Since the time of buttonwood trees, Wall Street has had its own version of the Ten Commandments — the cornerstone principles of conventional economic wisdom. [...]
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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. Get Up to Speed on Robert [...] Many banks today also have a shockingly large exposure to leveraged derivatives such as futures, options and even more exotic instruments. The underlying value of assets represented by such financial derivatives at quite a few big banks is greater than the total value of all their deposits. The estimated representative value of all derivatives in the world today is $90 trillion, over half of which is held by U.S. banks. Many banks use derivatives to hedge against investment exposure, but that strategy works only if the speculator on the other side of the trade can pay off if he’s wrong. [...] How To Tell a Good Forecast from a Bad One a good lesson reprinted from March 5, 2009 Here’s a forecast for you. Clear and direct. As quoted by a Reuters reporter in his January 15, 2009, article, entitled, “Global Lending Thaw May Yet Return to Deep Freeze.” “‘This is a temporary respite and when [...] A Lesson in Drawing and Using Trendlines September 24, 2009 The following article is adapted from a brand-new 50-page ebook from Elliott Wave International. Learn more about The Ultimate Technical Analysis Handbook, and download your free copy here. By Jeffrey Kennedy When I began my career as an analyst, I was lucky enough to have [...] Sometimes Earnings Reports not only tell us how a specific company is doing lately, but can give us insight into how a complete sector is doing or how the entire economy might be affected. This week we have some such Earnings Reports being released: CAG .. Tuesday, 22-Sep-09 BMO … ConAgra and GIS .. Wednesday, [...] In order to see where the Stock Market may go next, I like to step back and look at a Longer-Term View by using Monthly Charts: 1 – using some Moving Averages (14/18), you can judge the overall Strength of the current Market by seeing Price relationship with a Historical perspective . . . although [...] Today’s Lesson will focus on the Head & Shoulders pattern and we’ll look at the S&P-500 Chart and use Head & Shoulders (H&S) Analysis to predict the near future in SPX. First of all, the term “Head and Shoulders” is used to describe a chart formation in which a stock’s price: Rises to a peak and [...] By having the long-term history available in all of the major markets, the ratios between those markets provide us with important reference points, alerting us to situations when one asset or market is overvalued or undervalued relative to another. On a macro level, this can result in a determination that raw commodities will provide a [...] |
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