Something extremely exciting to note about this borrowed article is that since their last publication, their wave count and short-term forecasts have conformed exactly to the ones we made two weeks ago! Everything is lining up properly. The Russell has topped, the SPX and the Dow have one more gasp, and the Nasdaq will likely follow the Russell.
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S&P 500: Elliott Wave Forecasts, Simplified
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June 15, 2012
By Elliott Wave International
Here’s what Elliott wave analysis is all about: You study charts to find non-overlapping 5-wave moves (trend-defining) from overlapping 3-wave ones (corrective, countertrend).
With that in mind, please take a look at this chart of the S&P 500, which our U.S. Intraday Stocks Specialty Service (FreeWeek is on now) posted for subscribers at 9:37 AM today (June 14):
Immediately, you can see that the S&P 500 has been moving sideways in a choppy, overlapping manner. That’s the definition of a correction — i.e., that is NOT the trend. The trend, as the U.S. Intraday Stocks Specialty Service editor Tom Prindaville said in the morning market overview, was higher — at least in the short-term:
…sideways-to-up over the very near term will be expected. Simply put, overall higher near-term remains the intraday call — to complete a corrective second wave.
And here’s a chart of the S&P 500 at the close of the market that the Service posted at 3:34 PM on the same day:
To make this bullish forecast, the Service editor Tom Prindaville was simply following the Elliott wave model of market progression. The model called for a completion of the developing wave 2 — in this case, “higher near-term.”
Market corrections — the sideways, choppy moves you see in both charts above — are notoriously hard to forecast. And not every Elliott wave forecast works out. But you do get a real, practical roadmap of the expected market action.
This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline S&P 500: Elliott Wave Forecasts, Simplified. EWI is the world’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.

