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Digg it UP - Investing in the Oil ETF: Go Liquid or Pass on the Gas?
Happy New Year! It's a great time to dust off your playbook and think about what your strategic plans are in sales and marketing for the coming year. A good way to start is to start by taking your management team through a series of new year's resolutions. What are your new year's resolutions for sales and marketing? Are you going to boost your lead generation? Are you going to invest more heavily in telesales to reduce your sales cycle? Are you going to commit yourself to double digit sales growth for your company? Are you going to finally invest in search engine optimization in order to improve your company's online visibility using natural and organic search engines? Are you thinking about boosting your performance for lead generation through direct mail campaigns? What about refreshing or developing a new website with better content that's more compelling against your competi
Oil investments are also subject to operational risks: environmental hazards such as oil spills, leaks, fires and discharges of toxic chemicals.
This is not rational long-term investing. This is short-term, profit-taking tra
Marketing your home business can be a difficult challenge when you first start out.Your budget can quickly become depleted as you purchase computer equipment, order books and software to help you learn more about your field, and install equipment that can help you communicate with your clients.However, good marketing is crucial for your business because it can help you become a recognize resource in your field and help you obtain clients for your new business.So how do you overcome that?Well...Here are several inexpensive ways for you to market your business when you’re first getting started.If you don’t yet have a web site, you should consider setting one up immediately! Over 900 million people around the world have access to the internet, so having a strong web presence is no longer an option for home business owners. Because you don’t have a
The concept is an easy sell: it's a fund that invests in oil contracts with the purpose of mirroring the value of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil at a ratio of one barrel contract per share. One share, one barrel.
Easy, right?
Riiiiiiiight...
The Well-Known Risks of Commodities
Everyone knows about the risks of investing in commodities, but it is worth repeating the main points.
Commodities prices fluctuate quickly and widely. An announcement from any OPEC country could send oil prices up or down 10% within minutes. With every word spoken by the prime minister of Iran oil pushes upward.
Oil investments are also subject to operational risks: environmental hazards such as oil spills, leaks, fires and discharges of toxic chemicals.
This is not rational long-term investing. This is short-term, profit-taking trad
Many people dread the task of building a budget because they view it as overwhelming and frustrating. But it will make the job easier if you look at it in another way; the only way to financial freedom. Do you feel as though there is no way to get out of the red and into the black, much less plan ahead for your retirement or even a vacation? Are you tired of getting paid on Friday and being broke before you even get home? Do you have tons of useless junk that you wish you’d never bought? If this sounds like you, don't fret, because there is good news! There is a lot of helpful information and tools out there for you in different formats. And you can choose which one suits you the best.One option is to use software tools, they some really easy tool to help with budgeting. A couple of examples of good software are, Quicken and Microsoft Money. They both are great, and come with
The concept is an easy sell: it's a fund that invests in oil contracts with the purpose of mirroring the value of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil at a ratio of one barrel contract per share. One share, one barrel.
Easy, right?
Riiiiiiiight...
The Well-Known Risks of Commodities
Everyone knows about the risks of investing in commodities, but it is worth repeating the main points.
Commodities prices fluctuate quickly and widely. An announcement from any OPEC country could send oil prices up or down 10% within minutes. With every word spoken by the prime minister of Iran oil pushes upward.
Oil investments are also subject to operational risks: environmental hazards such as oil spills, leaks, fires and discharges of toxic chemicals.
This is not rational long-term investing. This is short-term, profit-taking tra
Difficult Relationships at Work - How to Influence the UncooperativeWe rely on and spend more time with our colleagues than with most other people in our lives: yet we frequently experience conflict at work. This is a problem that is beginning to be recognised, but it is still not being dealt with either effectively or sufficiently. Conflict is such a broad term for what can be experienced, ranging from office gossip to outright bullying. In nearly every single office there are always going to be personality clashes at some point, and most of the time they will be fairly easily sorted out. However, sometimes they aren't and there is often no other option than to resign. The real problem underlying this situation is that people really don't have the skills to deal with these kinds of situations. They frequently accept the problem when it is happening and then get really upset
Easy, right?
Riiiiiiiight...
The Well-Known Risks of Commodities
Everyone knows about the risks of investing in commodities, but it is worth repeating the main points.
Commodities prices fluctuate quickly and widely. An announcement from any OPEC country could send oil prices up or down 10% within minutes. With every word spoken by the prime minister of Iran oil pushes upward.
Oil investments are also subject to operational risks: environmental hazards such as oil spills, leaks, fires and discharges of toxic chemicals.
This is not rational long-term investing. This is short-term, profit-taking tra
Surfing for free traffic is a viable, although time consuming way of getting visitors to your web site. Basically, what you do is sign up for any number of free traffic exchange sites out there. Then, you sit down at your computer and click on sites that are registered through that service. As you click on (or view) these particular sites, you build up credits that can, in turn, be used to gather visitors to your personal or business site.So, now that we have a basic understanding of the purpose of traffic exchange sites, here are a few tips for you to use.Sign up for Hit Exchange News. This newsletter has been around since 2003 and gives some great info on traffic exchanges. It also has a top 10 list as well as a list of those exchanges that are not so popular these days. You don't want to spin your wheels surfing on an exchange that is not getting much traffic. You
Commodities prices fluctuate quickly and widely. An announcement from any OPEC country could send oil prices up or down 10% within minutes. With every word spoken by the prime minister of Iran oil pushes upward.
Oil investments are also subject to operational risks: environmental hazards such as oil spills, leaks, fires and discharges of toxic chemicals.
This is not rational long-term investing. This is short-term, profit-taking tra
Let's talk about the fact that a lot of companies actually fail when it comes to telesales and telemarketing deployments because they fail to follow some of the key principles. So let's talk about what some of those failures are and how you can avoid those if you're looking to employ telesales and telemarketing functions. First of all, a lot of companies assume that if they just bring people in and stick them on a phone, give them a list and stick them in a cubicle that they'll be able to do fine on their own. And telesales and telemarketing is a really, really hard job and it requires a very specific skills set, a lot of unique DNA, which you won't find in another sales person, and also a lot of coaching.The first thing is probably the fact that telesales, because people who work in this kind of industry face a very, very high level of rejection, they have to have an extreme le
Oil investments are also subject to operational risks: environmental hazards such as oil spills, leaks, fires and discharges of toxic chemicals.
This is not rational long-term investing. This is short-term, profit-taking trading, and it should be treated as such.
Commodities have long been considered a hedge against market fluctuations, not a primary holding. Now they are suddenly an investment strategy. Any commodity -- oil, gold, pork bellies -- should be considered a hedge against a bond or equity market downturn.
Like gold and other commodities, oil futures have enjoyed a long bull market in the post 9-11 world, but commodities and hard assets tend toward modest gains over the long term. And they are all subject to sudden, harsh corrections.
Specific Risks of the Oil ETF (USOF)
Though any commodity investment involves certain general risks, the US OIL Fund (USOF) ETF has specific risks that make it particularly unstable.
- Price Risk - This is the risk that the NAV of the fund will not equal the price of WTI light, sweet crude, as the fund intends. The fund's prospectus outlines three reaso
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