Category: Stock Market

Markets are crashing around the world. US is no exception. After a long bull run, 50 and 200 day averages are breached by the sharp decline in S&P 500. 50 day average may soon cross below 200 day for the first time  after a many years in many of the market indices. This week’s stunning sell-off READ MORE

…But does that mean that oil prices will only go down from here? In this new interview with Elliott Wave International’s Chief Energy Analyst, Steve Craig, you’ll learn where he sees prices going next. *Editor’s note: this interview was recorded on August 12; the price low cited in the video was broken on August 13. READ MORE

Another bubble is about to pop. In March 2015, we covered the return to a popular fascination with technology. The striking resemblance to 2000’s technology mania is not going unnoticed. How can it? With the NASDAQ’s much heralded return to 5000 and magazine covers proclaiming “Google Wants You To Live Forever,” concern about an “asset READ MORE

We will consider three ways to identify price support and resistance in the markets you trade. Previous highs and lows Trendline support Fibonacci Ratios These examples are adapted from Jeffrey Kennedy’s time tested Trader’s Classroom service. 1) Uptrends terminate at resistance while downtrends terminate at support. Previous highs and lows often act as resistance and support. In READ MORE

How to Prepare for the Coming Crash and Preserve Your Wealth Bob Prechter first released Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression during a stock-market high in 2002, and it quickly became a New York Times–bestseller. Now he has updated the book with 188 new pages for a second edition, READ MORE

The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Kennedy’s Trader’s Classroom Collection. Now through February 6, Elliott Wave International is offering a special 45-page Best Of Traders Classroom eBook, free. I think that, as a general rule, traders fail 95% of the time, regardless of age, race, gender or nationality. The task at hand could be READ MORE

Sometimes you know that a company earnings will be good. You buy the stock and you wait for the earnings announcement. Stock goes up until the good news are out. And then it sells off and you are frustrated. Sometimes you see the market crashing in the morning, the media says “home builders are in READ MORE

DOW Priced in Gold: What Does It Mean for the Long-Term Trend? Of the many forward-looking market indicators we at EWI employ, one of the most interesting tools (and least discussed in the financial media) is the DJIA priced in gold — “the real money,” as EWI’s president Robert Prechter calls it. What implications might READ MORE

EXTREME SENTIMENT SIGNALS TREND CHANGE In March 2009, stock prices were at a 12-year low, and the Dow Industrials were down 54% from the 2007 peak. You’d have needed to search far and wide to find someone calling for a rebound. Most investors feared that more of the same was ahead for stocks. But on READ MORE

Declining Volume Signals Market Trouble The three-and-a-half-year rally has occurred on declining volume What a comeback for the Dow Industrials! From a March 9, 2009, close of 6,547, the senior index climbed to 13,610 on Oct. 5, 2012. Moreover, the Dow achieved this feat in the face of a weak-kneed economy, and it has grinded READ MORE

The stock market had ups and downs but over all we did fairly well. Unemployment remains stubbornly high but bonds and equities and recently housing had price gains. At least that has been the story of the last two years even though Asia and European markets have topped and have been declining since 2010 and READ MORE

US trade deficit is lower for the past year and the government is trying hard to further lower it. Deficit cannot be maintained forever so we have to do something about it and the government is motivated. It makes sense to have a balanced trade for the overall economy. But is that something to celebrate READ MORE

Why Diversification Does Not Work in Today’s Market Prechter and Kendall’s “All the Same Market” Analysis Shows how Diversification Can’t Protect You from Correlated Risk A dear friend of mine wants to celebrate an important health milestone by going skydiving with friends. She feels happy and healthy and excited. She wants to do something very READ MORE

I spent my childhood discussing the stock market at the dinner table. My dad was a stock broker, and he loved to “tell the story” of the stocks he recommended to the customers – a story that included critical information about macro economics, the industry, the products, earnings, and the outlook for the future. Most READ MORE

Efficient Market Hypothesis: Is the Market Efficient at all? In finance, the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) asserts that financial markets are “informationally efficient”. That is, one cannot consistently achieve returns in excess of average market returns on a risk-adjusted basis, given the information publicly available at the time the investment is made. The validity of the READ MORE