Gold •154 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •10 mins | 949.40 | -10.80 | -1.12% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 68.86 | -1.08 | -1.54% | |
Gasoline •10 mins | 1.942 | -0.020 | -1.02% | |
Ethanol •154 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •154 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 154 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 154 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 72.56 | -1.06 | -1.44% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.055 | +0.013 | +0.43% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.170 | -0.047 | -2.13% |
Contributor since: 29 Oct 2012
I am a retired accountant and business manager who has 30 years of experience studying markets, investing, and trading futures and stocks. I have made and lost money during my investing career, and those successes and losses have taught me about timing markets, risk management, government created inflation, and market crashes. I currently invest for the long term, and I swing trade (in a trade from one to four weeks) stocks and ETFs using both fundamental and technical analysis. I offer opinions and commentary, but not investment advice.
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