Are You Ready for This?
Desperately Seeking Stability
At the worst of the two-year dot.com bust, the NASDAQ registered a 78% peak to trough decline. In the following five-years spanning 2002-2007, though the market came nowhere near reclaiming its former value, it nonetheless posted a 158% five-year trough to peak bull market return.
Casting aside technical's, given the current set of general fundamentals it is plausible that we may be in the midst of a four-year bear market that can feasibly take the NASDAQ down 64% from its 2007 recovery high, and marginally taking out the 2002 low in process. If such a scenario plays out, we could then anticipate arriving at a sustainable base sometime in the 2011 period.
Thereafter, a four-year bull market could rally the index by over 100% trough to peak into the 2015 timeframe. Such an accomplishment would be another substantial bull market recovery even though the market crest may be well below its 2007 peak.
Following a plausible 100% bull market recovery in the future, does your financial advisor have portfolio contingency plans should another five-year 75% bear market then express itself into the 2020 timeframe?
Did you or your advisor have such contingency assurances in place at the peak of dot.com mania, or at the subsequent failure of the 2007 top? If the answer is no to any of these questions, it is time to take full responsibility, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, get on the ball, and stay there.
Assurance and Accountability
At Elliott Wave Technology, we maintain and exercise permanent contingency
plans for every possible market outcome. Should the above what-if scenario
play out, we are prepared to profit from it. Should the market suddenly skyrocket
back up to 5000 and beyond, we have similar contingency plans to join in
such a party.
There is simply no excuse for any individual or advisor not to get out of the way, or fail to participate in major bull or bear market events. Unless an advisor or manager is unfairly constrained to a fully invested long-only protocol, benchmark comparisons highlighting losses less than those of the broad market do not provide an acceptable level of accountability for failure to take prudential action.
Bottom line - Be Ready for EVERYTHING
At the end of the day, each individual investor is responsible for his or her
own funds, and to whom he or she entrusts to manage those funds. The first
order of the day should be "do no harm", meaning that whatever you do, do
not lose substantial amounts of money over relevant timeframes. The second
order is to grow, protect, and preserve speculative capital in a prudential
and consistent manner.
Power to the People
When it comes to the major broad market indices, Elliott Wave Technology is
ready for EVERYTHING, are you? Bear in mind, we do not make millions managing
funds, but instead are modestly compensated for providing an efficiently
organized impartial framework from which self-directed investors can get
the job done right by themselves.
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Author: Joseph Russo
Joseph Russo
Chief Editor and Technical Analyst
Elliott Wave Technology
Since the dot.com bubble, 911, and the 2002 market crash, Elliott Wave Technology's mission remains the delivery of valuable solutions-based services that empower clients to execute successful trading and investment decisions in all market environments.
Joe Russo is an entrepreneurial publisher and market analyst providing digital online media solutions designed to assist traders and investors in prudently and profitably navigating their exposure to the financial markets.
Since the official launch of his Elliott Wave Technology website in 2005, he has established an outstanding record of accomplishment, including but not limited to, ...
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On May 6 of 2007, five months prior to the market top in 2007, though still bullish at that time, he publicly warned long-term investors not to be fooled again, in "Bullish Like There's No Tomorrow."
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On March 10 of 2008, with another 48% of downside remaining to the bottom of the great bear market of 2008-2009, in "V-for Vendetta," using the Wilshire 5000 as proxy, he publicly laid out the case for the depth and amplitude of the unfolding bear market, which marked terminal to a rather nice long-run in equity values.
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For the benefit of members and his general readership, he responded to widespread levels of economic and financial uncertainty in the development of Prudent Measures in 2012.
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