I began studying Robert Prechters work in 1986, met him in early 1987, and then saw him predict the 1987 crash just 3 days before it happened.

Now, he is saying that the last time the stock market looked like this....was just before that crash in 87. And as I have shared before, his forecast for the Dow is 400.....that is not a typo...400.

While I don't share his views entirely (but I do think the floor on the Dow may be as low as 3000), I agree entirely on his 1987 comparision. The news that almost no one is talking about is the re-emergence of the crisis in Europe. Ireland is in big, big trouble....Greece never left being in big trouble...Spanish banks cannot access the debt markets...and the $1 trillion bailout of the European Union is now in doubt. Once we see the bailout officially cancelled, all hell is going to break lose globally.

And all of this is happening in the face of a big slowdown in China, where they have 60 million vacant homes that were built and never moved int...