345-Point Decline: Are You "In Search of A Reason"?
At a fork in the road, don't look in the rear-view mirror

Markets NEVER need a news-related "reason" to trend up or down -- if anything, today's stock market trend anticipates the type of broader news story you'll be reading tomorrow. This truth is lost on the vast majority of reporters and the public, who, in turn, go "in search of a reason" AFTER "a market decline."

Oil And Stocks: The "Correlation" Breaks Down
When oil goes down, do stocks really go up?

"Most pundits were talking mainly about oil this morning [Sept. 2], which was extremely volatile. They tried to explain the strongly higher stock market open by the fact that oil prices were down big. By the end of today’s session very few market observers talked about oil and stocks together. The reason: both ended today’s market session DOWN..."

Video: How Do You Pick Best Stocks and Sectors?
Timeless question, indeed. Here's one way to answer it.

Elliott Wave: Narrow Down Your Options
Weigh all the probabilities and eliminate the weakest ones – until the strongest one emerges.

Fact: you never know for sure what kind of Elliott wave structure you're dealing with until it's complete. That's a sobering fact for many Elliott wave beginners. They often expect to count perfect five and three-wave structures in charts all the way down to milliseconds. But you just can't. For one, it has to do with the limitations of your data feed. But even if your data were perfect, some ambiguity with real-time wave counts would still remain. Here's how you handle that...

"I've Got A Stock Here That Could Really Excel"
The Wave Principle -- what's it all about? Here's a quick peek at our know-how.

Ralph Nelson Elliott, the discoverer of the Elliott Wave Principle was born on July 28, 1871. His remarkable discovery suggested that the financial markets are NOT efficient because they are a function of mass psychology – not reason. Individuals can be quite rational, but groups and crowds are not; they are emotional. In a nutshell, here's what Elliott discovered...

(NEW Prechter Video) What Were You Watching at Dow 14,000?
Prechter’s October 19, 2007 Bloomberg interview was more than a 20th anniversary special.

A Special Video Issue of Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist is online now. But, before you watch his updated insights, please watch and read a few selections from Prechter's Oct. 19, 2007 Elliott Wave Theorist and Bloomberg TV interview on that day.

Small Caps: And Then There Was One

In the U.S. economic version of Ten Little Indians, the affluent guests of the great Bull Market party of 2002-2007 have had their profits gruesomely bumped off, one by one. Which leaves one sector left standing: Small-capitalization stocks... 

Stocks AND Oil: Crude Connection

According to Main Street, rising crude oil prices are to U.S. equities what a long sharp nail is to a bicycle tire. Nothing sets the record straighter than the straight facts about oil prices verses the DJIA over the past three years...

New Quarter, Same Trend; Secular Bear is Settling In
EWI analysts report the nominal Dow has a long way to go before it catches the ‘real’ Dow.

Yes, the secular bear market is here. In fact, it’s been here for a while – and it’s going to stay for a while. These charts show you how much further there is to go down.

Dow Declines 358 points? Phooey -- Here's a REALLY Big Number
Have you seen this simple calculation anyplace else?

The stock market will have to fall a lot further to get close to a number that's been a lot more painful for a lot more people: $24,300. That is the dollar figure you get when you quantify the eleven-plus percent decline in the median sales price of existing homes, since the peak in 2006 -- and that's using the data conservatively ($221,900 in 2006 vs. $197,600 through Q1 of 2008).

The Dow's Drop: Hit Bottom?
Our Analysis AT NO COST

This describes sentiment extremes in the world’s leading financial markets: When the crowd of market advisors, investors, traders, analysts, brokers, media outlets and all around “experts” share a bullish viewpoint, prices are set to come hurtling down...

Stocks: How Do You Win In Choppy Markets?
Trading is only easy when the market is going up.

VIDEO: How To Identify a Good Opportunity In Stocks
Does the Elliott Wave Principle apply to individual stocks?"

China Syndrome: Stock Market Meltdown

Death Of The S.U.V. -- Why Now?

U.S. Stocks: Embracing "Change"

On the morning of June 4, one phrase epitomized the frenzied climate on Wall Street: “Change is in the Air” -- As in, the 180-degree turnaround in the leading U.S. stock index from UP to D-O-W n. Since soaring to a four-month high on May 19, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been as happy as a clam… nearing a pot of boiling hot water...

The Dow: Four Major "Developments"

3 Reasons Not To Speculate in Stocks …
… if the U.S. is headed for a deflationary depression

Most people have begun to accept that the U.S. economy is in recession whether or not the National Bureau of Economic Research has labeled it a recession yet. If you, too, think that the economy is headed for hard times, the next question is, how do you prepare for it?

General Electric (GE): Bellwether for a Global Bear Market

This announcement of GE's successful global infrastructure deal is far happier than its announcement in mid-April that it had badly missed its expected earnings, resulting in the stock losing $47 billion in one day on April 11, 2008. But while many investors and many in the financial press see global infrastructure investment as GE's savior, our analysts here at Elliott Wave International look at GE's price chart and see a different story.

How To Invest Long Term Without Losing Your Fannie … Mae

Reaping the windfall benefits of a sharp decline in Fannie Mae’s shares took patience, tenacity and some follow-up analysis. Here's how our EWI analysts prepared subscribers for Fannie's downfall, starting back in 2002.