A Two-Bar Pattern that Points to Trade Setups

Trader Education Week begins September 26 Some people like to get outside on the weekends, maybe playing tennis or working in the yard. Some people like to visit their friends or cook a big meal or go out to see a movie. And some people who are passionate about their work — such as Elliott…

Triple Witching In September

The Stock Trader’s Almanac notes that seasonally for the last few years, Dow has done well on the triple witching day in September. Dow Jones had been up 8 of the last 10 years on the third Friday of the last month of the third quarter. We can develop a trading strategy based upon this seasonal trend. This…

Inflation or Deflation

The ninth month of the year 2012 has seen a series of quantitative easing and stimulus announcement from a sundry of major government and central banks. First off the block was the ECB, which announced a commitment to buy unlimited amount of sovereign debt of up to three years in maturity. Then China’s central government…

Momentum Analysis Using MACD

Learn more about using Momentum analysis to make Elliott wave trading decisions in this video by EWI European Interest Rate Analyst Bill Fox. Find more lessons on technical indicators in EWI’s newest free report. See the information below.

Unsuspecting Bond Fund Investors Are Set Up for a Shock

Why risk in the rebalanced portfolio is ramping higher? During market pullbacks, financial advisors use a boilerplate response: “Let’s rebalance the portfolio.” Investors have heard that one for years. The recommended allocation varies depending on a client’s age and risk tolerance, but it typically involves shifting funds from stocks to bond holdings. The evidence shows…

Real GDP Growth Forecasts From Jim O’Neill Of Goldman Sachs

In his Monthly Insights for September, Jim O’Neill, Chairman Goldman Sachs Asset Management is out with a revised forecast for leading economies of the world: We revised down our UK growth forecast for 2012 to -0.2%, from 0.2%, in line with consensus. We made two downward revisions in the BRICs. For China, we reduced our…

An Intel Bounce On Cards? Maybe

The tech bellwether, Intel has had some tough trading days in the last few weeks. In My 2012, INTC made an eight year high of 29.27. Since then it has been downhill for the semiconductor behemoth. First, the news came in August that Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway had dropped its Intel stake. Berkshire shed all…