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Who is John G. Agno?

John G. Agno's greatest value to others is he won't allow them to charge ahead without the proper preparation.   

John loves order (he's a systematic ENTP in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) but thrives in the unknown (a "developer" on the DISC).  He's an explorer, yet grounded in intelligent argument.  John knows how to articulate his principles clearly and concisely (nobody has to guess) and this makes his relationships straightforward and simple.  He is the most critical judge of himself and what he has to offer.  It matters little to him what others think.

 

He is a retired certified executive and business coach to clients and has practiced being an infomediary to the targeted audiences he serves.  

Coach Agno discretely coached clients to build their leadership capability and get to where they wanted to be in life and at work.  He worked with both men and women clients around the world.   

He makes a difference by sharing the knowledge he discovered through one-on-one personal executive coaching engagements to create a better life for many through his unique self-coaching tips; delivered to your computer, tablet, smartphone or via paperback books.

As a corporate executive, management consultant and executive coach, John G. Agno  investigated the factors that caused the strain, stress and frustration of his clients in order to help them create workable and profitable solutions.  His life signature was to communicate these unique insights in media interviews, blog postings and self-help books at prices so low that as many people as possible are still able to afford and use them in their personal and professional lives.  His free and low-cost self-coaching tips can provide life-changing possibilities to those who are ready to allow their perceptions to evolve. 

Additional professional information on Coach Agno and his self-coaching products can be found by keying in "john agno" into your favorate search engine or bookseller's website.  

His job has been to help clients achieve increased clarity and focus, improve personalized learning, expand awareness and design the life they want to live. This often translated into greater compensation, job satisfaction and the practical use of their unique skills and abilities. The purpose of the coaching relationship is to help you pay attention to your intentions and get to where you want to be. 

In personal coaching, there are 3 types of clients who tend to benefit most from a coaching relationship:

The first type of client is someone who is on a fast track and an emerging leader where he or she works.  Meaning that they reach most of their goals quickly but tend to get too far ahead of most people---people they must count on to make them more successful. We have  helped the client stay connected with others while showing them how to be even more productive. There is an art to this.

The second type of client is a financially successful executive or business owner who wonders if this is all there is? We have helped these clients understand how to build a bridge to where they really want to be. They learn how to integrate their personal and professional lives during this process. It's simply a fact that people don't fully leverage what they've got to get where they want to be. Every day, we have helped clients do this.

The third type of client is a person in transition. This is someone who's between something--jobs, careers or life stages--has read the self-development books and knows that there is something more needed to move forward. These clients are ready for something new that is in alignment with who they really are.

Taking the time to discover their life purpose becomes the foundation for moving to the next level. Building their personal and professional outcomes of increased awareness, purpose, competencies and well-being is dependent on working inwardly, not just outwardly, during this transitional period. Using this strategy, the client's future is greatly expanded in fresh, rich ways--primarily by focusing available energy and resources.

Coaching Approach/Philosophy

Coaching is all about the person being coached....helping the person evolve their perceptions through increased self-awareness, competencies with a sense of purpose and well-being.

Speaking from the heart.   

As a former corporate executive, business owner and management consultant, I have recognized that in the business world, we don't speak much about the heart. Yet, since all businesses are ultimately people serving people, our life's work should come from the heart. Long after your products or services have been delivered, the feelings and knowledge shared during the business relationship remain.

I believe that people need connection, belonging and meaningful contribution. They need to know that their life and work matter. Many people find that personal or career transformation is an excellent time to better understand their life's work and direction. Coming from the heart makes sense in life and in business.

Credentials:

Coach Agno holds the designation of Certified Executive Coach (CEC) by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches and is a Certified Business Coach (CBC) by the International Consortia of Business Coaches. 

He is a past member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), a founding member of CoachVille and founder of the Coach to Coach Network, a virtual community of 1,300 personal and business coaches from around the world. He has worked with coaches, executives, professionals and management teams to help them flourish in their professional and personal lives.

For more information, please check out our self-coaching books and the Self Assessment Center . 

