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At Elliott Wave International, we have been forecasting the markets for 30 years. We can help you understand how the markets work and teach you a popular forecasting method that may help you formulate a trading strategy: Elliott wave analys
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Have forex traders lost confidence in the idea that the U.S. was ahead of the rest of the world in regard to bad news – and now it’s leading the way back, away from the edge of recession? Or have they lost faith in the way the U.
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These days, the U.S. dollar is about as popular in the financial world as a fur coat at a PETA convention. From China’s Premier calling for a new global reserve “super” currency, to Russia suggesting a return to the gol
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Early on October 26, the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the euro (and the most widely-traded forex pair) began an out-of-the-blue slide from near $1.50. If the dollar's dramatic show of strength in the midst of all the doomsday scenarios
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You may know know that since last week, it has rallied strongly – about 600 pips, so far – pushing the exchange rate back up to $1.30 and robbing the buck of its latest gains. Despite the rally, the "triangle" i
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Today (Thu., April 9) gave us a classic example of why you cannot rely on "fundamentals" to predict which way the U.S. dollar and other currencies will go. Here's why...
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Whenever I talk about how to use the Elliott Wave Principle in forex trading, I always spend the majority of the time talking about the price patterns R.N. Elliott provided us with over seventy years ago. Those patterns are the heart and s
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News stories move the markets -- that's what just about every investor believes. But can you predict what the market will do before the news is released? Let's look at a fresh example: the actio in the EUR/USD on November 4, when the Federal Reserve
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The story goes that on January 5, the euro and the yen lost to the U.S. dollar because Barack Obama's proposed fiscal stimulus package may help the U.S. economy. That same day, the Mexican peso gained -- because an improve
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Here's a Monday puzzle for you: On Monday morning, April 20, the dollar pushed the exchange rate with its main "competitor" (the euro) below the "psychologically-important" $1.30 level. Why is the dollar
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Back in mid-July, the U.S. dollar was plunging to an all-time low against the euro. And, according to the mainstream experts, so long as the slew of bearish news remained intact, the currency was set to kick the "buck"et. What real
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Long since thought of as "the rotting corpse" of the currency markets, the U.S. dollar reawakened to new life this week by rallying to its highest level in more than a month. For many -- namely those affiliated with the financial m
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The financial market is a mysterious beast. Take the U.S. dollar, for example. How many times in the past year have you heard opinions that, given the severe problems of the U.S. economy, the dollar should collapse? More than once, I bet. But have y
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Jim Martens, Elliott Wave International's Senior Currency Strategist, regularly posts thoughts on the business of forex trading for his subscribers. Below is Jim's latest Market Insight, posted on the morning of May 22.
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My mother lives in Moscow. I call her often, and every once in a while the conversation turns to the economy -- specifically, the strength of the U.S. dollar. Usually this happens when the dollar gets weaker. Then our conversation goes something lik
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In this 5-minute video clip, EWI's Senior Currency Strategist Jim Martens shows you how to set "key" and "critical" price levels in market charts – and then trade off them. Jim uses the USD/CHF
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When market players' sentiment reaches an optimistic or pessimistic extreme, more often than not you can expect prices to reverse. Ironically, those also are the moments when almost everyone (everyone who is not paying attention to
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Sometimes, a market rallies or crashes seemingly for no good reason at all. In the stock market, the most vivid recent example of that occurred on September 04, when the DJIA went and lost 345 points. The decline stumped almost everyone, because the
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There’s one wave in the Elliott wave sequence that you as a forex trader don't want to miss: the third wave. We've recently witnessed a real-life third wave in the U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the strength of the dollar against a bask
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Following Friday's unemployment report, the U.S. dollar promptly lost to the euro. While this may seem like a "normal" market reaction to a bad economic number, think back to January 9, when the previous sharply negative j
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What creates trends in all liquid, freely-traded markets? That depends on whom you ask. To a conventional market analyst, the answer is news stories and events -- political, economic, you name it. The Elliott Wave Principle, on the other hand, teach
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Despite all "fundamental" odds, since mid-July, the U.S. dollar has been gaining strength. The euro vs. dollar exchange rate, known in forex trading world as the EURUSD, has fallen from near $1.60 mid-summer to below $1.35 on Octob
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What moves currency markets? "The news" is how most forex traders would undoubtedly answer. Economic, political, you name it -- events around the world are almost universally believed to shape trends in currencies. Today's (Jan. 14
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Here's what's interesting. After Tuesday's much-awaited U.S. bank rescue plan announcement, the DJIA fell sharply. Why? Apparently, because the plan's details failed to convince investors that it would actually work. You might think that the U.S. do
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If you've been frustrated lately by the lack of action in the euro-dollar exchange rate (EUR/USD) you're not alone. Since early June the pair has gone nowhere, but that's only the half of it: It has also swung wildly in the 500-pip range between $1.
