Peter Brandt on Risk Management -- FREE Webinar
Learn three new ways to think about risk management from a best-selling author with a 30-year trading career.
By Jill Noble
5/24/2012 5:00:00 PM
Mastering the concept of risk management is essential to surviving market volatility and creating a successful trading career no matter what markets you trade... preview Peter Brandt's approach in this 5-minute webinar clip.
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Education, risk appetite, risk management, technical analysis, Traders, trading lessons
Category: Education
By Bob Stokes
5/14/2012 5:30:00 PM
During Q1 of 2012, trading on the New York Stock Exchange was down 23 percent vs. last year. But if many individual investors have stayed out of the market, how has the S&P 500 more than doubled? Moreover, what do we see ahead?...
Filed Under: banks, credit default swaps, Elliott wave, financial forecast, investment decisions, investor psychology, liquidity, risk appetite, Robert Prechter, stock indexes
Category: Stocks
Why Consider This $4-Trillion-a-Day Market? Part II
Elliott Wave International's forex expert discusses the pros and cons of speculating in currencies vs. stocks
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/23/2012 2:30:00 PM
Elliott Wave International presents Part II of the interview with Jim Martens. (Read Part I here.)
Filed Under: currency, Elliott wave, Elliott Wave Education, Elliott Wave trading, euro, euro/USD exchange rate, eurozone, forex, forex trading, online trading, prechter, risk appetite, risk management, Swiss franc, U.S. dollar, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), usd/jpy, volatility
Category: Currencies
By Bob Stokes
4/3/2012 5:00:00 PM
To meet ambitious investment return targets, some public pension funds must now swing for the fences. But many are down two strikes already, due to their previous big bets with hedge funds. What do we see ahead?...
Filed Under: Elliott wave, hedge funds, pension funds, risk appetite
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
3/26/2012 4:15:00 PM
A look at the performance of small-capitalization stocks is one way to tell whether investors are in the mood for risk taking. See a revealing chart...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, quantitative easing, risk appetite, stock indexes, Traders
Category: Stocks
A Story About Overcoming the Odds
Winning in the markets is hard enough. Imagine if you had to also overcome THIS
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
2/23/2012 6:30:00 PM
A rare opportunity came my way this past December: My company, Elliott Wave International, sent me to Orlando to attend Peter Brandt's Traders' Boot Camp. I say "rare opportunity" because, well, how often do you get to come to a training event for serious market speculators? Of the 20 traders at that Boot Camp, I'd say 7 or 8 had a $1 million-plus trading account. One had been written about in a Forbes article. There was a lot of success in that room. Why, then, you may wonder, did those traders pay good money to spend 2.5 days with Peter Brandt, the instructor?
Filed Under: investment decisions, investment strategy, online trading, risk appetite, risk management, technical analysis, technical indicators, trade targets
Category: Education
By Bob Stokes
2/3/2012 5:30:00 PM
Should investors be concerned over too much Facebook excitement? Consider that the IPO filing comes after...
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Theorist, financial forecast, investor psychology, risk appetite, S&P 500, sentiment, Wall Street
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
1/19/2012 3:15:00 PM
Professional money managers are supposed to have more investment savvy than the average mutual fund shareholder. Yet some recent evidence suggests that the "investor next door" is wiser than the professionals...
Filed Under: cash, financial forecast, risk appetite, stock indexes
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
1/4/2012 5:15:00 PM
"The reports of hedge-fund dysfunction are starting to appear; the size and number of disruptions will multiply many times in coming months...hedge funds will find themselves unable to..." Read the rest of this quote from the October Financial Forecast...
Filed Under: Elliott Wave Theorist, financial forecast, hedge funds, mutual funds, risk appetite
Category: Stocks
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
8/25/2011 1:45:00 PM
On August 24, as gold was falling to its biggest one-day loss in 31 years, one headline said, "DJIA Wobbles, VIX Gains as Uncertainty Rises" -- which raises the question: If gold is supposed to be the ultimate hedge against "uncertainty," how come it's falling when uncertainty is rising? Something strange is going on with gold -- if you go along with the conventional perspective, that is. But then there's the Elliott wave perspective...
Filed Under: central banks, Elliott wave, Gold, gold futures, Robert Prechter, risk appetite, safe haven
Category: Gold and Silver
By Nico Isaac
7/20/2011 4:30:00 PM
Does having more zeros at the end of their salary figures really mean that "wealthy individuals" act differently from your average "grandma" investor? Look at these 2 charts for some eye-opening evidence...
Filed Under: Elliott wave, investment decisions, investor psychology, risk appetite, stock indexes
Category: Stocks
EUR/USD: Below $1.40, Again
Understand what the forex market is, and you'll understand what guides it
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
7/12/2011 3:45:00 PM
The euro has fallen to a 4-month low against the U.S. dollar -- on "growing fears that Europe's debt maelstrom could engulf Italy." (July 12, Wall Street Journal). This explanation sounds plausible…until you study the timeline of events and see when the slide in the euro actually started. The news of the European debt crisis spreading to Italy only hit the headlines in earnest on July 8 -- but the EUR/USD peaked on July 4, four days prior.
Filed Under: Elliott Wave trading, European Union (EU), euro, eurozone, euro/USD exchange rate, europe, european central bank, European debt crisis, European Union (EU), eurozone, forex, risk appetite, safe haven, U.S. dollar
Category: Currencies
What, Me Worry? Are Stocks Now “Greeced” For Gains?
EWI’s latest, July 2011 Elliott Wave Financial Forecast reveals whether the road is now cleared for a renewed bull market in stocks
By Nico Isaac
7/5/2011 6:15:00 PM
Much of the U.S. financial community spent this past Fourth of July setting off celebratory fireworks and singing “Yankee DOW-dle” till the sun came up. According to the mainstream experts, one main catalyst caused the recent "revolutionary" rise in stock prices: The authorization of Greece’s new, European Union-approved austerity measures. Here’s the problem, though...
Filed Under: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), European Union (EU), Greek debt, Nasdaq Composite, risk appetite, S&P 500
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
7/1/2011 3:00:00 PM
Imagine that the collective US financial community had its very own Facebook page. And then imagine that the following news feed appeared under Recent Activity: "US Investors are now friends with Risk." You better believe there'd be as many "Likes" and "Thumbs Up" in reply to this status update as to a shirtless photo of Brad Pitt.
Filed Under: gold futures, investor psychology, risk appetite, sentiment, silver
Category: U.S. Economy
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/3/2011 6:00:00 PM
When the financial crisis hit hard in the fall of 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank made the now-infamous decision to refuse to bail out the Wall Street giant, Lehman Brothers. Today, the eurozone authorities are losing patience with Greece.
Filed Under: AEX, Bank of England, CAC40, DAX, diversification, Elliott wave, euro, euro stoxx 50, eurozone, euro/USD exchange rate, european central bank, European Union (EU), eurozone, FTSE, Greek debt, Irish debt crisis, Lehman Brothers, risk appetite, Sovereign Debt, Swiss franc, Swiss Market Index (SMI), technical analysis
Category: European Markets
By Robert Folsom
6/3/2011 4:45:00 PM
Sentiment is never stationary. It has a life of its own. And with the right tools, the trends and turns in group sentiment are measureable. With sufficient time, data, and analysis, you learn that group sentiment is remarkably predictive of group behavior.
Filed Under: Elliott wave, risk appetite, stock indexes
Category: Stocks