Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corporation or TA in the Philippine Stock Exchange is a company that is involved in power generation, and oil and mineral exploration business. Like one of its partners in the drilling of several oil wells, Petroenergy Resources Corporation (PERC), TA looks to be on the verge of an upswing in the days to come as well at least from a technical point of view.

Everyday, day in and day out we push the importance of the fundamentals, the numbers. But this weeks events reminds us that doing your home work and knowing where big oil companies and oil services companies are invested pays off big. Where does their risk lie? Today Dan Dicker from The Street .Com gives us some ideas on who is at risk and how he is trading the Egypt unrest.

After an initial pull back crude oil gained some strength overnight as investors seem to consider the Egypt unrest as little threat to the flow of oil through the Suez canal. It is great to play the threat of disruption in our trades but there is little proof that oil and energy is ever effected by these tense situations.

After taking a quiet ride upward for some time, the markets finally reminded us what it can do in a flash as precious metals and crude oil have been selling off while the U.S. Dollar Index futures were consolidating. Additionally, the volatility index has been very choppy and was indicating that we could be seeing a potential change in the underlying trend with regards to future price action.