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Vet67to82's Blog : Nat Gas 101

Date March 24, 2010    Comments Comments (6)    Rate this post Recommend This Post (119)   
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Topic: Wednesday 3/24/2010 (5 minutes ago)
Report March 24, 2010 – Comments (19) | RELATED TICKERS: CHK , UNG , COG, PTEN

Nat Gas, and associated companies like Chesapeake Energy (CHK)**, is (are) going to get better.

Our Prez and Congress have their priorities all wrong. Now that the healthcare debacle, is temporarily off to the side ( I think the courts will make them FIX parts of it ... ) Congress and the Prez need to get their priorities straight ... The USA has a HUGE trade deficit, yes, much of it with CHINA and its' manipulated currency, but also with imported crude.

To offset that huge trade deficit , the USA can now focus on its abundant supplies of Nat Gas, and Coalbed Methane, to power MORE trucks, cars, busses, etc ... Doing a lot more NOW with Nat Gas will help with JOBS, the TRADE DEFICIT, GLOBAL WARMING (Nat gas is a cleaner fuel than crude or coal) and even our NATIONAL DEBT.

Nat gas is a cleaner fuel than crude, yes it is ... and not just in, and for, the environment.

Take three identical vehicles, run one on gasoline, the second on diesel, and the third on nat gas. After 100,000 miles .... disassemble the engines ,,, and look at the CRUD, except the nat gas engine is pretty clean ... wow !! Now, the CRUD, and CARBON, in the other engines, ... AND the additional wear and tear, .. the deterioriation that ROBS each of us of performance and cleanliness of the environment. That's what WE as consumers have to gain ...

What are we waiting for?

** Why CHK ...?
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) CEO recently stated CHK could do one or two more joint ventures AND is looking to grow FIFTY percent in the next three years. The joint ventures partners are picking up the tabs (costs) for new wells resulting in LOWER expenses for CHK. . Stock prices and PE's DO change to reflect growth, or lack thereof.

Can Wal-Mart, IBM, or Intel say the same ... or even have a REMOTE chance to pull a quarter of that rate of growth off? Hmmm!

Tags : CHK   UNG   COG   PTENM XTO   XOM   BP  

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Author JoeJustJoe     Date March 24, 2010 16:51 Abuse this post Report Abuse
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The funny thang about the natgas seckter is the fackt that the commodity itself is gettin deeeeestroyed whilst mosta the stocks are doin great and trading near 52 week highs. I'm wreckin UNG (for instance) will actually trade belowst the 7.34 low and then stage a 'decent" rally taking incredibly grossly overvalued natgas pigstocks like CHK a tad higher with it. In fact, somma the energy plays, the steels and industrial metals, and the semis "look like" they will be the very last seckter to top out. I wuz tellin Mack a few mumphs back it'd be "neat" ifn the trading desk at GS topped EVERYTHING out together but it ainna lookin that way now. I banked a second gain of like 5% or so on a CHK chort but I need to see it get back up thru $27 dollahs again. I'm gettin tyyyyred o'trading it. I wanna be able to hold it aaaaall the way down to sub $4 dollahs since thaaas wherst it's goin long term. :-) 3J
Author Vet67to82     Date March 28, 2010 14:14 Abuse this post Report Abuse
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Now that the majors are climbing on the nat gas wagon, like the purchase of XTO, and the signing of MORE joint ventures ... I see change coming ... and to everyone's surprise ... probably SOONER than everyone else is expecting.

The majors were raking in the "big bucks" with the price of crude ... then the bottom dropped out, crude went (crashed) to $30 from $140+ after contributing to the global financial meltdown. The global economy CAN"T afford +$80/bbl crude so there MUST be a transition "fuel" and voila ... the USA just happens to have MORE nat gas than Saudi Arabia has crude.

Take that OPEC ... ( put smiley face here )

AND

Nat GAS ... per therm ... the BTU measure of heat ... nat gas is trading at about an 80 to 1 discount to crude.

( AGAIN, put smiley face here )

Author Vet67to82     Date March 28, 2010 14:15 Abuse this post Report Abuse
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The CHK short positiion ( insert smiley face here ) ... The shorts, based on the pending end of the heating season, have increased their short position by about 2.5 million shares.

Duh! ( insert "duh" smiley face here )

The "shorts" apparently aren't paying attention to CHK news announcements ( Hint = Adequate WARNING ).... Oh, like the CEO's expectation for one or two MORE joint ventures ... perhaps to be announced in the next few weeks ... and neglect to consider the CASH influx to CHK and its shareholders ... when the jv's are "inked" as agreed and completed. Can you PICTURE the shorts scrambling to buy back "borrowed" shares ... like throwing gasoline on a fire ...

Share Statistics
Average Volume (3 month): 14,742,900
Average Volume (10 day): 24,413,700
Shares Outstanding: 651.86M
Float: 644.50M
% Held by Insiders: 0.47%
% Held by Institutions: 73.60%
Shares Short (as of 26-Feb-10): 30.88M
Short Ratio (as of 26-Feb-10): 2.5
Short % of Float (as of 26-Feb-10): 5.80%
Shares Short (prior month): 28.39M

Author JoeJustJoe     Date March 28, 2010 16:09 Abuse this post Report Abuse
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That thur CHK chort wuz a killer! I "shoulda" held it a tad longer but like me sed whenst I closed it out >>> I'll be baaaahck. I'm sssthinkin somewherst in the $27's. It won't make a new 52 week high. *-) Purty kewel the way UNG n GAZ continued down to take out the lows too..no? Actually, me sssthink I only mentioned UNG. We "might" just see a tad of a rampola soon. I'd "prefer" to see a nice round o'further spalunkin in the natgas seckter whenst the market falls outta bed sometime this week I'm wreckin....or soon after end o'quarter window dressing would be mo likely. This POS right cheeeya is about the only gaz stock I would give the "OK" to >>> GSX. But it still needs to fall appx 40% from current levels foist. :-) Mayun Vet, yer really gettin yerass kicked in funnymoney trading. Ya "might" wanna switch over to the bear side o'camp. A "raging bull market" certainly hasn't bin kind to ya >>> :-( 3J
Author MightyMo     Date March 28, 2010 21:26 Abuse this post Report Abuse
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One thing, no doubt, when you go into JJJ's stie neighborhood, there's bound to be plenty of natural gas...............
Author Vet67to82     Date March 29, 2010 13:22 Abuse this post Report Abuse
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Chesapeake Energy Corp CHK:NYSE 03/29/2010 11:52AM ET

$23.30+$0.93 +4.16% Vol 10,124,254

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