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Fibonacci Durations

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Courtesy of Elliott Wave International, and used with permission:

Why We Are Watching 2021

The April Elliott Wave Theorist is a rare video issue on the outlook for three key market sectors – stocks, commodities and interest rates. Editor Robert Prechter delivered this presentation on January 18, 2021. Interest rates have followed the script by rising sharply, and they have more to go. Commodities gained since that time as well. The current price action in the stock market makes now a good time to keep in mind our timing work in that sector.

We’re going to look at a 200-plus year chart of U.S. stocks prices. The data is the Dow Industrial Average going back to the 1880s. Prior to that, it’s data from different indexes that newspapers and other sources kept back in the 1800s.

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