Gold •15 mins | 2,238.40 | +25.70 | +1.16% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 921.10 | +11.40 | +1.25% | |
WTI Crude •11 hours | 83.17 | +1.82 | +2.24% | |
Gasoline •11 hours | 2.721 | +0.049 | +1.82% | |
Ethanol •7 hours | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •15 mins | 24.92 | +0.16 | +0.66% |
Silver • 15 mins | 24.92 | +0.16 | +0.66% | ||
Copper • 15 mins | 4.007 | +0.007 | +0.17% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 hours | 87.00 | +1.59 | +1.86% | ||
Natural Gas • 11 hours | 1.763 | +0.045 | +2.62% | ||
Heating Oil • 11 hours | 2.623 | +0.020 | +0.78% |
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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