If you want to be a real contrarian, buy a company that’s drilling for oil. No one likes them, not with oil having fallen more than 50% in the last six months and threatening to keep declining, and with investors fleeing the sector and capital budgets at oil companies being slashed. It’s not pretty. But […]
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Thoughts from Myron — Anniversary Musings, Celebrating Winners[Ed. Note: Myron Martin is a longtime reader who writes for the Irregulars a couple times a month about junior miners and other stocks that strike his fancy. Below is his latest contribution. As always, he’s agreed to our trading restrictions and his words and opinions are his own.] Happy Anniversary Gumshoers! Hard to believe, […]
[Ed. note: Here is our latest contribution from longtime reader Myron Martin. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and, as usual, we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and the opinions he expresses are solely his own. Many of the stocks Myron covers are microcap “penny stocks” that can move dramatically […]
Ed. note: Here is our latest contribution from Myron Martin, who writes for us primarily about junior miners. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and, as usual, we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and the opinions he expresses are solely his own. Many of the stocks Myron covers are microcap […]
Ed. note: Here is another installment from longtime reader Myron Martin. Myron has agreed to our trading restrictions (he won’t trade the stocks he mentions for three days), but we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and the opinions he expresses are solely his own. Myron’s past commentaries can be seen […]
Ed. note: Here is another installment from longtime reader Myron Martin. Myron has agreed to our trading restrictions (he won’t trade the stocks he mentions for three days), but we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and the opinions he expresses are solely his own. Myron’s past commentaries can be seen […]
As promised, we’re taking another day to have a look at the “last five minutes” pitch that so many of you have been asking about. If you missed our first installment, you can go here to see that note — and get the background on that “last five minutes” means. In short, it’s a spiel […]
Most of the time I write about the investment newsletter business — the pundits who sell their expertise, the copywriters who make the mundane seem otherworldly, and the outrageous promises and teases that the publishers use to convince us to subscribe to newsletters that proffer investment research and stock tips. But it’s worth noting that […]
I haven’t written about Nicholas Vardy and his Global Stock Investor very many times, but several folks sent in his latest teaser ad and it piqued my interest a little bit. So let’s have at it, shall we? As you might imagine, Vardy focuses on foreign stocks — though he’s aiming for US investors so […]
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Thank you Carl. I look forward to reading your SA posts on FCX as I got in at ~$7. Probably should’ve gotten out at ...
Salvatore I don't view FCX as any kind of dividend stock now. I have other investments similar to and better than MAIN...
FCX is not about the dividends it's more about the growth. Check out a BDC stock like MAIN if you want a monthly compoun...
Carl - FCX will take time to come around. It's one of the biggest holdings by Carl Icahn with an intrinsic value (3 time...
NGLOY, GLNCY, USCI, SA, RIO, FCX, BBL, VALE, RGLD, FNV, SQM, ALB, PXD, NTR, CCJ. I think that's about it. Entry points u...
I have had call options on Freeport from time to time, since it tends to be the first copper play Wall Street looks at w...