Gold •169 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 921.20 | -2.30 | -0.25% | |
WTI Crude •10 hours | 69.91 | -0.67 | -0.95% | |
Gasoline •22 mins | 1.912 | -0.011 | -0.57% | |
Ethanol •169 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •169 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 169 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 169 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 72.42 | -0.46 | -0.63% | ||
Natural Gas • 12 mins | 3.647 | +0.063 | +1.76% | ||
Heating Oil • 12 mins | 2.223 | -0.014 | -0.64% |
Contributor since: 01 Jul 2011
In 2004, after retiring from a very successful building career, I became determined to learn all I could about the stock market. In 2009, I knew the market was seriously oversold and committed a serious amount of capital to the market. Needless to say things went quite nicely but I always remembered 2 important things. Hubris equals failure and the market can remain illogical longer than you can remain solvent.
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