10 Dow Stocks Yielding over 3% – But How’s the Performance of Dow Dogs?

June 2, 2011

With yields on 10-Year Treasuries dropping below 3% again on worries in the EU and another lousy jobs report, it’s worth noting that there are 10 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average yielding over 3%.  As compiled by CNBC this week, this table highlights 10 of the 30 stocks comprising the index with a […]

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What does a Debt Management Company Do?

May 28, 2011

With more and more households facing high debt levels and insolvency, the UK have seen a steep rise in the number of debt management companies. Today, some estimates put their number at over 400 – quite a rise from the days when a 1999-survey of the University of Bristol identified a mere 40. Thanks to […]

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Another Smart Business Idea that Got Away

May 24, 2011

Over the years, seemingly great ideas have come and gone, but alas, I never actually got into the execution phase and did anything with them.  Several years ago when I started seeing advertising popping up everywhere from stadiums to the names of bowl games, I had an epiphany.  I figured since cars are so visible […]

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CytRx Corporation Stock Review

May 19, 2011

In another installment of highlighting various investment opportunities, today, I’m going to cover CytRx Corporation (ticker: CYTR).  As a biotech guy myself, I’m always interested in up and coming biotech outfits.  Not only do they often have the potential to jump 100% or more in a single day when a pivotal drug study is released […]

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Physical Silver Trust Premium Collapses – Pairs Trade Returns 10%

May 5, 2011

With the various precious metals ETFs out there and the volatility we’re seeing in the markets now, there are opportunities to exploit market inefficiencies that appear and disappear rather quickly (see more on arbitrage investments).  But investors that are agile can benefit as these scenarios repeat themselves somewhat frequently.  In the past, I benefited from […]

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How I Hedged Summer Gas Prices with ETFs

April 19, 2011

With oil prices hovering over $100 per barrel again and the summer driving season approaching, Americans are rightfully fretting over what they’re going to be paying at the pump as tensions continue to flare in the Middle East and the nuclear accident continues to unfold in Japan.  Gas prices tend to rise annually during the […]

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4 Ways to Profit From Silver’s Explosive Growth

April 10, 2011

With silver at decades-long highs, an obvious question one has to consider is whether this is a bubble ready to burst, a continuation of a secular bull trend, or simply that this is another efficient market example where prices do reflect the appropriate value based on all market information known at this time.  Depending on […]

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ETF Top Gainers – Silver, Energy and Inverse Volatility Win Out

March 27, 2011

US equities continued their ascent with the S&P500 (SPY) up 2.8% despite a worsening nuclear crisis in Japan, an undeclared 3rd war front with Libya and multiple Middle East fiefdoms on the verge of collapse.  Evidently, the prospect of cheap money, another round of Quantitative Easing rumored and record corporate profits continue to capture the […]

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Incredible Silver Pairs Trade – If You Can Find the Shares to Short

March 23, 2011

There’s a really nice silver pairs trade being set up right now for investors that are agile enough, already set up for margin/short trading and understand the premise behind this pairs trade.  Using the exact same concept I outlined previously for a gold pairs trade which worked out beautifully, there’s a nice market inefficiency (see […]

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