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.
It’s been a busy year for the regulators and legal groups of major banks and hedge funds, as the recent fines of JP Morgan, Steve…
The refiners have been a very ‘feast or famine’ trade group that I have been wary of playing. But with widening Brent-WTI spreads, along with…
Oil has been headed down, or at least our domestic benchmark has shown continuing weakness over the last five days. Our investment philosophy has been…
Two energy ideas to touch upon today, now that the debt ceiling debacle is (at least for now) over: Refiners and the back of the…
The energy sector has begun to outperform the rest of the market and that trend seems to me to be just beginning. Therefore, it's important…
The phone’s ringing off the hook in the last week of a languid summer. It’s CNBC, Fox and even Al Jazeera, all looking for insight…
It’s time to step out from my ‘normal’ role as the ‘energy expert’ and make a comment or two on the markets in general, just…
The latest market downturn has been brewing, in my mind, for the last two months. And we’ve been a bit too sanguine about the prospect,…
Opportunities in energy investing have really never been so focused. With the grand arbitrage in Brent/WTI spreads largely gone, refiners haven’t been so great and…
There’s been a recent mania in energy to spin off assets as master limited partnerships. You’ve seen it in practically every refinery, but other E+P…
The United States is producing almost 7 million barrels of oil a day, more than it has in a decade and a half. We also…
Egypt is the big topic on oil trader’s minds this week but it really shouldn’t be. Although it’s been tapped as the reason WTI oil…
This week’s market action seemed to prove two very old trader’s axioms – ONE – the market will do precisely what will cause the most…
As I write this on Thursday morning, Gold is in a virtual freefall, dropping below $1400 an ounce for the first time in two years…
The markets have looked a lot shakier in the past two weeks and that certainly applies to more than the bond and equity markets. As…
Interest rate volatility has made the dividend-paying stocks a minefield in the last several weeks and likely to continue to make them difficult investments to…
A few quick blog-type posts today to give an overview of the energy picture and how it should be traded in the coming week:1 -…
With hedge funds performing miserably this year compared to the indexes, you’ve got to say that sometimes it helps to be a little stupid. Those…
The most compelling news of the week in the energy world was the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) mid-term report, calling for a ‘supply shock’ from…
Another week away from my usual trading desk in New York does lead to a different and useful perspective on energy events without concentrating on…