EWI Insight

By Elliott Wave International

What's EWI Insight about?

Tired of financial pundits who talk so much yet say so little? Every trading day, get the real story behind the market’s action from the world’s largest independent technical analysis firm.

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EWI Insight episodes:

03.19.2020
Put 3 Experts in Your Corner
Hello, Elliott wavers, and welcome to the final episode of EWI Insight. When we launched the podcast on January 21, the Dow was trading above 29,000. Yesterday it closed below 20,000. Oil fell to an 18-year low. Gold, silver and the...
03.18.2020
Bear Market Business Opportunities
Let's talk about business opportunities in a bear market. Bear markets, recessions and depressions test the resolve of most businesses and business owners, but they also present a unique set of tangible and psychological needs that astute entrepreneurs can satisfy. Could...
03.17.2020
Impotent Directors
The Fed makes a second emergency rate cut and the market just doesn't care. First, let's get this out of the way. The Fed didn't act. It reacted. The yield on 3-month Treasuries had been falling fast, and the Fed...
03.16.2020
Crisis Hedges
A lot of people think gold, silver and, more recently, cryptocurrency are so-called "crisis hedges," assets you can own that supposedly will do well if there were to be an economic or financial crisis. Well, stocks, gold, silver and the...
03.13.2020
Uncharted Territory
The rout continues. And you may have started to see the new buzz phrase in the financial media, and that is that the stock market is in so-called "uncharted territory." What a crock. The Elliott Wave Theorist literally charted the path...
03.12.2020
Free Forecast
There's so much confusion out there. People want to know what's going on in the stock market. And we want to help. So, we decided to make the entire U.S. stocks section from the latest issue of The Elliott Wave...
03.11.2020
Oil
The oil market has seen some huge moves. A 30% dive Sunday night. But what's happened in oil this year is so much bigger than that. In January, oil was $64 a barrel. It hit $27.34 intraday on Monday, so...
03.10.2020
U.S. Stocks
What a day we had yesterday. Circuit breakers triggered on the NYSE, oil plunges, rates down, global stocks down. If you were not ready for these moves, your pulse is probably through the roof. But that's the difference between Elliotticians...
03.09.2020
Mainstream's Mess of Explanations
One of the themes we hit on EWI Insight is that the reasons the media gives you for the markets' moves aren't explanations at all but merely rationalizations. That truth gets laid bare in volatile markets. They never know what's...
03.06.2020
Volatility
A hundred S&P; points here, a hundred S&P; points there. These are some wild times in the markets. And describing the markets as "volatile" doesn't really do them justice. So if you're riding these waves, I hope you have your...
03.05.2020
Afghanistan
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, one of the manifestations of the same negative social mood trend that burst the dot-com bubble. More than 16,000 Dow points later, the U.S. decided to give peace a chance last week, a...
03.04.2020
Emergency Rate Cut
Let's talk about the Fed's so-called emergency rate cut yesterday. We're being told that this is a revolutionary, proactive move that puts the Fed at the vanguard of central bank policymaking. But that could hardly be further from the truth. If...
03.03.2020
Buy and Hold
We had a bit of a respite from the global selloff yesterday. Equities rebounded, which makes it a good time to talk about some articles we're starting to see in the media. We see these articles whenever the market heads...
03.02.2020
Deflation
With the global selloff, deflation has popped back into the news. You may have seen stories about it the past couple weeks in the New York Times, the Telegraph, Barron's -- to name a few. Deflation is a topic that...
02.28.2020
Halt
Did you hear what happened on the TSX? Trading halted at the Toronto Stock Exchange a little after 2 Eastern yesterday due to what's being described as "a problem with order entry." The outage affected the main exchange, the Venture...
02.27.2020
Disney
The House of Mouse has a new leader. Bob Iger is out as Disney’s CEO. He’d held the position since 2005. During his tenure, he grew Disney’s empire with acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21stCentury Fox. He expanded the...
02.26.2020
China
Pop quiz. Can you think of a major equity index that's above its January high? There's only one: the Shenzhen Composite Index in China, a country at the epicenter of the disease outbreak that we're told is responsible for sending...
02.25.2020
Global Stocks
Have you hit the panic button yet? Selloff in global equities yesterday. And what's behind the selloff? From the perspective of the Elliott wave model, action in global equities both prior to and during yesterday's selloff was entirely normal. EWI's...
02.24.2020
Ethereum
The crypto markets still have some drama left in the tank. When you hear about a market making a double top or double bottom, check in on the wave count because you might find a big opportunity that folks who...
02.21.2020
U.S. Stocks
In less than 45 minutes, the Dow dove 400 points off the day's high, throwing the financial media into a frenzy. They went looking for causes, and there were none to be found. EWI's Financial Forecast Service gives you the...
02.20.2020
Gold Sentiment
Let's talk sentiment in the gold market. There's been a lot of excitement surrounding gold lately. And when a technical analyst detects a tide of enthusiasm in a market, it gives you pause. Does the enthusiasm signal that we're getting...
