The carnage in the energy sector has been deep and wide with United States Oil (NYSE: USO), a major exchange traded fund for oil, and United States Natural Gas, (NYSE: UNG), a major exchange traded fund for natural gas, off significantly. While that has been the story for many individual oil and natural gas stocks, […]

The short term pains for oil, natural gas, and coal highlight the long term appeal of the exchange traded funds for oil United States Oil (NYSE: USO), natural gas (NYSE: UNG), and coal Market Vectors Coal (NYSE: KOL). There are many reasons for the short term decline as there are factors that make the long […]

Cold weather is making for a hot performance by the exchange traded fund for natural gas, United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG). United States Natural Gas is up for the last week, month, and quarter of market action (chart below). When cold weather hits the United States, the price of natural gas rises.  That is […]

A recent article on this site detailed why investors should be bullish about United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), the exchange traded fund for natural gas. The market proved that point today with United States Natural Gas soaring 2.32 percent on volume of just over 10 million shares (chart below). As the average daily volume […]

There is much to say for buying the exchange traded funds of a sector such as United States Natural Gas (NYSE:UNG) and United States Oil (NYSE: USO). Like stocks, exchange traded funds like United States Natural Gas and United States Oil do well when the sector does well.  Exchange traded funds all offer more diversity. […]

Many previous articles on this site have supported the idea of investing in coal securities due to the industry being out of favor with Wall Street. While coal companies are suffering, the entire business sector is not going bankrupt.  That was the thesis of an excellent article in The Wall Street Journal recently by John […]