Gold •15 mins | 1,830.30 | +0.50 | +0.03% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 903.30 | -0.40 | -0.04% | |
WTI Crude •1 day | 107.62 | +3.35 | +3.21% | |
Gasoline •1 day | 3.885 | +0.119 | +3.17% | |
Ethanol •1 day | 2.160 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •15 mins | 21.13 | +0.08 | +0.39% |
Silver • 15 mins | 21.13 | +0.08 | +0.39% | ||
Copper • 15 mins | 3.745 | -0.002 | -0.05% | ||
Brent Crude • 1 day | 113.12 | +3.07 | +2.79% | ||
Natural Gas • 1 day | 6.220 | -0.019 | -0.30% | ||
Heating Oil • 1 day | 4.363 | +0.025 | +0.58% |
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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