Yearly Archives: 2012

Hurricane Sandy overshadowed everything this week as it wreaked its destruction and the power of nature exerted itself over our relatively insignificant worldly concerns, such as the financial markets. Last week we were expecting a turn of 20-week magnitude, which just might have formed this week, although it was a […]

There are times when there is so much to say about what is happening in the markets that I don’t know where to start. This is not one of those times! It has been 20 weeks since the 40-week trough formed in the stock markets in June this year, and […]

We have been very busy this week making information about our FLD Trading Strategy available. If you enjoy analyzing markets according to Hurst’s Cyclic Principles but wonder how you can move from analysis to trading then you absolutely have to look at the FLD Trading Strategy. The FLD is one […]

The markets did just what was expected of them this week: they surrendered to the Bear. I spent the week fishing in the Sibillini mountains in Umbria (Italy), and so I had ample time to think of new ways to examine the markets from a Hurst perspective instead of simply […]

Last week I banged on about the insignificance of the trough that has been forming in many of the markets that we follow. Today I would like to expand upon this topic by discussing why I continue to expect this trough to be insignificant, and describe how that has to […]

In a comment to this week’s Outlook post a Sentient Trader user asked two questions, the answers to which deserve their own post, hence this quick (and hopefully brief) post. Here is the comment from Jeffrey: David, I analyze the markets daily and this week I came upon something interesting. […]

Last week I discussed the likelihood of the formation of a trough in the US markets, a pause as they resignedly join the world trend and turn downwards. The drop early this week confirmed that the markets are turning down, and then the bounce back up on Thursday formed a […]

One of our readers posted some interesting questions about the Euro in the comments to Saturday’s ST Outlook, and instead of cluttering up the comments with a long essay (when I reached 500 words I thought better of it …) I am going to reply here as a separate post. […]

We have some exciting developments in the pipeline at Sentient Trader, and as a part of that our weekly analysis of the markets has moved to a new location on our site. Some of our readers were treated to an omnibus of past issues this week when we made the […]

Last week I presented an argument for an approaching peak in the US markets, and I drew some parrallels with other markets around the world. I also discussed a vital aspect of the cyclic analysis of markets: the concept of relative as opposed to absolute value. This week saw the […]