Gold •153 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 942.40 | -17.80 | -1.85% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 70.08 | +0.14 | +0.20% | |
Gasoline •10 mins | 1.967 | +0.005 | +0.25% | |
Ethanol •153 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •153 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 153 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 153 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 73.83 | +0.21 | +0.29% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.004 | -0.038 | -1.25% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.212 | -0.005 | -0.24% |
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Mr. Long is a former senior group executive with IBM & Motorola, a principle in a high tech public start-up and founder of a private venture capital fund. He is presently involved in private equity placements internationally along with proprietary trading involving the development & application of Chaos Theory and Mandelbrot Generator algorithms.
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