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Avi Gilburt

Avi Gilburt

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Avi Gilburt is a widely followed Elliott Wave market analyst and founder of ElliottWave Trader, a live trading room and member forum focusing on Elliott Wave market analysis. He is best known for the "Fibonacci Pinball," a standardized method to trade waves 3-5 with extraordinary accuracy once waves 1 and 2 in place. His method has been called by some as "the single most useful addition to the Elliott Wave lexicon" and "one of the most profound discoveries in EW analysis." Since Gilburt began providing his analysis to the public, he has made some spectacular market calls which has earned him the reputation of being one of the best technical analysts in the world. His Elliott Wave analysis appears frequently on sites such as MarketWatch, Minyanville, and SeekingAlpha, where he is a certified contributor. He has been the #1-read metals analyst for most of the 6 years he has been a contributor on Seeking Alpha and is consistently among the top-followed contributors to MarketWatch.

MOST NOTABLE MARKET CALLS

  • He called the top in the gold market during its parabolic phase in 2011, with an ideal target of $1,915. gold hit a high of $1,921 and pulled back for over 4 years since that time.

  • In July of 2011, he called for the USD to begin a multi-year rally from the 74 regions to an ideal target of 103.53. In January of 2017, the DXY struck 103.82 and began a pullback expected by Avi.

  • One of his most shocking calls in the stock market was his call in 2015 for the S&P 500 to rally from the 1800SPX region to the 2600SPX region.


CAREER

  • He emphasizes a comprehensive reading of charts and wave counts that is free of personal bias or predisposition.

  • He is a popular speaker at financial forums and conferences both in the U.S. and abroad.

  • He has been a speaker at The Traders Expo and Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada conference.

  • He is an accountant and lawyer by training. Before retiring from his legal career, he was a Partner and National Director at a major national firm.

  • Throughout his legal career, he spearheaded a number of acquisition transactions worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in value.