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According to the Pollfish Valentine's Day National Survey — a survey of 1,000 American consumers by Pollfish [www.pollfish.com], the world's leading self-service mobile survey and market research platform — men are 1.6x as likely as women to buy expensive gifts for Valentine's Day.   Other notable findings include:    A. AMERICANS MOST WANT TO BUY EDIBLE GIFTS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY Q: Which types of products would you like to buy for your significant other on Valentine's Day?   1. Dinner or drinks (58%) 2. Chocolates or candy (54%) 3. Flowers (40%) 4. Greeting cards (38%) 5. Clothing or accessories (31%)   B. HERSHEY'S IS THE MOST COVETED CHOCOLATE BRAND Q: Which chocolate brands would you most like to buy for your significant other on Valentine's Day?   1. Hershey's (50%) 2. Dove (40%) 3. Russell Stover (36%) 4. Ghirardelli (34%) 5. Godiva (32%)   C. ZALES IS THE MOST COVETED JEWELRY STORE Q: From which store would you most like to buy jewelry for your significant other on Valentine's Day?   1. Zales (37%) 2. Kays (37%) 3. Jared (29%) 4. Pandora (23%) 5. Tiffany & Co (20%)   D. MEN ARE ALMOST TWICE AS LIKELY AS WOMEN TO BUY EXPENSIVE GIFTS Men are 1.6x as likely as women to buy expensive Valentine's Day gifts. 55% of men and 33% of women intend to spend $50 or more on their significant other this year. E. AMERICANS PREFER TO EAT AT RED LOBSTER Q: How likely are you to recommend eating at this national chain restaurant for Valentine's Day to a friend or colleague? Net promoter score, aka NPS, measures customer satisfaction and brand perception on a scale of -100 to +100. (A positive, high score means consumers actively recommend the brand; a negative score could mean consumers actively dissuade friends.)   1. Red Lobster: NPS of 1 2. Olive Garden: NPS of 0 3. Outback Steakhouse: NPS of -1 4. The Cheesecake Factory: NPS of -4 5. TGI Friday's: NPS of -22 The majority of national chain restaurants received a negative NPS, indicating that most Americans might prefer to dine out at an independent restaurant for Valentine's Day.

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Have you ever stumbled over your destiny in one unpredictable meeting?

One moment you don't know where you are heading and then you do?

I did. It happened to me.

She came into my world like a butterfly landing on my sleeve.  Fluttering there for just a second in all her beauty without a clue how she had and would change my life.  One moment I didn't know what love was and then I did.

Have you every met someone for the first time and something deep inside you told that you had known her many lifetimes ago?

One moment you don't believe in love at first sight and then you do.

Her smile, her presence, her soul have made such an impression on you that you wondered where she would take you?

One moment, you are fully in charge and the next someone else is.

When you stumbled over your destiny you knew everything would be different but not specifically different until much later.  One moment you stumble on to a new heading and fifty years later you cherish every moment of the adventure.

One moment can mean so much to one's life that you pray such moments will continue to bubble up and change everything.

What would it be worth to you if your friends, family and business associates were:

Living a life with more joy?  Improving their productivity and communication?  Gaining freedom from fear?  Developing self-awareness and self-acceptance?  Improving their health and vitality?  Creating satisfying and mutually supportive relationships?

Living a more wonderful life is about knowing who you are and what you are meant to do with the energy to polish your natural talents.  A happy life is knowing your natural talents (talents you were born with) and developing them into strengths.   

Research tells us that geniuses of all kinds shared one mental trait, despite the wide range of their individual brilliance: they possessed an exceptional capacity for sustained voluntary attention.

Knowing who you are and what you are meant to do, gives you the energy to transform your life.

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Announcement: Learn "The 4 Best Elliott Waves to Trade -- and How to Trade Them"

August 17-23, at ElliottWave.com. Cost -- free. Join a 5-day event for traders seeking to improve, "The 4 'Best' Elliott Waves to Trade -- and How to Trade Them." Five days, lots of practical video lessons that you can start applying immediately -- from one of the world's foremost market technicians, Elliott Wave International's Jeffrey Kennedy. Register now, FREE -- and get instant access.

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You have a free, knowledge-packed opportunity to learn how to spot high-confidence trade setups in market charts you follow every day.

On August 17-23, our partners at Elliott Wave International (EWI) are hosting a free 5-day trading event, "The 4 Best Elliott Waves to Trade -- and How to Trade Them." During this free event, each day you'll get new video lessons on topics like these:

• Which waves offer you the best trading opportunities
• How to enter a trade with Elliott waves and supporting technical tools
• How to place your protective stops
• How Fibonacci analysis helps you see turning points and price targets
• When is the best time to enter and exit a trade

The event's host is EWI Senior Instructor and Chartered Market Technician, Jeffrey Kennedy. He is also the editor of EWI's popular Trader's Classroom -- an ongoing mentorship service for traders looking to improve their trading.

Over his 25-year career as an analyst, trader and instructor, Kennedy has taught literally thousands of traders through his online courses, live events, subscription services -- and as an adjunct professor of technical analysis at Georgia Institute of Technology.

To kick off this event, at 11 a.m. on August 17, Jeffrey will host a free, LIVE webinar to explain which Elliott waves offer the best trading opportunities.

Register now for this free special 5-day event and live webinar -- and get instant access to your first trading lesson.

Then, watch your inbox for access instructions for the August 17 live webinar -- and for the new trading lessons delivered to you every day during this event.

It's time to learn how to spot and act on high-confidence trade setups in your own charts! 

