[Article] Science is Revealing the Mechanism of the Wave Principle – An Unconscious Herding Impulse
Robert Prechter explains that the human unconscious is thus disposed toward patterns of behavior that reflect the Wave Principle.
Robert Prechter explains that the human unconscious is thus disposed toward patterns of behavior that reflect the Wave Principle.
Research in the fields of complexity theory, fractal geometry, biology and psychology has validated components of the Wave Principle.
Prechter explains that the stock market and many natural forms, such as snowflakes or trees, reflect similar patterns and relationships: They are all fractals.
According to leading physicists and mathematicians who propose a fractal nature to financial markets, forecasting specific market developments is impossible.
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 […]
It is one thing to say that the Wave Principle makes sense in the context of nature and its growth forms. It is another to postulate a hypothesis about its mechanism.
New discoveries in the field of complexity theory, fractal geometry, biology and psychology are rapidly yielding more knowledge bolstering the probability that the Wave Principle is a correct description of financial and social reality. This report provides a cursory overview of some of these advances.
This examination of that history shows the dominant influence of social mood on an American sport. Basketball is a coincident reflection of the rising mood behind the bull market of the last century. The game’s structure, rules and fortunes have developed in a manner that is totally consistent with the ebb and flow of the bull market in stocks.
R.N. Elliott’s discovery of the Wave Principle fifty years ago was a major breakthrough in sociology. His observations reveal that social psychological dynamics create the same pattern of “waves” in aggregate stock price movement from the smallest to the largest degree of trend.