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USO: Bull or Bear?
Oil going to $20s in 2010
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+2.24%
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The cure for our economic cancer is not printing dollars and cars for clunkers, it's getting rid of the cancer. That means banks and suburbs will enter a 100 year decline. Suburbs are inefficient, they waste heating oil, gasoline, electricity, and space. They aren't ideal for community, and they steal from farming which will become important in the near future. Add in the effect of growing research into solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and batteries, and you have all the makings for a repeat of what happened to oil back in Edison's day-- the oil lamp. Only this time, there's nothing t...
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USO at Blood in the Street Prices
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The price movement of United States Oil Fund LP Units ( USO ) roughly tracks the movement in the price of spot crude oil on world markets. The strategy behind USO is stated as follows on the E-Trade website:
"The investment seeks to reflect the performance, less expenses, of the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil. The fund will invest in futures contracts for WTI light, sweet crude oil, other types of crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, natural gas and other petroleum based-fuels that are traded on exchanges. It may also invest in other oil interests s...
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1-Year Analysis of Coal Price vs. Energy Commodity Funds
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+34.81%
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303 days
The chart below depicts a one-year analysis of near-month Central Appalachian Coal Futures Contract Prices (NYMEX: QL), the Market Vectors Coal Company ETF (KOL), the U.S. Oil Fund (USO), the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG), and the S&P 500 SPDR ETF (SPY). QL fared the best with a minor decline of 0.3%, compared to major losses of 61.4% for KOL, 58% for USO, 49.1% for UNG, and 34.7% for SPY. The chart was constructed using the daily closing prices for each component. <> The prices for coal futures from...
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Green Investors Hopeful on Eve of Inauguration
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-5.13%
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3 days
(closed on 01/22/09)
Green Investors Hopeful on Eve of Inauguration The table at my website link below includes statistics and a short description of the 20 companies included in the ETF Innovators Global Carbon Trading Index along with benchmark energy commodities and exchange-traded products. The 20 companies in the Carbon Trading Index posted a gain of 5.6% over the past month, despite declines in the overall market, the global price of carbon, and major energy commodities. <> With the launch of Ai...
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Carbon Trading Index Rebounds in December
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-8.17%
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(closed on 01/19/09)
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The accompanying table [click to enlarge] includes 19 companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Carbon Trading Index along with the prices of seven benchmark commodities and funds. The Carbon Trading Index rallied over the past month along with the overall market, although the gains were less than the overall market and the index has declined by more than 50% in the past six months.
With the launch of AirShares Carbon Fund (ASO) in mid-December, investors have another option to trade the price of carbon ...
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An 11-Month Analysis of Coal Price, KOL, USO, and UNG
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-2.83%
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9 days
(closed on 01/01/09)
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The accompanying chart [click to enlarge] includes an 11-month analysis of Central Appalachian Coal Futures (NYMEX: QL), Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), U.S. Oil Fund (USO), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG), and S&P 500 (SPY).
The prices for coal futures from other areas of the world were excluded in the chart analysis to avoid congestion from too many data points and since the correlation is high (around 95%) to QL. An 11-month analysis was chosen since KOL began trading in mid-January of this year and th...
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AirShares (ASO) Begins Trading 12/15/08
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(closed on 12/22/08)
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The AirShares (ASO) Carbon Fund [web link to product home page] is set to begin trading on Monday 12/15/08 for XShares. The AirShares website contains details on the fund's structure and holdings, as well as information on climate change and carbon investing – including a multimedia resource center which is a compilation of videos, white papers and news articles designed to be a leading online reference for carbon investing information.
The closest existing product is the <> iPath Global Ca...
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Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds
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+11.45%
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28 days
(closed on 12/15/08)
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<> The accompanying chart presents an 8-week analysis of global coal futures prices as a follow-up to my previous 5-month analysis last month, Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), PowerShares Global Coal ETF (PKOL), S&P 500 ETF (SPY), U.S. Natural Gas (UNG) + Oil (USO) Funds, and the Energy Sector ETF (XLE). The global price of coal is tracked by the near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Eur< />< />< />< /><>< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< />...
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Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds
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+11.92%
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(closed on 11/17/08)
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The accompanying 5-month chart presents an analysis of the global price of near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Europe (ATW – Rotterdam ICE Coal Futures) compared to the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG, and U.S. Oil Fund (USO). Although this is not a huge amount of historical data, the past five months presents an interesting analysis given the tremendous volati< />< />< />< /><>< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< />...
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A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price
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+0.00%
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(closed on 10/26/08)
<> The accompanying table contains a summary and statistics for 16 ETFI global equity indexes and two commodity pool fund ideas, with the short/inverse and defensive themes outpacing the overall market averages over the past year in the midst of ongoing market turmoil around the world.
<> <> Although currently out of favor with investors, new commodity pool fund ideas include timber and coal. The CoalFund is a commodity pool that is structured to track the performance of exchange-traded, near-month futures contra...
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Carbon ETN: Solid Returns, Few Investors
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+14.74%
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(closed on 10/25/08)
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Despite attracting little in the way of investor interest in terms of trading volume and net assets, the iPath Global Carbon ETN (GRN) has outpaced the S&P 500 Index, U.S. Oil Fund (USO), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG), and Central Appalachian Coal Futures (QL) (down 28.5%) over the past three months. Since diverging from oil and natural gas in late July, the global price of carbon is still trading above its low point at that time despite a global unwind of leverage which has hit commodities especially hard.
Investo...
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Carbon ETN Outpaces Oil & Natural Gas Funds
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+17.68%
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10 days
(closed on 10/15/08)
<> During recent market turmoil and a meltdown in commodities, the Global Carbon ETN (GRN) (-10%) has held up much better than oil (USO) (-35%) and natural gas (UNG) (-45%) and about the same as the overall market S&P 500 ETF (SPY), with the approximate three month returns listed after each ticker.
Key factors in the demand for carbon credits include overall power demand and the relationship between natural gas and coal prices since burning gas results in the release of less than half of the greenhouse emissions versus coal. C...
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The Fear Trade: Investors Pile into Gold and Treasuries
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(closed on 10/05/08)
<> The Dow suffered its biggest one-day point drop in history (although not even close on a percentage loss basis) as investors moved out of stocks into tradition safe havens such as Treasuries and gold (GLD). The failure of Congress to approve the $700B bailout package stunned investors as lawmakers worked through the weekend and practically around the clock to put together a plan that was widely expected to pass. The Senate will return Wednesday night while the House meets again this Thursday following the Jewish New Ye...
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A Commodity Meltdown
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+4.57%
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19 days
(closed on 09/30/08)
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<> The accompanying three-month chart illustrates a steadily strengthening US Dollar (UUP) along with a broad-based meltdown in the prices of commodities. The U.S. Oil (USO) and Natural Gas (UNG) Funds are down over 20% and 40%, respectively, while SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and PowerShares DB Agricultural Commodities (DBA) are both down over 10% in the last three months. The correction in commodities reflects concerns over a global economic slowdown, a strengthening U.S. Dollar (with the Euro slipping below the $1.40 mark), and a drastic run-up in...
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