New traders think trading is easy. Just ask those who got started in a bull market, as millions of people did in the pandemic. “Buy and hold,” baby! But all bull markets end, so when a little...
By Elliott Wave International Many financial advisors steer clients who are willing to take some risk toward a 60% stocks / 40% bonds portfolio. Alas, investors who followed that strategy in 2022 saw the value of their...
By Elliott Wave International Credit-default swaps were invented in the mid-1990s but a lot of people did not become aware of them until around 2000, and that awareness increased dramatically during the 2008 financial crisis. As you...
Some depositors aren’t waiting around to find out if their bank is safe. Look at this news item (TheStreet, March 25): Banking Crisis: Small Banks Hit by Massive Cash Withdrawals Americans have withdrawn nearly $120 billion in...
By Elliott Wave International Here’s a Wall Street Journal headline from a couple of months ago that some people may have scanned without much contemplation (Jan. 11): VIX, Wall Street’s Fear Gauge, Extends Longest Lull Since 2021...
By Elliott Wave International The failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank have prompted a lot of discussion about the potential of a domino effect. People are wondering “what’s next?” The financial press is...
Energy markets are among the most volatile right now with opportunities and risks aplenty. Here’s your chance to anticipate the NEXT big move in the energy sector BEFORE it starts. Our friends at Elliott Wave International just unlocked...
By Elliott Wave International The fact that investors from other countries are feverishly buying U.S. stocks might seem like a bullish sign. On the other hand, consider what Robert Prechter said in his book, Prechter’s Perspective: No...
By Elliott Wave International Many pundits have expressed worry about the ramifications of global debt — and rightly so. As the Wall Street Journal noted toward the end of 2022: The world has amassed $290 trillion of...
By Elliott Wave International The phrase “Everything Bust” means a bust in just about every financial risk-asset of which you can think, as well as the economy and, I dare say, the financial system itself. Indeed, in...