EURUSD plunged below 1.1260 earlier today. The pair has been steadily declining during the last twelve months and the latest drop suggests a new low is very likely to be reached soon. But it wasn’t all that clear two weeks ago, when the Euro was hovering around 1.1400 against the U.S. dollar. Then the Elliott…
A Month Ahead of USDCAD ‘s Bullish Reversal
USDCAD finished 2018 in a positive mood. The pair reached 1.3665 on the last day of last year, but 2019 has not been so generous to the bulls so far. By February 1st, the rate was down to 1.3069, losing over 4.3% in just a month. But let’s take a step back and see where…
EURNZD: Is February Going to Mimic December?
It was November 30th, 2018, when we last talked about EURNZD. The pair was trading near 1.6570, following a sharp selloff from as high as 1.7929 in less than two months. After such a huge and fast decline, traders were understandably very pessimistic about the pair’s prospects going into December. However, extrapolation is a dangerous…
Elliott Wave Ahead of MCO Stock Bullish Reversal
A month and a half ago, Moody’s was trading below $137 a share, following a decline from as high as $188 in late-July, 2018. MCO stock was down by 27% in just five months and investors were getting overly pessimistic about its investment merits. But instead of simply extrapolating the recent weakness into the future,…
Crude Oil Made an Elliott Wave “Push-Up” Last Week
It has been an eventful week for crude oil traders. On Wednesday, January 16th, the EIA revealed that inventories have decreased by 2.7 million barrels from the previous week. In the same time, it became clear that U.S. oil production rose to a record high of 11.9 million barrels per day. The first piece of…
Bitcoin Proves Traders Can Prepare without “Knowing”
The price of Bitcoin slightly breached the psychological level of $3500 yesterday and still has not been able to escape its gravity as of this writing. The current selloff brought back the memories of the time when BTCUSD fell to $3122 a month ago. And while in the markets everyone is an expert in retrospect,…
Catching Crude Oil ‘s $7-Rally Amid Supply Glut Fears
Crude oil bulls got slaughtered in the last three months of 2018. Between the start of October and the end of December, the price fell by over 45% from $77.07 to $42.21, sparking fears of a new supply glut. Then, the selloff’s sudden stop caught nearly everyone by surprise. Yesterday, WTI crude oil reached $52.48.…
Gold Price Followed Its Elliott Wave Path to $1300
Gold’s third consecutive week of gains led the price of the yellow metal to the vicinity of the psychological $1300 mark earlier today. On December 14th, the price of gold fell below $1233, but according to experts, a combination of economic uncertainty, trade worries and rising interest rates sparked fear in investors, who hurried to…
USDJPY Crashes After Textbook Elliott Wave Setup
It is not just stock market investors and oil bulls, who have been suffering lately. The holidays do not promise to be very happy for USDJPY bulls, as well. The pair fell to 110.81 on Thursday, revisiting levels last seen in early September. The Fed rate hike, the stock market crash and the tensions between…
FedEx Stock is in Free Fall. Is There a Bottom?
FedEx stock is plunging sharply after the company slashed profit targets and announced broad cost-cutting measures. The share price is down almost 41% from its all-time high of $273.66 reached in January, when everything looked so rosy. What happened? Many experts would argue that the market finally realized that FedEx is not what it once…
Crude Oil Ignores OPEC-Russia Deal to Breach $50
WTI crude oil dipped below $50 a barrel in late-November, but quickly recovered to $54.54 on December 4th. The price spent the next ten days above the $50 mark and it looked like the bulls might be able to bounce up from this key psychological level. Unfortunately for them, the price of crude oil fell…
SPX Was Recovering… And Then it Wasn’t
The S&P 500 fell to an intraday low of 2583 yesterday, bringing its total decline to 12.1% from the top at 2941 in September. In Wall Street’s dictionary, a pullback of more than 10% is officially a correction and many are already worried about the big bear market ahead. On the other hand, it was…
Here is Why BTCUSD is Down 40% in Less than a Month
The price of Bitcoin is declining at an unprecedented speed. Less than a month ago, BTCUSD was hovering above $5500. Last week it fell to as low as $3210, prompting Peter Mallouk, chief investment officer at Creative Planning Inc., to call Bitcoin a “dead man walking”. However, the truth is it didn’t take a professional money manager…
Gold Tests $1240 Resistance after Elliott Wave Setup
Gold is trading at levels last seen over a month ago, following mixed signals from U.S. and China on trade, Brexit worries and protests in France. The demand for safe haven assets is thought to be increasing at times of political and economic uncertainty, which helps explain the surge in the price of gold. On…
Bitcoin Was Going “to the Moon”… And Then It Wasn’t
What a difference a year can make. This time last year Bitcoin was thought to be going “to the moon” by a great majority of people. BTCUSD was approaching the $20 000 mark at the time and financial gurus, hedge fund managers, celebrities and small individual investors alike were rushing to join the bulls. Many…
