Category: Stock Market

Prechter on CNBC: Market Pro: Long Bear Market Looming Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International, tells host Maria Bartiromo why he sees dark days ahead on CNBC’s Closing Bell. Download Your FREE 50-Page Ultimate Technical Analysis Handbook In this free 50-page eBook from Bob Prechter’s Elliott Wave International, you will discover some of the… Read more Long Bear Market Looming

By Elliott Wave International Approximately three out of four stocks go down in a bear market. This ratio doesn't just apply to high beta names; historically, 75 percent of all stocks go down when the general market falls. Considering we could be headed into a severe bear market (read Bob Prechter's latest special two-issue Elliott… Read more ‘Defensive’ Stocks: Are They the Ticket in a Downturn?

Editor's Note:    The following article is excerpted from Robert Prechter's April 2010 issue of the Elliott Wave Theorist. For a limited time, you can visit Elliott Wave International to download the full 10-page issue, free. By Robert Prechter, CMT Technical Indicators It is rare to have technical indicators all lined up on one side of… Read more What Do These 8 Technical Indicators Mean for the Markets?

By Editorial Staff In 1984, Elliott Wave International's founder and president Robert Prechter won the U.S. Trading Championship, setting a new all-time profit record of 444.4% in a monitored real-money options account in 4 months. In the average 4-month contest, over 75% of contestants, mostly professionals, fail to report profits. In November 1986, in his… Read more Blaming “Market Manipulators” For Losses is a Huge Obstacle to Success

By Elliott Wave International How much do you know about Bernard Baruch? He's mentioned in the foreword of The Elliott Wave Principle – Key To Market Behavior, A.J. Frost's and Robert Prechter's definitive book on wave analysis (emphasis added): "Baruch, a multimillionaire through stock market operation and adviser to American presidents, hit the nail on… Read more What You Can Learn From a Multi-Millionaire Who Understood Market Psychology

By Nico Isaac You could be to technical analysis what tweens are to texting, and it wouldn't make a lick of difference: You still wouldn't necessarily be trading at your fullest potential. The reason being: Without Elliott wave in your technical analysis toolbox, it's like looking at the world of opportunity through a narrow keyhole… Read more The Wave Principle: Where The Rubber Hits The Road

By Elliott Wave International "Your cheating chart will tell on you." Hank Williams may not have known about Elliott waves, but he did know when a story doesn't add up. Such is the case with the nominal rise of the Dow Jones Industrials from 2000 to 2007. In the language of country music, this stock… Read more Your Cheatin’ Chart Will Tell On You

By Editorial Staff The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone who uses Elliott wave analysis will sooner or later want to… Read more Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks and Everyone Else, Too

By Editorial Staff This is an excerpt from Elliott Wave International's free Club EWI resource, "What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful" — a classic Special Report by EWI's president Robert Prechter. … 3. Experience. Some people advocate "paper trading" as a learning tool. Paper trading is useful for the testing of methodology, but… Read more Paper Trading Is NOT What Will Teach You To Trade

By Editorial Staff Understand the basics of the subject matter, break it down to its smallest parts — and you've laid a good foundation for proper application of… well, anything, really. That's what we had in mind when we put together our free 10-lesson online Basic Elliott Wave Tutorial, based largely on Robert Prechter's classic… Read more Learn Elliott Wave Analysis — Free

By Nico Isaac In case you were hiding out Tiger Woods' style far away from the mainstream media during the past month, let me be the first to say: January saw an abrupt end to the U.S. stock market's record-setting winning streak. Last count, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 4% in its worst monthly… Read more U.S. Stocks: Will The Bears Relinquish Control?