| Gold •506 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
| Platinum •19 mins | 1,524.20 | +7.00 | +0.46% | |
| WTI Crude •3 hours | 58.06 | -0.94 | -1.59% | |
| Gasoline •3 hours | 1.883 | -0.035 | -1.82% | |
| Ethanol •506 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
| Silver •506 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
| Silver • 506 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
| Copper • 506 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
| Brent Crude • 2 hours | 62.56 | -0.82 | -1.29% | ||
| Natural Gas • 3 hours | 4.580 | +0.106 | +2.37% | ||
| Heating Oil • 3 hours | 2.456 | -0.077 | -3.04% |
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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