{"id":103150,"date":"2017-03-09T18:32:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=103150"},"modified":"2017-03-09T18:32:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:32:27","slug":"the-trump-bump-was-in-the-cards-long-before-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/03\/the-trump-bump-was-in-the-cards-long-before-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Trump Bump&#8221; Was in the Cards LONG Before Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-908872338\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">March 9, 2017<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><h3 style=\"margin-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">How to breach limitations of conventional market forecasting <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Elliott Wave International<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[Editor&#8217;s Note: The text version of the story is below.]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"LimelightEmbeddedPlayer\"><script src=\"\/\/video.limelight.com\/player\/embed.js\"><\/script><object id=\"limelight_player_894379\" class=\"LimelightEmbeddedPlayerFlash\" data=\"\/\/video.limelight.com\/player\/loader.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" name=\"limelight_player_894379\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/video.limelight.com\/player\/loader.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"mediaId=80e6e5c66ae34e478b2b642c608d113c&amp;playerForm=Player\" \/><\/object><script>LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed('limelight_player_894379');<\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Get the Free Elliott Wave Tutorial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn how you can apply the Wave Principle to improve your trading and investing in this free 10-lesson tutorial. You&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What the basic Elliott wave progression looks like<\/li>\n<li>Difference between impulsive and corrective waves<\/li>\n<li>How to estimate the length of waves<\/li>\n<li>How Fibonacci numbers fit into wave analysis<\/li>\n<li>Practical application tips for the method<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa671&amp;dy=aa030317&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/en\/Free-Reports\/Elliott-Wave-Tutorial\"><strong>Get Details and Instant Access<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a tough time for the stock market bears.<\/p>\n<p>You just have to look at these recent headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. stock futures hit fresh highs (Marketwatch, Feb. 20)<\/li>\n<li>Stocks post best winning streak in 25 years (CNN Money, Feb. 16)<\/li>\n<li>Stocks Continue Record-Breaking Run (Nasdaq.com, Feb. 15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a result, a prominent Canadian market participant has thrown in the towel (zerohedge.com, Feb. 17):<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">The CEO of Fairfax Financial &#8230; announced that he is covering his firm&#8217;s equity hedges after suffering a $1.1 billion net loss on its investments in Q4, and $1.2 billion for all of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>But the financial pain hardly ends there. Look at this chart with comments from the Wall Street Journal (Feb. 16):<\/p><div id=\"inves-442025162\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/Stocks\/-\/media\/9AE15032E9B6465FAEBD7D9DB03C4210.ashx\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"792\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">It is the buzz of Wall Street: a five-day, 15% plunge in a U.S. mutual fund whose bearish bets were undone by the S&amp;P 500&#8217;s latest run to fresh records.<\/p>\n<p>Many market commentators say stocks have been rising because of the new administration&#8217;s policies (Yahoo Finance, Feb. 20):<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">Much of the post-US election rally in the stock market has been attributed to President Donald Trump&#8217;s promises for tax cuts and deregulation.<\/p>\n<p>But long before the election, Elliott wave price patterns already told our subscribers to prepare for a market rally.<\/p>\n<p>Our just-published February <em>Elliott Wave Theorist<\/em> reviews several charts we published early in 2016. Here&#8217;s one of those charts along with commentary from the new <em>Elliott Wave Theorist<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/Stocks\/-\/media\/73E083A28AE94CCB8BCF19B7A4848D9A.ashx\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">The January and February 2016 issues of <em>The Elliott Wave Theorist<\/em>, written as stocks were plunging in highly volatile fashion, called for a bottom and labeled the stock indexes as having finished A, B and C of wave (4), a corrective formation dating back to the high of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, our analysis revealed that the market was starting the next leg up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table class=\"body\" style=\"border: solid 5px #EAEAEA; padding: 10px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<h3>Get the Free Elliott Wave Tutorial<\/h3>\n<p>Learn how you can apply the Wave Principle to improve your trading and investing in this free 10-lesson tutorial. You&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What the basic Elliott wave progression looks like<\/li>\n<li>Difference between impulsive and corrective waves<\/li>\n<li>How to estimate the length of waves<\/li>\n<li>How Fibonacci numbers fit into wave analysis<\/li>\n<li>Practical application tips for the method<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa671&amp;dy=aa030317&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/en\/Free-Reports\/Elliott-Wave-Tutorial\"><strong>Get Details and Instant Access<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; border-top: solid 1px #CCCCCC;\"><em>This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa671&amp;dy=aa030317&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/Stocks\/The-Trump-Bump-Was-in-the-Cards-LONG-Before-T\"><strong>The &#8220;Trump Bump&#8221; Was in the Cards LONG Before Trump<\/strong><\/a>. EWI is the world&#8217;s largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to breach limitations of conventional market forecasting By Elliott Wave International [Editor&#8217;s Note: The text version of the story is below.] Get the Free Elliott Wave Tutorial Learn how you can apply the Wave Principle to improve your trading and investing in this free 10-lesson tutorial. 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