EKI ENERGY SERVICES. its a great model business. as the new future is of EV sector, EVa vehicles and so on.., this stock will come in demand with many other automobile making company, to check their carbon offsetting. government will too focus on this sector, too make the the country pollution free.
currently, now its in demand sone(support level), it should rise.
good for swing trading.
and the best part of stock is- it recently launched its IPO, ipo was subscribed in a great manner, and within some time itself, it gave a good divident along with a stock split.
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Copper Falls - An OpportunityIn May 2021, the nearby COMEX copper futures contract reached a record $4.8985 per pound. After a correction to just below the $4 level in August 2021, the red nonferrous metal made higher lows and higher highs, leading to another all-time peak at $5.01 per pound in early March 2022.
Range trading gives way to a downside break
Goldman Sachs believes higher highs are on the horizon
Copper is a green metal with the demand outstripping supplies
It will take a decade to bring new production online
Buying copper scale-down on the dip could be the optimal approach
The new record high on March 7 led to a period of consolidation where copper traded between $4.60 and $4.60 per pound. On April 25, the leader of the nonferrous metals fell below the bottom end of its trading range to the $4.40 level. The decline in copper could be the perfect opportunity to load up on the metal that Goldman Sachs calls “the new crude oil” because of its requirements for green energy technology.
Range trading gives way to a downside break
On May 7, the continuous COMEX copper futures reached a new all-time high at over $5 per pound.
The chart highlights the rally that took COMEX copper futures above the May 2021 $4.8985 peak to $5.01 per pound in early March. Copper rallied on the back of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the highest inflation readings in over four decades.
The chart illustrates July copper futures traded in a range from $4.4710 to $4.7660 per pound from mid-March through April 22. On April 25, the price dropped below the bottom of the range on the back of the prospects for higher US interest rates and the rising value of the US dollar against other world reserve currencies.
Higher rates increase the cost of carrying raw material inventories, and a strong dollar tends to be bearish for commodity prices as they rise in other currency terms. However, 2022 is anything but an ordinary year as inflation will keep real interest rates in negative territory, and all currencies, including the US dollar, are losing purchasing power.
July copper futures traded to the most recent low on May 2 at $4.2040 per pound, the lowest price in 2022, and since December 15, 2021, when it found a bottom at $4.1105. The short-term technical trend is bearish, but the longer-term path of least resistance remains bullish. Moreover, supply and demand fundamentals tell us that the current dip in the nonferrous metal is a buying opportunity.
Goldman Sachs believes higher highs are on the horizon
In 2021, as copper was on its way to the May $4.8985 high, Goldman Sachs’ analysts called copper the “new oil” because of its role in green energy technology. Electric vehicles, wind turbines, and other alternative energy initiatives require ever-increasing copper supplies. Goldman pointed out that decarbonization does not occur without copper.
The leading financial firm expects copper prices to rise to $15,000 per ton by 2025. At that level, COMEX futures will eclipse $6.80 per pound, nearly 60% above last week’s closing level at $4.2670. Other analysts expect even higher copper prices. Meanwhile, markets tend to move to prices on the up and downside that defy logic and reasonable and rational analysis. It is impossible to identify tops for bottoms in significant bull and bear market periods. The latest example was crude oil, which fell to below negative $40 per barrel in April 2020. No analyst saw that price coming.
Copper is a green metal with the demand outstripping supplies
Copper demand is set to rise over the coming years, but supplies to meet requirements will be a challenge for at least three reasons:
Addressing climate change - ironically, copper demand will rise because of green initiatives, but net-zero carbon emission pledges by mining companies will weigh on production. Copper production is energy-intensive, requiring hydrocarbons.
Rising production costs - Inflationary pressures have caused labor, financing, energy, equipment, and all mining input costs to rise, putting upward pressure on prices and downward pressure on output.
