explod
explod
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Explod, who are these analysts who predicted the start of this bear market from 5 years ago. I would like to read their comments they posted 5 years ago that this index(XAO) or an other index would reach 6800+ in November 07.
If they got these numbers right then they (and YOU) with such an accurate Crystal must be must be mega rich right??? My experience in the past(and I know rederob disagrees) is that fundementals lag the market. When the subprime problem first surfaced last year in August the market tanked and then rose to new highs in November. It's only now after the market has sold off dramamtically how fundemntally bad this issue has become. BUT the market moved first. If things are to improve in the near future, the market will move first and then the fundemental good news will surface months after. ATM all we hear is bad news in the financial press, and at the market peak last year it was good news.
I have and can survive sleeping under a barbed wire fence, few others will be able to. It may not come to that, but ready.
My physical gold and silver, (45% of my invetment holdings) are up 40% since this time last year.
The books, I have quoted many times. All out on loan at this time but two titles off the top of my head, "Financial Armageddon" (2006) and "How to Survive the Crash"(2002) Have been particularly accurate on the failure of the US banks and fall of the US dollar.
Based on fundamentals I believe that the stock market correction in the medimu to longer term has only just begun. As some analysts (who predicted this down turn accurately up to 5 years ago) have said, "what we have now is just the ringing of the bell for the start of the game". Another said, "we are just up to the National Anthem.
However putting all that aside, have the wave analysts put the ruler over the period of 1929 through to 1932, in which time some markets dropped up to 90% ??
Some predict, with fundamental support, that this time will be worse.
How certain of your (big picture) count are you EW'ers?
Most of you seem to think we are in a significant wave four.
Here's a controversial thought for you!
Mind you I'm inclined to think it's right, even thought I don't yet have detailed accurate charts going right back, I started from the beginning and worked more mathematically to arrive at this proposition on a rough line chart.
What if we made a blow off top for the end of Super Cycle one last year and we have now put in the bottom of the first Super Cycle wave two?
A short sharp correction of about 29% to the bottom the other day would qualify for the bottom.
How certain of your (big picture) count are you EW'ers?
Most of you seem to think we are in a significant wave four.
Here's a controversial thought for you!
Mind you I'm inclined to think it's right, even thought I don't yet have detailed accurate charts going right back, I started from the beginning and worked more mathematically to arrive at this proposition on a rough line chart.
What if we made a blow off top for the end of Super Cycle one last year and we have now put in the bottom of the first Super Cycle wave two?
A short sharp correction of about 29% to the bottom the other day would qualify for the bottom.
5 years ago was 2003 the start of the bull market. so these guys were calling a bear market before a bull had even got going my god these guys are good!
Do you have their contact number Explod? I want to call and make sure tomorrow is not my last day on earth and i should stay home under my bed!
When does your count start from Whiskers ?
This wave 2 (if it is ) isn't even a year old yet so we must have some sort of equality in waves.Also 29% for a wave 2 is very short, a wave 4 of 29% would be better
But in exceptional times like these you can get strange price action so text book counts can go out of the window, maybe put up a chart and we can have a look.
My point precisely. Since EW is becoming more widely known and used it seems to me that if large institutions used it and with the amount of money that's been floating around the last decade or so, one should at least consider the possibility that they might exploit EW, thus distort the original EW rules, after all that's what human nature usually does with rules.
“I had heard about technical analysis and chart patterns, and looking at this stuff I would say, what kind of voodoo is this? I was very, very skeptical that technical analysis had value. So I used the computers to check it out, and what I learned was that there was, in fact, no useful reality there. Statistically and mathematically all these tools ”” stochastics, RSI, chart patterns, Elliot Wave, and so on ”” just don’t work.
If you code any of these rigorously into a computer and test them they produce no statistical basis for making money; they’re just wishful thinking. But I did find one thing that worked. In fact almost all technical analysis can be reduced to this one thing, though most people don’t realize it"
Dr Gary Hirst, spent huge sums on computers and programming, analyzing a variety of technical analysis systems.
This is a monthly chart of XAO back to 1979. As you can see we have some way to go yet before XAO gets back to it's trend line, let alone become oversold.
Is it a necessity to reach that trendline though?
Leonardo Fibonacci may disagree with me. I've added the retracements to the chart. Though I don't think XAO lends itself to Fibonacci analysis very well.Is the trendline an accurate level of where prices should regress to?.
I think the US economy has the potential to be in more trouble now than it was during the dot com crash and thus feel a bigger correction could be on the cards. I'm preparing myself for the worst possible outcome and hoping I'm wrong.I guess sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. If you look at the correction of the DJIA from 2000-2003 when it lost 39% it didn't even come close to touching that trendline.
Is it a necessity to reach that trendline though? Is the trendline an accurate level of where prices should regress to?
Well it could reach that trendline at any time or no time
IE...It could reach it when the index is above 7000
eg in ten years time when ever or when never
Just keep projecting the line forward
I bet ( have not looked ) that GM in USA has regressed back to old ( very old ? ) trend lines...
But all that is beside the point ?
A trendline must be kept sensitive
A number of factors
eg square root of time just one..
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