126:. He entered the accounting field in the mid-1890s and worked primarily in executive positions for railroad companies in Central America and Mexico. In 1903, Elliott married Mary Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (1869â1941), who accompanied him during his extended time working as an expatriate in Mexico. Civil unrest there brought the couple back to the United States and eventually to a residence in New York City, where Elliott started a successful consulting business. In 1924, the United States Department of State appointed Elliott to the post of Chief Accountant for Nicaragua, which was under American control at the time. Not long afterward, Elliott wrote two books based on his professional experiences:
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In the early 1930s, Elliott began a systematic study of seventy-five years of stock market data, including index charts with increments ranging from yearly to half-hourly prices. In August 1938, he detailed his results by publishing his third book in collaboration with
Charles J. Collins, entitled
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Elliott stated that, while stock market prices may appear random and unpredictable, they actually follow predictable, natural laws, and can be measured and forecast using
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In the early 1940s, Elliott expanded the theory to apply to all collective human behavior. His final major work was his most comprehensive:
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and reversals in financial markets. These cyclical patterns in price movements are known among practitioners of the method as
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magazine commissioned
Elliott to write twelve articles under the book title, describing his method of market forecasting.
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In the years after
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in 1990 using
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found out about
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and author whose study of stock market data led him to develop the
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Elliott, Ralph Nelson (1994). Prechter, Robert R., Jr. (ed.).
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348:. New Classics Library (published February 25, 2005).
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319:Neely, Glenn; Hall, Eric; Neely, Glenn (1990).
346:Elliott Wave Principle: Key to Market Behavior
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236:Frost, A.J.; Prechter, Robert R., Jr. (2005).
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321:Mastering Elliott wave: version 2.0
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261:Tea room and cafeteria management
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151:. Soon after the publication of
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132:The Future of Latin America
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714:Know sure thing oscillator
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114:Personal life and career
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702:Commodity channel index
305:Elliott Waves in Motion
175:Elliott Waves in Motion
426:Elliott wave principle
238:Elliott Wave Principle
195:Elliott Wave Principle
179:Mastering Elliott Wave
138:Elliott Wave Principle
847:Negative volume index
795:Stochastic oscillator
672:Fibonacci retracement
302:Neely, Glenn (1988).
122:, and later moved to
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931:Advanceâdecline line
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118:Elliott was born in
85:Ralph Nelson Elliott
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806:Ultimate oscillator
800:True strength index
467:Open-high-low-close
145:The Wave Principle.
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912:Standard deviation
884:Average true range
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527:Head and shoulders
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212:Behavioral finance
153:The Wave Principle
124:San Antonio, Texas
120:Marysville, Kansas
100:technical analysis
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1004:Bob Farrell
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664:resistance
653:Indicators
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421:Dow theory
223:References
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63:Occupation
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634:Bull trap
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486:Patterns
411:Breakout
404:Concepts
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89:American
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589:Complex
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822:Volume
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440:Charts
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952:Other
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861:(PCR)
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849:(NVI)
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462:Line
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350:ISBN
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