Supply chain and political issues - Global supply chain bottlenecks continue to cause problems in transporting all commodities from production sites to consumers. Moreover, the geopolitical landscape is creating price distortions. The war in Ukraine, sanctions on Russia, Russian retaliation, and the “no-limits” support between China and Russia create an ideological bifurcation with the US and Europe. China is the world’s dominant copper consumer. The tensions distort all raw material prices, and copper is no exception.
The prospects for a growing deficit in the copper market are high in 2022.
The five-year trend in LME copper warehouse inventories has made lower highs and lower lows, indicating that robust demand is outpacing supplies.
It will take a decade to bring new production online
The cure for high prices in commodities is always the high price level as producers step up output to take advantage and earn more profits. In copper, it takes eight to ten years to bring a new mine into production, meaning the high prices in 2022 will only yield new and higher output in 2030. Moreover, the leading mining companies are scouring the world for new proven and probable reserves. BHP, a leading mining company, is even exploring the potential for a copper project in the challenging political climate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. BHP calls the area a “tougher jurisdiction” because of the DRC’s long history of corruption and political instability.
The bottom line is production will struggle to keep up with copper’s growing demand.
Buying copper scale-down on the dip could be the optimal approach- A similar pattern to the May through August price behavior
The latest price action in the copper futures market looks very similar to the move from the May 2021 high to the August 2021 bottom.
The chart shows the decline from $4.8985 in May 2021 to a low of $3.98 in August 2021, an 18.8% correction in five months. Copper futures only traded below the $4 level for one day in August 2021.
The most recent correction took the red metal from $5.01 to $4.1900 per pound or 16.4%. If copper holds above the $3.98 level, it will make another in a long series of higher lows since the March 2020 bottom at just over $2 per pound.
I favor buying copper on a scale-down basis as supply and demand fundamentals and the long-term technical trend remain bullish. The short-term trend is bearish, but that could be an opportunity for those looking to accumulate the nonferrous metal that is a critical component in climate change initiatives. I expect higher highs in copper over the coming years.
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$IR: Is the ESG Era Upon Us?ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is a buzzword in the investment community that has begun to pick up steam. Will the dollar continue to appreciate giving a buffer for US spending bills and a liking for stocks with a lot of domestic potential? Time will tell. Good luck trader
AQUA: Potential Benefitor From Biden AdministrationRelative strength against S&P picking up, strong breaks above trendlines with small caps still seemingly being supported by the market. Liking this one for a longer term hold
How is the planet doing BEP?Not very well, I am afraid. Nevertheless, as an idealist and an optimist I would like to save the world one share at a time. The renewable energy and EV stocks are mostly very expensive at the moment. However, this $BEP (or $BEPC if you wish) is almost reasonably priced.
In addition, there seems to be clearly distinguishable hidden bullish divergence on both RSI and Stoch suggesting that the bullish momentum could continue. I certainly hope so as I bought some shares today.
Trade well and take care!
Cheers, Whoop
Mr. West Daily notes Report no. 2Based on a technical analysis for the month of December, a few stocks are showing signs of an up trend, down trend and consolidation. Here is a separated break down of stock companies.
Trending up: ROKT, MICT, ZYNGA, HERO, HERO, DENN, GE, NCLH, BOTZ, MVIS, SNE, SAVE, CCL
Trending Down: NIO, CAN
Consolidating: AESE, UA, NKLA, JBLU, CRON
Majority of the stock that are at a up trend are companies that are technology and industrial type. Both (HERO and BOTZ) ETFS are up so that is a clear indication for long term investments. The down trend stocks are also sharing some relative signs of having a strong up side based off being over bought this past month. However, there will be another progression of the down trend stocks reversing its down trend into an up trend.
