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Oil Above $108 Is NOT What's Holding Back the Stock Market
Oil and stocks are inversely correlated? Don't fall for that argument

By Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/4/2011 4:30:00 PM

It's a subject we at EWI have written a lot about, but it's as relevant as ever: Fear that rising oil prices are bad for the stock market is a total myth. See this chart to understand why.

Filed Under: crude oil, food crisis, futures trading, inflation, market forecasts, Robert Prechter, supply and demand, technical analysis

Category: Energy

Free Week Update: 19 Commodity Markets, Expanded Forecasts -- on the House
Elliott Wave International's Futures Junctures Service FreeWeek event shows you the long-term trend underway in leading commodity markets, absolutely FREE

By Nico Isaac
3/18/2011 5:00:00 PM

Lately, the financial media has followed around the commodities sector like paparazzi pursues celebrities, tweeting: "OMG! Sugar soars to 30-year high," and "Grain Prices Busted: Corn caught with other crop supply!" In fact, paparazzis do have something in common with the mainstream financial observers: They also focus on the "external" factors. Elliott wave analysis, on the other hand, doesn't look at the externals.

Filed Under: cocoa futures, coffee futures, copper futures, corn futures, cotton futures, crude oil, Elliott Wave trading, food crisis, futures trading, grain futures, Jeffrey Kennedy, lean hog futures, live cattle futures, lumber futures, market forecasts, online trading, soybean futures, soybean meal, soybean oil, sugar futures, technical analysis, wheat futures

Category: Commodities

Ending Diagonal Elliott Wave Pattern in Cocoa: Start of an Opportunity
EWI's Daily Futures Junctures shows you an exciting near-term chart of cocoa

By Nico Isaac
3/10/2011 4:30:00 PM

Today (Thursday, March 10) I sit down with Elliott Wave International's chief commodity analyst and Futures Junctures Service editor Jeffrey Kennedy to discuss his favorite wave pattern of all: the ending diagonal triangle.

Filed Under: cocoa futures, coffee futures, copper futures, corn futures, cotton futures, Daily Futures Junctures, diagonal triangle, Elliott Wave Principle, food crisis, futures trading, grain futures, Jeffrey Kennedy, live cattle futures, lumber futures, market forecasts, soybean futures, soybean meal, soybean oil, sugar futures, wheat futures

Category: Commodities

Will the Commodity Bull Continue to Charge? See and HEAR the Answer
EWI's brand-new Monthly Futures Junctures reveals what's in store for the world's key commodities. PLUS, a 1 hr. 24 min. webinar puts the BIG picture into perspective

By Nico Isaac
2/26/2011 3:15:00 PM

Over the past few weeks, several of the biggest "supernovas" in the commodity universe have turned into falling meteors. To wit: From their respective February peaks, the alleged "grain king," wheat, has plunged 12% while the food forerunner, sugar, has soured to a near two-month low. Here's your chance to find an answer to the question, "Is this reversal just a brief detour on the way to higher highs?"

Filed Under: bull market, cocoa futures, coffee futures, corn futures, cotton futures, Elliott Wave trading, food crisis, grain futures, hedge funds, inflation, Jeffrey Kennedy, lean hog futures, live cattle futures, soybean futures, soybean meal, soybean oil, sugar futures, wheat futures

Category: Commodities

Rising Commodity Prices Trigger Food Crisis Fears -- Again
EWI foresaw the reversal of commodities in 2008. How will it end now?

By Nico Isaac
1/27/2011 1:15:00 PM

Over the last year, prices for many of the world's leading agricultural commodities have soared to multi-year, even multi-decade highs. And, as the steady uptrend has been going on, fears of runaway food costs have gone from private, inner farm circles TO the very public mainstream financial circus.

Filed Under: Campaign for Independent Thinking, crude oil, food crisis, grain futures, Robert Prechter

Category: Commodities

Staying Ahead Of Sugar: The Benefit Of Elliott Wave Analysis

By Nico Isaac
1/26/2011 3:45:00 PM

The theory of fundamental market analysis operates on a simple premise: Bullish outside factors cause a rise in a market's price. And bearish factors trigger declines. In reality, however, the story often doesn't go as planned. Take, for example, the history of sugar prices over the last year. First, there was the mass hysteria surrounding "Peak Sugar" in late 2009. At the time, sugar prices were orbiting their highest level in 28 years.

Filed Under: food crisis, fundamental analysis, futures trading, Jeffrey Kennedy, sugar futures, supply and demand

Category: Commodities

The Commodity Boom: Deja Foo-d Crisis
We are now seeing a repeat of the 2008 "commodity crisis" fears -- will they end the same?

By Nico Isaac
11/16/2010 4:00:00 PM

"Soaring Prices Threaten New Food Crisis" reads an October 2010 news source. Well, it's deja foo-d crisis all over again. The first go around occurred in 2008. At that time, the whole commodity kit and caboodle was soaring to new all-time highs. Wheat, corn, oil -- you name it and they were all supposedly on a one-way up track. Yet, come July 2008, they all came crashing down.

Filed Under: crude oil, food crisis, Robert Prechter

Category: Commodities

No Tricks, Only Treats: Commodity Opportunities In The Bag
The new October 2010 Monthly Futures Junctures hot off the presses

By Nico Isaac
10/25/2010 5:30:00 PM

Halloween has arrived early! Okay, not really. But for those who knock on the door of the brand-new October Monthly Futures Junctures (published October 22), the treats of opportunity in the world’s leading commodity markets will be sweet indeed. First into the bag: Monthly Futures Junctures’  “Featured Market”segment. Here, Elliott Wave International’s chief commodity expert Jeffrey Kennedy sheds ample light on three markets whose names now conjure images of a global food crisis: Rice, oats, and milk.

Filed Under: food crisis, cocoa futures, coffee futures, cotton futures, sugar futures, futures trading

Category: Commodities

Food Crisis Fears: Not Grounded In Reality

By Nico Isaac
10/13/2010 1:00:00 PM

On October 12, I googled "agricultural commodities." The first five sites that came up basically suggested that, due to rampant speculation and environmental disasters, the last remaining grain harvests are being sowed from planet Earth as we speak. Not to mention the deadly September food riots in Mozambique which brought back the fears of similar riots we saw when grain prices skyrocketed in 2007-8.

Filed Under: food crisis

Category: U.S. Economy

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