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That saved money will need to go into reseeding and preparing burn patches from concentrations of horse poop.

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Wooo-Hooo!

It's been a rodeo ride since the middle of March, but this particular international stock fund has really paid off the last 2 months:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EFA&t=3m

I wish my investment plan would let me get into the south american emerging markets, tho....Those ETF's have been cranking out 3 digit gains last 2-3 years, but I'm afraid the gains there will be over soon and take a steep dive due to their leftist govs and increasing political problems with the west.

Smart money will seek US rail transport stocks....Do it now cause it will soon go thru the roof.....Union Pacific looks best...They (UP) must agree cause they are building a huge tank car manufacturing plant in my neighborhood as I type....Those new tank cars will be destined to haul biofuels from the midwest to California, so also look at biofuels too in the long term....I expect an emerging biofuel market here in Louisiana the next 5-10 years cause we have a tremendous sourse of biofuel producing waste products as the results of our rice, sugarcane and timber industries....Biofuels will expand greatly here, but they require huge investment in infrastructure so they may not offer large returns for several years until the plants are built and operational...The rails are already in place tho, so they will/are already showing big rewards....As it stands, every tank car we produce here will get pressed into service instantly to haul ethanol from Ill to Cali.....and it will just get bigger and better as gas prices increase.

Wooo-hoooo! another 1.5% today!

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EFA&t=3m

.....This will be nothing compared to Monday (I'm hoping)......I'm figuring the Japanese will come out like a herd of bulls Monday cause their markets were closed today and their Yen has been gaining all this week...They are going to be wanting to flex those fattened Yens around....

Now that I got my wife and step daughter back I gotta worry about college for her.....She is 7 and painting with water colors as I type this...I wonder if she knows I'm building her college fund right now?...I'm going to call her over here and bring up the other windows and show her/explain to her what I'm doing...I bet she will want to see it (the charts)every night.

Another problem these gas prices create.  Many forget that people have OTHER expenses in life that make "a few extra bucks" for gas unaffordable these days. Medical care, school costs, etc...  Thru the roof....

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Steven, look at this!

This is our dollar VS the Euro for the last 3 months:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDEUR= ... z=m&q=l&c=

...And this is our dollar against the Jap Yen for the same period:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDJPY=X&t=3m

As I write this, the dollar is even lower but you can't see it on the charts yet....The overseas markets are 14 hours ahead of us and it's monday morning there....My MSCI EAFE fund is going to go thru the roof on Monday, but will probably fall fast on Tuesday when our Fed announces another interest rate increase....So, I just submitted an order to sell it at close of business Monday and revert to safe haven in gov securities....Then I will wait a day or two until the dust settles and get back in.....If all goes as planned, I'll clean up tomorrow and get out before it falls tuesday, then buy back into it for the next upsurge.....I got 100% riding on this little deal, let's see if it pays off.

Weee!

You're much braver than I.  Good luck !

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

You know the old sayin'....No balls, no blue chips.

AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!...This is nerve racking!

I'm sposed to be hauling horse hay, but I can't take my eyes off the EFAE chart....I keep refreshing the real time page, but so far all it shows is Friday's closing price of 70.22.....I wanna see where it opens in NYSE after overnight....Overnight the Asian markets went into orbit, while the European stuff was positive but weak and the dollar continued to sink to new lows.....My favorite ETF is an equal mix of both Asian and European, so maybe the European markets will kinda stifle the surge I was hoping for....either way, I'm out by close of business today.

I got a large chunk in BP(brit petroleum) and for some reason BP is down...I'm thinking it's due to Boliva's plans to nationalize it's gas industry where BP has a large investment....It seems all of central and south america is going leftist and aligning themself with castro....I don't see that changing over the next 20 years either.

Your thoughts?

Well, it's 9:30am here and it ain't looking nuthin like what I predicted.....My fund is floating a little up, then a little down....ALL the markets are lifeless....I'm glad I'm out of it this afternoon so I don't lose last weeks gains....That was a $1500 week and I want it in the bank.

I just sent the wife flowers at work....And I'm fixin to go back to bed...I gotta work tonight...The horses are fed, the dog is fed...I'll eat later.

OK, OK.....I really DO have to go get a nap before I go to work....My fund is still acting stupid.....It looks like I will lose maybe 200 from last weeks 1500...I can live with that......I'm out of it at the closing bell anyway and I will stay out of it till it looks better.

The wife got her flowers and called to thank me.....so she had a good day....I'll be at work when she gets home but I'll find her later tonight.

Her horse Gambler is thumping against the back door....I let him in the back yard this morning so I could work with him...he needs to learn to back up on command....and he also needs to learn not to thump against the door glass....So I'll go turn him out and dive in the bed for a few hours.

I rec'd this email from one of my respected Remodeling Industry Sources.

Something to check out:

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Below is the company's most recent headline.