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Markets: Understand the Present to Forecast the Future (Part 1)

Knowing where you are within a trend helps you see around the next corner

By Elliott Wave International

[Editor's note: A text version of the interview is below.]

Steve Hochberg, our Chief Market Analyst, sits down with ElliottWaveTV to talk about his background, how he discovered the Wave Principle, and why "it's applicable to all markets."

This is part 1 of our in-depth interview. Come back on August 5 to watch part 2, where Steve explains what else makes Elliott wave analysis so useful and practical.

Alexandra Lienhard: I'm Alexandra Lienhard for ElliottWaveTV, and today I'm joined by Steve Hochberg, Chief Market Analyst at Elliott Wave International. Now Steve, everyone's got a background, a story to tell, so what's yours? How did you become interested in the financial markets in the first place?

Steve Hochberg: Probably like a lot of other people did. Growing up, you start reading the financial papers and you probably have a family member involved. In my case, it was my grandfather who was involved in the market. So you start, you hear things people talk about; you get interested in companies and so forth. It really wasn't until college that I started really getting involved in what was going on. I was in college in the 70s, and if you remember in the 70s, we were in tumultuous times, you had the big gas lines, oil prices were skyrocketing and commodities, stocks were going up and down. I kept reading in the newspaper all the things that were going on and you start to wonder, how does this affect me? And it leads you to the financial markets -- so that's how I got involved.

Alexandra: And what about the wave principle, how did you discover it and then ultimately end up at Elliott Wave International?

Steve: Well the story involves a dog, the 1812 Tchaikovsky overture and about 10-foot speakers.

Alexandra: Do we have enough time for this?

Steve: No, we don't have enough time! But if people see me speaking at conferences, ask me about the story, it's a great story. I started working for Merrill Lynch right when I got out of college in 1983. Working with Merrill and the financial markets, you kept reading about this man named Robert Prechter. In 1984 he won the United States trading championship, at the time with a huge gain, biggest gain, 444% in a quarter. I said, 'You know what, what is this guy doing that I'm not doing? I need to learn what's happening here.' So I started reading Bob's analysis. The interesting about the Elliott Wave Principle and the Wave Principle model is they don't teach it in college, there's no course on it. So in order to learn it, it's really self-taught. You've got to go to the source material. I think that's the best way to learn things in life. Not so much being taught about it, reading in a textbook, but actually for yourself, going back to the source material. Now, in our case, Bob did all the heavy work because he actually went to the New York library and got all of R.N. Elliott's original works and published them in a book. You were able to go to one of Bob's books and actually read Elliott's writings. That's really how I came to the markets, just going to the source material and saying, 'You know what, this makes a lot of sense to me in how I look at things.'

Alexandra: So you've been using the Wave Principle for quite a while now. What do you find to be the most useful thing about using the Wave Principle to forecast the financial markets?

Steve: Well, obviously, its logic. It's very logical. There are set patterns that we look at, and it's not so much that we can see the future, but we can understand what's going on in the present which implies something about the future. So if you can determine where you are within the structure of this psychology that moves from optimism to pessimism, then you can kind of orient yourself about what's going to happen. It's great for understanding the tenor of the times, and it's applicable to all markets because people are people. When we get into a crowd, psychology, crowd psychology as we call it, or social mood, trends and reverses in these recognizable patterns so you can kind of ascertain where you are within the development of these patterns, you can make a forecast about the future. Sometimes our forecasts can be very accurate because we know exactly where we are, sometimes we're not quite sure, but that's OK. Those are markets and psychology and people.

Alexandra: You cover almost every asset class. What keeps you excited about covering so many markets?

Steve: When you're able to make a successful forecast, that really gets you going because you're able to see around that next corner. So many people think what's happening in life is random, random events. The actual events themselves might be random, but the tenor of the times aren't. The tenor of the times goes through these trends. What excites me is kind of identifying where you are within a trend because you can kind of see around that next corner and that's kind of cool when you're able to make a good forecast, or make a good trade in the market. It gets you excited about the next day and what's going on.

Editor's note: This is part 1 of our in-depth interview with Steve Hochberg. Come back on August 5 to watch the rest of the interview where Steve talks about what else makes Elliott wave analysis so unique.

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This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline Markets: Understand the Present to Forecast the Future (Part 1). EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.

 

Forex: "The Markets Are Getting Exciting!"

Our Senior Currency Strategist explains why

By Elliott Wave International

Jim Martens, the editor of our Currency Pro Service, gives you a preview of what's going on in the FX world post-Brexit.

Watch this new interview to learn which markets Jim's keeping his eye on.

P.S. Below the video, look for details on instant, free access to Currency Pro Service forecasts now through July 22, as part of EWI's Forex Free Week. 

[Editor's Note: A text version of the interview is below.]

Alexandra Lienhard: I'm Alexandra Lienhard for ElliottWaveTV and today I'll be talking with Jim Martens, Elliott Wave International's Senior Currency Strategist.

