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Berkshire’s 4th quarter results were propped up by Buffett’s $1.05Bn gains in derivatives betting (something Buffett himself once called "weapons of mass financial destruction" but, as we well know - if you can’t beat them…), which accounted for 1/3 of Berkshire’s $3.06Bn profits.

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Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 5.0%

Consumers have little sympathy for oil companies. A lot of the ill will stems from the sheer size of their earnings figures. In a word, huge. Peel back a layer or two of an earnings release, however, and you find a smaller, more telling number-the refining margin.

After reading a lot of blog posts, tweets on twitter, Facebook comments, and emails, I decided it was time to figure out the real decay behind the leveraged ETF's, both long and short. As I wrote about this in one of my previous blog posts, I wanted to revisit this issue of the double and triple leveraged ETF's, and why investor's should stay away from them, and to clear up some confusion.

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As promised in my last two posts, Alternate Short Strategy: Purchasing Put Protection for Less, and Alternate Short Strategy: Purchasing Put Protection for Less Part 2 I will be continuing my list of alternate ways to hedge your portfolio without shorting the stock.

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As promised in Alternate Short Strategy: Purchasing Put Protection for Less, I will be continuing my list of alternate ways to hedge your portfolio without shorting the stock. In this post (part 2) I will be covering the stocks from 21 to 35 on the list of 50 (ranked by market cap).

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With just 10 days left until the option expiration, I have crunched the numbers on some of the most popular leveraged ETF's and it looks as if they're getting some summer heat. I am the first to admit that I think these ETF's are only for traders (and are an investor's nightmare), but they are so volatile, and bring such great premiums, it is hard for a trader of options like me to resist.

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We've been marveling at the surging investment interest in natural gas recently (see "(Natural) Gas Pains?"), most especially manifested through the United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSE: UNG).

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	High:	13.25	52Wk High:	36.17	PEG:	0	Yield:	0
	Low:	12.57	52Wk Low:	12.25	PBR:	0	EBITDA:	0
	Vol:	3.28M	Avg Vol:	2.21M	EPS:	0	Short Ratio:	0
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