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Saturday links: limit orders and dopamine

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The weekend is a great time to catch up on some of the reading you skipped during the week.  We hope you enjoy this set of long-form links.

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What is the ‘limit order effect‘ and how does it change our thinking about behavioral finance?  (The Psy-Fi Blog)

 
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Daily Market Commentary: Small Change

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Today's action amounted to a bit of a non-event. Tight price action was combined with low volume. The quiet action did little to change the broader picture, or the technical health of the indices.

The only point of interest in the S&P was the increasing disparity in relative strength between the S&P and Russell 2000.

 
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Liquids-Rich Companies Will Weather the Dry Spell: Luc Mageau

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The Energy Report: With Brent Crude trading at about US$110 per barrel (bbl) and natural gas futures trading at 10-year lows, are you leaning more heavily toward oily names than you did in 2011?
Luc Mageau: Absolutely. In fact, although gas prices have been reduced to around the $2.50 level, it still seems like the picture could get worse before it gets better. Current natural gas storage is at ~3.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf); that’s a full 0.4 Tcf fuller than an average winter. The reason we have such a glut of gas is the winter has not been co-operating.

 
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Invest in a Deep Freezer (27/365)

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One of the most critical appliances in our home when I was growing up was our chest deep freezer.

 
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Ethanol IPO

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Can it be?  An initial public offering of an ethanol producer?  Yes, in mid December 2011, Pennsylvania-based Coskata, Inc. filed a registration statement to raise $100 million through the sale of common stock.  Coskata needs capital to build a production facility planned for Boligee, Alabama that is supposed to initially produce 16 million gallons of ethanol per year.  Eventually Coskata hopes to boost capacity to 78 million gallons per year.

 
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Only Wash Full Loads of Dishes or Clothes (22/365)

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This seems like common sense at first glance. If you run your dishwasher, your washing machine, or your dryer with only half a load of clothes or dishes, you’re losing out in terms of efficiency.

Even if you run the machine with small load settings, the machine is still using most of the water and most of the energy of a full load.

 
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Far-Out Investment Strategies

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There’s no time like the recently-passed 10-year anniversary of the Enron wipeout to revisit some solid pieces of investment wisdom. And one of those nuggets is of such all-encompassing sagacity that it can be easily summarized in a single word.

Diversify.

 
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Top 100 Dividend Stocks – February 2012

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I’ve written a few times about how looking at dividend yield could be misleading. One part of the reason is that some companies end up paying more than they can afford to. FTR is one obvious example and I will discuss it a bit later but there are many more.

 
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What's Not to Like in Portland?

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Portland General Electric (POR:  NYSE) is priced to yield 4.3% on its quarterly dividend.  That is definitely something to like in a world where interest rates are at record low levels.  A low beta of 0.50 makes the risk of equity ownership palatable even for a risk averse investor.  Although POR is trading near its 52-week high, it’s trailing price earnings ratio of 13.2 is slightly below the average for electric utilities.  Nice dividend, low risk, slightly below fair price.

 
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Biodiesel Rollercoaster

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Biodiesel production boomed in 2011, most probably thanks to the return of federal tax incentives at the beginning of the year that led to more favorable economic terms for producers.  The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) reports that the industry is poised to produce more than 802 million gallons of biodiesel in 2011, more twice 2010 production of 315 million gallons.   Production in 2011 also breaks the previous record of about 690 million gallons set in 2009, the last year the tax incentives had been in place before Congr

 
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