POWERSHARES DB CMDTY IDX TRA (AMEX:DBC)

amarkscpa (< 20) Submitted: 2/9/2008 5:09:18 AM : Start Price: $32.78 DBC Score: -23.96

I prefer RJI, but DBC is about as good...

HerM0ney (42.96) Submitted: 1/12/2008 7:15:35 PM : Start Price: $31.90 DBC Score: -15.87

DBC: I use the EFT to hedge my other ETFs. This Fund has both wheat and corn.An alternative to these would be the ETF (DBA). A lot of our day to day product are by products of corn or wheat. Gold, Crude oil, Alumimnium and Heating oil can all be safe havens in the upcoming recession. I am hedging my portfolio with (DBC)The index commodities that tracks light sweet crude oil, heating oil, aluminum, gold, corn and wheat. All these products will be needed globally for the next 5 to 10 years.

drangles (58.68) Submitted: 1/12/2008 12:15:22 PM : Start Price: $31.90 DBC Score: -15.87

GREAT COMMODITY PLAY

strutzma (< 20) Submitted: 1/6/2008 10:53:45 PM : Start Price: $31.73 DBC Score: -14.99

Commodities should run until we have another technological revolution that helps us conserve and use less energy per unit of productivity and technologically stops us from using our food to power our autos.

KymberlyL3 (32.93) Submitted: 1/4/2008 1:57:09 PM : Start Price: $31.71 DBC Score: -14.79

Commodities are a safe place to be right now. This index has both wheat and corn -- as well as gold and crude. These are all safe havens in a recession.

Disclosure: I bought 500 of this stock today at 32.20

Here is some technical info for the short term.

01/02/2008 Commodity Channel Index Oscillator Bullish 32.43 n/a

01/02/2008 Short-term KST Oscillator Bullish 32.43 n/a

01/02/2008 Symmetrical Continuation Triangle (Bullish) Classic Pattern Bullish 32.43 33.50 - 33.90

12/31/2007 Triple Moving Average Crossover Indicator Bullish 31.56 n/a

12/28/2007 Momentum Oscillator Bullish 31.52 n/a

12/27/2007 MACD Oscillator Bullish 31.62 n/a

12/24/2007 Price Crosses Moving Average Indicator Bullish 31.14 n/a

12/17/2007 Williams %R Oscillator Bearish 30.52 n/a

9months out....

12/12/2007 Upside Breakout Classic Pattern Bullish 31.99 33.40 - 33.80

10/05/2007 Intermediate-term KST Oscillator Bullish 27.75 n/a

Calegro (34.05) Submitted: 1/3/2008 12:49:18 PM : Start Price: $32.10 DBC Score: -13.72

This is an ETF that tracks Commodity prices which I think will fly faster and higher than superman. If you want something more focused, say on Crude Oil, try US Oil ETF (USO).

jumperky (42.93) Submitted: 12/18/2007 2:37:56 PM : Start Price: $29.76 DBC Score: -7.22

Do you think commodity prices are going down?

abpro (43.53) Submitted: 11/4/2007 1:21:01 AM : Start Price: $30.77 DBC Score: -7.83

commodities are king for the next five+ years and may help offset stock shortcomings.

Ludraman1 (< 20) Submitted: 9/17/2007 6:05:40 PM : Start Price: $26.14 DBC Score: +6.21

People are moving into safer beats (e.g. oil, gold) and the world needs to eat.

adamrust1 (38.43) Submitted: 5/18/2007 10:56:35 AM : Start Price: $25.10 DBC Score: +11.99

Long term, commodities will gain in value as a hedge against the increasing price of other goods. I like the implications for this ETF if the peak oil scenario ever plays out.

Brynaur (< 20) Submitted: 4/18/2007 5:45:31 PM : Start Price: $24.81 DBC Score: +9.66

Dollar continues its long-term trend of weakening -- commodities aren't going anywhere but up.

NetscribeETF (37.64) Submitted: 3/27/2007 8:39:08 AM : Start Price: $24.52 DBC Score: +8.67

PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund tracks the lesser-known Deutsche Bank Commodity Index and is the first ETF based solely on futures contract. The ETF tracks only six commodities crude oil, heating oil, aluminum, gold, corn and wheat leaving out the other major components normally tracked. The logic behind their selection is their inherent liquidity and correlation with other commodities in the sector.

The non-energy components of the metals division are represented by aluminum and gold with 12.5% and 10% weights respectively. Expectations of short-term interest rates in the U.S. to decline as well as Federal Reserve easing monetary policy in response to a slower growing U.S. economy would favor rising gold prices. Corn and Wheat represent the agricultural commodities with 11.25% weights allocated to each.

The fund has less allocation to the energy sector in the form of crude oil and heating oil accounting for 55% of the base weights when compared to 75% weightage given by its competitors. The decision to keep the oil production at current levels in the recently concluded OPEC conference comes as a boon to the energy sector. This would result in soaring oil prices and the western countries paying a higher gasoline prices and energy bills.

Though the ETF was launched in February 2006 the Deutsche Bank Commodity Index has quite a long history starting from 1998. There hasn’t been consistency in the performance of the fund but has an average annualized return of 16.55% in the past ten years. In conclusion the outlook for the fund looks good and all set to the beat the market.

wcwhiner (98.89) Submitted: 1/25/2007 4:05:43 PM : Start Price: $22.40 DBC Score: -18.29

Short commodities on soft landing. The 75 bps in fees are icing on the cake.