To: Gary105 who wrote (88088 ) 6/18/2009 7:35:31 AM From: GROUND ZERO™ Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 94695 Let me begin with a little history about who Robert Prechter is... about 30 years ago Robert Prechter claimed the DOW will top out at 4000 and will never rally above there ever again, he was obviously wrong, and he has been calling for the top all his life and ever since, he has always been proven wrong as the market makes new all time highs after each economic downturn... his work is based on his elliot wave theory which has long since been debunked, although there are still a huge number of people who like to use that method... if you listen to them talk about these waves, you'll hear them discuss and debate among themselves about how a wave should be labeled this or that, they never seem to agree on anything, although they claim to have rules... they can talk about where the markets have been, but never where it's going, they offer absolutely no time frames or price levels in advance of the market...... I find it to be a primitive and pseudo intellectual approach to market timing, now that might piss some people off but I'm being very candid here... Anyhow, I probably said more than you asked about... but, to answer your question about Prechter, I think he's clueless... if he's right, then so is a broken clock right twice every day... but still, I wanted to give you some history so you have a sense for who Prechter is and his historic claims... Frankly, I also have no clue about where these markets are going, I follow a very near term trading model which is highly reliable for me, I'll never know if a small bounce is actually THE bottom or just good for a day or two... the same for my sell signals, I don't know if we're looking at a small pull back or a major top like we had last September... My gut guess is that these markets will eventually move higher again, the question is how long will it take? I hope that was helpful to some degree... GZ