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.
I’ve been trading oil and learning about oil companies for 30 years, and one thing I can tell you is that the common wisdom about…
The oil market’s in freefall, the stock market is in freefall. You’re taking losses, big losses, in stocks that you bought – not at the…
There’s panic in the air. You can feel it. The market for oil has been dropping daily, now trading under $85 – under $90 for…
It’s just perfect, that I would appear on CNBC’s halftime report for the first time in a year and a half predicting much higher oil…
For a lifetime trader of fossil fuels, it’s been like living in the dark. I’ve never seen a better market to be long crude oil,…
I don’t spend much time finding very short-term trades, as regular readers know. Staring at my screens and trying to find a great long-term trade…
Here it is, in one monumental and telling graph – the point on energy you must remember:Yes, there is demand drop in the US, Europe…
BP today was found grossly negligent in its connection with the 2010 deepwater horizon disaster. It is a most surprising result and will continue to…
In a recent column, I proposed a ‘super spike’ in oil prices – implying a super opportunity continued to exist in the exploration and production…
In 2005, Goldman Sachs oil analyst Arjun Murti wrote of an oil “super spike”, with prices reaching $200 a barrel. Murti was amazingly prophetic with…
The world has changed. Even two years ago, with a war going on by proxy between Russia and Ukraine, we'd have seen a ten dollar…
A strong earnings report from Transocean (RIG) has everyone understandably wondering: Is it finally time to buy the offshore drillers? I have been exceedingly cautious…
The CORRECTION: We’ve all awaited it and I’ve been loath to call it, but too many factors have rolled in at once and its time…
In the oil markets today there’s a lot to talk about, almost too much. I have never seen such a disarray of geopolitical influences on…
The recent ruling by the Commerce Department, allowing Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) and Enterprise Product Partners (EPD) to export light ‘condensates’ puts an effective end…
For the last week, I had viewed the relative complacency of the oil markets to the latest struggles for control of Iraq as the correct…
Two very big stories this week require that I address both briefly. First, Iraq.While it is incredibly disheartening to see Mosul fall so quickly to…
It has been the continued strength of the crude oil market, through the very bearish (and wrong) predictions of most of the major wirehouse analysts…
The big head fake in energy, the one that has somewhat confused me has been how the fantastic quarterly results from the independent E+P’s has…
The impact of the massive natural gas deal between Gazprom and the Chinese this week will be felt for years. It has absolutely shocked me…