Market Report: Bitcoin, Crude Oil, Sector Investing

Crude Oil: Known Reserves, Fracking, Price 

In my view, crude oil is making a bottom. It's a complicated bottom. We will look back someday and say, in 2014-2018 crude oil made its bottom. Known reserves of oil everywhere continue to decline except for fracking but the fracking bubble burst a few years ago. Now people know that fracking is not magic and that people can lose money in fracking. 

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies:

I repeat what I said about IBM and computers, the people who invent something do not necessarily become the ones who succeed but we do you that the world has a money problem. 

Quote of the Day:

"Historically, you buy stocks when they're yielding 6 percent and selling at eight times earnings. You sell them when they're at 22 times earnings and yielding 2 percent." - Jim Rogers 

Sector Investing: Agriculture

The agriculture sector has been a disaster for 35 years. Things are so bad. The average age of an American farmer is 58, the average age in Japan is 68. And do you know that the highest suicide rate in the UK is in the agricultural sector?

The importance of having a second passport:

“Over the next 20 years, being trapped with only one passport, you could suffer very badly.” - Jim Rogers speaking at the 11th Residence and Citizenship by Investment Conference in Hong Kong 

Crude Oil: Price Outlook, Fracking

In my view, crude oil is making a bottom. It's a complicated bottom. We will look back someday and say, in 2014-2018 crude oil made its bottom. Known reserves of oil everywhere continue to decline except for fracking but the fracking bubble burst a few years ago. 

Now people know that fracking is not magic and that people can lose money in fracking. (Nymex Crude Oil futures, Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Marathon Oil (MRO), ConocoPhillips (COP))

Second Passport: A Must-Have Luxury Item

Jim Rogers believes that high net worth individuals should have a backup plan and he explains why he thinks why it will be so important to get a second passport over the coming years.

“Over the next 20 years, being trapped with only one passport, you could suffer very badly.”

The Future of Bitcoin

In this short video interview Jim Rogers discusses the futures of Bitcoin, internet and money.

This is what Jim Rogers had to answer when asked if Bitcoin will be the dominant cryptocurrency going forward:

"I repeat what I said about IBM and computers, the people who invent something do not necessarily become the ones who succeed. We do you that the world has a money problem."

Stocks: When To Buy, When To Sell

An old stock market quote from the archives, 

"Historically, you buy stocks when they're yielding 6 percent and selling at eight times earnings. You sell them when they're at 22 times earnings and yielding 2 percent." 

 -Jim Rogers

Related trading instruments: SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM)

Bullish on Agriculture

Jim Rogers has recently shared his thoughts on the agriculture sector and explain why he is so bullish on agricultural commodities:

"No one wants to be a farmer anymore, as compared to the past, when farmers were like masters of the universe for a long period of time."

"The agriculture sector has been a disaster for 35 years. Things are so bad. The average age of an American farmer is 58, the average age in Japan is 68. And do you know that the highest suicide rate in the UK is in the agricultural sector?"

Related trading instruments: PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA)

Agriculture: The Sector Has Been a Disaster For 35 Years

Jim Rogers talked agricultural commodities with Money Morning recently and he shared some very interesting stats and facts about the industry:

"The agriculture sector has been a disaster for 35 years. Things are so bad. The average age of an American farmer is 58, the average age in Japan is 68. And do you know that the highest suicide rate in the UK is in the agricultural sector?"

Related trading instruments: PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA), Mosaic Co (NYSE:MOS), Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (USA) (NYSE:POT), John Deere (DE)

Bullish on Agricultural Commodities

In a recent interview with Money Morning, Jim Rogers explains why he is bullish on agricultural commodities and the reason why they might rally in the future:

"There will be an imbalance in the future between demand and supply in agricultural commodities… and that will drive prices higher."

Related trading instruments: PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA)

Bitcoin: The Risks of a Government Crackdown

Internet is gonna change everything we know. How it's going to evolve, I don't know. I do know that governments do not like to lose control, governments want to control everything.

The crypto people say,  "yes but we're smarter than the government" and they are, everybody's smarter than the government but the government has more guns than everybody else. So if the government wants to control money they will.

Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Internet & Money

Jim Rogers shares his views on money, cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin.

The Bullish Case For The US Dollar

In the past when America has given tax incentives to bring US Dollars home it has made the US Dollar go higher, certainly for a while. These tax laws have just changed and there are now incentives to bring US Dollars home. I suspect they people will bring the US Dollars home and I suspect the US Dollar will go higher especially as interest rates go higher.

Currencies: I'll Probably Buy More US Dollars

I own a lot of US Dollars. What happened last year in my view is a normal correction. You know, the US Dollar was extremely strong a while before that, made new highs, multi-year highs, so it's having a normal correction. I own the US Dollar and I will probably buy more.

Bitcoin: Is This A Bubble?

Jim Rogers recently answered the million dollar question, are crypto currencies in a bubble? 

"There have been plenty of bubbles I have seen in my life but this one is a little strange, because at least when the dot-com bubble was around, those were companies that said they had a business. Even with the tulips (reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637), supposedly they had a purpose and a use, I have never seen something quite like this."

Bullish On Japanese Stocks

I am still buying shares in Asia. China is down 40 percent from its all time highs, Japan is down 50 percent from its all time highs. The Japanese governent is doing everything it can to get stocks up.

Related trading instruments: iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF (FXI), iShares MSCI Japan ETF(EWJ), Nikkei 225 Index

Markets: Geopolitical Concerns

Before the First World War all sorts of changes started taking place which were revolutionary at the time. We weren't so revolutionary, we had a big war as a result and we're seeing a lot of changes like that take place again let's hope thre's not a war in a few years.

Video: Geopolitics, China and Markets

Jim Rogers talks geopolitics, the US - China relation and financial markets.