by Arnold Joe
Loading ...Looks like oil and gas stocks weren’t immune to the stock market crash as I had been hoping. As has been written a number of times on this site, it was expected that markets would crash but it was hoped that oil stocks would outperform as record earnings were expected given that oil prices in […]
Economics:
Stock markets in North America have been taking a beating recently especially the oil and gas sector. Oil has dropped about $10 in 2 days and oil stocks have sold off to much lower levels than when oil was last back at this level. It’s not just oil and gas stocks that are selling […]
Oil hit another high of $145 today and oil stocks were down again but the US stock markets (Dow and S&P) were both up. This doesn’t make any sense to me as obviously the oil stocks should be going up (not continuously down) when oil continues to hit record highs. I’m expecting that when companies […]
I’ve done a number of trades (see below) in the last few days, as a result of all the trades, my exposure to the oil patch is only the call options on Nexen Inc, as I sold heavily overweighted positions in Petro-Canada positions as well as my Nexen stock positions for gains.
If you’ve been following […]
The price of oil increased $5 to $139 a barrel another record, not surprising the stock markets were down; surprisingly oil stocks were down as well. It’s certainly interesting times when the Dow Jones is at a 21 month low and oil is at an all time high. I bought call options on Petro-Canada (T-PCA, […]
Nexen Inc (T-NXY, N-NXY; oil and gas producer) shares were down over $2.00 yesterday on no news when oil prices were actually up. The sell off continued today after the US reported a draw down in crude oil inventories sending the price of crude down over $4.00 a barrel before recovering to $134 a […]
Stock portfolio change
I sold my Toll Brothers (N-TOL; homebuilder) $30 puts for $10.20 (purchase price was $9.70 for a 5% return) and replaced them with Toll Brother $22.50 puts for $3.00. Selling the more expensive puts allowed me to take $7.20 of cash out of the market so instead of risking $10.20, my risk […]
