Gold •10 mins | 2,337.60 | -0.80 | -0.03% | |
Platinum •10 mins | 915.50 | -0.30 | -0.03% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 82.83 | +0.02 | +0.02% | |
Gasoline •10 mins | 2.743 | +0.009 | +0.31% | |
Ethanol •13 hours | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •10 mins | 27.39 | +0.04 | +0.14% |
Silver • 10 mins | 27.39 | +0.04 | +0.14% | ||
Copper • 10 mins | 4.547 | +0.061 | +1.35% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 88.05 | +0.03 | +0.03% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 1.649 | -0.004 | -0.24% | ||
Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.567 | +0.017 | +0.67% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Tom Dyson is DailyWealth's full time staff writer. There's not another financial writer with a more proven contrarian view. Tom made his first trade age 12. The stock returned 300% in less than 9 months. Since then, Tom has worked on a bond trading desk on the largest trading floor in Europe, at a large research firm on Wall Street and qualified to a prestigious institute of accountants in London.
Tom approaches the market as a puzzle. His philosophy is simple: Figure out what the crowd is buying and do the opposite. It's harder than it sounds. To supplement his contrarian instincts, Tom travels around the world - twelve months a year - investigating hunches, interviewing traders and executives, and touring companies. This is his edge. Tom notes everything he finds in his column at DailyWealth.
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