By Bob Stokes
5/22/2012 4:45:00 PM
Elliott wave practitioners know their discipline requires work. Yet that work can yield timely money-making insights...
Filed Under: Dow Industrials, Elliott wave, Elliott Wave Theorist, Elliott Wave trading, Fibonacci, market forecasts, Nasdaq Composite, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Prechter's Perspective, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, technical analysis, Traders
Category: Classic Prechter
By Bob Stokes
5/21/2012 5:45:00 PM
The historic market action of April 29, 2011 is key to our outlook. Moreover, a May 1 market event handed us an additional clue. In the new Theorist, Robert Prechter writes...
Filed Under: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Elliott wave, Fibonacci, market forecasts, Nasdaq Composite, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Robert Prechter, S&P 500
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
5/17/2012 5:30:00 PM
To this day, I wonder why Robert Prechter's book Conquer the Crash has not been more widely recognized. It described in advance much of what happened in the 2008 financial crisis. Learn what Prechter is saying now...
Filed Under: banks, Bob Prechter, conquer the crash, debt crisis, debt downgrade, deflation, economic depression, Elliott Wave Theorist, Greek debt, market crash, market forecasts
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
5/15/2012 5:00:00 PM
For the past several months, volatility was absent as the market mainly traded sideways. Many participants were complacent. Some opined that the market was simply gathering its strength before the next leg up. We viewed the lackluster market action as...
Filed Under: Elliott wave, market forecasts, S&P 500, technical indicators, U.S. STOCK MARKET, VIX, volatility, volume, Wall Street
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
5/11/2012 4:45:00 PM
The run-ups in silver and gold since 2008 have many precious metals bulls believing that the pullback in recent months is just temporary. What do we see ahead for these two precious metals? I can say that the charts suggest...
Filed Under: economic depression, Elliott wave, Gold, gold futures, liquidity, market forecasts, platinum futures, recession, silver, silver futures, Traders
Category: Gold and Silver
By Bob Stokes
5/8/2012 5:00:00 PM
We do not base our market forecast on earnings reports, European election results, jobless numbers, terrorist threats, housing starts, what Warren Buffet says (or does), what President Obama says (or does), what a prominent hedge fund manager says (or does), or anything that's external to the market itself. We base our stock market forecast on...
Filed Under: Elliott wave, fundamental analysis, market forecasts, S&P 500, technical analysis
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
5/2/2012 4:30:00 PM
What a way to kick off May: the Dow Industrials close at a four-year high and three icons of the 1990s bull market basically say we've only just begun. Is investor psychology too optimistic?...
Filed Under: Dow Industrials, Elliott wave, financial forecast, herding, investor psychology, market forecasts, monetary policy
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
4/26/2012 4:45:00 PM
The stock market: one week it acts like Dr. Jekyll, the next week it's Mr. Hyde. What do we make of these dramatic fluctuations?...
Filed Under: Bear market, Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), Elliott wave, herding, investor psychology, market crash, market forecasts, Nasdaq Composite, risk management, Robert Prechter, U.S. STOCK MARKET, volatility
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
4/17/2012 3:30:00 PM
It's earnings season. And like they do every quarter, stock market observers want the answer to the ritual question: Will earnings drive stock prices higher or lower? The premise that earnings drive stock prices is so ingrained that it's not a question of whether earnings steer stock prices, but how will earnings steer the indexes. Here's what you need to know...
Filed Under: earnings, Elliott wave, fundamental analysis, market forecasts, S&P 500, stock indexes
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
4/16/2012 5:45:00 PM
We look at several technical indicators, yet the foundation of our analysis is the market's Elliott wave price structure. It's now telegraphing an eye-brow raising market message...
Filed Under: Bear market, Elliott wave, market forecasts, technical analysis, technical indicators, Traders
Category: Stocks
The World Has Suddenly Surrendered to Mass Optimism. Should You?
