[Article] Does the Wave Principle Subsume All Valid Technical Chart Patterns? Part II
Part II.
This paper addresses the question of whether the Wave Principle is a set of market patterns separate from those asserted in other forms of “technical” chart analysis.
This issue describes the bases for judging the record for the 15 intermediate turning points for the same period discussed in part I.
According to leading physicists and mathematicians who propose a fractal nature to financial markets, forecasting specific market developments is impossible.
The underlying idea of causality that the Standard Social Science Model simplistically borrows from physics that external social actions cause reactive changes in social mood is inappropriate for understanding the genesis of financial market action.
Another Example of Rationalization, Ripped from the Headlines.
In the world of physics, action is followed by reaction. Most financial analysts, economists, historians, sociologists and futurists believe that society works the same way.
This essay by Robert R. Prechter, Jr. originally appeared in: The Colours of Infinity. Clarke, Arthur C., et al (2004). UK: Clearpress, pp. 128-139 View PDF R.N. Elliott’s Discovery In the 1930s, Ralph Nelson Elliott discovered that aggregate stock market prices trend and reverse in recognizable patterns. In a […]
How does one apply socionomic techniques to economic forecasting? A socionomist knows that the stock market is a meter of social mood, which is the engine of social progress and regress. Therefore, the current-time change in the stock market is an immensely useful indicator of upcoming economic change.
Professor Nofsinger reviewed all major investment legislation from the 1920s to present. He found that the character of each new investment law reflected the direction of the stock market prior to its enactment.