Category: Stock Market

Is Outsized Stock Returns the Norm? Below is a chart that shows the historic returns, adjusted for inflation, for the UK market for the last 200 years. It speaks for itself. It looks like a bell curve which shows the highest probable return for the stock market is -2% to +4%. If your 401k is… Read more A Long Term Look At the Stock Market

Fundamental analysis versus Elliott wave analysis: the winner for predicting the 9-year long commodity bear market is clear. 95% of traders fail. It’s a day-drinking, country-music kind of statistic. Think: “Friends in Sell-Low, Buy-High Places.” One article attempts to quantify the reasons, citing: “SCIENTIST DISCOVERED WHY MOST TRADERS LOSE MONEY — 24 SURPRISING STATISTICS.” See… Read more How to Identify the Market Trend

Achieving and maintaining success as a stock market investor is a tall order. You, like many others, probably watch financial TV networks, read analysis and talk to fellow investors, trying to understand what’s next for the stock market. One popular stock market “indicator” is interest rates. Mainstream analysts parse every word from the Fed, hoping… Read more Does Falling FED Rate Mean Higher Stock Prices?

Why Oil Prices Fell — Stockpiles or Price Pattern? You be the judge… Let’s cut right to the chart below. The shaded triangle highlights the dramatic price action in crude oil prices on August 15, when crude plummeted 3% to its lowest level in over nine weeks. Now, according to the mainstream experts, the number… Read more Why Oil Prices Fell

  3 Videos + 8 Charts = Opportunities You Need to See. Join this free event hosted by Elliott Wave International and you’ll get a clear picture of what’s next in a variety of U.S. markets. After seeing these videos and charts you will be ready to jump on opportunities and sidestep risks in some… Read more Is S&P 500 Over or Under Valued?

See what happens when speculative fever cools down The market itself provides its own clues about its future price action. One such clue is found in higher-beta small cap stocks vs. lower-beta blue chips. Get our take.   Every bull and bear market has a beginning and an end. That would seem to be an… Read more Divergence Between Big Cap and Small Cap Stocks

Recall This Bond Trader Chart? Here’s What Happened Our three recent Treasury Bond charts combine to show you trader sentiment, price action and important near-term turns and trends.   Learn the Why, What and How of Elliott Wave AnalysisWatch the Elliott Wave Crash Course, FREE This three-video series demolishes the widely held notion that news… Read more Bond Price Chart Completes Elliott Wave Pattern

Why Stock Market Investors Should Expect the Unexpected Read our forecast for a market rally in the wake of Brexit Investors who jump on “sure things” in the stock market usually lick their wounds with regret. The decision of British voters to leave the European Union appeared to represent low-hanging fruit to short sellers. After… Read more Investors Should Expect the Unexpected

Silicon valley was not hit as hard during the financial crisis and the tech stocks have done well since. Nasdaq has reached all time high exceeding 2000 bubble levels, retreated a bit. Could we argue we are not at bubble levels yet? Was it business as usual for Facebook to pay 19 billion dollars for… Read more Is There a Tech Bubble?