By Jill Noble
4/11/2012 1:45:00 PM
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Education, supply and demand, Traders
Category: Education
By Bob Stokes
8/12/2011 3:45:00 PM
If businesses are already rewarding customers for using cash, imagine having cash if the economy crashes. You'll be in a great position. Alas, the opportunities for safely storing cash are vanishing. However, some opportunities remain...
Filed Under: conquer the crash, consumer spending, economic depression, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), market crash, risk management, supply and demand, U.S. dollar
Category: U.S. Economy
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
7/15/2011 6:00:00 PM
Gas prices across the U.S. quickly reflect changes in the price of crude, so the answer to "where is oil going next?" is important not only to crude oil futures traders, but also to every motorist who thinks that $3.50 a gallon is already too expensive. If you want an answer by pondering oil's "fundamentals," you will run into a dead end. But here is a better way...
Filed Under: crude oil, Elliott Wave trading, futures trading, supply and demand, trading lessons
Category: Energy
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/20/2011 5:30:00 PM
Elliott wave analysis comes down to this: The ability to identify patterns in price charts. If you can do that, you can do Elliott. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes not so much -- but because there are only 13 known Elliott wave patterns, you can train yourself to find them fairly quickly in most situations. With that in mind, let's take a look at the recent price action in crude.
Filed Under: contracting triangle, crude oil, ethanol futures, market manipulation, options trading, supply and demand, technical analysis, trading lessons
Category: Energy
By Nico Isaac
6/6/2011 3:30:00 PM
Question: Does supply play a role in determining the direction of a commodity market's prices? Answer: Absolutely, but not in the way the mainstream financial media paints it out to. Case in point: crude oil. Over the past two years, oil prices have soared from a 4-year low in 2009 to a 2-year high in April 2011.Yet, all this time, crude stockpiles in the U.S. have been rising.
Filed Under: crude oil, fundamental analysis, supply and demand
Category: Commodities
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/21/2011 2:15:00 PM
You may have noticed that crude oil's recent rally has been rocky. Prices suffered a big setback in early March, when oil lost 10%. More losses came last week, when on April 11 and 12 crude fell from near $113 to $106 a barrel. Here's how some of the mainstream energy market analysts explained that recent decline...
Filed Under: crude oil, Elliott wave, International Monetary Fund (IMF), supply and demand
Category: Energy
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
By Nathaniel Williams
2/17/2011 3:30:00 PM
This assumption is universally agreed upon: When the price of something goes down, more people want it. But does this foundational concept of economics apply to financial markets, where that "something" is an investment asset? Robert Prechter gives you the answer in this complimentary video...
Filed Under: Campaign for Independent Thinking, Robert Prechter, Robert Prechter, socionomics, supply and demand
Category: Socionomics
By Bob Stokes
2/10/2011 5:15:00 PM
So what happened to the "Great Recession?" Has the economy suddenly "turned around?" Can you even have a "turn around" when housing prices are still in decline and unemployment is still high? What can explain the increased demand for luxury items? Here's what...
Filed Under: consumer confidence, consumer price index, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Elliott Wave Principle, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), recession, sentiment, social mood, supply and demand
Category: U.S. Economy
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
By Nico Isaac
12/31/2010 11:00:00 AM
Food for thought: On Thursday, December 30, sugar futures took a long walk on a short pier off a very sharp cliff edge: The sweet market plunged 10% in its largest intraday percentage decline in more than a decade -- when it "should have" kept on rallying instead.
Filed Under: CRB index, Elliott Wave Principle, futures trading, futures trading, sugar futures, supply and demand
Category: Commodities
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
12/28/2010 3:15:00 PM
"There is no group more subjective than conventional analysts, who look at the same 'fundamental' news event a war, interest rates, P/E ratio, GDP, economic policy, the Fed’s monetary policy, you name it and come up with countless opposing conclusions. They generally don’t even bother to study the data." (EWI president Robert Prechter.) You need objective tools to make objective forecasts. So, we put together a unique resource for you: a free 118-page Independent Investor eBook, where you see dozens of examples and charts that show what really creates market trends.
Filed Under: Campaign for Independent Thinking, Chinese markets, diversification, earnings, Elliott Wave Principle, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), gross domestic product (GDP), gold futures, hyperinflation, inflation, monetary policy, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, supply and demand, Treasury bills (T-bills), U.S. Treasuries, Treasury bills (T-bills), Treasury bonds
Category: Gold and Silver
By Nico Isaac
12/15/2010 2:15:00 PM
According to mainstream economic wisdom, fundamentals are to financial markets what flash-freezing is to citrus farming. Ipso Facto: The moment a certain piece of bullish or bearish data is released to the public, it's plucked off its media branch, put on ice, and preserved for all future news stories regarding the rise -- or fall -- in said market's prices.
Filed Under: futures trading, futures trading, supply and demand, technical analysis, trading lessons
Category: Commodities
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
12/9/2010 10:30:00 AM
This is Part III of the series "Robert Prechter Dispels 10 Popular Investment Myths," where EWI president explains why traditional financial models failed -- and why they are doomed to fail again (and again). Here, the world's foremost Elliott wave practitioner tests economists' "Claim #2: 'Rising oil prices are bearish for stocks.'”
Filed Under: crude oil, Elliott Wave Principle, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, socionomics, supply and demand
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
5/25/2010 1:15:00 PM
When you visit a store, you want to pay as little as possible. Merchants want to charge as much as they can. At the point of balance, prices are established. If your favorite shirts are on sale for half-price, you may buy a few. That's how it works in the economy. That's NOT, however, how it works in the financial markets -- and it's important for every investor to understand.
Filed Under: supply and demand, Elliott Wave Principle, S&P 500, herding
Category: Stocks
Soybeans: Go Beyond Conventional Analysis
Are soybean futures going limit-up because of trouble in Argentina? Don't bet on it.
By Morgan Lee
3/25/2008 5:15:00 PM
While the financial media hangs on every move of the Dow Jones index these days, there is plenty of excitement occurring in other markets around the financial world, too. Take commodities, for example, where soybeans and corn futures markets rocketed upward today (March 25), gaining the most number of points allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade.
Filed Under: supply and demand
Category: Commodities
Coffee Futures: Opportunity Heats Up
Elliott Wave International describes inconsistencies between the recent supply stories about Coffee and its subsequent price action.
By Nico Isaac
3/13/2008 5:45:00 PM
Rule number ONE of conventional economics states: Commodity prices are driven by changes in supply and demand. When it comes to the real world, however, financial markets DO NOT always play by said rule. Take, for instance, the March 13 news items regarding the number of Coffee plants expected to reach fruition.
Filed Under: coffee futures, Fibonacci, futures trading, supply and demand
Category: Commodities