (ETF). The first Industry Perspective highlighted oil/gas engineering companies and the second Industry Perspective focused on offshore crude [...]
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December 10, 2007
- Offshore Crude Oil Exploration & Production Perspective
ABOUT: The following Oil & Gas Industry report is provided by guest author Robert Williams, PhD, P.E., and industry executive with over 40 years experience working for major oil corporations as well as smaller companies all across the globe. Robert has extensive petroleum, water and electrical industries experience regarding Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, [...]
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December 7, 2007
- Home Builders Close to Bottom; Top Plays NVR and Toll Bros (TOL)
Have home builders bottomed? That’s the million dollar question and a question that has popped up frequently recently following a two week 20 – 30% surge in shares of home builders. I’ll tip toe half way out the limb and say yes and no. When I’m looking for a bottom in anything, whether it be [...]
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November 8, 2007
- Expert Insight Into the Oil/Gas Engineering Industry
Today I’m pleased to bring you a report on the oil/gas engineering industry written from the perspective of someone who has more than 40 years of experience working for major oil corporations as well as smaller companies all across the globe. Robert Williams has extensive petroleum, water and electrical industries experience regarding Supervisory Control and [...]
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July 7, 2007
- The Real L A W of Commerce – Land – Air – Water
The following is republished with the permission of Gary Scott. Gary, publishes one of the few newsletters I make a point to read every day and highly recommend it to my readers. He also runs several seminars throughout the year in both Ecuador and North Carolina that cover everything from Spanish courses, holistic health, import/export, [...]
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April 24, 2007
- Semiconductor ETF’s Breakout (SMH, IGW) – Trading Opportunities
Semiconductors have broken out in recent days and that bodes well for the overall market. We still need to come in a bit after a steep incline, but if the semis can stage a run here, that would lend good internal strength for the market to hold up at multi year highs. The Semi Holders (SMH) [...]
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February 13, 2007
- A Uranium ETF.. Sort OF
In yesterday’s article which took a look at profit opportunities in clean coal, nuclear and uranium miners I alluded to the fact that there really wasn’t a way make a diversified investment within the US Markets in the uranium space. A reader’s comment reminded me of a portion of my research I forgot to include. [...]
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February 12, 2007
- Part II: Profiting from the Advanced Energy Initiative – A Look At Clean Coal, Nuclear Power Utilities & Uranium Miners
Several days ago before the State of the Union address, I wrote up an article about profiting from the increasing importance that government has placed on advancing new energy initiatives to ween ourselves of dependence on foreign oil. The report began generally by taking a look at thePowerShares Clean Energy Fund (PBW ) and ended [...]
January 16, 2007
- Legendary Oil Investor T. Boone Pickens Thirsty for Water Rights
If legendary oil investor T. Boone Pickens is as successful investing in the water industry as he was investing in oil, it may pay to follow his lead. I’ve written on more than one occasion here about the potential for investing in water companies in the next few years along with several others. Chris Mayer [...]
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September 25, 2006
- Where’s the Big Stock Market Money Flowing? A Look at My System For Tracking Sector/Industry Rotation
Finding Industry Groups Leading the Market
One of the keys to lasting investing success is pinpointing the leading stocks of leading industries. That is where the big big money will be made. The sooner you can spot these trends the better, but to go about doing this? To be sure there are many ways to track [...]
February 12, 2006
- Oil Slick – Is the Worst Over?
As good as January was for the oils, February has been equally as bad. Corrections like this always bring on the "is the run over" questions, so lets take a look at what the charts are telling us to avoid any irrational conclusions. I’ve marked up a few ETF charts that I think are good [...]
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September 9, 2005
- Samsung providing the “flash” in Ipod nano?
Having just accidentally blitzed the detailed first version of this post, I’m in no mood to recreate it in detail, so I’ll be brief and to the point (which would be a first).
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March 30, 2005
- Homebuilders Hanging On.. Barely
On February 23rd, Robert Toll, the CEO of Toll Brothers defiantly declared on CNBC after reporting blowout earnings that "shorts would get crushed" (it should be noted that the Robert cashed in 110 million just 2 days following – in fairness he cashed in the same amount two months earlier so could be part of [...]
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February 22, 2005
- Bull in Commodities & Basic Materials Continues..
While the rest of the market struggles to get off the ground (ie tech and finance) – oil, metals and basic materials soar to new heights. In the market report posted January 26th (sent to free members of SelfInvestors.com) I highlighted the oil industry as several stocks began to break out of consolidation, which proved [...]
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December 6, 2004
- May Be Time For a Good ‘Ol Fashioned Semiconductor Rally
Semiconductors have been gaining momentum in recent months and Intel’s positive guidance Friday may just be enough to kickstart the sector into a nice sustained rally. Clicking on the chart at the left… you can see that the Semiconductor Index is showing signs of strength by surging above two major resistance areas, the downward [...]
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