Syngas Initiates Ethanol Research Project

EDMONTON, AB and LAS VEGAS, NV, May 03, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Syngas International (OTC BB: SYNI) is pleased to announce that it has initiated researching the possibilities of using gases produced from its M2 and PyStR processes to make synthetic liquid bio fuels. The first two liquid bio fuels under investigation are ethanol and methanol due to the rapidly increasing demand for fuels in North America.

To begin with, the focus will be on catalytic conversion processes such as the Sabatier
and Fischer-Tropsch processes.
The Fischer-Tropsch catalytically converts synthetic gases such as those produced from the M2 and PyStR, to liquid fuels. Ethanol has recently been touted as a replacement for gasoline. In the USA, ethanol enriched gasoline is in use primarily in the Midwest states is sold as E85. Adding ethanol to gasoline oxygenates it thus reducing the amount of carbon monoxide and unburned fuel in the exhaust gas reducing smog. Brazil, one of the first countries to convert to ethanol for transportation use, is now completely free of oil imports. The USA which currently imports 60% of its oil is watching Brazil's progress. The most recent US energy bill, signed into law last August, calls for more than doubling ethanol use by 2012. In preparation, the big three car manufacturers have begun selling "flex-fuel" vehicles capable of being powered by ethanol enriched gasoline.
Syngas International Corp. (OTC BB: SYNI), through its subsidiary, Syngas Energy Corp., is an emerging leader in the development and marketing of low-cost alternate fuels worldwide. We believe our superior technology will catapult our company into a GREEN POWERHOUSE. With energy prices at high levels and the global focus moving rapidly towards addressing pollution, the need for sustainable, zero emission energy is vital. Our technology is based on clean renewable energy. We foresee our company poised to benefit from global trends.

I expect to see many of these pop up during the current energy crisis.  :)

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Scott

Yep,

Ethanol is 30 years late, but it is finally becoming an option.

Yep.  If I had a nickel for every time I heard that !  

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Well, all that sweating yesterday over the market and all I made was 250 bucks....That will teach me to relax...How did I make money when the MSCI EFAE chart says shares went down $.09?...simple, my fund isn't charted, it instead 'tracks' or mirrors the MSCI EAFE....So we use the EAFE as an indication of how our fund is doing thru the business day, but don't know exactly how it performed until prices are posted here:

http://www.tsp.gov/rates/share-prices.html

I'm out of all stocks till at least Thursday morning when I see how the fed rate increase effects the markets.....So far this year nothing has really dampened things....War talk with Iran, high oil prices, and even a very weak dollar hasn't kept the bulls from trying to bust out.....Man, if the politicians will shut up and if oil eases down 5/barrel we will really see a surge.

I don't like how China is keeping it's Yuan artifically low....They refuse to allow it to trade freely on the market and seek it's true value....It is being kept very  low for a reason, and I don't like what I suspect their reason is....I'm thinking they want to keep the shelves at walmart full of their underpriced stuff so we will continue to buy it on credit......This country is already suffering from high fuel costs. Just wait till China decides to let their Yuan seek fair market value....We here won't be able to afford anything cause almost everything we buy now is made there.....Don't believe me?...Just take inventory next time you shop.....you will discover that most of what you see on the shelves in walmart/kmart is made there....Wait till it all costs 25% more overnight....and it will....Our Pres has been trying to get them to ease their Yuan up to market price without success....He knows they need to do it slowly....But that ain't what they got planned....Once their manufacturing base is fully established, they will turn their money lose and half the world will be at their financial mercy....The indebted half.

Go read this about China and their Yuan:

http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/SchumerW ... 02050.html

Altho the article above is almost three years old, it is even more valid today....Look at this chart to see what I'm saying:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDCNY= ... z=m&q=l&c=

Those suckers are very, very smart....They are flooding our store shelves with super cheap goods forcing us to close what's left of our manufacturing plants because we just can't compete with them.....

Their goods are super cheap only because they are manipulating their currency prices and keeping them artifically low.

Keith, this is nothing new. Check out what Japan did during the 1980s. They also had the Yen pegged to dollar and enjoyed the ride as their cheap products flooded the US market. They were considered the next economy. Then they went through recession during the 90s. I believe that China is taking advantage of it as long as they can because they know it can't last forever.

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Seize the day and SING!!!

I disagree....China might be following the same game plan, but they really will be the next economy if the west doesn't get their deficit spending under control....It's a shame that I am getting richer by buying non-US stocks.

I don't know...I was busy rearranging my sock drawer this week.

You know what we need?  Black Jello.  I'm going back to rearrange my sock drawer again.

Black Jell-o?....That's an idea!...Patent it!

Well...It's 2:45 NYSE time and the market is down awaiting the feds statement about interest rates just like I predicted.....So I bought back into the I fund as of close of business today....It went down just as I figured it would, but will recover tomorrow and continue to increase over next several months....It's made almost 35% already this year in spite of high fuel prices and Iran war talk.....Our Dollar continues to sink, so the I fund continues to increase.

I'm predicting it will recover tomorrow cause I expect the fed to state that they plan to hold off on any more rate increases for a spell.....You guys with ARMs need to seek fixed financing if you haven't already cause the mortage money supply is going to get tite soon.

Any comments?