What’s Wrong With Gold Stocks?
Earlier this year (”Gold Stocks Pay Off“), it seemed like the stars had lined up for gold stock investors. Gold equities looked cheap relative to bullion in mid-March, at least on the basis of the GLD/GDX ratio. The ratio, representing the price multiple of the SPDR Gold Shares Trust (NYSE: GLD) over the Market Vectors […]
The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds
ETFs are a great tool for the average investors. Well, they are fantastic tools, if you live in the US. For Singapore folks, there are ETFs listed on SGX as well as HK stock exchange to choose from as well.
Here in an audio interview at financial sense, the author explains
What are ETFs
What are active ETFs
How […]
Timber Agg 1: Introduction to Timber Investing
Here we at Investment Moats, we hope to to discover good asset classes or instruments that are obscure to most investors, especially Singaporean Investors.I first heard about timber sometime back but didn’t really follow up on this since I thought this is just another agriculture. Little did i know it is very wrong. In this […]
DBA Is Full-Up
Want to know how big the commodity boom is? The PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF—or DBA—is basically full.
More accurately, the fund-which invests in commodity futures contracts-has reached its position limits in some of its commodities.
The commodity exchanges and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission set maximum amounts that certain investors can hold in individual commodities. DBA’s assets […]
Hidden Commodities Exposure
With commodity prices running at a high level in recent weeks, many investors might be tempted to increase exposure by purchasing unit trusts that invest 100% into energy, soft commodities , base metals etc.
I some time feel that i can draw a parrallel comparison to the case of the China bull in street talks with […]
Spreading The Word About ETF/ETN Spreads
Anybody who’s traded in the pits knows that futures are very versatile instruments. You can, of course, express blatant bullishness or bearishness through outright purchases or sales of contracts. But you can also take more nuanced approaches to the market by trading “spreads.”
In a spread trade, you buy one contract and simultaneously sell a different, […]
