Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
One of the best ways to get a true view of where the market really is involves looking at it denominated in something else other than dollars. One of the most interesting tools (and least discussed in the financial media) is the DJIA priced in gold — “the real money,” as Robert Prechter calls it. […]
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Wild swings are occurring with unprecidented regularity in various markets across the spectrum. One minute you have 98% bullish sentiment in one market and the next minute it is 92% bullish in an entirely different market, (often in the extreme opposite market), So what does this mean for the overall investing community? In the video
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Rumors are, the U.S. government “is propping up the stock market.” By far, the most frequent question we’ve been asked recently is: “What is your take on the persistent internet chatter that the Federal Reserve is holding up the stock market via QE2, POMO, etc.? How can stocks ever decline again if the Fed
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By Susan C. Walker When money market funds, mutual funds and CDs yield next to nothing, the old itch to find higher yields kicks in. That may be why Bloomberg has had a field day reporting on the latest attempts to find higher yields. For example, from an October 7 story: Â Private-equity firms are
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Video (Part 2): Prechter: Ominous Pattern in the DJIA (Note: This interview was originally recorded on September 20, 2010) In the video below, Robert Prechter talks to Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker host Aaron Task and Henry Blodget about a technical pattern he sees forming in the Dow.
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Video (Part 1): Prechter On Market Rally (Note: This interview was originally recorded on September 20, 2010) In the video below, Robert Prechter talks to Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker host Aaron Task and Henry Blodget about extreme readings in various indicators that confirm his bear-market forecast. If you can’t see the video it is no
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Today’s new video is on the iShares Brazil ETF. The market is shaping up nicely and just broke thorough resistance to the upside and is continuing up today. Here is a market that we like a lot more than the US market. We really like the way its acting and it looks set to take
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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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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. Â This is particularly true in the financial world, where short attention spans are chronic. A Sept. 9 article in The
Just Your Average 300-Year Bear Market? Read More »
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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