By Elliott Wave International
Price volatility in stocks and other instruments has been stunning the past few weeks. The VIX chart from the August 28 Elliott Wave Short Term Update puts the massive moves in perspective:
Short Term Update editor Steve Hochberg writes:
“This chart of the 5-day percentage change in the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) shows [you] the explosiveness of Monday’s [Aug. 24] range, as the percentage change shot to a record extreme for the index’s 25-year history…
“In a section titled ‘Here Comes the Volatility,’ the July issue of [our] Elliott Wave Financial Forecast (see p. 7) said that an ‘era of low volatility will be replaced by head-spinning stock market moves that will shake global stock markets to their foundation.”
This stunning spike in volatility came on the heels of the forecast Bob Prechter, Elliott Wave International’s president, made in his new Elliott Wave Theorist on August 19, one day before the bottom fell out:
“As shown in this issue, time and price factors call for an immediate end to this dream state. It will be pandemonium in the stock market.
“Time and price events have cleared the way for a stunning decline in US stock prices.”
You can see what happened next:
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