Like a detective puts together a picture of a crime one small detail at a time, so does a careful trader "build a case" for a confident market setup. Watch our Commodity Junctures editor, Jeffrey Kennedy, walk you through a chart of cocoa to show you how he does it.

There are no guarantees in financial markets, and Elliott wave analysis likewise deals only in probabilities, not certainties. Sometimes, two opposing wave counts on a price chart appear equally likely. Watch our Crypto Pro Service guide walk you through Cardano's recent wave juncture to offer a practical way to pick the right count.

"If this bull market is 'unstoppable,' then how come so many sectors have stopped going up?" That's the question the co-editor of our monthly Financial Forecast answers in this new video. Watch.

Back in June, several measures showed strong fear among Bitcoin traders. As we've shown before, extreme fear or greed often send the opposite signal. See how Bitcoin's "terrifying moment" two months ago was really a bullish alert in disguise -- and watch our Crypto Pro Service editor explain the message of today's sentiment.

You buy -- and prices fall. You sell -- and prices rally. "It's like someone's trying to take my money!" Every trader knows the feeling. The truth is, chances are, you just got caught up in a market correction, and its name is "expanded flat." Watch our Intraday Commodity Pro Service explain how to capitalize on it. (DB Commodity Index Fund and cocoa in focus.)

Headed into the pandemic, the S&P 500 and corporate bonds rose in lockstep. But then, right before the March 2020 stock market crash, corporate bonds began to diverge -- and stocks followed lower. See what the current position of stocks vs. corporate debt suggests next for both.

ESG debt -- or debt for Environmental, Social and Governance initiatives -- is hot. This year alone, ~$50 billion worth of ESG debt has been sold in Europe alone. But remember that the first-ever Climate Awareness Bond was issued in 2007, the year of a major financial peak. Our European Financial Forecast editor explains the parallels to today.

In the Land Down Under, consumer expectations have just hit another high. Sounds bullish, right? Actually, sentiment extremes, bullish or bearish, often carry a contrarian message. Our Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast editor explains.

Traders and investors are well aware that no forecasting method is perfect. Yet, as EWI Senior FX Analyst Michael Madden explains, you don't have to sit in the dark -- you can "turn the lights on" by using Elliott Wave analysis. See how Michael did so, via his Bitcoin example.

EWI analyst Christopher Carolan says the answer may well be YES. He makes the case via weekly and daily Nikkei charts, including Elliott Wave labels. Chris also shows the Dollar/Yen exchange rate as a highly relevant indicator (it does indeed support what the Elliott pattern is telling us).