02.19.2020
Elections
Back in 2016, there were editorials aplenty about how a Donald Trump win would be terrible for the stock market. When you look at all the history and adjust for outliers, the stock market has done about the same under...
02.18.2020
Deflation
Are the stocks of small companies likely to provide shelter from deflation? As The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast observed all the way back in the December 2009 issue, small firms "are also less well capitalized and thus susceptible to price...
02.14.2020
Epidemics
Conventional wisdom says epidemics should make the stock market go down, but we looked at more than 150 years of history and found that epidemics are most likely to occur toward major lows in the stock market or shortly thereafter. What...
02.13.2020
Cash
Cash is trash. That's the message from the founder of one of the world's largest hedge funds, who says essentially that speculators should be all-in, invested in a diversified mix of stocks, stocks and more stocks. When you hear the...
02.12.2020
Pot Stocks
Pot stocks have gone up in smoke. You may have seen articles in the news about how some pot companies have something like just months of capital left. You might think, "Markets are near record highs. Shouldn't this be a...
02.11.2020
Parasite
Spoiler alert. The Oscar for Best Picture went to Parasite. If you know its director’s reputation, then you know that his movies are famous for sudden shifts in mood. You think he’s telling you one kind of story, headed down...
02.10.2020
Coronavirus
The coronavirus narrative is still kicking in the financial press. Look, we’re used to the media pointing to any news item at all to explain moves in financial markets, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a single event...
02.07.2020
Middle East
Alright, check your politics at the door. We’re talking about a pair of Middle Eastern markets today: the Palestine Stock Exchange Al Quds Index and Israel’s Tel Aviv 125. Now the trends in these two indexes could hardly be more...
02.06.2020
Bitcoin
The cryptocurrency markets are no strangers to big moves and in recent weeks—and really over the past year—we’ve seen that although the Bitcoin bubble is well past its peak, there’s still plenty of drama to be had in the crypto...
02.05.2020
Trump
Today the Senate plans to vote in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. We’ve been tracking Donald Trump’s prospects to stay in office on socionomics.net. Historically the stock market has been a reliable indicator of how a presidential removal vote in the...
02.04.2020
Shanghai Composite
Chinese stocks got slammed in Monday's session. The Shanghai Composite was down nearly 8%. 8% in a single day for an equity index. That is huge. That'd be like the Dow losing 2,200 points in a day. So all the...
02.03.2020
Earnings
Let's make this a myth-busting Monday. "Earnings drive stock prices." How many times have you heard that? Dozens of times, right? It seems logical, but is it true? Well, one problem is that quarterly earnings reports document companies' earnings from...
01.31.2020
Brexit
Today is Brexit Day. The UK begins its withdrawal from the EU, embarking on an 11-month transition. Now for the past three years we’ve heard all about how Britain’s departure from the European Union would impact stocks and economies in...
01.30.2020
Interest Rates
Yesterday was Fed day. Were you sitting on the edge of your seat, biting your nails, hardly able to breathe until you found out the Fed’s rate decision? Well, that’s what a lot of traders do, but around here we...
01.29.2020
Global Trade
President Trump is planning to sign the USMCA today. The agreement replaces NAFTA. And, of course, Phase 1 of the U.S.-China trade agreement got signed a couple weeks ago. Now for the better part of two years, the media’s blamed...
01.28.2020
U.S. Stocks
We had a significant day in the stock market yesterday. U.S. equities down. We saw the strongest downside breadth on the NYSE since August. Wow. VIX had its highest close since October. The Dow shed 453 points, closing down 1.57%,...
01.27.2020
Tesla
Alright, let’s talk Tesla. The stock tripled over the past eight months. It’s market cap eclipsed GM and Ford combined. Now, was it the Cybertruck? China? Elon Musk’s striptease? I mean, surely there’s someone out there who thinks it’s because...
01.23.2020
Crude Oil
From its high a couple weeks ago, oil’s down 14%, about 6% this week alone. The narrative in the news is all about oversupply, coronavirus fears. Learn why that approach is all wrong…
01.22.2020
Hang Seng
The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong has seen some big moves this week. From Monday’s open to Tuesday’s close, the index fell 4%. Coronavirus got the blame, but the market’s plunge had nothing to do with the virus.
01.21.2020
Coronavirus
You’ve probably seen the headlines about the coronavirus outbreak in China. The CDC has now confirmed that the virus has reached the U.S. There’s concern out there about a potential epidemic. I’ve even seen some recent market action blamed on...

What's EWI Insight about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

EWI Insight episodes:

Put 3 Experts in Your Corner

Bear Market Business Opportunities

Impotent Directors

Crisis Hedges

Uncharted Territory

Free Forecast

Oil

U.S. Stocks

Mainstream's Mess of Explanations

Volatility

Afghanistan

Emergency Rate Cut

Buy and Hold

Deflation

Halt

Disney

China

Global Stocks

Ethereum

U.S. Stocks

Gold Sentiment

Elections

Deflation

Epidemics

Cash

Pot Stocks

Parasite

Coronavirus

Middle East

Bitcoin

Trump

Shanghai Composite

Earnings

Brexit

Interest Rates

Global Trade

U.S. Stocks

Tesla

Crude Oil

Hang Seng

Coronavirus