iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed (ETF) (AMEX:GSG)

Juanito1 (< 20) Submitted: 8/23/2010 10:00:17 AM : Start Price: $28.31 GSG Score: -3.59

We are still in long term commodity bull market based on anecdotal trend evidence.

dcrednek (77.28) Submitted: 10/16/2009 9:37:49 AM : Start Price: $32.02 GSG Score: -16.99

The ETF seeks to track the performance of the GSCI Excess Return Index. The fund will invest in a portfolio of exchange-traded futures contracts tracked by the index. The index currently tracks 24 different commodities. It is weighted with approximately 67% invested in energy, 16% in agriculture, 7% in industrial metals, 7% in livestock and 3% in precious metals. The index is production weighted to reflect the relative significance of those commodities to the world economy.
This ETF differs from GCC in that it is heavily weighted in energy, whereas GCC is a fund that is equally weighted across commodity categories. That said, I expect this fund to outperform the S&P over the next five years based on my general thesis that we are still in a commodities bear market and prices for all commodities - energy, metals, and agriculture - will increase over time and might be helped along by a fair dose of inflation.

LatePlay (84.40) Submitted: 5/29/2009 5:55:53 PM : Start Price: $30.60 GSG Score: -33.69

Supply and Demand - Due to the nature of commodities, supply will always decrease. Due to the world population growth, demand will always increase.

artes17 (< 20) Submitted: 4/9/2009 6:15:16 PM : Start Price: $25.60 GSG Score: +26.80

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vitrified (99.48) Submitted: 3/31/2009 10:43:31 PM : Start Price: $24.72 GSG Score: -35.13

Commodities will face increasing worldwide demand and serve as good inflation hedge.

babypoop (76.14) Submitted: 1/28/2009 8:23:47 AM : Start Price: $25.98 GSG Score: -27.14

obama boom!

steveom (< 20) Submitted: 7/2/2008 7:24:16 PM : Start Price: $76.25 GSG Score: -64.81

Commodities are on fire and GSG is a nice basket to play them.

contardo (< 20) Submitted: 6/16/2008 10:39:21 PM : Start Price: $71.76 GSG Score: -54.62

Commodities will continue to outperform.

fezzic (< 20) Submitted: 5/14/2008 5:17:26 PM : Start Price: $67.89 GSG Score: -48.80

I wanted to diversify my investments into commodities after reading Roger's "Hot Commodities". This ETF met three of my requirements for a fund focused on commodities-- 1) followed a diversified index of different commodities, 2) more reasonable expenses (compared to the hedge funds that I dug up in my research) and 3) invested in future contracts rather than just stocks and equities.

tomandmisty (31.44) Submitted: 3/12/2008 12:45:55 PM : Start Price: $61.49 GSG Score: -50.36

Commodities will continue to outperform the lagging world economy as the Fed creates liquidity and thereby reducing the value of the dollar.

petekirmeier (< 20) Submitted: 12/21/2007 5:05:07 PM : Start Price: $51.75 GSG Score: -28.37

It seems that during sketchy and uncertain markets, people turn things that have always been in demand, commodities