William Kurtz (wkurtz1)

http://http://www.candlewave.com

The author is a long-time investor, retired attorney and corporate CEO; passed the NASD Series 65 Investment Adviser exam. Here we have for you our FREE Investment Newsletter which is published twice weekly, and also our Action Suggestions which are published three times per week, at http://www.CandleWave.com/ The Action Suggestions cover the major Indexes and provide suggested safety buy and sell stops. They also include a review of Gold, Silver, Crude Oil, five Forex pairs, and each of the Dow Industrials, individually. The Action Suggestions are available on a FREE TRIAL at our website http://www.candlewave.com/ We offer our “Candelaabra” technical analysis system at http://www.candelaabra.com/ Candelaabra excels at ferreting out trend reversals even before they’re born. It’s available on a money-back Guarantee basis in a 30-day Joint Trial of Genesis’ “Trade Navigator” platform and of Candelaabra, together. They’re both available in a single package at the Candelaabra.com website. Jump on this offer and get two fabulous trading tools at the same time – on a money-back Guarantee! You can’t miss! William Kurtz info@candlewave.com CandleWave, LLC

My articles

Black Candlesticks in the Euro and Pound say the Dollar is Alive and Well

Monday, October 26, 2009

Don’t believe the predictions about the “Death of the Dollar.” It is doing just fine against the Canadian ...
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The Final Breaths of the Dying Stock Market Rally

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The stock market High of 2000 was a repeat of the stock market high of 1929, except that in the scale of things ...
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The Party is Over and Candlestick Reversal Patterns Are On The Charts

Friday, August 28, 2009

It has been quite a party since March 10. Since then, the Dow Industrials Average has risen 2702 points (39%) to what ...
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The Joy of Looking: Unearthing New Japanese Candlestick Reversal Patterns

Friday, August 21, 2009

Everybody’s different, but everybody enjoys the satisfaction of finding something of perceived value while on ...
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Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Candlestick price bar in the NASDAQ Composite on Thursday was double-barreled bearish, in that it ...
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The World's General Store Doesn't Sell Candlesticks Like This One

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Today was a crazy day at the races for Wal-Mart shares. They gapped up $1.35 or on opening, promptly descended ...
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Newly Discovered Candlestick Reversal Pattern Pops Up Again

Thursday, August 6, 2009

I believe that it was early in January 2009 when we first took notice of a Candlestick pattern at the top of an ...
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Bearish Engulfing Outside-Down Day Candlestick Pattern May Signal End of the Rally

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The eminent Philosopher-General of the Baseball Diamond, Yogi Berra, has been quoted often as saying that “It ...
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Target: Net Fuel Cost of Zero

Thursday, July 30, 2009

This little treatise was prompted, in the beginning, by recurrent published stories having to do with the airlines’ ...
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Candle Charts Confirm Discovery of Powerful New Candlestick Reversal Pattern

Thursday, July 16, 2009

One of the outstanding attributes of Candlestick analysis is its utilization of candle charts in order to ferret out ...
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A New Candlestick Pattern Just Rode Into Town

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Everyone who is familiar with Japanese Candlesticks knows about the “Morning Star,” because it is one of the most ...
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Gasoline Price Outlook Has Sent You a Candlestick "You Will Feel Better Soon" Card

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Low gasoline prices were a nice Christmas present seven months ago, but – like some Christmas presents – they ...
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This Black Candlestick Has Evil Intent

Saturday, July 4, 2009

The Dow Jones Industrials Index fell out of bed on July 2 on the basis of a terrible unemployment report. In ...
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The Forgotten "Fundamental"

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Here we go again.

Economists and other observers of many persuasions are dead-on certain that the price ...
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This Candlestick "Evening Star" Pattern is a Bearer of Bad Tidings

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

It was surely negative news on June 15, 2009 when the Dow Industrials price bar made an “outside-down” day ...
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Last Christmastime was Pivotal for Treasury Bonds in Candlestick Terms

Friday, June 19, 2009

The weekly charts of U.S. Treasury Bond prices told quite a story in Candlestick language. Specifically, the ...
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Bungee Jumping with the Candlestick Doji: the Crash of 1987 and Today

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Something very unusual just popped up on the charts, and I need to share it with you.

In Candlestick-speak, ...
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Watch Those NASDAQs!

Saturday, June 6, 2009

There is a natural tendency to look to the Dow Jones Industrials Index and to the S&P 500 and 100 as bellwethers of the ...
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Sell Those GM Shares: It's the Right and Proper Thing To Do

Thursday, June 4, 2009

When the Owner of the Business Also Makes the Regulations Under Which the Business is Compelled to Operate

This ...
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Sucker Bait

Sunday, May 17, 2009

“S U C K E R B A I T”

“They’ll Do It Every Time”

“There They Go Again”

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Here ...
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The Yellow Caution Light is On

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Major Indexes fell off hard today soon after opening, and proceeded downhill until about 1 o’clock when ...
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A Quintuple Outside-Down Day by Two Measurements: A Rare Bird

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Evening of May 7, 2009

There was a proliferation of bearish signals throughout the major Indexes today, ...
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GE's Candlestick Fingerprint Foretold the Rally First

Saturday, May 2, 2009

On Friday, March 6, 2009, the Dow Industrials Index left in its wake a “High-Wave Spinning Top” Candlestick bar after ...
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Candlesticks Are Raining On The Roof

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

I wrote earlier about the Candlestick “Hanging Man” pattern in the Weekly charts of the Dow Industrials, the S&P ...
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Candlestick Early Warning II: The Spectacle of a Public Hanging

Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Candlestick price patterns across several major Indexes on March 6, 2009 were “early warnings” of a possible ...
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Candlestick Early Warning: Just Get Me To The Train On Time

Friday, April 24, 2009

On March 6, 2009, the Daily price bar of the Dow Industrials Index was a “High-Wave Spinning Top” in Candlestick ...
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Lift That Bale? The Game May Have Shifted This Morning Before Our Very Eyes

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The price of July Cotton has enjoyed a remarkable run, from a low of 42.22 cents per pound on March 9, 2009 until the ...
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The "Osaka Clipper" Candlestick Pattern Comes Calling

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

On February 5, 6, 9, and 10, 2009 there appeared in the Dow Industrials a four-bar variation of the bearish “Evening ...
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Life Insurance Companies and Bankrupt Shopping Center Developers: Chapter 2 Begins

Friday, April 17, 2009

I’ve written several times in the recent past about the involvement of life insurance companies in shopping center ...
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The Candlesticks and Wave Analysis as Part of Your Personal Financial GPS

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

How’s your financial GPS these days? Do you feel as though you’re swimming in a pool which has no edges, and the ...
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Beware This Candlestick "Hanging Man" in Wells Fargo Shares

Monday, April 13, 2009

Wells Fargo shares sailed up 31.7% last Friday on the strength of unexpectedly good profit numbers, which were ascribed ...
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Germ of an Idea: Private Capital Builds Modern-Day "Roman" Aqueduct in Florida

Saturday, April 11, 2009

The west coast of Florida remains trapped in an ongoing drought. In Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties (Tampa and St. ...
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"What a Revoltin' Development This Is!" - Jimmy Durante

Thursday, April 9, 2009

That was a favorite quote of Jimmy’s, from his early days in television. Later on, there was the “Jimmy Durante ...
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Candlesticks Trounce North Korea's Rocket Science

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Dingdong 2 rocket (a/k/a The Fizzler) is said in some quarters to have placed a satellite in orbit, and that ...
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Dark Chocolate: Too Hot Not To Cool Down

Monday, April 6, 2009

It’s fun, working with Retracements of in-trend price moves. Sometimes they peter out in a hurry; sometimes they go ...
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The Nose Knows

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Over a period of centuries as the English monarchy became less and less absolute, the English system of jurisprudence ...
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The Wrong Choice for a Mandated Firing

Sunday, March 29, 2009

The President has just made a very bad mistake in demanding the resignation of Rick Wagoner as Chairman and CEO of General ...
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Of Dead Gaps, Divergences, and Candlesticks

Friday, March 27, 2009

Of Dead Gaps, Divergences, and Candlesticks

The February 17 price gap in the S&P 500 was filled by the spike on ...
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After 800, The Next Resistance Level Was (and Is) 818.61

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

818.61, to the second decimal.

More precisely, every number from 818.61 to 825.21 is included within the ...
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Dangling by the Candlesticks on the Fib 61.8% Retracement

Monday, March 23, 2009

Dangling by the Candlesticks on the Fib 61.8% Retracement

I go to the movies almost every day. Oh, not the kind ...
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Steaks and Stocks

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Steaks and Stocks

Human nature requires that we try to reduce everything to conform to the rules of the physical ...
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Which Way the Market Now?

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Which Way the Market Now? (“Now” being 8 AM on March 17, 2009)

How long and strong is this limb, anyway? We’re ...
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Still More on Unorthodox Japanese Candlestick Trend Reversal Patterns

Monday, March 16, 2009

Still More on Unorthodox Japanese Candlestick Trend Reversal Patterns

The evidence continues to grow that ...
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The Head and Shoulders Top Formation in Mini-Gold

Monday, March 16, 2009

It is generally understood that a Head and Shoulders Top Formation is often an accurate predictor of future prices. ...
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Unorthodox Japanese Reversal Patterns Deserve Recognition in Their Own Right As Powerful Predictors of Trend Change

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

More on Unorthodox Candlestick Reversal Patterns

On Friday, March 6, 2009, after a very long and disheartening ...
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Airplanes do not like to fly; so when fuel runs out and engines stop, gravity takes over and brings the airplane back to earth.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Airplanes Are Reluctant Flyers

There is this to be understood about airplanes: they don’t like to fly.

They ...
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Candlesticks plus Indicators foretold the downturn in Gold prices.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Japanese Candlestick Patterns and Indicator Patterns Correctly Predicted the Downturn in Gold

Stock prices and ...
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Watch That Triangle!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

A triangle appears to be forming in the S&P 500, and also in the Dow Industrials. We always sit up and take notice ...
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DAX and Gold - Did an Ongoing Correlation Begin in 2003 - a Correlation Which Persists To This Day?

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

From 1991 through the first quarter of 1996, the price of Gold ranged between $579 and $659. From mid-1996 to early ...
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Dr. Porsche's 1,001 Horsepower

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

In the early days of the automobile, Ferdinand Porsche, himself an Austrian, served as a designer at the Daimler motorcar ...
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The Euro Collapses, Just As The Candlesticks Said It Would

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

It was written in the Bars, and we know the culprits: Double Tops and Candlesticks. Over the past 14 weeks, the Euro ...
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Suicide by Zipper

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Suicide by Zipper

“He smiteth me sorely, for the wrath of righteousness was within him; but the Lord ...
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A Ricochet Dance in the NASDAQ, then Breakout Downhill

Sunday, March 9, 2008

The NASDAQ Combined Composite Index topped at 2861.51 on October 31, 2007. The Weekly chart (which included October ...
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