Gold •141 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 968.10 | +2.30 | +0.24% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 69.63 | +0.88 | +1.28% | |
Gasoline •10 mins | 2.032 | -0.014 | -0.66% | |
Ethanol •141 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •141 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 141 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 141 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 73.68 | +0.87 | +1.19% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.357 | +0.164 | +5.14% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.250 | +0.023 | +1.04% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Mr Dorsch worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for nine years as the chief Financial Futures Analyst for three clearing firms, Oppenheimer Rouse Futures Inc, GH Miller and Company, and a commodity fund at the LNS Financial Group.
As a transactional broker for Charles Schwab's Global Investment Services department, Mr Dorsch handled thousands of customer trades in 45 stock exchanges around the world, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, the Euro zone, London, Toronto, South Africa, Mexico, and New Zealand, and Canadian oil trusts, ADR's and Exchange Traded Funds.
He wrote a weekly newsletter from 2000 thru September 2005 called, "Foreign Currency Trends" for Charles Schwab's Global Investment department, featuring inter-market technical analysis, to understand the dynamic inter-relationships between the foreign exchange, global bond and stock markets, and key industrial commodities.
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