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    • Sun Nov 30th 15:42 PM
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      Frontline's Earnings Do Not Paint a Clear Picture
      I'm with notsosmart, although the dividends haven't quite paid for my investment yet. They are close, though, and the smaller dividend this quarter and a couple more like it will get me there. The need for oil will perhaps lessen, but not vanish for decades to come. There are too many products we use it for, too many inventions not yet discovered, and not enough fuel efficient trucks to drive that stuff here even if the ocean were paved. This is a stock I'll keep even when it goes lower, because it kept my balance steady when the banks were sinking and my mortgage floundering.
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    • Wed Nov 26th 06:03 AM
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      Atlas Pipeline: Call Option on Oil
      I've got time, I'll hold on for a while.
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    • Mon Nov 24th 19:26 PM
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      Canadian Royalty Trusts Will Never Return to Their Former Glory
      There are American trusts too. So for now, I'll take the Canroy dividends and route them into buying more shares of American trusts. Two birds, one stone.
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    • Sun Nov 23rd 11:32 AM
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      Lehman Brothers Take-over: Implications for Financials
      Valuation on everything has tanked, which proves one thing to me - everyone is listening to the analysts and no one is looking at the companies. If all the analysts (ALL) were forced to shut up for one month, people would have to do their own research. They would end up buying stock in the companies they believe are good. The market would go up based on how people feel rather than how analysts feel. This could have the effect of stabilizing some of those companies. Do I know which companies are good? No. Do I listen to the analysts anymore? No. I read them, agree or disagree, and end up buying on my own opinions of those companies or selling for the same reasons. We've all lost value in our investments, anyway. Why not just fire the analysts and go it alone?
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    • Tue Nov 18th 08:18 AM
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      Are Frontline and Overseas Shipping Worth Another Look?
      With oil prices so low, it's silly not to stock up. This begs the question of storage, and the tankers may be the cheapest solution. That being said, I chose FRO and NAT because they sounded like a good bet for my money at a time when my financial stocks were tanking (no pun intended). Between the two sectors, I came out about even, which is much better than many people I know. I like both for their dividends, and I guess I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and stick around for a while. Oil won't be this cheap for long, day rates won't stay so low for long, and maybe I just like these dividends too much to run scared because they had a slow quarter. I waited way too long to sell my JPM, as steady and strong as it was, and maybe I'll make that same mistake again. I'll take the chance.
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    • Tue Nov 11th 22:59 PM
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      Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?
      No PHD, no union behind me, not making anywhere near even the $32-40/hr that the ford guy claimed. But I do work for one of the companies making some of the machines the Big 3 use to put those cars together. Instead of the union guys doing all the heavy labor, machines do a good piece of it now, and the union guys push the buttons. I don't get a pension, or life insurance, and I sure don't have all the same holidays they get. Vacation time comes at about 2 weeks until after 10 years of employment because our bennies are so cut back since our prices have been cut back by the big 3... competition is fierce out here, and the employees pay a lot more for medical, co-pays, Rx and all.

      Do I depend on the Big 3? Yes. Do I drive American? No. I did, when they had small cars, but now I'm going for BMW, where I know they focus on quality. The unions have screwed things up for the rest of us. If everyone was unionized, the wages wouldn't be this high because the companies couldn't afford it. The UAW doesn't go for the small fry... there's no money in it!

      And to anyone who thinks choosing a foreign car is wrong, let's all remember this country was built on the idea of choice.
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    • Sat Oct 25th 17:03 PM
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      Counting Chickens: How Much Is the Market Already Pricing In a Fed Funds Rate Cut?
      It's all a gamble. A stock can be really reliable over the years, show promise, have a lot going for it, etc. but as soon as an analyst writes one article saying that they are lowering their rating for that stock, everyone believes them and they sell. Maybe they lost an argument, or a bet. Maybe they sold the stock just before it went up? Or bought it just before it went down? And maybe that stock isn't bad after all, just had a slow day. We all gamble every day, knowing that we could lose it all with one run on a bank... for no reason but that an analyst said so.

      Perhaps my inexperience is showing, but by not listening to analysts, by researching companies on my own and looking for those things that are important to me, I've at least managed to maintain a somewhat level portfolio this year. It's interesting to read what people write, but I don't base my stock buys/sells on that. I've sold a few that I should have kept, ignored a few that later proved to be exceptional, and lost some on stocks that should have been good, but I didn't do any of it based on an analyst's view.
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    • Thu Oct 23rd 04:39 AM
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      Annihilate Rating Agencies - Fast Money Recap (10/22/08)
      User 118015 sounds like another analyst. They should all be shot. The market tries to come back all by itself, and another analyst cries, and the weaker set sells again. Silly fools. They sell, price goes down, we buy.
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    • Tue Oct 21st 18:33 PM
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      3 Notable Dividend Increases
      I'm in agreement on FRO, just got into NAT (and thus hoping to see some good dividends). As far as I'm concerned with the way stocks have been rolling around lately, with these dividends, even just staying steady is an improvement. The overall value may not be rising but when the market finally settles down we should have more shares and therefore increase more rapidly. And for those who prefer to just take the dividends home, that too can be considered an income booster.
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    • Tue Oct 21st 18:28 PM
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      Let Buffet Do the Buying for You
      It appears - just on a general overview - that BRK_A has one down year every 6 to 9 years. That being said, there could be 6 or more pretty good years to come. I still don't want it.
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    • Sun Oct 19th 08:34 AM
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      Winter Heating Costs: How Hard a Hit?
      Gas is under $2.80 in my area (and we have one of the highest gas taxes of all the states). Makes driving a small car even nicer.
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    • Sun Oct 19th 08:30 AM
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      Inflation Adjusted Oil Prices Fall on Strong USD
      Three things I know: 1. What goes up must come down. 2. Oil will never be free. 3. We will always need oil. This means 4. Oil will go back up again. And come down again. And we will still need it.
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    • Sun Oct 19th 08:28 AM
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      From Subprime to Meltdown: Is Peak Oil Responsible?
      Until human ingenuity and world growth resume, and until people learn that they have to pay the bills or they can't buy the stuff, we will still need oil for all its wondrous uses. Although I have investments spread across many industries, I am staying in both finance and oil because they will have to both come back up eventually. To give up oil would mean giving up lighter weight materials used to build cars, we would need wooden tires, cement roads, and more silk moths to provide stockings for ladies, among other things. Oil is not bad. Neither is money. The only thing bad is assuming they are the problem. If everyone had bought only what they could afford, and then paid their bills, there would have been no financial crisis, no matter who decided what the interest rates should be. If you can't afford the payments, don't buy it. If gas prices are killing you, buy a smaller car. We have all been guilty of living above our means so we can look down on those who don't. Now, those who didn't are showing us all how to do it.
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    • Sun Oct 19th 08:11 AM
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      Linn Energy: Walk the Line
      I agree, and was watching this for a few weeks before I finally jumped in last week.
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    • Sat Oct 11th 06:59 AM
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      A Fresh Look at Shipping Company Stocks
      I have FRO, and am staying with it for now, but would also like to know about OCNF. I picked some up a while back, and it's dropped a bit, so I basically want to know if it's worth waiting or if I should cut my losses and get out now. Instinct tells me to stick it out. Any opinions?
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