Are you prepared for when the “disconnect” between the market and economy reconnects? Suppose you see a lovely house — one with great curb appeal. It has new paint and manicured shrubbery out front. But also suppose that you look more closely. You press your thumb on the window sill and the wood frame crumbles […]
A Rising Market Won’t Stop the “Economic Rot” Beneath Read More »
Over the last few years it seems that China couldn’t get enough resources. All those U.S. Dollars were burning a hole in their pocket. Almost everywhere you turned China was buying up natural resources. An oil company here, natural resources there they appeared insatiable. They wanted to buy something tangible almost anything tangible. Well it looks
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We all know that Europe is a mess… there is more debt than they can repay and the European Union is coming apart at the seams while trying to put on a unified front for the investing public. The PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) are all in danger of default and yet out
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As anyone who has read my articles for any length of time knows, I am a big fan of ratios. I find them very useful for tracking the comparative value of things especially when presented in chart form. Over the years I have tracked the Gold vs Oil ratio, Gasoline vs. Oil, and many more.
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Before blaming falling stocks on the most recent weak economic reports, let’s check some dates. As of June 10, the Dow has suffered the “longest losing streak since the fall of 2002. The market’s last seven-week stretch of losses began in May 2001, as the dot-com bubble deflated,” reports The Associated Press. As for why
Six Straight Weeks of Decline Take DJIA Below 12,000: What Now? Read More »
Trading the Line – 5 Ways You Can Use Trendlines to Improve Your Trading Decisions, by Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy. In this free 14-page eBook, Elliott Wave International Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy shows you the power of simple trendlines. Jeffrey will teach you step-by-step the many ways to apply trendline techniques, how to use them
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A free Club EWI report exposes the TEN most misleading myths of Wall Street, including this one: “Earnings drive the stock market.” Since the time of buttonwood trees, Wall Street has had its own version of the Ten Commandments — the cornerstone principles of conventional economic wisdom. The first of these writ-in-stone notions is the
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Close to Collapse: Bailed-Out Banks Facing Bankruptcy We want to trust in the financial stability of our bank. After all, most of us have money in these institutions. In spite of our wishful thinking, the tide of bank failures has not stopped. And these failures are occurring well after the heart of the financial crisis —
Is Your Bank on the “100 Safest” List? Read More »
Learn to Survive and Thrive with Knowledge of Socionomics and the Elliott Wave Principle Have you ever noticed that much of the time, the forecasts for what’s going to happen next are quite often just more of what happened last? There’s no real insight, just “expect more of the same.” That’s not how we view
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Elliott Wave International’s free 118-page Independent Investor eBook explains why financial markets are NOT a matter of action and reaction “There is no group more subjective than conventional analysts, who look at the same ‘fundamental’ news event a war, interest rates, P/E ratio, GDP, economic policy, the Fed’s monetary policy, you name it and come
What Really Moves the Markets: News? The Fed? The Real Answers Will Surprise You Read More »
