Where's the Trade?
Translating Information Into a Trading Context

It helps to know how to count waves correctly to identify tops and bottoms, and trade with the trend. It helps to know when Elliott rules and guidelines are violated, in order to place stops. And if you can do all this consistently and successfully, you are in an envious position and a member of a very elite group...

Is the Bear Finally Set to "Beat It"?

The Stock Market: Are We Having FUN-damentals, YET?

Trading? That's Easy. WINNING? That's Hard
Some sobering thoughts if you're thinking about trading for a living.

As long as you know how to type, few things are easier than entering an online trading order. What's difficult is winning on those trades. "Ease of trading" does not equal "ease of winning," yet inexperienced traders confuse the two all the time. Is it any wonder, then, that statistically only about 5% of futures traders make money over the long haul?

Stocks: “Even the Greatest Moves Are Not One-Way Affairs”
The DJIA’s recent strength is likely more than just a passing blip.

They say that markets “fluctuate.” But despite what most investors believe, those fluctuations are not random – they are patterned. That’s the main idea behind Elliott wave analysis. You may ask, what proof do we have that the markets really move like this? Well, take a look at this hard-to-miss example...

Dow Plunges Below 7,000: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
And, the chart that got there first

Who knew the bear market would get so mean; WHO had this market's fate foreseen? Answer: he mainstream experts did NOT accurately anctipate the depth and degree of the bear market's decline. Instead, they saw every bounce off of a passing floor as the official "Bottom" of the Dow's downward slide.

U.S. Stocks: Worst January On Record; Now What?

According to the mainstream experts, the U.S. stock market had one "New Year's Resolution": put the pain of 2008 behind it and start 2009 off on a strong, confident foot. NO. SUCH. LUCK...

Crude Oil & Stocks: SEEING Is Believing (Chart)

U.S. Stock Market: Is the Worst Behind It?
Don't "HOPE" so. Know so

Crude Oil Prices: About To Cross A Line

Fact: When crude oil prices were rocketing to never-before-seen heights back in July 2008, the mainstream pundits saw no end to the red-hot winning streak in black gold. Find out how our analysts saw the oil market cross the "line in the sand" from bull-to-bear beforehand...

Are Stocks Really A Bargain?
A Dramatic Illustration of OVERvaluation

Stock Market ‘Carnage’ Continues
Is this what an “Averted” crisis looks like?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down some 800 points over the past three days (Sept. 15-17). Monday alone was its sixth steepest drop EVER, at 504 points. How does the recent sell off in stocks fit into the big picture AND does that picture contain the etchings of a wee cub, or a mature adult?

Oil And Stocks: The "Correlation" Breaks Down
When oil goes down, do stocks really go up?

"Most pundits were talking mainly about oil this morning [Sept. 2], which was extremely volatile. They tried to explain the strongly higher stock market open by the fact that oil prices were down big. By the end of today’s session very few market observers talked about oil and stocks together. The reason: both ended today’s market session DOWN..."

10 Things You Should and Should Not Do in This Bear Market

With chapter titles like “Should You Invest in … Bonds, Real Estate, Precious Metals, Collectibles, Cash,” Robert Prechter’s New York Times best seller, Conquer the Crash, is the ultimate “How To Do,” “What To Do” and “Should You Do” guide for investors.

Russia: The Bear Growls
Signals from social mood

Today, the Russian RTSI Index took its biggest hit since January 21. It is now down almost 22% from its May 19 high. The surly social mood is steadily worsening, much as we predicted in our November 2007 Global Market Perspective Special Report, Sizing up a Superpower: A Socionomic Study of Russia. The report begins like this: “Our long-term Elliott wave count for the Russian stock market indicates that a major top is imminent.”

Will GOLD Provide Shelter From The Financial Storm?

The Dow's Drop: Hit Bottom?
Our Analysis AT NO COST

This describes sentiment extremes in the world’s leading financial markets: When the crowd of market advisors, investors, traders, analysts, brokers, media outlets and all around “experts” share a bullish viewpoint, prices are set to come hurtling down...

3 Reasons Not To Speculate in Stocks …
… if the U.S. is headed for a deflationary depression

Most people have begun to accept that the U.S. economy is in recession whether or not the National Bureau of Economic Research has labeled it a recession yet. If you, too, think that the economy is headed for hard times, the next question is, how do you prepare for it?

Do Stocks Reflect The Economy?

Stocks: Running Scared, But Opportunities Still Present
Elliott Wave International tries to answer the question -- just WHAT, exactly, is the "economy" and "the markets"?

Most people talk about the economy like it’s something that exists separately from them. Like it’s a hot-air balloon floating up in the sky. That’s us, here on earth, feet on the ground, and there’s the economy – up there, see it? But just what IS economy? Or "the markets," for that matter? Let's take a closer look.