| Gold •562 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
| Platinum •10 mins | 2,322.70 | -87.20 | -3.62% | |
| WTI Crude •8 hours | 59.34 | +0.26 | +0.44% | |
| Gasoline •8 hours | 1.785 | +0.001 | +0.08% | |
| Ethanol •562 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
| Silver •562 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
| Silver • 562 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
| Copper • 562 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
| Brent Crude • 7 hours | 64.13 | +0.37 | +0.58% | ||
| Natural Gas • 8 hours | 3.103 | -0.025 | -0.80% | ||
| Heating Oil • 8 hours | 2.238 | +0.029 | +1.33% |
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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