DAILYWEALTH CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. Steve Sjuggerud Dr. Steve Sjuggerud is the founder and editor of one of the largest financial newsletters in the world, True Wealth.  Since inception in 2001, True Wealth readers have made money every year with sometimes-exotic, safe investment ideas. Steve did his Ph.D. dissertation on international currencies, he's traveled to dozens of countries looking at investment ideas, and he's run mutual funds, hedge funds, and investment research departments. Steve's investment philosophy is simple: "You buy something of extraordinary value at a time when nobody else wants it. And you sell it at a time when people are willing to pay any price to get it."  It's harder than it sounds, but Steve continues to be able to do just that for his readers. Click here to read classic issues of True Wealth.

Tom Dyson Tom Dyson is a contributing editor, with Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, of DailyWealth. 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 at Salomon brothers, qualified to the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants - the UK equivalent of CMA in the US - and ridden freight trains all over North America. In his spare time, Tom likes to speculate in the capital markets, gamble on the golf course and play poker against his colleagues. He graduated from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Spanish. Tom's articles have appeared in the Daily Reckoning, the largest e-letter in America, and many other well-known contrarian websites.

GUEST ESSAYISTS

Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers has been described as "the Indiana Jones of finance." He's been around the world on a motorcycle. He founded one of the greatest performing hedge funds in history with George Soros, he's taught finance at Columbia University's business school and he's written three classic books on investing. He lives in New York City with his wife, Paige Parker, and their daughter, who is learning Chinese and owns commodities but doesn't own stocks or bonds.

Click here to visit Jim Rogers' homepage.

Andy Kessler
Andy Kessler is a former Wall Street analyst and hedge fund manager. He has written three books on investing, Wall Street Meat, Running Money, and How We Got Here. He's also a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and other financial publications. He lives with his wife and four sons in the Bay Area.

Click here to visit Andy Kessler's homepage.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a literary essayist and mathematical trader obsessed with the problems of uncertainty. His interests lie at the juncture of philosophy, mathematics, finance, and the social sciences, but he has stayed extremely close to the ground thanks to an uninterrupted two-decade career as a quantitative trader in New York and London.

Victor Niederhoffer
Victor Niederhoffer's storied career as a speculator spans more than twenty-five years. Niederhoffer is the author of two critically acclaimed books on markets and speculation - Education of a Speculator and Practical Speculation with Laura Kenner - as well as numerous groundbreaking academic articles about markets. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, he holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is a five-time national champion in squash and claimed the world title in 1976.

Homepage: http://www.dailyspeculations.com

Porter Stansberry
Editor, Porter Stansberry's Investment Advisory

Porter Stansberry is the founder of Stansberry & Associates Investment
Research, which provides independent financial research to over
130,000 subscribers in 128 countries. Prior to launching Stansberry
Research in 1999, Porter was the first American editor of the Fleet
Street Letter, the oldest financial newsletter in the English
language. Porter began his career in financial journalism, working
under Steve Sjuggerud, at Welt Research.

Jeff Clark
Editor, The S&A Short Report & Advanced Income

As editor of The S&A Short Report, Jeff seeks out extremely overpriced securities that let you profit as they decline. Most recently, Jeff was President and Chief Executive Officer of an independent brokerage house in San Francisco. He's also President and founder of Global Finance Institute, an investor education firm. Jeff has served as a consultant to one of the country's largest options market-making firms, and he has also developed the curricula for an international Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program.

Matt Badiali
Editor, The S&A Oil Report & The S&A Prospector

Matt Badiali is the editor of The S&A Oil Report, a monthly investment advisory that focuses primarily on oil as an investment-from small exploration outfits, to equipment companies, to the biggest oil companies in the world. Matt has over 20 years experience in the industry. He has a Masters in Geology from Florida Atlantic University and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the same field, at the University of North Carolina.  Matt has real-world experience as a hydrologist, geologist, and a consultant to the oil industry.

Dan Ferris
Editor, Extreme Value

Dan Ferris is the editor of Extreme Value, a monthly investment advisory focusing primarily on stocks trading at discounts to their net asset values. Dan's strategy of investing in safe and cheap stocks has earned him one of the most impressive track records in the ever compiled in the financial newsletter industry. Dan has also been featured in Barron's.