{"id":10109,"date":"2010-06-09T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:54:01","slug":"prechter-called-the-uptrend-out-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/06\/09\/prechter-called-the-uptrend-out-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Prechter Called the Uptrend &#8216;Out&#8217; in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Elliott Wave  International <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Even non-sports fans have heard by now about the recent  debacle                 known as <em>Baseballgate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With two outs in the ninth inning, a first-base umpire  called &#8220;SAFE&#8221; when                 the runner was clearly &#8220;OUT.&#8221; But this was no ordinary                 missed call; it cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando  Galarraga                 a perfect game.<\/p>\n<p>And as the blogosphere flooded with memories of other  historic                 slip-ups that cost &#8220;so and so&#8221; star &#8220;this and                 that&#8221; honor. Demands for the commissioner of baseball to                 reverse the bad call grew louder by the hour.<\/p>\n<p>It was indeed a very bad call. But the <strong>b<\/strong>iggest,  <strong>b<\/strong>addest <strong>c<\/strong>all                 of all was not made on a sports field. It was made in  the field                 of finance &#8212; specifically on the stock market. To wit:  The mainstream                 umpires of finance stood near first base, and in April  made this                 emphatic call for the uptrend in stocks:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>SAFE!!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa112&amp;dy=aa060910&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/iie\/iiebook_b.aspx?code=29982%26articleid=1504\">Call                  Your Own Shots &#8212; Remove Dangerous Mainstream  Assumptions from                     Your Investment Process.<\/a><\/strong> Elliott Wave  International&#8217;s                     FREE, 118-page Independent Investor eBook shows you  exactly                     what moves markets and what doesn&#8217;t. You might be  surprised                     to discover it&#8217;s not the Fed or  &#8220;surprise&#8221; news                     events. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa112&amp;dy=aa060910&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/iie\/iiebook_b.aspx?code=29982%26articleid=1504\">Click                    here to learn more and download your free, 118-page  ebook.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed the event, here&#8217;s an instant replay:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><em>&#8220;Stocks Remain In A Powerful Bull Market.&#8221; <\/em>(April                    10 <em>Bloomberg<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Stocks Haven&#8217;t Lost Their Appeal As The Market                     Goes Up, Up, And Away.&#8221; <\/em>(April 21 US News &amp;  World                     Report)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;You can use any number of words to describe  this                     bull market. Frothy is not one of them. This market  is reasonably                     priced.&#8221; <\/em>(April 21 AP)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;US Stocks Post Longest Winning Streak Since  2004.                     The recovery should be sustainable and that will  drive the                     market.&#8221; <\/em>(April 24 Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;All the economic reports are pointing up&#8230;  despite                     lingering worries over debt problems in Greece.  Right now,                     there is virtually no evidence of a top.&#8221; <\/em>(April                      30 USA Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yet from its April 26 peak, the DJIA turned down in a  jaw-dropping                 1000-plus point selloff. The market suffered its worst  May since                 1940.<\/p>\n<p>The markets have no commissioner to reverse the bad  call of                 the financial mainstream. But at least one team of  analysts remained                 ahead of the most game-changing moves in the world&#8217;s  leading                 stock market, including a forecast that called the rally  &#8220;OUT&#8221; in                 April 2010. Consider the following insight from EWI  President                 Robert Prechter:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On April 16<\/strong>, Prechter published his  April <em>Elliott                   Wave Theorist <\/em>titled &#8220;&#8221;Deadly Bearish Picture.&#8221;  Notice                   the dates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>We can project a top&#8230;between April 15 and May  7,                   2010<\/em><em>.\u00a0It is rare to have technical indicators                     all lined up on one side of the ledger. They were  lined up                     this way &#8212; on the bullish side &#8212; in late  February-early March                     of 2009. Today, they are just as aligned, but on the  bearish                     side.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>April 26 marks the high for the DJIA, followed by the  devastating                 drop on May 7 &#8212; <strong>exactly within the date range  Prechter&#8217;s                 forecast called for<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa112&amp;dy=aa060910&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/iie\/iiebook_b.aspx?code=29982%26articleid=1504\">Call                  Your Own Shots &#8212; Remove Dangerous Mainstream  Assumptions from                     Your Investment Process.<\/a><\/strong> Elliott Wave  International&#8217;s                     FREE, 118-page Independent Investor eBook shows you  exactly                     what moves markets and what doesn&#8217;t. You might be  surprised                     to discover it&#8217;s not the Fed or  &#8220;surprise&#8221; news                     events. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa112&amp;dy=aa060910&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/iie\/iiebook_b.aspx?code=29982%26articleid=1504\">Click                    here to learn more and download your free, 118-page  ebook.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave  International.                     EWI is the world&#8217;s largest market forecasting firm.  Its staff                     of full-time analysts lead by Chartered Market  Technician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertprechter.com\/\">Robert                     Prechter<\/a> 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>The markets have no commissioner to reverse the bad call of the financial mainstream. 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