By Editorial Staff
12/20/2011 10:45:00 AM
We have already seen that economic performance, earnings and inflation do not necessarily coincide with movements in apparently related financial markets. Is there any evidence that dramatic news events that make headlines, such as terrorist attacks, political events, wars, crises or any such events are causal to stock market movement?
Filed Under: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Elliott wave, Elliott Wave Principle, investment decisions, investor psychology, market forecasts, market myths, Robert Prechter, social mood, stock indexes, technical analysis, terrorist attacks
Category: Classic Prechter
By Nico Isaac
8/30/2011 5:00:00 PM
Ever notice how some celebrities give their human babies even wackier monikers than they do their pets. “Blanket” vs. “Bubbles,” for example. The first one is a boy, the second a chimpanzee. But while the trend toward bizarre baby names seems fueled by the eccentricities of the uber-famous, in truth it reflects collective human psychology at its most basic.
Filed Under: Bear market, bull market, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), social mood, socionomics, The Socionomist, terrorist attacks
Category: Socionomics
By Andrea Dibben
8/29/2011 11:00:00 AM
The event that came to mind first was 9/11 -- al-Qaeda's notorious attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. Could it be that al-Qaeda's most ambitious attack on a U.S. target also marked the end of this negative social mood period as expressed by this stock index?
Filed Under: socionomics, The Socionomist, terrorist attacks
Category: Socionomics
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
8/5/2011 7:00:00 PM
Most investors erroneously assume that global markets all move in unison. Consider the facts...
Filed Under: BRIC, Chinese markets, Elliott Wave trading, Nikkei, SENSEX, sentiment, Shanghai Composite Index, Shanghai Composite Index, terrorist attacks
Category: Asian Markets
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
5/10/2011 4:45:00 PM
Here's what EWI's Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast Interim Report told subscribers on March 23, 2009: "In the March 2009 issue of The Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast, we showed how pattern, price, time and sentiment considerations were pointing to the end of multi-month, five-wave declines in most major Asian-Pacific indexes by late March. In most cases, those lows have likely been achieved." Since then Asian-Pacific stocks have had a very good run indeed...
Filed Under: ASX All Ordinaries, BRIC, bull market, Chinese markets, Elliott wave, Nikkei, SENSEX, Shanghai Composite Index, Shanghai Composite Index, Taiwan index, technical indicators, terrorist attacks
Category: Asian Markets
Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths: Conclusion
Interest rates, oil prices, trade balance, earnings, GDP, wars, terrorist attacks, inflation, monetary policy, fiscal policy, etc. -- NONE have a reliable effect on the stock market
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
1/10/2011 12:30:00 PM
This is the conclusion of the series "Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths," where EWI president explains why traditional financial models failed in 2007-2009 -- and why they are doomed to fail again (and again). Missed this important series? Start with Part I now.
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Ben Bernanke, bull market, crude oil, deficit, earnings, economic depression, great depression, inflation, market crash, monetary policy, terrorist attacks, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), unemployment
Category: Stocks
Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths, Part IX
The world's foremost Elliott wave practitioner tests economists' "Claim #8: 'Terrorist attacks would cause the stock market to drop'” -- and brings you another surprising conclusion
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
12/30/2010 12:00:00 PM
This is Part IX of the series "Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths," where EWI president tests economists' "Claim #8: 'Terrorist attacks would cause the stock market to drop'” -- and brings you another surprising conclusion.
Filed Under: Bear market, bull market, Elliott Wave Principle, market forecasts, Robert Prechter, technical analysis, terrorist attacks
Category: Stocks