Dan Dicker is a 25 year veteran of the New York Mercantile Exchange where he traded crude oil, natural gas, unleaded gasoline and heating oil futures contracts.
Dan is one of the world's leading energy market analysts and has been incredibly successful over the years generating exceptional returns for individual investors, professional traders, and institutions with his unique insights that enable him to find value in exploration & production, refining and other energy sector stocks.
Oil stocks are finding some strength this week, even as oil prices remain lagged under $50 a barrel. I see investors again trying to pick…
Oil prices breached the $50 mark on Thursday as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states deployed airstrikes into Yemen in defense of the Sunni leadership…
How quickly has the oil market has changed? Since November of last year, oil predictions have run the gamut from complete wipeout to $20 a…
"Fracklog” is the latest term running around the oil world, a new game that oil producers are playing to try and outlast temporarily depressed oil…
A bit of a conundrum going on in oil these days, as money continues to pour into energy companies and their bonds, mostly through fully…
Thursday morning saw a tremendous spike in share prices of the two biggest deepwater drilling rig owners, Transocean (RIG) and Seadrill (SDRL). After so many…
EOG Resources, despite their first miss in 8 quarters, has proven again it is best of breed of the shale players with its declared strategy…
I was feeling so lonely these past weeks. All alone trying to assess the oil markets, with their wild volatility. Then, suddenly, seemingly every investment…
A massive rally in the oil market starting last Friday has everyone asking whether oil has bottomed. As for me, I’m not sure that’s the…
Another Wednesday, another big build in domestic crude stocks, sending oil prices swooning again. Prices retreated another 3% to under $45 a barrel. Two majors,…
Thursday’s ECB announcement from Mario Draghi gave everyone in the stock market continued hope – with 60b Euros of bond buying power, the stock markets…
Calling a bottom in oil is a fool’s errand. What’s more important here is in trying to gauge how oil will trade AFTER it finds…
In 2008, as money rushed out of the oil market and prices continued to collapse, a bottom for oil was nearly impossible to find. But…
Sesame Street is better at math than the oil companies are right now. Virtually every midsized oil exploration and production company has recently claimed not…
One steady reader of mine has questioned my recent analysis: While being positive on oil up until the break below $82, I’ve now become one…
There’s been some agreement inside the analyst community on oil -- $70 a barrel is not sustainable, in that several producers don’t have the prime…
For the last few columns on winners and losers of $80 oil, I want to try and construct an investment strategy we can use for…
I think that many people are misreading the purpose of this series on $80 oil winners and losers. Most are looking at the most superficial…
In going over the 3rd quarter reports from the US E+P’s, the report from Continental Resources (CLR) was the most interesting to me. Harold Hamm,…
US Shale Winners And LosersThis column starts my series on $80 oil and US shale winners and losers. My working thesis is that although oil’s…