Whether Obamacare is unconstitutional or not is up to the policy makers, but the uncertainty surrounding the matter caused a broad selloff in the healthcare sector. Cigna, Humana, CVS Health and UnitedHealth lost a significant chunk of their respective market caps after the DOJ sided with a December 2018 Texas district court ruling that the…
Palladium Draws a Pattern that Should Scare the Bulls
The price of palladium rose significantly during the months between August 2018 to February 2019. By mid-March 2019, it was up nearly 52% from the August 2018 lows, climbing to an all-time high of $1615.30. The industrial metal’s wide use in the auto industry as well as its growing popularity in the jewelry business are…
USDJPY: Analyze, Prepare, then Let the Market Decide
USDJPY reached its higher level so far in 2019 yesterday. The pair climbed to 112.166, extending its recovery from the 109.71 bottom formed last month. But the bulls didn’t always look that confident. Just a week ago, the pair was hovering around 111.15, down from 111.83 five days earlier. Instead of forming an opinion based…
The Elliott Wave Pattern behind Disney ‘s 30% Gain
Depending on the amount of time a position is kept open, traders can be separated into three categories: scalpers, day traders and position traders. The third group is known for holding a position for weeks, months or more if required. That group was recently rewarded by the sharp surge in Walt Disney stock. A little…
BURL Stock Approaching a Dangerous Area
Burlington Stores Inc. is a branded apparel retailer, which operates approximately 670 stores in the United States. The company, founded in 1972, was taken private in 2006, only to re-emerge as a public entity again in 2013. And while the company’s business performance has been steadily improving in recent years, BURL stock rose in tandem.…
NetEnt stock Looking for an Elliott Wave Bottom
NetEnt AB, based in Stockholm, Sweden, is a leading global provider of digital distributed games and gaming systems to online casino operators. It is also a good example of a company, whose shareholders became a victim of the market’s vicissitudes. NetEnt stock reached an all-time high of SEK 88.53 on June 1st, 2016. Less than…
USDJPY Proves You Don’t Need to Pick Tops/Bottoms
USDJPY closed at 111.72 last week and is now within striking distance of its 2019 high of 112.14. But just two weeks ago, the pair was down to less than 110.00 after a sharp selloff from 111.70. Instead of joining the bears simply because the price was falling, we looked for an Elliott Wave pattern…
Copper Bulls Still in Charge but Need to Regroup
Similarly to the general commodity market, copper has been steadily climbing during the first quarter of 2019. Three months ago, the price of the industrial metal fell to $2.5281/lb. As of this writing, it is hovering around $2.9266 after reaching $2.9808 on the last day of March. According to the media, copper’s rally can be…
Synchrony Financial Draws Bullish Elliott Wave Pattern
Synchrony Financial spun off from General Electric less than five years ago, but its shareholders have already experienced plenty of market turbulence on their own. 2018, for example, was nothing to brag about. The stock plunged from an all-time high of $40.59 in January to as low as $21.78 in late December. And as it…
Chipotle Stock Bulls Aiming at $900 a Share
The last time we wrote about Chipotle Mexican Grill, the stock was hovering around $470, following a rally from $248 in six months. The company was recovering from its 2016 E.coli, salmonella and norovirus outbreaks and Wall Street was once again embracing Chipotle stock. However, instead of joining the bulls right away, we decided to…
General Mills Stock Up by a Third in Three Months
General Mills stock plunged by 50% in the second half of 2018, following a decline from its July peak of $72.95. So, when the stock touched $36.42 in late-December most investors were not exactly optimistic about it, to put it mildly. On the other hand, the Elliott Wave analysis of GIS‘ daily price chart, published…
Goldman Sachs to Find Elliott Wave Inspiration
A year ago, in March 2018, Goldman Sachs stock climbed to an all time high of over $275 per share. Unfortunately for the trend-followers, the rest of the year was nothing short of disastrous. GS dipped below $152 in December before closing the year at $167.05 for a total annual loss of 35.2%. The stock…
USDCNH Elliott Wave Pattern Points to Recovery
Less than five months ago, on November 1st 2018, the U.S. dollar climbed to 6.9806 against the Chinese yuan, following a sharp rally from as low as 6.2359 in March. Unfortunately for bulls, USDCNH couldn’t maintain the positive momentum. As of this writing, it is hovering around 6.7200. In order to find out if the…
NZDUSD Bulls Choosing a Path to 0.7000
Less than three months ago, on January 7th, we published an analysis of NZDUSD. It was trading near 0.6750 at the time, following a sharp decline from 0.6970. However, instead of simply extrapolating the selloff into the future, we examined the chart below through an Elliott Wave perspective. And it gave us a few reasons…
MNST Stock Can Lose 25% From Current Levels
Despite the fact that 2018 was the best year in Monster Beverage Corp.‘s history in terms of earnings and revenue, MNST stock was another story. The share price reached an all-time high of $70.22 per share in January 2018, but eventually closed at $49.22 in December. A decline of almost 30%. Obviously, improvements in business…
