Methodologies

Methods and approaches to analyze market cycles: Hurst, FLD, harmonics, statistical confirmations.

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Operational techniques to read charts, enter, exit, select issues, and manage risk — organized by work phase, not only by book chapter.

Menu → Market Cycles → Methodologies — The «how to». Full book path is in tradizione-hurst; theory in Encyclopedia → fondamenti; terms in glossario.


Before you enter here

Prerequisite Hub Why
Trading vocabulary concetti Buy, timeframe, trend, stop…
Hurst cyclic model fondamenti Ch. 2 before techniques
Golden path tradizione-hurst Ch. 1–3 read or in progress

Hurst — methodologies by operational phase

1 · Reading the chart (Ch. 3)

Goal: verify classic patterns have cyclic origin.

Entry Status
chart-pattern-verification ✅ ready
trend-lines-and-channels-cyclic 🟡 draft
head-and-shoulders-cyclic-origin 🟡 draft
double-top-bottom 🟡 draft
triangles-cyclic-analysis 🟡 draft
cyclic-moving-averages-hurst 🟡 draft
case-perkin-elmer-1961 🟡 draft — case study

2 · Entry timing (Ch. 4)

Goal: buy at the favourable point of the cycle with graphic tools.

Entry Status
graphic-buy-timing-hurst 🟡 draft
envelope-construction-and-cyclic-state 🟡 draft
valid-trend-line 🟡 draft
edge-band-mid-band-timing 🟡 draft
case-gruen-industries-1961 🟡 draft

3 · Position management (Ch. 5)

Goal: keep profits, cut losses, short.

Entry Status
profit-management-hurst 🟡 draft
cyclic-cut-loss-hurst 🟡 draft
trailing-sell-take-profit-hurst 🟡 draft
envelope-non-real-time 🟡 draft
short-selling-hurst 🟡 draft

4 · Computational tools (Ch. 6)

Entry Status
computational-methods-hurst 🟡 draft
half-span-full-span-hurst 🟡 draft
inverse-moving-average-hurst 🟡 draft
case-alloys-unlimited 🟡 draft

5 · Selection and tracking (Ch. 7)

Entry Status
selection-and-tracking-hurst 🟡 draft
total-scanning-stable-hurst 🟡 draft
volatility-stability-screening-hurst 🟡 draft
price-tracking-hurst 🟡 draft

6 · Operational logic (Ch. 8)

Entry Status
trading-by-logic-hurst 🟡 draft
cyclic-market-state-hurst 🟡 draft
case-screw-and-bolt-1968 🟡 draft
trading-experiment-hurst-1968 🟡 draft

7 · Pitfalls to avoid (Ch. 10)

Entry Status
cyclic-analysis-pitfalls-hurst 🟡 draft
psychological-barriers-hurst 🟡 draft

Wyckoff — methodologies

Entry Status
five-steps-wyckoff 🟡 draft
four-phase-price-cycle-wyckoff 🟡 draft
trading-range-wyckoff 🟡 draft
accumulation-phases-a-e 🟡 draft
distribution-phases-a-e 🟡 draft

Full path: tradizione-wyckoff.


Post-1970 and other methodologies

Methodology Entry Note
FLD fld Not in Profit Magic
Phasing analysis phasing-analysis-hurst Cycles Course
Spectral analysis spectral-analysis-hurst Ch. 11 — more foundation than method