One stock company in particular has also shown signs of sales increasing due to weather season changes. In the event of the U.S. economy taking a hit through the COVID-19, General Electric stock (GE) has grown with a 5.77% this month. Based on the U.S. climate changing to colder temperatures, there has been a growth of sales and revenue. GE supplies Heaters, Stoves, and Electric powered devices to warm homes. (See image link Below)
GE has also shown patterns of spike in sales during this time by using technical chart breakdown of looking at the charts past movement around the months of October to December. With the first signs of snow in the South Eastern part of the U.S., this may indicate that the Company may have a great increase of its share price due to colder temperatures.
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NIO- You may have missed Tesla's run, but you still have NIO!Ready to buy on the dip?
NIO suffers from the same issues that Tesla has... Production capacity and profitability... But it benefits from the same hype- EV is an emerging and environment-friendly trend. Furthermore, China is the biggest EV market and only 2% of the market is tapped.
Tesla may have the first mover advantage, but NIO enjoys the recognition of the homegrown brand in China.
Let's take a look at the technical analysis.
Impulsive wave cycle has recently run its course and, I believe the distribution is currently underway.
The price is stalling at Fib 61.8% and POC, Kijun and bollinger midlane are providing the temporary support on the daily timeframe that I suspect will only hold for so long.
The reason being that the volume has been on a sharp decline as the price went up and, the potential ascending H&S is looming on the horizon.
Based on the confluence of Ichi, multiple fib lvls, swing highs/low and VPVR, I believe $2.50-$3.15 is the buy zone we should watch out for.
This is not the financial advice so please do your own research before you dive into NIO as it has been acting quite volatile lately.
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GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CORP - NASDAQ: $GLDD Ready To Launch?Since last Fall (2018) the shares of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp - NASDAQ:GLDD have found themselves in a steady grind into higher ground in a smart methodical manner as evidenced in the Daily chart above.
With the stock trading above all of its important moving averages 20/50/200 DMA's, GLDD continues to display excellent technical characteristics.
In addition, it also appears that GLDD may be in the process of building a launch pad from which to release to higher ground once again.
Thus, both investors/traders may want to continue to monitor the action closely in the days/weeks ahead for further clues/signs that GLDD is ready to launch. In particular, should GLDD be capable of going topside of the $11.45 level at any point moving forward, such development would likely trigger the catalyst for new all-time highs and Blue Sky's ahead.
NEL Hydrogen stock drops but fundamentals remain strongIn January, NEL Hydrogen finished a very successful large private offering at NOK 5.45 ( nelhydrogen.com ) , but both the technical uptrend and fundamentals remain solid, with the company set to invest the proceeds from the placement in rapidly scaling up production facilities.
Company twitter feed for news: twitter.com
$VALE Short after Dam Collapse Disaster "Short as Fuck"!!!...$VALE Short after Dam Collapse Disaster...!!!
$VALE is at it again!
This time its much worse
Hundreds Dead
Hundreds Injured & Missing
Environmental Disaster of Epic Magnitude
Vale Has Suspended Dividends
Suspended Executive Bonuses
4 New Downgrades
38.50% Insider Owned
20.40% Institutional Owned
10% of the Total Shares Outstanding Have Rolled Over by Lunch Today, 56M Shares Traded out of 5.7B Outstanding...ohhhh yea baby!
I'm getting SHORT as fuck! Vale could drop as low as 2016 levels around the $2 mark! Excellent short opportunity! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck! Loading up on Puts! Getting Short as Fuck!
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Bento Rodrigues Dam Disaster
The Bento Rodrigues dam disaster occurred on 5 November 2015, when an iron ore tailings dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in flooding that destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues and killed 19 people. The failure of the Bento Rodrigues dam has been described as the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history. Around 60 million cubic meters of iron waste flowed into the Doce River, causing toxic brown mudflows to pollute the river and beaches near the mouth when they reached the Atlantic Ocean 17 days later. The disaster sparked a humanitarian crisis as hundreds were displaced and cities along the Doce River suffered water shortages. The total impact of the disaster, including the reason for failure and the environmental consequences, are officially under investigation and currently still unclear. The owner of the Bento Rodrigues dam, Samarco, was subject to extensive litigation and government sanctions. In 2016, charges of homicide were filed against 21 executives of Vale and BHP Billiton, the companies that own Samarco as a joint venture. Controversy over the investigation grew after a 2013 report, indicating structural issues in the dam, was leaked.
