Guess the year-end price of oil and gold!

Welcome to the third semi-annual "Guess the price of oil and gold contest" where readers can compete to win a free one-year subscription to the companion investment website Iacono Research. This edition should be much more exciting than the last one, won by reader DR as shown below, notable only for the lack of movement in either price.
Earlier this year, from the beginning of May to the end of June, oil rose about $5 and gold fell back about $15 with relatively small moves from week to week - pretty dull.

A summary of the top ten finishers is shown below with your humble scribe placing in position number six, nailing the price of oil but, as usual, a bit early for the yellow metal.

Since the conclusion of that contest both oil and gold have risen about 13 percent with the price of oil setting a new all-time nominal high (literally, off-the-chart) and with gold surpassing last year's May high.

After the last two months, who knows where things might end up by year-end.

Yendor's honorable mention guesses of $80 oil and $750 gold a few months back don't look so bad today - he too was a bit early.

As you might guess from the table above, the contest is based on the combined percentage differences between the guessed values and the closing prices on December 31st using the near-month (February) Nymex futures contract for WTI crude oil and the COMEX closing price for gold bullion. If either the Nymex or COMEX are closed on that day, the previous close will be used (I think they do half-day sessions, but I don't recall).

Entries may be made either by posting them in the comments section of this post or sending mail to either tim-at-iaconoresearch.com or tliacono-at-yahoo.com. All entries must be received no later than October 10th, two weeks from today - there will be two more notices such as this one as reminders and current subscribers can win a free one-year extension to their existing subscription.

The winner will be announced on December 31st - good luck to all!