By Bob Stokes
2/7/2012 5:00:00 PM
Take note: there's an eerie similarity between what is developing economically today and what happened from 1929-1933...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Ben Bernanke, deflation, economic depression, financial forecast, unemployment
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
1/30/2012 5:15:00 PM
Our Elliott wave analysis strongly suggests that the markets and economy are at rare historical junctures. Read what Robert Prechter recently said...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, deflation, Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), Elliott wave, herding, history, market forecasts, Random Walk Theory, Robert Prechter, social mood
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
12/1/2011 5:15:00 PM
Could anything like 1929-1933 really happen again? Make up your own mind as you read the latest Elliott Wave Theorist risk-free. Fully 50% of the issue is devoted to describing the similarities between today and 1929-1933...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, central banks, Elliott Wave Theorist, European debt crisis, market forecasts, Robert Prechter, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
11/22/2011 5:15:00 PM
We see evidence that the bear never truly departed in the time after the October 2007 high -- not even in the period since the March 2009 low. Take a look at this chart...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Bear market, bull market, Robert Prechter, volume
Category: Stocks
Will Commodities Save Your Portfolio? Connect the Dots
If stocks and hard assets are "supposed to" move in opposite directions, how do you explain this chart from Bob Prechter's "Conquer the Crash"?
By Nico Isaac
10/6/2011 5:45:00 PM
In 2008, the mainstream experts were dead set on the idea that commodities would provide shelter from the maelstrom raging within stocks and bonds. Their outlook was based on expectations for a repeat of the 1970's inflation and the theory that stocks and commodities always move in opposite directions. YET -- from its July 2008 peak, the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of commodities plummeted 58% in its biggest decline in 28 years -- right alongside plunging stock markets.
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Robert Prechter, CRB index, deflation, Elliott wave, Elliott Wave Theorist, fundamental analysis, history, inflation, liquidity, technical analysis
Category: Commodities
By Bob Stokes
9/22/2011 4:15:00 PM
When did fund managers have that "record commitment to stocks"? Answer: just a few months before the early May 2011 high. Take a look at the chart...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, economic depression, Elliott Wave Theorist, great depression, investor psychology, market crash, market forecasts, Nasdaq Composite, Robert Prechter, sentiment, volatility
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
6/7/2011 5:30:00 PM
Last month, the US stock market suffered four straight weeks of decline for the worst May since August 2010. But now that that miserable run is behind investors, they are taking a page from the playbook of Don Henley's hit song "Boys of Summer." It goes "Don't look back, you can never look back."
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Robert Prechter, bull market, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), sentiment
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
6/6/2011 5:15:00 PM
Home prices were on a "one-way street" -- namely up. But as we know, the trend in real estate prices did an abrupt U-turn. Now it's traveling swiftly in the opposite lane. How long will this downward trend continue?...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, conquer the crash, economic depression, foreclosures, housing prices, subprime lending
Category: Real Estate
By Nico Isaac
4/29/2011 5:30:00 PM
From FM to AM to the boob tube to YouTube, mainstream financial satellites have one loud and clear message: The U.S. stock market's "dead cat bounce" off its 2009 low has turned into a heart-pounding puma, with claws ready to shred any remaining bears. To wit: From its infamous early March 2009 nadir below 6500, the Dow Jones Industrials have soared some 93%, while the S&P 500 has enjoyed its fastest doubling in its 57-year history. And, as far as many experts can see, the current run-up is equivalent to one specific period in stock market history: the game-changing rally off the 1932 low.
