More Insiders are Buying but the Selling is Relentless 3-4-22

  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll the significant buys of the last year. All bear markets end in a crescendo, literally an explosion of insider buying.  I believe we…


Insider Buying week 02-25-22 Yes, there is now Blood on the Streets

  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll the significant buys of the last year. Figuring out the next move in the market has moved into the realms of multidimensional chess…


Why the Collapse in the Price of Oil is Reminiscent of Previous Financial Bubbles

Bubbles all have the same characteristics of unrealistic expectations but are incredibly difficult to recognize until after the effect. Prices in an economic bubble can fluctuate erratically, and…


The blatant injustice of US Government oil policy

If China was dumping a product in the US market, and businesses in the US were not allowed to sell a similar one in the Chinese market, politicians would be up in arms at the injustice of it all.…


The contrarian view in the oil patch is hard to come by these days, here's mine

It's hard to find the contrarian view in the oil patch these days but some of our contrarian observations are: A barrel of oil is worth far more in the U.S. than in other parts of the world. The U.S…


Crude oil in free fall creates long term buying opportunity

I think the sharp drop in crude and the decline in some US centric shale plays creates a buying opportunity.  We bought Anadarko, Apache, Continental Resources, EOG, a little Chesapeake and quite a…


The very cryptic thing Apache Oil CEO said at Bernstein conference today

Something has been kicking Apache stock into high gear the last two days.  I doubt if it was the anticipation of the Sanford Bernstein conference nor the hiring of Goldman Sachs to shop some assets.…


Notes from Enercom 2012

First of all men's suits are back in force.  Everyone is wearing a suit.  My big takeway besides men's haberdashery is that every single company presenting (and there are a lot of them- just about…