Robert Prechter

Earnings: Stock Market’s Brightest False Beacon

“Earnings estimators are too pessimistic at bottoms and too optimistic at tops,” explains EWI’s president Robert Prechter Four times a year, investors and Wall Street watch the quarterly corporate earnings reports, trying to anticipate the trend in stocks. Another earnings season is upon us right now, so read this excerpt from our free Club EWI […]

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Head and Shoulders Stock Market Pattern: Still Valid?

A Multi-Year Technical Analysis Pattern “Bears” Watching By Robert Jay   Earlier this year, EWI’s Robert Prechter described a “head and shoulders” pattern in the Dow Jones Industrials, saying it started in 1998 and is still unfolding. Here’s an extended excerpt of Prechter’s commentary on this important pattern, from his April 2010 Elliott Wave Theorist

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Just Your Average 300-Year Bear Market?

Long-Term Trend Forecasting is Actually Easier than Short-Term By Robert Jay Most people who analyze the present give too little thought to the past, even when previous decades or centuries offer acutely relevant information.   This is particularly true in the financial world, where short attention spans are chronic. A Sept. 9 article in The

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3 Reasons Now is Not the Time to Speculate in Stocks

After the investment winter of 2008, in 2009 as stocks began showing some “green shoots” and looked a bit like spring, 2010 has looked a bit like Summer or Autumn with prices flattening out and going nowhere.  Does that mean that investment Winter is just around the corner again?  Here is Robert Prechter’s take on the

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Elliott Wave Forex Trading Video: It’s Not The News That Matters

By Jim Martens How to apply the Elliott Wave to Forex Trading The standard explanation mainstream financial analysts and some forex trading “experts” use when talking about a market move is, “The market did that because of such-and-such news report.” But if you’ve been forex trading long enough, you know that all too often, the

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