History shows that at market extremes many of the most opinioned bears and bulls surrender to popular opinion. The market then moves violently AGAINST popular opinion.
By Editorial Staff
4/6/2012 12:15:00 PM
Consider this. A week after the Dow's all-time high in October 2007, Robert Prechter went on Bloomberg to describe "extremes that exceed 1929 or 1987...these are the harbingers of a change to the downside for the stock market." A week before the major low in March 2009, he went on CNBC to say "it's getting crowded on the bear side...we've been in a short position for a long time, I recommended that people get out of it." S&P futures traders were a record 98% bears (only 2% bulls) on the very day of the low Prechter went on TV to call for a major turn to the upside. In other words, people were telling you to sell at the worst possible time. What about now? Here's what WE think.
Filed Under: Bear market, Bob Prechter, bull market, Elliott wave, Elliott Wave Principle, Elliott Wave Theorist, Elliott Wave trading, herding, market crash, market forecasts, prechter, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, stock indexes, stock market cycles, the fed
Category: Stocks
By Editorial Staff
3/20/2012 5:30:00 PM
Filed Under: Elliott wave, investor psychology, market forecasts, Robert Prechter, technical indicators, U.S. STOCK MARKET
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
3/8/2012 5:15:00 PM
The 1929-1933 financial collapse was of Supercycle degree. The rally that followed the 1929 low lasted only five months. But the market rally that began in 2009 has lasted three years. Why so long and when can we expect the rally to say good-bye?...
Filed Under: Elliott wave, Fibonacci, great depression, history, market forecasts, Robert Prechter, stock indexes, Traders
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
3/2/2012 6:00:00 PM
Decades of observation reveal that price forms are not only self-similar in appearance -- they actually repeat themselves. Learn why that's especially important to know at our present market juncture...
Filed Under: Elliott wave, market forecasts, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
2/29/2012 5:00:00 PM
The Peregrine Falcon doesn't dive straight down when aiming for prey. It approaches its meal in a logarithmic spiral. What does this have to do with the stock market?...
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Principle, Fibonacci, market forecasts
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
2/23/2012 5:15:00 PM
In 1941, R.N. Elliott published a long-term forecast based on a specific mathematical phenomenon. That forecast mentions the year 2012!...
Filed Under: Dow Industrials, Elliott wave, Fibonacci, golden ratio, market forecasts, Ralph Nelson Elliott, Robert Prechter
Category: Classic Prechter
Are Successful Forex Traders Just REALLY Lucky?
In 2004, the former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan compared successful currency traders to "winners of coin-tossing contests." Fair? No? You decide...
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
2/17/2012 2:30:00 PM
In 2004, the former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan compared successful currency traders to "winners of coin-tossing contests." Fair? No? You decide...
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Principle, Elliott Wave trading, forex, forex trading, Greenspan, market forecasts, technical analysis, technical indicators, trading lessons, U.S. dollar, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: Currencies
By Bob Stokes
2/14/2012 4:45:00 PM
The benefit of hindsight allows us to say that Prechter's then-radical forecast of a "once-in-a-generation money making opportunity" did happen. It actually surpassed what Prechter anticipated. Yet that was a two-part forecast, so this question remains...
Filed Under: Bear market, bull market, deflation, investment strategy, market forecasts, Robert Prechter
Category: Classic Prechter
By Bob Stokes
2/13/2012 5:15:00 PM
The S&P 500 has doubled since March 2009. You may remember, that's when we called for a rally. Moreover, that's when we said that the then-pervasive fear would be forgotten by the rally's peak. Now, we're calling for...
Filed Under: market forecasts, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, sentiment
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
1/30/2012 5:15:00 PM
Our Elliott wave analysis strongly suggests that the markets and economy are at rare historical junctures. Read what Robert Prechter recently said...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, deflation, Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), Elliott wave, herding, history, market forecasts, Random Walk Theory, Robert Prechter, social mood
Category: Stocks