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I am writing to you as you initiated this great thread, and because I suspect you have had a lot of good fortune following EW principals. I, on the other hand have not, and am currently very unsure in how to continue my relationship with the EW principals and would very much welcome a reply/some advice on my experience.
I began subscribing to Elliott Wave (Precter) a month short of 2 years ago. I was immensely impressed with their views and understanding of their take on world events, and how they predicted through the EW pattens, the future direction of various markets.
In July/August/September/2009 and many other months subsequently, they predicted that the landscape for investors would be no less than horrific by the close of 2010 in the US. Their prediction was that the US would be in a position of such financial ruin, it was hard to conceive. Their strength and conviction of writing in EWFF (Elliott Wave Financial Forecast) and in the Theorist, was impactful enough to make me seriously sit up and listen. I agreed with their theory and I still do. But the facts have far from unfolded as they predicted.
For example in July 2009, they advised their clients to sell Gold and Silver, when Silver was trading around $15 an oz. (now $40odd) and as I am sure you know, they advised to sell all US shares one may hold, all based on the charts using the EW Theory. In fact not just to sell them but to short them, to go double short, and to go short again since I took membership. They have also advised to buy and hold the US dollar over other currencies, as the safest and surest way to deal with the imminent coming meltdown based on these EW predictions.
I followed their advice to various degrees. I did sell my gold and silver bullion, I have shorted the market and sold my commodity shares. I did also buy $US.
Needless to say, as every reader will know, there could not have been any worse advice than this in the past 2 years, and the consequences of my actions are now extremely regrettable to me.
I have followed your thread and you seem to have made a lot of very good calls based on Elliott Wave patterns - calls different from Hochberg/Precter and yet they are supposed to be the 'eminent' of the Theory.
Firstly I have to ask you if you believe their ultimate predictions and outcome to be correct based on the EW patterns.
If you do, how can 2 years be an acceptable time lag in understanding the EW patterns when we are dealing with predictions individuals organize their finances around and for example follow their calls as I have over the past two years (while they are misreading the pattern) which throw up catastrophic loses that can potentially leave you insolvent by the time their predictions comes to fruition? I would also be most grateful to hear from any other Elliott Wave subscribers in the UK on this subject/similar/or for any other reason at all.