Dear Trading Diary: Kicking off the New Year, US stocks are coming off highs as I expected. Last time I showed a convincing five down/three up off the Nasdaq ATH on 16 December that pointed the odds to a major trend change to down. Of
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I confess the post October 27 stock rally has been a major surprise to yours truly, not so much in form or timing but in scale which has been huge. But the form of the waves off the November 2021 ATHs clearly point to it
Having taken a two-week break to sunnier climes, I am back at my desk wondering if anything happened while I was away. Apparently, not much – except stock markets topped of course. But being on holiday did not mean I missed the turn! Oh, no.
I am planning to hold an online seminar soon and would like to check with you if you would likely attend and the topics you would like me to cover. I would appreciate your help by completing this very short survey taking less than a
Just as our UK political ‘leaders’ prove once and for all that running an alcohol-fueled party in a brewery is way beyond their government pay grade, markets smell blood. In fact, I have long considered the pantomime in Westminster very much a side-show to the
By now, the whole world is aware of the ten-year anniversary of the last financial crisis that most investors have forgotten already. And just to remind us, that most mainstream medium – the BBC – are trailing a major radio series on the whys and
The most famous investor of today has to be Warren Buffett. His acolytes hang on his every word and try desperately to emulate his methods – and with their succes usually falling short in the process. When asked for his favourite time scale for holding
I confess I am sick and tired of an all too common complaint out there in Punditland. I’m sure you too have been subjected to this pathetic admission – here is an example I came across today: Although I have been investing in precious metals
Regular readers will know I have been not so patiently waiting for this. It is a common observation that currency markets often extend trends far longer than you think possible. In Elliott wave terms, we see many extended fifth waves and these are often the
It must be great to be at the annual shindig at Davos every winter, mixing with the bigwigs of global finance and politics and receiving all their pearls of wisdom. Or not. Since I am rarely invited, I have the luxury of noting the prevailing
The mania driving stocks is historic – the result of a QE-driven rush of funny money into the hands of money managers who saw the Fed offered them a free put option on share purchases. The only way for shares was up (but only for
