You can find low-risk, high-probability trading opportunities by trading with the trend. The trick is to find the end of market corrections, so you can position yourself for the next move in the direction of the trend. This excerpt from Jeffrey Kennedy’s free 47-page eBook How to Spot Trading...

Nothing new in the latest S&P 500 insider selling (and occasional buying). There were 2 (count them: two) purchases of stock by corporate insiders, of which one, which accounted for 97% of all purchases, came from Berkshire Hathaway. As usual selling dominated, with a ratio of 41 in notional s...

The second round of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program, better known as QE2, will expire this week. The QE2 policy was officially announced on November 4, 2010, and has been widely credited with subsequent stock market gains. And now, according to rumors, the end of this “...

Business Talk Radio host Gabriel Wisdom recently spoke with Pete Kendall, Co-Editor of EWI’s Elliott Wave Financial Forecast. Their discussion included a crucial but rarely asked question about economists and the Federal Reserve. Here’s the relevant excerpt: Gabriel Wisdom: “Ben B...

The delayed effect of monetary easing in 2008 and early 2009 and subsequent surge in money supplies globally has led to pronounced commodity inflation with acceleration over the last six months. In response to these rising inflationary pressures, central banks around the world began tighteni...

The question: Why use the Wave Principle when trading or investing? The answer: To avoid the herd that usually loses money in the markets. The explanation: Herding makes it difficult to follow the most useful trading advice to buy low and sell high. More often than not, what really happens is that y...

Good afternoon.  Quick synopsis of macro-thoughts.  I’m not used to writing market comments or market updates anymore given the all things government and policy impacts on markets.  It seems too often that it was as simple as the Treasury is selling the Fed is buying.  And that was it.  Sim...

[poll id=”9″] Add rising interest payments and higher taxes to declining assets and incomes and you don’t get “growth,” you get insolvency. The Status Quo consensus is that “kicking the can down the road” a.k.a. “extend and pretend” will work be...

[poll id=”8″] The behavior known as “conditioned response” — made famous by Nobel Laureate Ivan Pavlov — is easy to understand. Ring a bell every time you feed a dog, and eventually that dog will salivate at the sound of the bell even when food is absent. If grand...

The 3 simple rules of Elliott wave analysis can help traders manage risk, ride market trends and spot price reversals. EWI’s Chief Commodities Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy values the Wave Principle not only as an analytical tool, but also as a real-time trading tool. In this excerpt from Jeffrey...

The Only Way Forward Is to Accept Reality: Default Is Not the End of the World The catastrophe isn’t default, it’s “extend and pretend.” Unwelcome crises are part of life. What’s unnatural isn’t crisis, it’s pretending that life should be nothing but a smo...

This year has been very frustrating for precious metals equity investors with gold having risen 10% from the beginning of the year to its high in May while gold stocks (as measured by the Gold BUGS Index, HUI) have risen only 5% from the start of the year to their April high, underperforming gold by...

Keeping a track of all the fluid, hourly changing developments in Greece can be unbearably complex, and as a result one may be left with the impression that things are better than they really are. They aren’t. As the SocGen report below summarizes, Greece may have about 72 hours before it giv...

“Successful market timing depends upon learning the patterns of crowd behavior. By anticipating the crowd, you can avoid becoming a part of it.” This quote is from the opening paragraphs of the free Elliott Wave Basic Tutorial. It’s critical to your understanding of how markets rea...

The muddle-through approach to the eurozone crisis has failed to resolve the fundamental problems of economic and competitiveness divergence within the union. If this continues the euro will move towards disorderly debt workouts, and eventually a break-up of the monetary union itself, as some of t...

June 15, the day of a general strike in Greece, is also the day when the critical “mid-term agreement” between the insolvent country and the Troica will be voted on by the general assembly. “The agreement includes tax increases, slashing of wages and pensions and the lay-off of ...