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Performance Update: Sell and Short Recommendations
Investors are getting bearish these days, which comes as a surprise to me, since I'm used to being in the minority. I was a bear when I first took the leap from mutual funds and started trading stocks in 1999,... [ more ]
Performance Update: 10 Solid Clean Energy Companies to Buy on the Cheap
Unlike my Ten Speculations for 2008, my Solid Clean Energy Companies series will be much more difficult to benchmark. The intent of the series was to list some "stocks to buy when you think we've hit bottom." Since I obviously... [ more ]
Performance Update: Ten Speculations for 2008
This is the first of a short series of articles I plan, reviewing how my stock recommendations have been doing this year. I started the year bringing you 10 Alternative Energy Stocks I thought were worth speculating on for 2008,... [ more ]
Ten Solid Clean Energy Companies to Buy on the Cheap: Intro, and Honorable Mentions
With the recent market declines, the start of the year may not have been the best time to publish ten speculative stock recommendations. Considering the S&P fell 6% in the month of January, I find it quite surprising that an... [ more ]
How Green are Your Earnings?
What Constitutes an Alternative Energy Company? There's a debate going on in the clean energy investment community about which companies are "green" enough to merit our attention. Before the filming of my WealthTrack appearance, I got into a discussion with... [ more ]
Give the Gift of a Future This Christmas: Five Sustainable Companies For Your Kids and Grandkids
A Carbon Conundrum for Christmas Do we have to choose between happy kids this Christmas, and a happy future for those kids? Practically everything we buy has a negative environmental impact. If green consumption is an oxymoron, so is green... [ more ]
Our Blue Chip Alternative Energy Stock List
The market has fallen sharply, and Solar stocks have fallen even more following rumors that Congress will pass the Energy Bill without the Production Tax Credit or Investment Tax Credit. Given this volatility and Renewable Energy's reputation for profitless startups, now... [ more ]
Two Canadian IPPs For Your Portfolio
Most alternative energy investors are aware of North American wind power's very bright growth prospects. In past articles, we discussed encouraging projections for the US and Canadian (PDF document) wind markets between now and 2015. While onshore European capacity is... [ more ]
Alternative Energy Stocks Portfolio Update
It's been six weeks since I last provided readers with an update on the Paper Portfolio. According to the guidelines I laid out there, stocks are added to the portfolio when Chares or I mention them positively for the first... [ more ]
The Alternative Energy Stocks Paper Portfolio
Here at AltEnergyStocks we try to give the best advice to help our readers sort quality alternative energy investments from the simply overvalued and the dangerous poseurs. How well are we doing? Putting Play Money Where our Mouth Is. As... [ more ]
Portfolio For A GHG-Regulated World
Investment opportunities connected to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation are a popular topic of discussion on this blog. Most of the time, however, the companies we discuss are relatively small, often unknown to most investors and overall pretty... [ more ]
The Peak Coal Portfolio
Last week, we alerted you to a report from Germany's Energy Watch Group called “Coal: Resources and Future Production,� which predicts peak coal by 2025. Readers of AltEnergyStocks are doubtless familiar with peak oil, the inevitable fact that as we... [ more ]
Trading Alert: CPTC.OB
In my article about electrical transmission, I mentioned that I liked Composite Technology Corp. (CPTC.OB). I became increasingly bullish on this stock as a result of my changing understanding while I was researching the article. The article then initiated an... [ more ]
A Blue-Chip Alternative Energy Portfolio
Update: an expanded version of this portfolio appears here. Alternative Energy: Risky but Alluring For many of my older or more cautious clients, investment in small, profitless (or nearly so) startup alternative energy companies is inappropriate. Even a diversified ETF... [ more ]
Trading Alert: AAER Inc. (TSE:AAE)
I took 2 long positions yesterday (1 in my normal trading account and the other in my retirement account) in an emerging Canadian integrator of megawatt-sized wind energy conversion systems (WECS) called AAER Inc [TSE:AAE]. Besides WECS integration, the company... [ more ]
