Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter and has been directly involved in the capital markets since August of 1974. In just over a decade, Mr. Gartman worked as an economist for Cotton, Inc., traded foreign exchange and money instruments for NCNB National Bank, and was chief financial futures analyst for A.G. Becker & Company. He was also an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade until 1984, trading treasury bonds and notes and GNMA futures contracts. In 1984, Mr. Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for Sovran Bank, and in 1987 he began producing The Gartman Letter on a full-time basis. Clients of The Gartman Letter, LC, include many of the leading banks, broking firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, energy trading companies, and gain trading companies. Mr. Gartman often appears on CNBC, ROB-TV, and Bloomberg Television, discussing commodities and capital markets, and speaks before various associations, trade groups, central banks,...