A Bruising Week for Investors yet Insiders Still Post Modest Gains

For trade details click on this link to the trades AVIS BUDGET GROUP Inc up 21.08% American Assets Trust Inc. up 5.36% CHEVRON CORP up 5.03% Sonos Inc up 4.26% NU SKIN ENTERPRISES Inc up 3.41% INCYTE CORP up 1.67% AGREE REALTY CORP up 1.46% GREENHILL & CO INC up 1.21% DuPont de Nemours Inc. up 0.54% Sensei Biotherapeutics Inc. up 0.12% Royalty Pharma plc down -0.56 QUIDEL CORP down -0.63% Macy’s Inc. down -1.36% CERNER Corp down -1.83% ABBOTT LABORATORIES down -2.22% Zoetis Inc. down -5.73% Longeveron Inc. down -20% The market genuflected like the herd following creature it … Read more

Another Roller Coaster Week on the Coronavirus Train- Insider Buying is Picking Up

The headlines don’t stop. Most of them scary and getting worse by the day. That didn’t stop insiders from buying falling knives but not in the quantity I’m looking for to mark the all clear.  The pace of buying is clearly picking up, though IT SEEMS that Friday the 28th was the climax and insiders paused as the news headlines worsened about the virus.  In times of increasing investor panic, insiders will restore confidence, especially when they buy across the board. In this post, we examine insiders purchasing $200,000 of more of their company’s shares, looking for clues that may … Read more

‘s Getting Interesting- Insider Buying Picks Up Week Ending 8-9-19

After weeks of dull action, insider buying has finally picked up. Part of it is the end of 2nd Quarter earnings blackout and part of it is the market sell-off.  The highlights: Charlie Egren, the founder of Dish, is making a massive bet on 5G, buying assets in the pending TMobile Sprint network and committing billions to buy more bandwidth.  Its a bet the farm expensive gamble on a player late to the game.  But if the competing networks are slow in getting 5G rolled out, Dish might be able to lumber in and get a piece of the future … Read more

‘s 10% Ginnie Maes, right in front of our noses

I wish I had a nickel, no maybe $10,000 for every time I heard someone say,” I wish I had bought those 10% Ginnie Mae bonds back in the day…”  (GNMA Bonds are guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government) Well, that Ginnie Mae may still be here, staring us right in the face in the oil and gas and particularly MLP market.  Many MLPs in the oil and gas infrastructure business are selling with yields from 8.5%-15%  No, it’s not guaranteed but then again interest rates aren’t at near 0% either.  We put together a … Read more

Blue Chip Is The New Alpha – Seeking Alpha

We loved this provocative article from Seeking Alpha, especially the quote from Alexander Graham Bell.  We may be biased though as we are also long JPM,K,MSFT, INTC, MCD, PG and BP and the author, Stephen Perry, is interning for us this summer. Blue Chip Is The New AlphaJuly 30, 2012  | 3 comments  |  includes: AAPL, ABT, CL, CVX, DD, GE, IBM, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MDT, MMM, MRK, MSFT, PEP, PFE, PG, T, TGT, VZ, WFC, WMT, XOMIts been difficult to find alpha in a market that is so volatile and dependent on global macro events, but I think Ive … Read more

Chevron ex-CEO sees U.S. oil imports for next 20 years – Yahoo! Finance

PALO ALTO, California #Reuters# – David O’Reilly, the former head of Chevron Corp #CVX#, believes the United States will be importing oil for at least the next two decades despite a recent surge in domestic production from newly developed shale basins. While O’Reilly was upbeat about the potential for supplying enough natural gas and coal for U.S. electricity, he said the country should worry about its transportation system given its reliance on oil – barring a technological breakthrough. via Chevron ex-CEO sees U.S. oil imports for next 20 years – Yahoo! Finance.

What we did today

We like domestic energy plays in the U.S, which means natural gas, coal, and oil in the Baaken and Gulf of Mexico.   They are all getting crushed on the China slow down syndrome but in reality currently ship little to China.  Exports represented 7.5 percent of production in 2010.  Natural gas exports were negligible. We bought come coal miners, Arch Coal, more Alpha Natural, Hess and Chevron. ANR reached a low of $16.80 in March of 2009.  We closed at $19.91 today down from $65 at the beginning of the year.  Arch Coal reached a 2009 low of $15.20.  It’s there again … Read more

Best Hedge Against Rising Oil Prices: Part 1

by: Dr. Osman Gulseven After the UN resolution on no-fly zone in Libya, the coalition forces just launched an almost full-scale operation on Libya. I was watching Euronews to get latest updates on the Libyan crises. Obviously, this is not a single operation that will last for a couple of days. Libya is on fire! We might see a full-scale war in Libya that will last for weeks or months or even years. After learning a smart lesson in Iraq, France is trying to lead the coalition forces with 20 aircraft and a number of warships. Gaddafi’s spokesman said that … Read more