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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Investors have been told for years that diversification lowers risk. While that may be true in certain instances, it certainly isn’t true in the current world equity market. Let me give you an example: Using five ETF’s as a proxy for “BRICA” the five supposedly up and coming economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and
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EWI’s Senior Tutorial Instructor Jeffrey Kennedy gives you practical lessons — free September 17, 2010 By Elliott Wave International There are two camps of market analysts out there: the fundamental camp and the technical one. Fundamental analysts look at things like the GDP, unemployment, interest rates, etc. to make logical assumptions about where the stock
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September 16, 2010 By Elliott Wave International Over the past few months, leading grain prices have climbed up the commodity wall like a “mile-a-minute” kudzu vine. From late June to early August, the big three grain markets (wheat, corn, and soybeans) soared 40%-plus in a coordinated rally to multi-year highs before leveling off. The question
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By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Strategist, Casey Research One can only hope that the “Don’t shoot the messenger” adage is still popular in the international community. UK-based consultants M&C Energy Group have become the latest to join the chorus of voices asking the international community to increase the pressure on China and India to switch
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If you are a trader and if you don’t know how to read candlestick charts, you are missing a lot of profitable trades. Candlestick charting is a must tool in the arsenal of any trader. No matter what you trade whether it is stocks, forex, futures, options or whatever, you need to master candlestick charts
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In the following article Doug Hornig introduces some science fiction technology that is becoming science fact and has implications for your life and your investments.~ Tim McMahon, editor By Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology If you had a previously incurable genetic condition and scientists came up with a treatment for it, you’d jump at
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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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Dear Editor, I am a college student and amateur trader. I have a friend of a friend who I have the unfortunate acquaintance with every now an then, and when so I get to hear his loud obnoxiousness. He is a strong believer in the “fraud” of Keynesian Economics and thinks I am “foolish” to
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By David Galland and Kevin Brekke, Casey Research The other day, I came across an article that said, while individuals may be moving their money out of equities, they have been moving into bond funds – and in a big way. It’s called jumping from the frying fan into the fire. Based on my experience
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