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Best of EWI 2011
Our Best Ideas and Insights, Chosen by Club EWI Members and Subscribers
By Editorial Staff
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:00:00 ET
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The new year may be a few weeks old, but we still have some interesting business to finish for 2011 with our Best of EWI 2011 poll. Who could forget what a volatile ride it was during the past year? Elliott Wave International's analysts presented many groundbreaking insights, while we also published new reports that helped those who think differently from the herd about the markets and the economy.
 
Here, we present the results from our poll that ran in EWI's Weekly Select ezine the weeks of December 17 and 24, 2011. It asked this question: What's the best idea or insight EWI sent your way during 2011 that made a difference for you? The answers came back, and we found we could arrange them in five categories.
 
1. AUGUST 2011 THEORIST (VIDEO)

Bob Prechter usually publishes his Elliott Wave Theorist once a month in print, but this past August, he swapped the keyboard for a microphone to record his Theorist, which described real-time indications of a major top. Subscribers voted in droves for this issue, saying that it was particularly thought-provoking. Two sample comments:

  • Hands down the August video from the Theorist ... no second place needed. -Tom Tate
  • The one-hour August video is the best information ever. This video factually summarizes the current financial condition and how to survive it. -Michael Skapik
This resource is still available free for subscribers. Or you can get a copy by subscribing to the Theorist.
 
2. COMMODITIES, JEFFREY KENNEDY   

Jeffrey Kennedy, our commodities analyst, received many votes of appreciation for both his futures analysis and his courses and columns about trader education. We aren’t surprised to see Jeffrey on this list, because we know his value as a teacher. In fact, we are cooking up some new, exciting offerings from him in 2012. We can’t say more now, but we will be announcing them on our website and through the Weekly Select and the Independent. Sample comments:

3. DEFLATION vs. INFLATION  

Many of our readers and subscribers find our deflation arguments and materials to be first-rate. We have created many resources, and here's one place to start on deflation. A few comments:

  • EWI is the only source that I know of that protects us against the constant bombardment of warnings of runaway inflation from the Fed's printing of money. EWI shows us that creation of massive credit in not printing money and that the collapse of this overwhelming debt will lead to deflation not inflation as so many now believe. -Oren Wilson
  • I vote for the Historic Reversal in the Debt/Credit Supply in 2008 chart, which appeared in the January 2011 EWI Theorist. I have found that it is the best way for me to explain deflation to a newcomer. I say: "This is a picture of the debt bubble deflating, and is what Elliott Wave means when they say we are in a deflationary trend." That opens up a conversation most people have never had before, and provides a visual aid for reference as we talk about it. -Merrill Scott
4. IDEAS and INSIGHTS

After the first three specific categories, we counted votes for many of the forecasts our analysts made in 2011, as well as big-picture insights. Some sample comments:

  • Calling a top in silver and broad market in May was exceptional. -Ashok Sharma
  • There were a number of charts this year that really got my attention but the one that sticks with me is the chart of the total debt of the U.S., showing that total debt has only come down a small bit since the start of the Great Recession and like during the Great Depression, it is sure to fall dramatically over the next few years. -Larry Craig
  • I run a small business. What your newsletters do for me, basically, is to keep me from myself. That is, without the monthly perspective of where the wave is, I would become a part of it. I would be buying and selling at totally wrong times. I would certainly be less optimistic. -Larry Lang
  • All the analysis of the global financial crisis. Also, the socionomic model. -Serban Broche
  • News has no impact on the trading patterns of currencies. -Oskar Schroepfer
5. WAYS TO GET EDUCATED, EZINES, CLUB EWI REPORTS

EWI has always focused on educating people about how Elliott wave analysis works, and how the Wave Principle applies to more than merely the financial markets. Our voters said they particularly liked both our basic education resources (See the EWI Education page.) and the more detailed ones for traders, such as the one-on-one coaching from Beacon Learning Group. As Frank Cardenas put it: "All of EWI's reports, articles, interviews and video classes are extremely informative and educational." Here's a sample of what readers thought were our top educational resources:

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