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November 3, 2024

Model Portfolio Hits YTD High at a ~17.8% Total Return as Short Book Drives Weekly Gains

By Timm Schneider

Thx to all the survey respondent’s already for our official ‘The Schneider Capital Group 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Survey.’ Great voter turnout. Please fill out if you have not already and feel free to share…

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November 3, 2024

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending November 3rd 2024

By Timm Schneider

Please fill our our 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Survey if you have not done so: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/35YPP5K For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that…

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October 30, 2024

Your Weekly Energy & Utility Sentiment Gauge Tracking Changes in Real Time Short Interest (10-30-2024)

By Timm Schneider

Within, we share with you real-time 1) Current Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 2) W-W % Changes in Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 3) Borrow; and 4) Changes in 4-week moving average shares-on-loan utilization for ~200 publicly traded corporates…

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October 29, 2024

Natural Gas: EQT & EXE Earnings Releases Support Move Higher in Longer Dated Contracts, All Else Equal…

By Timm Schneider

But it is a mixed bag near-term, with a bearish tilt, in our view. While gas bulls may point to some lower sequential production levels out of EXE (see details within), this is largely negated…

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October 29, 2024

EPD Just Reported. How Will Units Trade Today?

By Timm Schneider

EPD is the first large MLP structure that reports. Within we provide a few puts and takes on the quarter. More importantly, we believe today’s trading action could be telling with respect to our thesis…

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October 28, 2024

We are getting a bunch of questions on the WES CEO change announcement post close…

By Timm Schneider

Lot of speculation as the release is not full of a lot of details but the main feedback we are getting is that WES is for sale now. We have run several M&A scenarios prior…

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October 28, 2024

Natural Gas: We Rolled our NG1 *Short* to NG2 and NG4 *Long* to NG5 Overnight.

By Timm Schneider

We partially covered (unfortunately…) some of the NG2 (Dec) Short position earlier today at $2.87 and $2.849 (more so from a risk management perspective – near-term fundamentals remain quite bearish; Read On) but maintain a…

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October 28, 2024

Natural Gas: We Rolled our NG1 *Short* to NG2 and NG4 *Long* to NG5 Overnight.

By Timm Schneider

We partially covered (unfortunately…) some of the NG2 (Dec) Short position earlier today at $2.87 and $2.849 (more so from a risk management perspective – near-term fundamentals remain quite bearish; Read On) but maintain a…

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October 27, 2024

Model Portfolio Adds ~200Bps w/w as TLN Long & NEE and NEP Shorts are Largest Gainers; Closed the RRC Short

By Timm Schneider

Most discussed stocks and topics this week (irrespective of Model Portfolio): RRC; EQT; CTRA; PR; DVN; TLN; NEP; TRP vs. ENB; PSX; Nat Gas; Election Impacts Model Portfolio Total Relative Return (+16.8% Total Return) versus Major…

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October 27, 2024

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending October 27th 2024

By Timm Schneider

For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that do NOT require you to have a subscription to the respective site, or if they do, they are…

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October 24, 2024

Two Things: 1) Driving to Baltimore Tomorrow AM for Meetings (Lucky Me; Read On); and 2) Some Thematic Thoughts out of Earnings…

By Timm Schneider

…Just kidding, people from Baltimore! Harbor East isn’t bad… also I should not be talking… I live outside of Philadelphia in the sticks. So we will be on our way to Baltimore tomorrow am for…

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October 24, 2024

Model Portfolio: Effective Immediately, We Are Closing our RRC Short Position (7% Weight) For a Total Loss of 1.8% Since Inception

By Timm Schneider

We are not replacing the short position at this time. RRC was one of our bigger weights in the short book at ~7%. RRC reported earnings earlier in the week. Please reach out if you…

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October 23, 2024

Your Weekly Energy & Utility Sentiment Gauge Tracking Changes in Real Time Short Interest (10-23-2024)

By Timm Schneider

Within, we share with you real-time 1) Current Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 2) W-W % Changes in Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 3) Borrow; and 4) Changes in 4-week moving average shares-on-loan utilization for ~200 publicly traded corporates…

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October 23, 2024

Natural Gas: Pressing the Front Month (Nov-24) Short to the Max. Long Feb-24

By Timm Schneider

Post MTDR/ NBR/ RRC results we are pressing front end of the curve (Nov 24) short to the max. We are still long Feb-25.  We may close the front month short depending on what happens…

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October 22, 2024

Peak Resources (PRB; IPO) Set to Price Later This Week. Happy To Chat

By Timm Schneider

And… another Energy IPO on deck. Happy to chat on this one. Set to price later this week. They have a publicly available roadshow video. Let me know if you would like to see the…

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