About

Brian McMorris

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* Age: 52
* Industry: Engineering – Automation and Industrial Robotics
* Occupation: Business Development
* Location: MN : United States

I have a broad range of interests in technology, engineering, design, finance and public policy; a BSBA degree in International Marketing from Arizona State University with undergraduate studies in Nuclear Engineering and Architecture from Oregon State University; I have more than 30 years experience in instrumentation and control design and product development.

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  1. Steven Tish
    March 9th, 2009 at 20:15 | #1

    Hey Brian, the new site looks great! Nice work. I look forward to reading your posts.

    All the best,

    Steve

  2. March 10th, 2009 at 09:59 | #2

    Thanks Steve,

    Glad you like the look of the website. Please feel free to e-mail me with any suggestions you may have:

    Jared@wealth-ed.com

  3. Rose
    April 18th, 2009 at 09:26 | #3

    Hello,

    This is Rose writing from http://www.huliq.com. I visited your blog and liked your content.

    Would you be interested to send us a guest post on any of the issues related to the topics that you cover in your blog. We will publish it in our site http://www.huliq.com

    In return with each guest blog we will give one link in the author’s biline back to your blog. We only ask that the guest post ( we prefer it be a news coverage, sources can be Google News, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo News, BBC and others) be a unique story and not be published in your blog.

    HULIQ is indexed by Google News and Google requires that the length of the unique news is at least 5 paragraphs. We desire it to be at least 6 paragraphs if possible. And that all need to be a unique content. Once you send us a new story totally unique we will immediately publish it with you link in it, and within 15 minutes it should be indexed by Google News.

    Please let me know if you may have any questions about http://www.huliq.com.

    If you want to consult the topic with me first that’s perfectly fine as well.

    Many thanks

  4. May 29th, 2009 at 14:53 | #4

    Saw your comments on LivingOffDividends.com and wanted to talk more. Love your energy and think I may have an opportunity to work with your blog. Please contact me when you can. Cheers!

    Bruce Sands,
    Superior Gold Group

  5. Savid Rosenfield
    June 15th, 2009 at 12:17 | #5

    Hi Brian,

    Could I ask a question about your article “Natural Gas is the Next Big Thing”. In the next to the last paragragh, the sentence “The stock price of the UNG ETF will only need to move to about $5.00 from the current $4.00 for this to happen”, should that “$4.00″ be $14.00 or do I not get the jist of your thought?

    Thanks
    David

  6. June 15th, 2009 at 19:15 | #6

    Hi Savid…yes, I feel bad about that paragraph. I did not review the post enough times and missed this in my editing.

    What I MEANT to say was the Natural Gas futures contracts on which the “UNG” ETF are based are currently trading about $4.00 and could go to $5.00 very easily. “UNG” is an ETF based on an index off the futures contracts and trades at a multiple to the actual price of the future contracts.

    Thanks for pointing this error out. Keep reading. I will do better on my edits in the future.

  7. John Leger
    June 16th, 2009 at 05:44 | #7

    Re: UNG

    Did you read Don Dion’s article on UNG in “Real Money” this AM?

  8. June 16th, 2009 at 19:44 | #8

    I don’t subscribe to Real Money and that is required for this article. But I understand the gist of Dion’s point from the synopsis. Yes, UNG is a flawed ETF. Most of the commodity index funds are. The futures / commodities market was never designed for mainstream stock buying interest. So, there can be too much activity for a ETF based on futures to work as advertised (forcing the fund management to by derivaties on the futures, or swaps in the case of UNG).

    But that doesn’t matter to me. In fact, it actually makes what I am doing work better. I am using the high volatility in UNG and Nat Gas futures to sell options on a day trade basis. For my “buy and hold” or longer term energy plays, I use the Canroys and American MLPs in E&P companies.

    The long term case for Nat Gas is compelling. But the immediate future is very murky with LNG, inventory supluses, new technologies like horizontal drilling, shale, demand from non-conventional sources like oil sand production and methane powered vehicles, all creating confusion in the market for nat gas.

    But where there is confusion, there is short term oppty.

  9. June 29th, 2009 at 06:48 | #9

    Hi Brian,

    Thanks for visiting my blog site and leaving a comment. I’ve added your site to my blogroll/list. If you would like, you can add mine to your links as well. Keep up the blogging!

    Investment Blogger

  10. July 4th, 2009 at 21:43 | #10

    Hi, Jared,w
    Thanks for the comment on my Geezeo article! Any topics in particular you would like to see me follow up on in future posts at UpSide of Money?

    I don’t have a blogroll, but I am following you on Twitter now.

    Cheers,
    Barbara Bryn (@upsideofmoney)
    You might be interested in my Personal Finance column… http://www.examiner.com/x-4836-SF-Personal-Finance-Examiner

  11. August 12th, 2009 at 22:26 | #11

    I’ve been a long time reader, and after this excellent post I just had to comment! Very nice blog, but where can I find your RSS feed?

  12. August 30th, 2009 at 18:55 | #12

    Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.

  13. Karen Johnson
    January 26th, 2010 at 16:49 | #13

    Hi Brian,

    Can you please email me?

    Thanks!

    Karen

  14. March 8th, 2010 at 04:03 | #14

    Great source of information and knowledgebase! Would you mind if we shared this with our followers on our network? Keep it up!

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