But a brief editor's note before Jim joins me: Elliott Wave International is currently hosting its popular Forex FreeWeek. Be sure to check out the link below to get free forecasts for 11 popular FX pairs, now through July 22.

Now Jim, onto today's interview. We're living in a post-Brexit world. In your view, did forex markets change since the vote, or did Brexit not really have an effect on FX overall?

Jim Martens: Well, from my point of view, it made no difference, overall. We've spoken about this in the past: We expected the recovery in cable from May to prove corrective -- and it did. Markets started back down right after the result of the vote were announced. It was a sharp, almost historic decline. There was a lot of chatter about. But it was something that we were expecting all along. In our minds, it made no difference at all. The market was headed where the market was headed. Regardless of what news came out in the marketplace.

Alexandra: And in recent analysis, you've been stressing the British pound, the yen and the euro. Anything standout for you in those specific markets? Or as a group?

Jim: Well, they're all at interesting positions. I believe the dollar is resuming a broad-based advance relative to all its competitors. We look at cable, for instance, to start with. We'll see that it's gone nowhere in the last few weeks or so. We had that historic move after the vote and it's held its ground since, but I think that's just a pause in a larger downtrend. So again, it's no change in our thinking there. And when I look at something say, like euro/dollar, which is popular amongst traders, we look at the same sort of thing. It's been going nowhere, there's been a lot of volatility, which really stretches back more than a year now. We've been tracking it and calling the ups and downs of the market, but I think that's coming to an end, and there's going to be a substantial move ahead. It could be underway, and if it's not already, it's soon to start from nearby levels. The markets are getting quite exciting from this point on.

Alexandra: So let's broaden out. Looking bigger-picture, what are you watching? What are you keeping your eye on in the months and quarters ahead?

Jim: Well, one market where our view has changed has been dollar/yen. We've been looking for a bottom, yet the market has continued to decline. We failed to see evidence that the turn had occurred, and I like to wait before I change my view, or change my opinion of the market trend, until I see evidence that a change has occurred. But we may have finally seen that in the last few weeks. It has rallied sharply, so I put that back in the camp of dollar strength. If dollar/yen is advancing, that's dollar strengthening, that's the yen weakening. So it's falling into place in the rest of the picture, as I see it. And that is that the dollar is going to be strong going forward. That's going to be the story. You're bound to hear about that over the coming months. We'll hear about it on the equities side, that it's pressuring corporate earnings, and what are we going to do about that. But it's going to be a broad-based move relative to all of its competitors.

Alexandra: Well, FX has always been one of the more volatile asset classes out there. Thanks for chatting today, Jim.

Jim: My pleasure, Alex.

Alexandra: Now through July 22, you can get free access to our premium grade Currency Pro Service during Forex FreeWeek. Follow the link below to get free forecasts for 11 popular FX pairs.

Thanks for watching ElliottWaveTV.

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This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline Forex: "The Markets Are Getting Exciting!". EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.

 

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By Elliott Wave International

A head-and-shoulders pattern is one of the most well-known classic chart patterns. In this 4-minute video from Jeffrey Kennedy's Trader's Classroom, you'll see an example of a bearish head-and-shoulders formation and a bullish, inverted head-and-shoulders pattern in the chart of SPY, the ETF that tracks the S&P 500. You'll also learn how to calculate the minimum expected target for the pattern.

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This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline Learn to Recognize a Popular Old School Chart Pattern. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.

 

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The Wave Principle + Technical Indicators = High-Confidence Trade Setups

See how to pair RSI and MACD with Elliott waves

By Elliott Wave International

In his Trader's Classroom and Commodity Junctures services, master instructor Jeffrey Kennedy often uses traditional technical indicators with the Wave Principle to add confidence to his analysis. He starts with his Elliott wave count, then looks at technical indicators such as RSI and MACD to "build a case" for his outlook.

Watch this 5 minute video to see the process he goes through to identify high-confidence trade setups.

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Twitter on Tuesday announced several tweaks to the format of its posts to make its social-media platform simpler and more appealing.

Among them, it will no longer count usernames sent in reply tweets and media attachments in 140 character limit, giving users the full space to express themselves.  The changes, to be rolled out gradually over the coming months.

For instance, when a Twitter user wanted to reply to another tweet and have all of his followers see that reply, he had to know to put a dot in front of the "@" symbol preceding the other user's handle.  Without that workaround, the tweet would be seen only by people who follow both accounts.

Source: The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2016

 

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(Interview) Pinpoint Where You're Wrong

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By Elliott Wave International

The Wave Principle is the only technical analysis tool that lets you know exactly where you're wrong, to the pip, tick, or penny.

Our senior instructor Jeffrey Kennedy explains this important value -- among others -- of Elliott wave analysis.

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