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The euro-dollar exchange is hovering around $1.35, as if seeking direction. It will find it sooner or later. In the meantime, we can use this opportunity to learn how to take advantage of the trend when it resumes. Watch this free video, fo
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Let's get one thing straight: The "safe-haven" status of a financial market cannot change as suddenly as a runway model's designer duds. Meaning: A certain asset cannot provide shelter from the credit storm raging across Wall Stree
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Movie comparisons aside, the financial press really has tried to hold a funeral for the dollar at least three times in the past five years -- late 2004, early 2008, and summer 2009: "Is This the Death of the Dollar?" was the headli
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Over the past few months, Wall Street's favorite watering holes have served up a deadly "stocktail" -- the Un-Surely Temple. Includes: a splash of fear, a dash of uncertainty, and a steady flow of extreme volatility. For those who
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On Fridays, Elliott Wave International’s Senior Currency Strategist Jim Martens records a weekly video for his subscribers. In this February 27 video you are about to watch, he answers a frequent question: “What is your favorite
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Trading the EUR/USD has not been easy lately. The exchange rate between the euro and the U.S. dollar (the most widely-traded currency pair) hasn't made much net progress, but it's made up for that in spades by choppy, volatile, sideways-moving marke
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Market environment – that is, news and views surrounding a market – can help you quite a bit when you're trying to determine the trend. At tops, everyone is super-bullish; at bottoms, they are full of fear. In both cases, that's
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Yet at Elliott Wave International, we have all but shouted out our forecast for a rising dollar for months -- a highly contrarian position...
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In last night’s (March 24) televised Presidential press conference, the air of tension surrounding the ongoing economic crisis grew hotter than a habanero pepper in Hades. One of the most burning questions put to President Barack Obama was
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If you want the latest news on the U.S. Dollar Index, try a search under its new ticker symbol, RIP. -- as in, "rest in peace." Let the record show: In the early morning hours of Tuesday, October 6, the mainstream financial communi
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Conventional assumptions about market drivers don't work – despite what you hear on the six-o'clock news. In fact, if there is one central point in the Elliott wave-based view of the financial markets (and the society at large), it is prec
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Only now do I realize that when I first learned the basics of the Elliott Wave Principle, I knew just enough to be dangerous, as the saying goes. For example, in my rookie naiveté, for some time I believed that by studying wave p
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For six weeks now, the euro-dollar exchange rate, known to forex traders as the EUR/USD, has gone nowhere. The dollar has gained big since late November, but while we've seen some big ups and downs lately, they made almost zero net progress: Today,
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Remember how bearish people were on oil ten years ago? Today, it's the U.S. dollar. This recent headline on DrudgeReport.com, "Kiss the Dollar Goodbye," complete with a picture of a smooching President Obama, is a fair ref
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According to the mainstream experts, currency markets move in sync with the overall economy and stock market: bullish news begets a stronger dollar and bearish events, a weaker one. If so, then how do they explain the dollar's recent rally to a two-
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Free Forex Forecasts from Bob Prechter's Elliott Wave International! Now through 12 noon on February 10. You know how confusing it can be to gauge forex market trends by watching news reports. Tired of the guesswork? Then try something diff
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On January 27, the EUR/USD (exchange rate between the euro and U.S. dollar and the most widely trade forex pair) slipped below $1.40 for the first time in six months. In other words, the dollar, considered by most analysts all but doomed a short whi
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Around data releases, forex; traders often buy the U.S. dollar -- but then sell it just as quickly (or vice versa). Trading at such moments can be dangerous, but it helps if you know Elliott wave analysis. Watch this classic free 8-minute video wher
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Watch this free 7-minute video where the editor of Elliott Wave International's Currency Specialty Service Jim Martens answers a frequent subscriber question, using charts of the yen (USD/JPY) and Canadian dollar
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Currency traders: How often have you woken up, read the news, put on a trade -- only to see it go the “other way”? A recent example was the debt problem in Greece. Trading off of that was like trying to catch a greased pig.
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Over the past week, the U.S. dollar has squashed all rumors of its demise like a bug on the windshield of a speeding semi. Last check, the greenback stands at its highest level in nearly nine months. As for what's causing the currency's new lease on
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Elliott Wave International presents Part I of the interview with its Senior Currency Strategist, Jim Martens. Vadim Pokhlebkin: Jim, readers often tell us that they want to make money trading the markets. There are lots of options out there
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Elliott Wave International presents Part II of the interview with its Senior Currency Strategist Jim Martens. -- Vadim Pokhlebkin: I've seen online ads that say, "Trading forex is easy." Do you think it's easy? -- Jim Mart
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On November 26, 2009, the U.S. dollar did "the impossible": It stopped falling, reversed, and staged a strong rally -- to the complete surprise of the mainstream financial world. At the time, making a bullish call on the U
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In this classic 5-minute video, the editor of Elliott Wave International's Currency Specialty Service Jim Martens tells you about so-called flat corrections -- a common Elliott wave pattern that sometimes comes "with a twi
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On February 4, the EUR/USD fell hard. The mainstream forex analysts blamed it on Mr. Trichet's statement, but Elliott wave patterns in the EUR/USD foretold the euro weakness way in advance. Here's your FREE chance to read
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It's the comeback story seen the world over, and no, I'm not talking about the New Orleans Saints winning the Super Bowl. I'm talking about the long-time currency underdog -- the U.S. dollar -- overcoming the mainstream odds to pull off a surprising
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Elliott Wave International presents Part II of the interview with its Senior Currency Strategist Jim Martens. -- Vadim Pokhlebkin: I've seen online ads that say, "Trading forex is easy." Do you think it's easy? -- Jim Mart
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