Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
by Jordan Ellenberg · 14 May 2021 · 665pp · 159,350 words
decade later. So maybe the golden ratio really is the true natural arbiter of what’s beautiful and good! Or maybe people just like Pepsi. Ralph Nelson Elliott was an accountant from Kansas who, for the first three decades of the twentieth century, bounced back and forth between the United States and Central
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
by John Allen Paulos · 1 Jan 2003 · 295pp · 66,824 words
together as a coherent theory. I’ll begin my discussion of it with one of its less plausible manifestations, the so-called Elliott wave theory. Ralph Nelson Elliott famously believed that the market moved in waves that enabled investors to predict the behavior of stocks. Outlining his theory in 1939, Elliott wrote that
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
by Liam Vaughan · 11 May 2020 · 268pp · 81,811 words
confidence, though, were evident from the start. Indeed, his opening gambit on the site was a repudiation of two of the godfathers of trading theory. Ralph Nelson Elliott was a Kansas-born accountant who, in 1938, published a book called The Wave Principle that posited that markets move in discernible and therefore predictable
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by Mario Livio · 23 Sep 2003
the best-known attempts to use the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio in the analysis of stock prices is associated with the name of Ralph Nelson Elliott (1871–1948). An accountant by profession, Elliott held various executive positions with railroad companies, primarily in Central America. A serious alimentary tract illness that left
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
by Scott Patterson · 5 Jun 2023 · 289pp · 95,046 words
claiming to have discovered hidden patterns in the market’s warp and weft. The Elliott wave principle, propagated in the early twentieth century by accountant Ralph Nelson Elliott, claimed to predict market cycles and trends by pinpointing extremes in prices and investor psychology. Such cycles, the theory goes, move in discernible waves that
Heads I Win, Tails I Win
by Spencer Jakab · 21 Jun 2016 · 303pp · 84,023 words
few months. He claims to have made these predictions using an arcane technique called the Elliott Wave Theory developed by accountant and amateur social theorist Ralph Nelson Elliott in the 1920s. Subscribers to Prechter’s paid newsletter swelled to twenty thousand, with an annual subscription price of over $200, in the mid-1980s
New Market Wizards: Conversations With America's Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager · 28 Jan 1994 · 512pp · 162,977 words
total after-tax profits divided by the number of common shares outstanding. Elliott Wave analysis. A method of market analysis based on the theories of Ralph Nelson Elliott. Although relatively complex, the basic theory is based on the concept that markets move in waves, forming a general pattern of five waves (or market
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson · 7 Mar 2006 · 364pp · 101,286 words
, and so you bet the chart will keep moving in the same way. Others are more elaborate. The best-known example is the Elliott Wave. Ralph Nelson Elliott was a Kansas-born accountant who spent much of his working life reorganizing railroads and state finances in Central America and who, during a debilitating
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
by Douglas Rushkoff · 21 Mar 2013 · 323pp · 95,939 words
it would dwarf anything that has happened in the past three hundred years.16 Prechter bases his methodology on the insights of a 1930s economist, Ralph Nelson Elliott, who isolated a number of the patterns that seem to recur in market price data. They didn’t always occur over the same timescale or
Market Wizards: Interviews With Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager · 7 Feb 2012 · 499pp · 148,160 words
total after-tax profits divided by the number of common shares outstanding. Elliott Wave analysis. A method of market analysis based on the theories of Ralph Nelson Elliott. Although relatively complex, the basic theory is based on the concept that markets move in waves, forming a general pattern of five waves (or market
Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals
by David Aronson · 1 Nov 2006