The sharp drop in the stock price of Petrolifera Petroleum (TSX: PDP) crushes the promising breakout above its trading range. Since the stock is again trading in its trading range between $16 and $20, I recomend traders to close their positions and cut...

As the price of Oil has been rising steadily since the beginning of the year and is nearing its all time high in the $78 range, there could be some promising profit opportunities in small cap junior oil explorers. A very interesting one is Petrolifera...

As I recently took a long position in cotton , I want to highlight that cotton is currently falling back after its strong advance above $61. From a technical perspective the support area is around $55 as it can be seen in the weekly chart below. If...

Oilsands Quest Inc. (AMEX: BQI) (formerly CanWest Petroleum Corporation) is engaged in a variety of projects with an emphasis on oil sands and oil shale exploration in Western Canada. Its lead project is its Axe Lake Discovery, an oil sands deposit the...

As Tom Lydon from ETF Trends recently pointed out more investor education on contango and backwardation - the two forms of the term structure of commodity futures markets - is necessary. As an investor in commodities you have the choice between buying...

Some interesting discussion from investment legend Jim Rogers and Marc Faber, author of GloomBoomDoom.com , on CNBC World on July 2. Watch the videos about the following topics: U.S. Debt Bubble In Favor of Agricultural Commodities China...

I have lunched a new website called The Relative MarketView . The focus of my new website is on directional market neutral spread trades like a long/short trade in the S&P 500/Citigroup Value and Growth index. The biggest advantage of Relative Value...

Commodities are still on the run and just under their all-time high as the chart of the Goldman Sachs Commodities Spot Index (GNX) below shows. A look at its sub-indices - GSCI Energy (GJX) (weight: 69,66%), GSCI Industrial Metal (GYX) 11,61%, GSCI Agricultural...

Slower growth lies ahead for the United States, say investment managers who responded to Russell Investment Group's September quarterly survey , as none of the managers believes that a recession is likely in the U.S. and half believe the U.S. will experience...

Oil has dropped under $60 on Monday morning, to reach a 6 month low at $59.59 per barrel. Prices have dropped more than 23% since hitting a record $78.40 in mid-July. Yesterday, Barry Ritholtz pointed out that he finds the mainstream explanations for...