Background
The Fundão and Santarém tailings dams were constructed and owned by Samarco Mineração SA, a mining company, in Mariana, a municipality 67 kilometers (42 mi) south-east of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The tailings dams were built by Samarco to accommodate the waste resulting from the extraction of iron ore taken from extensive Germano mine, located in the Mariana district of Santa Rita Durão. The Fundão dam was constructed in the hills near the village and subdistrict of Bento Rodrigues, located 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) north of Mariana city.
Incident
At approximately 3:30pm on 5 November 2015, the Fundão dam presented a leak. Immediately, a team of outsourced employees was sent to the scene, and they tried to mitigate the leak by deflating part of the reservoir. At around 4:20pm, a rupture occurred, releasing a large volume of toxic sludge into the Santarém river valley. Bento Rodrigues, which lies 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi) away in the valley below the dam, was almost entirely flooded by the cascade of toxic water and mud. Other villages and districts in the Gualaxo river valley, also in the region of Mariana, suffered minor damage. Bento Rodrigues is only accessible by unpaved back roads. The incident rendered Bento Rodrigues completely inaccessible by road, hindering firefighters' rescue efforts. The only available method of transport into or out of the location was via helicopter. There was a school in the area where the flood occurred, and the teachers were able to remove the students before school. Samarco and the neighboring communities did not have a contingency plan or evacuation routes in the event of dam failure. Had such plans existed, residents may have been able to evacuate in a timely manner to more secure regions. Around 600 people were evacuated to Mariana, and troops of the Brazilian Armed Forces were deployed to assist.
Impact
Satellite images of Bento Rodrigues and the Germano mine before and after the disaster, displaying the flooding and pollution of the Doce River. An abandoned car caught in the mudslide amidst the ruins of Bento Rodrigues. Satellite image of the mouth of the Doce River in Linhares, Espírito Santo, when tailings reached the southern Atlantic Ocean. According to a United Nations report, the tailing slurry traveled 620 km downriver, eventually reaching the Atlantic Ocean. Nineteen people were killed, "Entire fish populations – at least 11 tons – were killed immediately when the slurry buried them or clogged their gills", and "the force of the mudflow destroyed 1 469 hectares of riparian forest."
Contamination of Rio Doce
At around 6:30pm on the day of 5 November, the tailings of iron ore reached the Rio Doce. The river basin has a drainage area of about 86,715 square kilometers, with 86% in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo. In total, the river covers 230 municipalities that use its bed for subsistence. According to biologist and ecologist Andrew Ruschi, who studies marine biology at the Estação Biologia Marinha Augusto Ruschi in Santa Cruz, Espírito Santo, the waste will take at least decades to dilute to levels anywhere near previous levels. The waste also reached the hydroelectric power plant of Risoleta Neves in Santa Cruz do Escalvado within 100 kilometers of Mariana. According to the company that runs the power plant, its functioning has not been affected. On 9 November, the city of Governador Valadares stopped the water intakes due to the mud on the Rio Doce. The next day, a State of Public Calamity was decreed in response to the water shortage in the city. According to analyses carried out in the city, the mud contains greater than acceptable concentrations of heavy metals, substances harmful to health, such as arsenic, lead and mercury.
There are concerns about contamination of the nearby Rio Gualaxo do Norte , a tributary of the Doce River, due to the toxic substances stored at the facility.
Contamination of southern Atlantic ocean
On 22 November, the waste reached the Atlantic Ocean. The toxic mud is spreading across the Espírito Santo coast, where cities closed down access to beaches. On 7 January 2016, the waste reached the southern Bahia littoral zone. Environmentalists who are monitoring the impact to the Abrolhos Marine National Park wildlife. The park is considered of vital importance to the Brazilian ecosystem since it hosts the greatest marine biodiversity in the whole southern Atlantic ocean.
