News - Stock Movers - Insiders - Broker Upgrades - Earnings - Warrants

Earnings Calendar
Clearly earnings surprises will move stocks (Go to live site includes revenue target/actual)

Earnings Calendar provided by Investing.com UK.

News 

• From Yahoo Mining - a lot
• Large Date organised news at Northern Miner (Eric Coffin)
• From Kitco - more selective press releases
• Searchable on Title and Contents, with company identified at RI Analytics
• News With Views from Metal Augmentor
• At HighGrade
• PDF Documents at Infomine - Subscribe for index - e.g.
• http://www.infomine.com/index/pr/pb264783.pdf

Market Movers

• A Link To The Mining Almanac's Stock Movers - Review Price and volume extreme movers
• A Link To Mining Feeds  Gold Stock List - Market Cap, Price Change, 52wk hi-lo - Sortable
• A Link to 24Hr Gold - Good Lists of Stock Price changes, day, ytd, 52wk, and extreme volume / trendpower. Beware stock rollbacks creating apparent price increases.Stocks categorised by metal / explorer / developer / producer. Only a limited free logins each month.
• "Small Cap Power" Movers
• Stockhouse "Buzz" on the Bullboards - Activity in stocks - Launch "Community Pulse" and see which boards have most posts over range of time. Indicates active because the stock is rising or falling.A story can build for some time.....watch the charts......beware.

Insider Activity

We might expect that Insiders will buy and sell at opportune times.

Knowing who is buying and selling into a company,  following successful investors can be a guide to good investing in the Junior Gold and Silver mining and exploration sector.
There are a number of places to look

• The official filings are at SEDI - not the easiest to navigate and search but basically select by "issuer" which is company, or insider, which is investor. Each have an i.d. or name, if you can't find the name or i.d. start with an issuer where you know they are an insider to find.
• Good Free Site for a particular Stock symbol is INVESTORPOINT - select stock symbol, canadian are e.g. ABX:CA and then "Insider" tab to see US and canadian trades , 3 months, 12 months and last 5 but does not show prices
• Some free alerts on recent activity, much more on subscription at CANADIAN INSIDER
• Good discussion at Metal Augmentor - A smart site.

Broker Upgrades

• Stock Upgrade Information from Gold Alert
• MarketBeat
• Brokers Usually cover the bigger stocks. The smaller stocks are under-researched. Is this our opportunity ?

Canadian Warrants

Certain Stocks on the Canadian markets have listed, tradeable warrants.
These are only valuable for a limited time and give the right, but not obligation, to buy stock at a set price on a given date.

Dudley Pierce and  Lorimer Wilson at Munknee  have written good articles, promoting Precious Metals Warrants.

There is also a free site Canadian Warrants which lists the warrants, expiry dates and prices. It also show a "bagain" status based on option valuation driven by length of life and volatility. Whether it is truly expensive or a bargain will depend on the performance of the underlying stock.
(Update Dec-13 - The Canadian Warrants site looks to no longer be maintained an additional list of Traded Warrants is at The Financial Post HERE )

Generally look for good companies you want first, long life on the warrant, you usually want to sell before expiry not convert to stock, and reasonable leverage otherwise just own the stock.

When these warrants move into being valuable, the rises are spectacular, similarly so are falls.
Recent examples PVG.WT - increase
NGD.WT.B - decrease
Both months from expiry in April 2012

The symbols can be charted like a stock at the TSX website

I have had a few enormous successes with warrants, Colossus, Osisko and Franco Nevada,  and also wasted money as I held on too long, Pinetree and New Gold. I have not seen the true bargains of 2008 in 2011/12. Feedback welcome on opportunities seen here.