Gold •124 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •10 mins | 990.10 | -0.40 | -0.04% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 71.53 | +0.06 | +0.08% | |
Gasoline •11 mins | 2.021 | +0.002 | +0.11% | |
Ethanol •124 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •124 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 124 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 124 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 75.15 | +0.07 | +0.09% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.785 | +0.004 | +0.14% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.283 | -0.001 | -0.04% |
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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