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Robert Prechter, conquer the crash, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Elliott Wave Theorist, Robert Prechter
Category: Stocks
Understanding the Fed
EWI's free eBook explains the common and misleading myths about the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/12/2011 6:00:00 PM
What exactly is the function of the Fed? If it's to help the U.S. economy grow steadily, then how come in 2007-2009 we had the biggest stock market crash in decades followed by "the Great Recession" and a worldwide financial crisis? For answers, let's turn to someone who has spent a considerable amount of time studying the Fed and its functions: EWI's president Robert Prechter. This is an excerpt from a free Club EWI eBook...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, bailouts, Ben Bernanke, Robert Prechter, Campaign for Independent Thinking, Elliott wave, Greenspan, hyperinflation, inflation, market crash, market manipulation, monetary policy, monetization, Robert Prechter, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter, social mood, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
3/16/2011 3:45:00 PM
All investors -- including experienced professionals -- must simultaneously grapple with two enemies: 1) Imperfect knowledge, and 2) Their own emotions. So what do the vast majority do?...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Bear market, Robert Prechter, Elliott Wave Principle, herding, investor psychology, S&P 500
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
2/22/2011 4:15:00 PM
From FM to AM, the boob tube to the youtube, one message is coming through the mainstream financial satellites loud and clear: The U.S. stock market's "dead cat bounce" off its 2009 low has turned into a heart-pounding puma with claws out to tear any bear apart in its tracks. And, as far as many experts can see, the current run-up is equivalent to one specific period in stock market history: the game-changing rally off the 1932 low.
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, bull market, conquer the crash, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), great depression, investor psychology, Robert Prechter, S&P 500
Category: Stocks
Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths: Conclusion
Interest rates, oil prices, trade balance, earnings, GDP, wars, terrorist attacks, inflation, monetary policy, fiscal policy, etc. -- NONE have a reliable effect on the stock market
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
1/10/2011 12:30:00 PM
This is the conclusion of the series "Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths," where EWI president explains why traditional financial models failed in 2007-2009 -- and why they are doomed to fail again (and again). Missed this important series? Start with Part I now.
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, Ben Bernanke, bull market, crude oil, deficit, earnings, economic depression, great depression, inflation, market crash, monetary policy, terrorist attacks, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), unemployment
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
1/4/2011 3:15:00 PM
Elliott Wave International wasn't around during the Great Depression of 1929. But we were here for the most recent financial flameout in 2007 -- when the most inflated credit environment in all of history entangled itself around the engine of economic growth and sent it hurtling toward a fiery collapse. And contrary to the popular belief that the still continuing meltdown was an unforeseeable event, Elliott Wave International's team of analysts stayed ahead of the bursting of the economy's biggest balloons
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, credit crisis, crude oil, eurozone, eurozone, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, great depression, housing prices, quantitative easing, subprime lending, Wall Street
Category: U.S. Economy
Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths, Part VIII
The world's foremost Elliott wave practitioner tests economists' "Claim #7: ''Peace is bullish for stocks'” -- and brings you another surprising conclusion.
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
12/27/2010 1:45:00 PM
This is Part VIII of the series "Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths," where EWI president uses two charts to dispel another investment myth: that times of peace are bullish for stocks.
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, buy and hold, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), Elliott Wave Principle, fundamental analysis, Random Walk Theory, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, social mood, socionomics
Category: Stocks
By Editorial Staff
10/4/2010 12:30:00 PM
This is Part IV of our multi-part series of questions and answers with Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International and the world's foremost authority on Elliott wave analysis. We are posting a new part every business day, so come back to elliottwave.com tomorrow for more!
Filed Under: Robert Prechter, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), Barack Obama, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Fannie Mae, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Category: Stocks
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
3/31/2009 11:45:00 AM
On April 2 in London, the leaders of the Group of 20 industrial nations will meet to decide what to do about the financial crisis. This summer the crisis will be two years old; the G20 believes something finally must be done to end it once and for all. Can they?
Filed Under: inflation, deflation, Ben Bernanke, 1929 Stock Market Crash
Category: Stocks
By Editorial Staff
9/12/2008 3:00:00 PM
Now, with the Dow in decline and the current problems with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Lehman on the front pages, more people may want to know exactly what Bob Prechter has forecast for the U.S. economy.
Filed Under: Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers, great depression, 1929 Stock Market Crash, market crash, Bear market, South Sea Bubble
Category: Classic Prechter