Aftermath & Investigation of the causes
On the first quarter of November 2015, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and the state chambers of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo each created a special commission to follow the case, and the actions taken. According to the press, many of the deputies that composed such commissions had received donations from Vale to finance their campaigns. Such donations, summing up to R$2.6 million are legal, and were reported by the then-candidates to the Brazilian Election Justice. However, critics argued that the deputies' participation was clearly biased. In January 2016, the leaking of internal documents from 14 months before the disaster revealed that Samarco had been warned about the possibility of the dam collapses. Joaquim Pimenta de Ávila, an engineer who was regarded as one of the foremost tailing dam engineers in Brazil, had been contracted by Samarco between 2008 and 2012 to design and oversee the construction of the Fundão dam. From 2013, Ávila was hired part-time as a consultant to inspect the dam, and a technical report he wrote from September 2014 lists severe structural problems on the dam (in the form of cracks) and measures to mitigate them, the main one being the construction of a buttress. Samarco claimed to have implemented all the recommendations from Ávila, and that the dam was in the process of being heightened when the landfill reached its maximum holding capacity and began to leak. However, Samarco failed to comment specifically about the buttress, and claims that it was never warned about the severity of the structural damages, nor about the imminence of a catastrophic failure.
Sanctions to Samarco
Samarco president Ricardo Vescovi & The Minas Gerais government suspended Samarco's activities immediately after the disaster. Next, the Brazilian government fined Samarco R$250 million (USD$66.3million) for the incident. The fine was preliminary and was expected to be increased if the two companies were found guilty of water pollution and damages. In January 2016, the Brazilian government and Samarco reached an agreement and a fine of R$20 billion (USD$4.8 billion) was issued. The penalty did not include compensation to people affected by the disaster, and the cost of recovering the polluted area. By July 2016, BHP had provisioned USD$2.3-2.5 billion for costs associated with the compensation deal being struck between Samarco's shareholders (BHP and Vale) and Brazilian federal, state and municipal authorities.
Legal consequences
Vale and BHP Billiton own Samarco as a joint venture, with each company possessing a 50% stake. As of 2018, these companies remain in negotiations with Brazilian authorities in efforts to settle out of court. In March 2016, Samarco agreed to pay USD$2.3 billion in compensation. Australia's ABC reported that Samarco and its joint venture partners would "establish a foundation to develop and execute environmental and socio-economic programs to restore the environment, local communities and social conditions of the affected areas." In June 2016, an AUD$8 billion civil suit which was reinstated by Brazil's Superior Court after the original agreement was suspended. BHP, along with its Samarco joint venture partner Vale, face a separate $58 billion suit lodged by federal prosecutors. In October 2016 it was reported that Brazilian prosecutors had filed manslaughter and environmental charges against 21 people including top executives of Samarco's owners: BHP Billiton, an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and the world's largest mining company, and Vale SA, the third-largest mining company in the world and the Public Eye People's Worst Company award winner of 2012. In June 2018, Samarco, Vale and BHP signed a deal to drop a $7 billion lawsuit and allow two years for the companies to address the greater $58 billion suit seeking social, environmental and economic compensation.
Class action suits
In August 2018, BHP settled a class action suit in the USA for USD$50 million, with no admission of liability. At the same time, it was facing a class action suit in Australia related to the dam failure and losses incurred by shareholders following company disclosures to the market regarding the safety of the dam. The class action is expected to be one of the largest in Australian history, with 30,000 BHP shareholders involved, with a combined shareholding of 330,000 shares, valued at over AUD$10 billion (as of 5 November 2018). On 5 November 2018, SPG Law, a Liverpool-based law firm, issued a class action against the BHP Group for £5 billion, one of the largest in British legal history.