Some traders claim it‘s foolish, others will tell you it ‘s smart.
Buying a call option ‘in the money’, you pay up the intrinsic value: the actual stock price minus the strike of the option plus a premium, mainly depending on the time left to expiration and on (implied) volatility.Saturday, 27 November 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Volatility persists
Historic volatility is calculated using a time series of index (or stock price) close values. It is defined as the standard deviation on the series of percentage day-to-day variations. When considering all day-to-day variations, we obtain one single historic volatility, which - while illustrative - raises a mainly academic interest.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
On penny stocks
(Mineral) Explorers often expect that raising capital is easier with a low nominal stock price. This opens the door to the realm of penny stocks.
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Beaulieulaan: verkoop afgeblazen
Het vastgoedcertifcaat Beaulieulaan heeft betrekking op de gebouwen Upper & Middle Building, Beaulieulaan 5-7 en 9-11, 1160 Oudergem, eigendom van NV Immo-Beaulieu en in lease gegeven aan de Europese Unie.
De lease-overeenkomst werd begin 2006 afgesloten voor een duur van 15 jaar zonder tussentijdse vervaldag.
Aangezien de lease-overeenkomst nog meer dan tien jaar voor de boeg heeft, hadden de beheerders het opportuun gevonden om vanaf juni het gebouw te koop te stellen. Het perspectief op een nog lange verhuring, maakt het gebouw attractiever voor kandidaat investeerders. De Brusselse vastgoedmarkt is nog steeds lauw en de bezettigsgraad is vooral in de periferie bedroevend laag. In dit opzicht is Beaulieulaan een gelukkige uitzondering.
De kandidaat kopers liepen mekaar niet bepaald voor de voeten en geen enkel bod werd acceptabel bevonden. De verkoopprocedure werd op 21 september afgeblazen “wegens onvoldoende geconcretiseerde belangstelling.”
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Investing directly in juniors or through the GDXJ ETF?
In a recent essay, Adam Hamilton of Zeallc.com pointed to the strong performance of the GDXJ Exchange Traded Fund since it was launched hardly one year ago by Van Eck. Especially last two months GDXJ is outperforming both the large cap focussed GDX and bullion. No better praise than that of a competitor.
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Rechtstreeks in Junior mijnbedrijven investeren of opteren voor de GDXJ ?
Recent interviewde Alix Steel van StreetTV John Doody, editor van GoldStockAnalyst.com, over de goud- en zilvermijnen uit het GDXJ ETF die hoofdzakelijk op US beurzen verhandeld worden.
John Doody geeft eerder de voorkeur aan een investering in de GDXJ Etf (uitgegeven door Van Eck ) dan aan een rechtstreekse investering in de selectie van mijnaandelen met US-listing. Vooral de drie zilverproducenten behoren tot de achterblijvers in de GDXJ. Bovendien omvat de GDXJ voor ongeveer 50% van de kapitalisatie mijnbedrijven die op de Canadese TSX verhandeld worden.
Monday, 18 October 2010
Valuation Metrics of Canadian Gold and Silver Miners
When dealing with mineral rights of mining enterprises, Canada has its NI 43-101 Metal Valuation Report, a standard for mining companies to comply with when reporting on their reserves and resources. Those documents are stored and can be retrieved from the repository at http://www.sedar.com/
To make thing easier and allow comparison in a glance, the website 'GoldMinerPulse': http://www.goldminerpulse.com/ gives a fair overview of many Canadian Gold Mining Valuations. There are also specific Valuation Reports for the companies reported on. The list is not exhaustive, as a minor retribution is required to include the company and update the statistics on a daily basis.
- Note: Other major mining nations have similar standards with definitions converging: JORC (Australia), SAMREC (South Africa), SME (US). See "International Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Classification and Reporting Systems"
To make thing easier and allow comparison in a glance, the website 'GoldMinerPulse': http://www.goldminerpulse.com/ gives a fair overview of many Canadian Gold Mining Valuations. There are also specific Valuation Reports for the companies reported on. The list is not exhaustive, as a minor retribution is required to include the company and update the statistics on a daily basis.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Index vastgoedcertificaten op absoluut hoogtepunt
De Petercam BRECS returnindex sluit het derde kwartaal van 2010 op een absoluut hoogtepunt af. BRECS staat voor Belgian Real Estate CertificateS. Op 30 September noteert de BRECS index (met basisjaar 1985=10.000) op 61.067 en sinds een maand boven 60.000. De grafiek over de voorbije vijf jaar illustreert duidelijk dat dit steeds een hardnekkig weerstandsniveau geweest is. Tegelijk blijft het gewogen gemiddelde couponrendement net boven 6%, met gemak boven de langetermijnrente.
Naar een verkoop van Westland Shopping
Atenor brengt een bod uit op vastgoedcertificaat 'Westland Shopping'.
Atenor zou €825 bieden per certificaat. (link PDF Atenor (FR)). De handel werd op 1 oktober geschorst, wegens de aankondiging van het bod. Sindsdien werden 1216 stukken verhandeld, maar telkens aan €830. Het certificaat is relatief illiquide want er werden slechts 38420 certificaten Westland Shopping uitgegeven.
Atenor zou €825 bieden per certificaat. (link PDF Atenor (FR)). De handel werd op 1 oktober geschorst, wegens de aankondiging van het bod. Sindsdien werden 1216 stukken verhandeld, maar telkens aan €830. Het certificaat is relatief illiquide want er werden slechts 38420 certificaten Westland Shopping uitgegeven.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Rather a selling opportunity?
Novagold reached a new two year high yesterday trading up to $9.20 intraday. Is it a buy or a sell?
All considerations
Pro's:
- + NG quotes at $8.94 at close yesterday Sep 29, an impressive gain over last few weeks, but it stays well below half the November 2007 price level. So there might still be room for further gains?
- + Back in November 07 we had a gold price of about $800/oz, while we’re over 60% higher now: sure if NG catches up the territory lost on the rise of bullion, we’re in for some nice gains.
- + After the capital raises (private placements at $5.5 in early spring) investors continued bidding up the price. Apparently they were ready to pay an extra just to be on the same boat as Soros and Paulson. This definitely raises confidence.
- + NG needs counting on its rich resources, not on operational results. The resource base is interesting for partnerships and new investors all the same. Eventually one of the partners may launch a take-over bid.
Con's:
- - Not a single project resulted in a operating mine. Even ‘Rock creek’ where most investments were completed, has been put ‘on care and maintenance’. Geologists are not competent mining engineers nor production managers apparently.
- - Reviewing the feasibility study (implying higher costs) at Galore creek triggered the suspending of the project and directly resulted in the NG price shashed in half by the end of 2007.
- - Debt financing the start up of Rock Creek proved detrimental in November 2008 as NG ran out of cash amidst technical problems to get the mine started. The share price dropped below $0.50. Refinancing and raising new capital with new shares sold at $1.20 and warrants at $1.50 dramatically diluted existing shareholders, as the number of shares rose by 80%. By now, the number of shares more than doubled.
- - In order for Donlin creek to become a working mine, up to 4 billion $ are needed: for NG to maintain its 50% interest in the project, it needs finding 2 billion. The capital raised earlier this year was $175 M: we’re not yet there. Two billion is close to the market cap at the moment.
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