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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Seeking the Perfect Wave


Weston Wellington, Vice President, Dimensional Fund Advisors


New York Times columnist Jeff Sommer, acknowledging recently that he found himself in a "buoyant mood" due to the steady rise in stock prices, sought out someone with a gloomier assessment of the financial markets to provide a counterweight to what he feared could be excessive optimism.

He turned to Robert Prechter, a veteran market analyst who has published The Elliott Wave Theorist in Gainesville, Georgia, since 1979. As Mr. Sommer reported last week in the Times, Mr. Prechter's investment outlook is "as bleak as an ice storm." Based on his interpretation of cyclical wave patterns that he discerns in both financial markets and "social moods," Mr. Prechter believes the current rally is only a minor upswing within a much larger, longer, and punishing downtrend that will "lead the unwary to ruin."

Market forecasters are often accused of doubletalk, couching their predictions in such convoluted language that they can later claim success regardless of the outcome. At least there is little doubt where Mr. Prechter stands—he sees disaster ahead and has been saying so for quite a long time.

In an earlier interview with the New York Times in July 2010, Mr. Prechter suggested the US stock market had entered a decline of "staggering proportions" that would likely see the Dow Jones Industrial Average—9686 at the time—fall well below 1000 over the next five or six years. Although the Dow has surged over 27% since that time to close at 12391 on February 18, Mr. Prechter is unperturbed and argues that the outlook is "much more dangerous today than it was last summer."

Perhaps Mr. Prechter will be proven right. But if not, he appears to have ample reserves of both patience and conviction. If his grim vision of deflation and depression sounds familiar, it should—he was making similar arguments in his book At the Crest of the Tidal Wave, first published in 1995.

Mr. Prechter has made some prescient market calls in the past—notably in the 1982–1987 bull market—but success since that time has proved more elusive. If only we could determine when to follow the advice of a market soothsayer and when to ignore it, we could be exponentially wealthier. But timing the market timers appears to be no easier than timing the market itself.


Jeff Sommer. "Writing 'Danger' in Ever-Larger Letters," New York Times, February 20, 2011.
Jeff Sommer. "A Market Forecast That Says 'Take Cover'" New York Times, July 3, 2010.
Robert R. Prechter Jr., At the Crest of the Tidal Wave (Gainesville, GA: New Classics Library, 1995).
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration - Twitter Founder, Jack Dorsey at Stanford University Entrepreneurship Corner

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Marco Pantani Died 14 February 2004, Age 34

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Friday, February 04, 2011

Gordon Murray, Dies at 60: New York Times

By DENNIS HEVESI Published: January 20, 2011
Gordon S. Murray, a former Wall Street executive who chose not to go quietly into the night, writing and publishing himself a popular paperback guide for ordinary investors while he was struggling with terminal cancer, died Saturday at his home in Burlingame, Calif., days before his book was scheduled to come out in hardcover. He was 60. 
 
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Among the book’s suggestions:
Choose funds that invest in broad market indexes and do not try to pick the stocks or bonds in those indexes that might do better than all the others. As many advisers suggest, divide money among stocks and bonds, big and small, but further subdivide between foreign and domestic, since markets outside the United States may grow faster in coming decades. 
Book: The Investment Answer. 
 
Ron Lieber's New York Times article “A Dying Banker's Last Instructions”
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