Bank Capital Rules: A Reminder of 2008
"In 2008 there was a credit crisis. The next five years will bring on the credit crisis."
By Bob Stokes
5/10/2012 5:00:00 PM
Is our financial system stronger today than it was four years ago? Most people might think so; mainstream news analysis rarely suggests otherwise. But here's what the public remains mostly in the dark about...
Filed Under: banks, central banks, conquer the crash, credit rating, debt crisis, debt downgrade, deflation, economic depression, Elliott wave, european central bank, European debt crisis, hedge funds, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
4/23/2012 5:15:00 PM
If Apple and other fund favorites continue to lose their polish, what could that mean for the overall market? Well, let's see what market history teaches us...
Filed Under: Dow Industrials, Elliott Wave Principle, hedge funds, investment decisions, investment strategy, mutual funds, Nasdaq Composite, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), pension funds, S&P 500
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
4/3/2012 5:00:00 PM
To meet ambitious investment return targets, some public pension funds must now swing for the fences. But many are down two strikes already, due to their previous big bets with hedge funds. What do we see ahead?...
Filed Under: Elliott wave, hedge funds, pension funds, risk appetite
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
2/3/2012 5:00:00 PM
On February 1, Facebook revealed plans to raise $5 billion in the biggest internet initial public offering ever. Soon after, the vast majority of Facebook's 845 million users clicked "like" on the soon-to-be IPO's wall post. So, the big question remains: Does this salvo of social networking and micro-blogging sites really have a new "face"? One, for that matter, that won't turn into a sad, frowning emoticon from another tech boom gone bust?
Filed Under: Bob Prechter, Elliott Wave Theorist, hedge funds, herding, mutual funds, prechter, S&P 500
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
1/4/2012 5:15:00 PM
"The reports of hedge-fund dysfunction are starting to appear; the size and number of disruptions will multiply many times in coming months...hedge funds will find themselves unable to..." Read the rest of this quote from the October Financial Forecast...
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Theorist, financial forecast, hedge funds, mutual funds, risk appetite
Category: Stocks
By Jill Noble
11/3/2011 5:00:00 PM
In DVD footage from the 2011 Socionomics Summit, Robert Prechter gives the following example of how “herding” among mutual fund shareholders can cause deep harm, even when the fund itself is successful.
Filed Under: hedge funds, herding, Robert Prechter, socionomics, socionomics summit, video
Category: Socionomics
By Bob Stokes
8/31/2011 2:45:00 PM
The public's behavior points to an insight that Robert Prechter once shared with an interviewer. Asked if there's a basic secret to market behavior, he said...
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Theorist, hedge funds, Prechter's Perspective, Robert Prechter, stock indexes
Category: Stocks
Gold and Silver: Why Are Prices Falling?
The timeline of the selloff reveals whether the recent news headlines are the real culprit
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
5/5/2011 3:30:00 PM
Gold and silver fell hard again on May 5: Gold touched an intraday low of $1463 per ounce (from $1,577 on May 2), and silver fell as low as $35 an ounce (from $49 on April 25.) Investors want explanations, and here are some of the more popular ones...
Filed Under: diversification, Elliott wave, gold futures, hedge funds, inflation, mania, market crash, market manipulation, safe haven, short selling, silver futures, U.S. dollar, volatility
Category: Gold and Silver
By Jill Noble
3/3/2011 3:30:00 PM
Scott Reamer talks about his upcoming conference presentation, saying "What keeps me in this business is the intellectual vigor that goes along with appreciating and understanding the implications of the socionomic theory."
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Theorist, hedge funds, herding, social mood, socionomics
Category: Socionomics
Will the Commodity Bull Continue to Charge? See and HEAR the Answer
EWI's brand-new Monthly Futures Junctures reveals what's in store for the world's key commodities. PLUS, a 1 hr. 24 min. webinar puts the BIG picture into perspective
By Nico Isaac
2/26/2011 3:15:00 PM
Over the past few weeks, several of the biggest "supernovas" in the commodity universe have turned into falling meteors. To wit: From their respective February peaks, the alleged "grain king," wheat, has plunged 12% while the food forerunner, sugar, has soured to a near two-month low. Here's your chance to find an answer to the question, "Is this reversal just a brief detour on the way to higher highs?"
Filed Under: bull market, cocoa futures, coffee futures, corn futures, cotton futures, Elliott Wave trading, food crisis, grain futures, hedge funds, inflation, Jeffrey Kennedy, lean hog futures, live cattle futures, soybean futures, soybean meal, soybean oil, sugar futures, wheat futures
Category: Commodities
By Susan C. Walker
2/18/2011 5:30:00 PM
Four speakers at the Socionomics Summit in April will cover topics that range from tweets and blogs predicting the DJIA to extreme events and behavioral arbitrage hedge funds.
Filed Under: hedge funds, social mood, socionomics
Category: Socionomics
By Bob Stokes
10/20/2010 4:30:00 PM
"Tom had struggled for five years trying to understand the Wave Principle. After going through our coaching program he began to be consistently successful for the first time"...
Filed Under: hedge funds, Elliott Wave Principle
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
9/16/2010 5:00:00 PM
Not even Major League Baseball can rival the stock market's wealth of statistical data. And after studying the relevant data and analyzing the long-term pattern, Robert Prechter offered this conclusion...
Filed Under: hedge funds, Elliott Wave Principle, Robert Prechter, South Sea Bubble
Category: Stocks
By Susan C. Walker
4/17/2009 6:15:00 PM
Wall Street hires sophisticated number-crunchers to figure out all kinds of risk for investments, but their computer models give only the illusion of evaluating risk.
Filed Under: hedge funds, subprime lending
Category: Classic Prechter
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
3/18/2009 6:15:00 PM
Several recent reports have pointed out that, in the years before its global train wreck, AIG ran itself less like an insurance company and more like a hedge fund. On that, read this quote about modern-day hedge funds from the May 2008 Elliott Wave Theorist by EWI’s founder and president Bob Prechter.
Filed Under: AIG, hedge funds, options trading
Category: Stocks
By Susan C. Walker
12/31/2008 5:30:00 PM
Here's Elliott Wave International's brief list of what we're saying good-bye to from the watershed year of 2008, as well as what we're saying hello to in 2009.
Filed Under: hedge funds
Category: Classic Prechter
Traders Go Long and Short…Buyers Just Buy
How do you make money trading consistently? Play both long and short sides of the market.
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
10/23/2008 4:15:00 PM
Hedge funds are "supposed to make money in bull and bear market." That's a very important point, because over the past 5 years, many funds have NOT been acting as hedge funds. Instead, just like "day-traders" in the late 1990s, they've not been trading, they've just been buying. Here's how Bob Prechter, EWI's founder and CEO, put it in his May 2008 Elliott Wave Theorist (excerpt)...
Filed Under: hedge funds, Dick Diamond
Category: Stocks
By Susan C. Walker
10/17/2008 6:00:00 PM
Billions of dollars poured into hedge funds over the past five years, as wealthy investors looked for ways to increase the value of their investments. And their hedge fund managers obliged, using bucket-loads of leverage along with strategies that included short-selling, arbitrage, program trading and investing in derivatives. Now, the good times are coming to an end.
Filed Under: hedge funds
Category: Classic Prechter
By Susan C. Walker
5/21/2008 11:00:00 AM
While a failure in the swaps market could crush many hedge funds that deal in them, Elliott Wave International's Bob Prechter sees an even more basic reason why they will ultimately come to a bad end – that's because they're not really hedgers, they are merely buyers
Filed Under: hedge funds, credit crisis, credit default swaps, Bear Stearns
Category: Classic Prechter