Peak Oil Update
World Will Soon Face an Oil Supply Crunch
By Chris Nelder
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Everyone who follows the peak oil story has by now seen some of the editorials that blanketed the press over the last few weeks, attempting to debunk it and disparage its adherents. I responded to the worst of them three weeks [...]

Nightly late-night chart review sessions on twitter and Chart.ly.  Follow me on twitter@theEquilibrium.
AKS‎ – AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE): “daily- nice breakout today- target 26 resistance from last Sept. on follow-thru”

AKS‎ – AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE):  “weekly- breaking into area of very low prior volume- res. at 26-ish, then 38.2% FIb at 30.30″

FTK‎ – Flotek [...]

Long Trade Idea Allied Nevada Gold Corp. (AVN) Along With SPDR Gold Shares Weekly Chart September 13, 2009
AVN is testing it’s latest breakout from above on lower volume. If GLD continues higher then AVN’s breakout from this almost 3 month consolidation could be a nice low risk high reward trade. It is not as liquid [...]

The Energy Revolution Needs China’s Resource Investments
For last week’s Energy and Capital, I reviewed China’s buying spree of natural resources, and argued that we may need them for the energy revolution more desperately than anyone now imagines.
If we want an example of good long-term resource planning, we might want to look to China.
While the first [...]

SPDR Gold Trust ETF: GLD
GLD has a nice ascending triangle making higher lows up the 50 day and 20 day SMA. Gold itself broke out today and my partner in crime @JeffreyLin on twitter called out the triangle breakout on Gold. My alert was set for GLD @ 94.20 with a upside target of 100 thinking [...]

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First it was Business Week. Then President Obama. Now it is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Speaking before a group of bankers this past weekend in Jackson Hole [...]

So much for the dog days of summer.  The week of August 10-14 promises to be one of this summer’s more pivotal weeks for the capital markets: equity markets will contemplate the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee Statement on Wednesday for clues regarding the strength of the economic recovery and associated monetary policy; the bond [...]

For this week’s Energy and Capital column, I consider the recent mega-investment wave in farmland in light of peak oil concerns, and think farmland may be the trade of the century.
Is Farmland the Trade of the Century?
What should a long-term investor invest in when stocks and bonds aren’t working very well?
I’ve been asking that question [...]

Ag names have been hit particularly hard in the past few sessions, some breaking key uptrend lines and other critical levels of support, so this State of the Chart will shine the spotlight on MOO, the ag ETF.
Let’s begin with the weekly chart:

MOO hasn’t been around very long, so long term charting is somewhat less [...]

For my Energy and Capital article last week, I explained the importance of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s new initiative to streamline the approval process for utility scale solar power plants, and looked at some of the exciting projects now under way.
Publishing note: You may have noticed that I am now reposting my Energy and Capital [...]