Gold •10 mins | 1,714.90 | -0.90 | -0.05% | |
Platinum •10 mins | 1,173.10 | -8.70 | -0.74% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 61.63 | +0.35 | +0.57% | |
Gasoline •12 mins | 1.948 | -0.004 | -0.18% | |
Ethanol •6 hours | 1.775 | +0.046 | +2.66% | |
Silver •10 mins | 26.21 | -0.18 | -0.69% |
Silver • 10 mins | 26.21 | -0.18 | -0.69% | ||
Copper • 10 mins | 4.138 | -0.005 | -0.11% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 64.51 | +0.44 | +0.69% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.796 | -0.020 | -0.71% | ||
Heating Oil • 15 mins | 1.841 | +0.005 | +0.29% |
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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