Avi Gilburt

Avi Gilburt is founder of ElliottWaveTrader.net, a live trading room and member forum focusing on Elliott Wave market analysis. Avi emphasizes a comprehensive reading of charts and wave counts that is free of personal bias or predisposition. He is particularly known for identifying a standardized method to trade waves 3-5 with extraordinary accuracy once waves 1 and 2 are in place. This method, which we call "Fibonacci Pinball," has been widely lauded and called "a powerful market tracking tool" and "nothing short of amazing."

Avi is an accountant and a lawyer by training. His education background includes his graduating college with dual accounting and economics majors, and he then passed all four parts of the CPA exam at once right after he graduated college. He then earned his Juris Doctorate in an advanced two and a half year program at the St. John’s School of Law in New York, where he graduated cum laude, and in the top 5% of his class. He then went onto the NYU School of Law for his masters of law in taxation (LL.M.).

Before retiring from his legal career, Avi was a partner and National Director at a major national firm. During his legal career, he spearheaded a number of acquisition transactions worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in value. So, clearly, Mr. Gilburt has a detailed understanding how businesses work and are valued.

Yet, when it came to learning how to accurately analyze the financial markets, Avi had to unlearn everything he learned in economics in order to maintain on the correct side of the market the great majority of the time. In fact, once he came to the realization that economics and geopolitics fail to assist in understanding how the market works, it allowed him to view financial markets from a more accurate perspective.

In September 2011, Avi co-founded ElliottWaveTrader.net in conjunction with Richard Hefter and AdviceTrade.

As an example of some of his most notable astounding market calls, in July of 2011, he called for the USD to begin a multi-year rally from the 74 region to an ideal target of 103.53. In January of 2017, the DXY struck 103.82 and began a pullback expected by Avi.

As another example of one of his astounding calls, Avi called the top in the gold market during its parabolic phase in 2011, with an ideal target of $1,915. As we all know, gold hit a high of $1,921, and pulled back for over 4 years since that time. The night that gold hit its lows in December of 2015, Avi was telling his subscribers that he was on the phone with his broker buying a large order of physical gold, while he had been accumulating individual miner stocks that month, and had just opened the EWT Miners Portfolio to begin buying individual miners stocks due to his expectation of an impending low in the complex.

One of his most shocking calls in the stock market was his call in 2015 for the S&P500 to rally from the 1800SPX region to the 2600SPX region, whereas it would coincide with a “global melt-up” in many other assets. Moreover, he was banging on the table in November of 2016 that we were about to enter the most powerful phase of the rally to 2600SPX, and he strongly noted that it did not matter who won the 2016 election in the US, despite many believing that the market would “crash” if Trump would win the election. This was indeed a testament to the accuracy of the Fibonacci Pinball method that Avi developed.

View chart of Avi's 2016 SPX performance calls.

See Avi's article on MarketWatch from Jun 11, 2018 (in which he called for a year-end global melt-up) highlighted as the top home page headline that day.

In 2020, Avi's charts missed the March 23 low in the S&P 500 by just 4 points, with his low-end target at 2187.90 while the index bottomed at 2191.86. Further, in February 2020, Avi outlined a short trade for members in the EEM in the 44-45 region with an ideal target below the 1.0 extension in the 31 region, which the EEM reached and then some.

Avi also called the bottom to the SPX back in October 2022, despite most market participants expecting the index to have head much lower at the time due to the worse than expected CPI report at the time. And he indicated at the time he was leaving the door open for the market to still be able to rally back to the 5000+ region before a multi-year bear market begins.

Avi is a popular speaker at financial forums and conferences in the U.S. and internationally, including The Money Show / Traders Expo, the New Orleans Investment Conference, and Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Conference, and widely syndicated on sites including Seeking Alpha, Investing.com, Gold Eagle, Nasdaq.com, Barchart and more. His The Market Pinball Wizard service is consistently among the top 3 most popular services out of over 150 services on Seeking Alpha.