Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
In this article Susan Walker explores a question we have touched on before… conventional wisdom and hedging against bad times like inflation and recession. Editor Gold, the Dow, T-Notes: Which Does Best During Recessions? By Susan C. Walker, Elliott Wave International Each year, the NCAA college basketball tournament winnows its starting field of 64 teams […]
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In the 1930s, Ralph Nelson Elliott, a corporate accountant by profession, studied price movements in the financial markets and observed that certain patterns repeat themselves. He offered proof of his discovery by making astonishingly accurate stock market forecasts. What appears random and unrelated, Elliott said, will actually trace out a recognizable pattern once you learn
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The following is an excerpt from Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist. Elliott Wave International is currently offering Bob’s recent Elliott Wave Theorist, free. On February 23, EWT called for the S&P to bottom in the 600s and then begin a sharp rally, the biggest since the 2007 high. The S&P bottomed at 667 on March 6. Then the stock market and commodities went almost straight up for three months as the dollar fell.
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A 20 year bear market sounds a bit presumptuous after all, we all “know” that in the long run markets always go up, (or do they?). Even more interesting to me is that the 20 year bear market could culminate in another massive war, due to the 80 year cycle that leads from the “Revolutionary War” to “The Civil War” to “Pearl Harbor”.
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The furious stock rally continues. But if you’re considering adding to your stake in the markets, be careful where you tread.
On July 23rd the percentage of bulls in the stock market, as measured by the American Association of Individual Investors, jumped 10%. And not only did the survey reveal a huge increase in bullish sentiment, the number of investors who see themselves as bearish dropped 11%. In one day!
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When I was a kid my Dad used to complain about people taking a “five fingered discount” referring to those who lifted things that didn’t belong to them. In this article we have Jeffrey Kennedy the Chief Commodity Analyst at Elliott Wave International talking about how the stock market can take a five fingered discount from your portfolio.
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 Recently I received this question about I-bonds. I-bonds are inflation adjusted Treasury bonds. The amount they pay is adjusted twice a year to compensate for the effects of inflation. I am a holder of Treasury I bonds (adjusts to the CPI every May & Nov.) Last November the CPI that Treasury used was 2.8,
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I recently received the following question from a student at Virginia Commonwealth University and I thought I would pass on what I told him. Question: This past Wednesday I talked to two guys who had both bought the Iraqi Dinar in large amounts. I figured you might have some financial thoughts on this investment and
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Anyone who has spent much time on this site is familiar with Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave. His fantastic team has been providing us with individual articles and links to some excellent information over at elliottwave.com. Their experienced analysts keep a constant eye on the markets, and provide insights into trends that are available nowhere else.
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Editor’s Note: At this point a lot of ink has been spent on whether stocks are really cheap and if the market will now rally from here. Of course “time will tell” but in order to make money we need to know the answer before that. My personal gut feeling is that we still have another
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