Investment Ideas

Option Investing Tips

Ten Tips to Successful Options Trading

Options can be a menacing trading practice. Once you think you have it figured out, it shifts. Like any investment, there’s going to be some sort of gamble. Although viewed by bitter traders as confusing,…

23Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

The Junior Miner Checklist

Grading a junior is an important process where many analysts fall short. Grading juniors is much different than grading a major gold producer — that’s why I came up with a set of concepts that I always look for in…

21Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

Option Pitfalls

Five Pitfalls Stock Option Investors Make Over and Over Again

One of the best ways to make money in the stock market is to not buy stocks at all. But instead, buy a stock’s derivative — or option. This way, you…

17Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Vanadium

Finding Fuel Efficient Metals

Ultra high-strength and super-light steels are the plastics of the 21st century. There is high demand for these steels for use in everything from jet engines to rail components. In turn, there is a big push for…

16Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | Continued

The Best Ways to Profit From the Growing Pension Fund Crisis

Welcome to the latest offshoot of the subprime-mortgage debacle: A burgeoning U.S. pension-fund crisis.

Since the global financial crisis struck last fall, the largest 1,500 U.S. public companies have lost a combined $280 billion from their pension funds. Assuming the stock…

16Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Insights on Income: Foreign Markets are a Necessary Profit Play for Today’s Income Investor

Back in the middle 1980s, income investing for U.S. investors was pretty simple. Inflation was around 5% - roughly the same as now - but U.S. government bonds were paying close to 8%, and without going into high-risk debt issues…

14Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

UBS Embarks on Middle East Expansion

UBS AG (UBS) yesterday (Tuesday), announced it had obtained a license to operate in Saudi Arabia, joining a growing number of financial firms looking to recoup some of the over $400 billion in global write-downs to date by tapping into…

9Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Merrill Lynch: Emerging Market Infrastructure Spending Will Surge 80% in the Next Three Years

Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. (MER) has raised its annual infrastructure-spending estimate for emerging markets by 80%, as developing countries try to keep pace with fast-growing economies and large cash reserves, BusinessWeek reported.

Investment in infrastructure, which the firm sees as…

9Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Waste Management

“On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president, because you have to have them. The world would have been dead a long time ago without garbage men.”…

8Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

Silver Prices Ready to Rocket; Four Reasons Why and Two Ways to Buy

Silver prices have vaulted an extraordinary 106% in the past two and a half years.

More impressive, silver prices have gained 33% since mid December.

Now, compare that to how U.S. stocks have fared since then: The Dow Jones Industrial…

7Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Three Ways to Profit From the Biggest Airport on Earth

Oil and jet-fuel prices are in the stratosphere, many of the world’s top airlines have ordered severe cutbacks, and passenger traffic is falling, so why is Dubai funneling 82 billion of its petrodollars into an aerospace project that includes plans…

27Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Precious Metals Gearing Up

By Nick Jones
Editor, Real Deal

The PMs have taken the back seat in the most recent rally in commodities. While corn, soy beans, oil, and other commodities were making either fresh contract or all time highs on a daily basis, the…

26Jun2008 | Nick Jones | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Chinese Real Estate

Breaking News: Straight from China…

Wow, what a week this has been!

I landed in China about seven days ago and have been completely amazed by how much it’s changed in the last few years. I haven’t set foot in Beijing since…

26Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

Energy Q&A Part IV: Investing In Energy Stocks And More…

Q: “Please comment on Suntech Power Holdings. Comparing STP with KHD Humboldt Wedag, which is the better investment at this time?”

Suntech Power Holdings (STP: NYSE) has taken us on a wild ride since we added it in January 2007.…

22Jun2008 | Energy and Oil | 0 comments | Continued

Multinational Corporations Step up the Search for the “Next China”

As far as foreign direct investment in Asia is concerned, China is still the undisputed leader, drawing approximately $42.78 billion in just the first five months of the year, an increase of 55% from the same period a year ago.

But…

20Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued