It may seem like we are constantly beating the drum of a top in the market with recent articles like the NASDAQ ROC stock commentary , Obama’s Comments Worry Stock Bulls and today’s Signs of the Top, but each of these articles was developed separately by different authors from different points of view although Beware of Bears was written by […]
by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst As we turn the calendar over, there are probably two dominant questions on the minds of most precious-metals investors: Will gold and silver have a better year than the last two? And will gold stocks finally break out of their funk? 2012 was an interesting year for our
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Here’s why you SHOULDN’T get too comfortable Bear markets are cunning beasts. Don’t get me wrong — we are not in the bear market territory yet. At least, not officially. An “official” bear market begins when the stocks indexes decline 20%. The DJIA’s decline from the May 2, 2011 high to the September 21 low
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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
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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. This is particularly true in the financial world, where short attention spans are chronic. A Sept. 9 article in The
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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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Historically whenever the 10-year Treasury yield drops 1.2% over a short period of time a bear market for stocks resulted within two months . This signal presaged steep market crashes in 1990, 2000, and 2007.
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If you are finding the S&P hard to follow, you are not alone. Watch as Adam shares some steps with you on how to improve your trading.
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