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2011 Commodities: Oil and Silver Lead as Gold and Copper Lag

Arthur Hill

Arthur Hill

Chief Technical Strategist, TrendInvestorPro.com

The year-to-date commodity PerfChart shows Silver and Oil as the big winners. Both are up more than 15%. Gold is also up, but barely as it finished 2010 near $1420. A surge over the last two weeks brought Copper back to its 2010 high.

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Arthur Hill
About the author: , CMT, is the Chief Technical Strategist at TrendInvestorPro.com. Focusing predominantly on US equities and ETFs, his systematic approach of identifying trend, finding signals within the trend, and setting key price levels has made him an esteemed market technician. Arthur has written articles for numerous financial publications including Barrons and Stocks & Commodities Magazine. In addition to his Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, he holds an MBA from the Cass Business School at City University in London. Learn More