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 know, I know – all the sexy in the energy world right now is in Oil – what with the latest OPEC ‘arrangement’ on…
The stunning news of a tentative OPEC agreement out of Algiers caught just about every trader flat-footed. Speculative short positions in oil had been growing,…
We’ve continued to try to find value in the energy space, by trading around and out of winners in the independent E+P’s and majors that…
The Fed continues to dominate the markets and our trading in oil and oil stocks. God knows there are hundreds of writers out there with…
In investing, there’s a patience factor that can’t be overstressed. We showed that kind of patience in the Spring of this year, as we loaded…
In my last column, I tried to draw a few long range conclusions about U.S. production of shale oil, using the terrific graphics from Enno…
When investing in energy companies, or anything else for that matter, we’re playing a bit of a game. There’s tons of information out there coming…
We’ve entered the twilight zone in oil, where rumors and financial moves in outer markets are affecting oil and the stocks we’ve accumulated, making trading…
We’ve entered the twilight zone in oil, where rumors and financial moves in outer markets are affecting oil and the stocks we’ve accumulated, making trading…
The sub-sectors of energy are where big money is made in trading oil stocks – we must decide where the next move will be and…
I’m looking to make only some small tweaks to our investments in this lazy month of August. It is a time I’ve tried to avoid…
Heading into August, the smartest advice I’ve taken has been to back away from markets. Volumes are weak, interest is small (particularly in an election…
Have you tried to drive anywhere recently? I mean, have you just gotten in your car, not necessarily at rush hour either, and tried to…
The latest report from Wood Mackenzie on U.S. and other non-OPEC oil exploration and production into 2025 is worthy of a very deep dive, because…
So, here we are, biding our time with our core oil portfolio, watching oil idle in the mid-$40’s and as the John Mayer song goes,…
Concentrating as we have on oil and the ongoing recovery in certain oily E+P’s, we’ve kind of ignored natural gas for the most part –…
We’ve benefited from a fairly strong oil market, resulting in an energy subsector that has been outperforming the stock indexes for the past several weeks.…
Now that oil is backing away marginally from its $50 level, there has been an equal retracement in the price of energy stocks with it.…
Natural Gas has been rallying along with oil, but I have still preferred to stay away from investing in it, as the gluts that plague…
No one should be surprised at the outcome of the latest OPEC meeting, which was only hastily scheduled after the disastrous non-event that occurred in…