December 8, 2021
Trading in carbon credits
A number of carbon trading ETFs and ETNs have done very well recently: GRN, KRBN, KEUA and even KCCA. Maybe time to inform your readers of this new asset class.
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Posted on June 20, 2019
Thought this a useful analysis of IIPR: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4270867-innovative-industrial-bet-pot-reit[...]
Posted on May 12, 2019
A real pick-and-shovel company for the cannabis industry is Enwave, ENW on the Toronto Venture exchange. Oil extraction. https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/aurora-cannabis-and-enwave-corporation-enter-global-licensing-arrangements-841681980.html Now al[...]
Posted on December 8, 2017
In Canada the bitcoin/blockchain fever is accompanied by the cannabis fever, leading to bad puns such as WEED (the largest cannabis company) has reached a new high! All that is not just smoke and mirrors, some serious developments. Anyway, this article may[...]
Posted on December 8, 2017
ECS has done pretty well, together with BANC on the Toronto Venture exchange, as well as CRUZ. Cobalt is one of the components of the electric vehicle complex, together with lithium and graphite.[...]
Posted on November 13, 2017
Rickards new ad (advertised on this site) pitches the new "distributed ledger" financial system and new currencies to replace the US$. This will destroy the US banking system. Well, I invest in block chain companies (mainly OSTK) but I don't think bitcoin [...]
Posted on November 12, 2017
The few block chain companies that I know are highly volatile, more for day trading than anything else. Many/most of these companies started out very differently and then added block chain as an appendage. Just check the charts! In the US OSTK (small holdi[...]
Posted on November 12, 2017
In uranium the only stock worth owning is Nexgen - check it out. Any comments on the runaway US home builders? BTW, my speculative money in Canada is on cannabis (WEED and such), getting pretty high, and lithium, cobalt and graphite. Some energy services, [...]
Posted on May 21, 2017
The US counterpart to SHOP seems to SQ - put it on my watch list. Bought some ETFs on emerging markets IT - EMQQ, KWEB. Researching some Chinese social networking companies: MOMO, YY, SINA. MOMO's streaming platform seems to be very popular.BTW, in Ca[...]
Posted on May 11, 2017
You could still make a lot of money on NDM on the last fool strategy...[...]
Posted on May 11, 2017
Incakolanews is a blog/daily newsletter on the junior mining industry that is free (also publishes a weekly newsletter, CAD$40 pm). Their take on NDM is not ver kind, for example: http://incakolanews.blogspot.ca/2017/02/the-funniest-bits-of-northern-dynast[...]
Posted on May 11, 2017
As Travis was hintitng, in the case of REITs earnings are impacted by financial items such as depreciation, which reduce earnings for taxation purposes. Funds from operations is therefore a better yardstick.[...]
Posted on March 10, 2017
There is considerable enthusiasm in some medical circles for metformin as an anti-aging drug, and there is even an FDA approved metformin longevity studies. Any comments? https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432287[...]
Posted on February 16, 2017
If you want to dabble in cannabis companies, look at the biggest one (by far) in Canada, Canopy Growth, which just recently changed its ticker to WEED. Apparently this led to increased Google traffic. Another company which was recently discussed in a newsp[...]
Posted on October 6, 2016
Sprott's thoughts on gold: http://www.investorvillage.com/groups.asp?mb=13685&mn=54343&pt=msg&mid=16433982[...]
Posted on October 6, 2016
Thanks for the insights, esp about the hidden dangers of ETFs. Are mutual fund prices always close to NAF? ETFs and CEFs can be totally out of whack, I suppose: the premium on PGP is 76 %, after a fall of 15 %.[...]
Posted on October 6, 2016
Just heard a comment somewhere that most lithium batteries contain not much lithium. The source may have been benchmarkminerals.com Anyway, the lithium market is for day traders, fundamentals have little to do with it. Made a fair amount of money but took[...]
Posted on October 6, 2016
"MPW is also making a $50 million equity investment in Steward, which is a fast-growing health network that is backed by private equity giant Cerberus, but the big deal is $1.2 million to acquire the real estate." 1.2 million?Anyway, happy with my two [...]
Posted on September 19, 2016
Coal: metallurgical coal has been soaring, explaining the parabolic growth in Teck resources, and possibly in Westshore terminals. I hold a number of medical reits, and today HLTH is doing well on the basis of a new acquisition.[...]
Posted on June 9, 2015
Google "international living" (the magazine) and "second passports." There are many ways: have an Irish grandma? a Jewish ancestor who had to flee Nazi Germany? and so on. But don't forget: it is actually quite hard to relinquish your US citizenship - so y[...]
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