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Stocks: Why “Buying the Dip” is Fraught with Danger Investors know that the main U.S. stock indexes have tumbled very quickly. On a historical basis, some may not realize just how quickly. A March 23 Marketwatch headline referred to a “mind-bending stat”: The S&P 500 has dropped 30% from peak to trough faster than any… Read more Buying the dip? |
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Did the Oil Crash Wreck the Stock Market?
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Crude oil took a 30% dive on Sunday, March 8. Yet what’s happened in oil this year is so much bigger than that headline-grabbing, one-day move. In January, oil was $64 a barrel. It hit $27.34 intraday on Monday, March 9, so the price of oil fell 57% in just two months. Talk about a… Read more Did the Oil Crash Wreck the Stock Market? |
Pension Plans Investing in Stock Market
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You Won’t Believe WHEN Pension Funds “Embraced Stocks as a Safe Investment” Pension funds were already in a highly precarious position before the DJIA’s February 12 high and the subsequent start of the high drama in stock moves. The 2018 edition of Robert Prechter’s Conquer the Crash noted: The bull market in stocks has gone… Read more Pension Plans Investing in Stock Market |
Why did the Fed cut the rates
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Think the Fed’s Emergency Rate Cut is Proactive? Think Again. You might think that the Fed’s recent, unscheduled 50 basis-point cut in the federal funds rate is a proactive move that places the central bank at the vanguard of revolutionary uses of monetary policy. But that could hardly be further from the truth. For decades… Read more Why did the Fed cut the rates |
A Long Term Look At the Stock Market
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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 |
How to Identify the Market Trend
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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 |
Does Falling FED Rate Mean Higher Stock Prices?
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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? |
FED is Going To Cut the Rates Soon
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Elliott Wave: Market Signaling Fed to Cut Rates Soon We have tracked the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rates decisions for years. Back in March 24th, we said FED follows the market lead. This week, the Fed once again decided to keep the funds rate unchanged. We expect the Fed to change course soon. We have… Read more FED is Going To Cut the Rates Soon |
FED follows the market lead
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Back in December, Elliot Wave International wrote an article titled “Interest Rates Win Again as Fed Follows Market.” In the piece, it was noted that while most experts believe that central banks set interest rates, it’s actually the other way around—the market leads, and the Fed follows. They pointed out that the December rate hike… Read more FED follows the market lead |
The Economist – The World in 2019
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The Economist magazine, propaganda tool of the Globalist elite has a dark prediction for 2019. The cover is full black. There are speculations about what it really means. Is it the coming world war? Is it a financial crash? If yes, it is probably not a recession, but a depression that rivals Great Depression if… Read more The Economist – The World in 2019 |