Elliott Wave Articles

3 Reasons Now is Not the Time to Speculate in Stocks

Sometimes the investment weather forces you to ‘buy a coat,’ says Robert Prechter
August 31, 2010
By Elliott Wave International
When it’s sunny, you head outside without a thought, but when it’s rainy, you look for your umbrella.
When the markets are trending up, you don’t worry about [...]

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.

In this video, Elliott Wave International’s Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast Editor Mark Galasiewski shows you how Elliott wave analysis was able to predict Hong Kong’s late ’90s mania and its aftermath in real time — without looking at the news or the market’s “fundamentals.”

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 it’s over, the [...]

Here is an Elliott Wave Chart with counts that I drew over a month ago . . .
it looks to be coming to fruition . . .
QQQQ needs to continue South for a while now:

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Q&A With Robert Prechter: Why Technical Analysis Beats Out Fundamental Analysis
By Elliott Wave International

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 [...]

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, 23-Sep-09 BMO … [...]

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 she [...]

The Markets sure have been moving Up lately . . very quickly . . . and on Decreasing Volume .. ever since March-2009 . . . AND, with bad economic news coming out every week!
We ask ourselves, why?!? . . . especially those who keep Shorting the Market trying to catch the next swing Down [...]

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 subsequently [...]

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 [...]